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Vimal Kumar
Vimal Kumar is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Bengaluru payments company Juspay in 2012 with Sheetal Lalwani and Ramanathan RV, and serves as its chief executive officer.
Visional
Visional is a Tokyo-based HR technology group founded by Soichiro Minami in 2007 that operates the BizReach job-matching platform and HRMOS SaaS products, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Viva Republica
Viva Republica (비바리퍼블리카) is a South Korean fintech company founded in 2013 by Lee Seung-gun in Seoul, operating the Toss super-app and Toss Bank, which passed 30 million users in 2025.
Vivek Raghavan
Vivek Raghavan is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Sarvam AI in Bengaluru in 2023, selected in 2025 to build India's first indigenous foundation model.
Vymo
Vymo is an Indian SaaS company, founded in 2013 by Yamini Bhat and Venkat Malladi, selling an AI sales assistant to banks and insurers with over 350,000 users.
Wemakeprice
Wemakeprice (위메프) was a Seoul-based South Korean social-commerce and open-market platform founded in 2010, one of Korea's big three alongside Coupang and Tmon, acquired by Qoo10 in 2023 and declared bankrupt in 2025.
Whatfix
Whatfix is an Indian SaaS company founded by Khadim Batti and Vara Kumar, headquartered in Bengaluru, selling a digital adoption platform that guides users inside enterprise applications.
William Roberts (Australian businessman)
William Roberts is an Australian businessman who co-founded IREN, formerly Iris Energy, in Sydney in 2018 and serves as Co-CEO alongside his brother and co-founder Daniel Roberts.
Wingman (software company)
Wingman was a Bengaluru-based software-as-a-service company founded in 2018 by Shruti Kapoor and two co-founders, offering real-time sales call intelligence and acquired by Clari in 2022.
WiseTech Global
WiseTech Global is a Sydney-based logistics software company founded in 1994 by Richard White and Maree Isaacs, best known for its CargoWise platform for freight forwarders.
Xijing Dai
Xijing Dai, known as Jacob Dai, is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded the payments fintech Airwallex in Melbourne in 2015, alongside chief executive Jack Zhang.
Yamini Bhat
Yamini Bhat is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Vymo, a sales engagement platform for financial institutions, in 2013 and has led it as chief executive officer since.
Yankee Company (Korean travel platform)
Yankee Company, or Good Choice Company, is a South Korean travel platform company in Seoul whose Yeogi Eotteo app, launched in 2014, became a unicorn in 2022.
Yashish Dahiya
Yashish Dahiya is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded PB Fintech, the parent of Policybazaar and Paisabazaar, in 2008 and serves as its Chairman and Group CEO.
Yasukane Matsumoto (Raksul)
Yasukane Matsumoto (松本恭攝), born 1984, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Raksul in 2009, led it as CEO until 2023, and now serves as its Chairman.
Yasuyuki Honne
Yasuyuki Honne (本根 康之) is a Japanese game developer who co-founded Monolith Soft in 1999 after leaving Square, where he was art director on Xenogears; he later directed the Baten Kaitos games.
Yat Siu
Yat Siu (萧逸) is a Hong Kong technology entrepreneur, born in Vienna, who founded Outblaze, sold its messaging division to IBM in 2009, and co-founded Animoca Brands.
Yello Mobile
Yello Mobile (옐로모바일) was a Seoul-based mobile app holding company founded by Lee Sang-hyuk in 2012, once valued at about US$4 billion, that closed in 2024.
Yoshikazu Tanaka
Yoshikazu Tanaka (田中良和), born in 1977, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded GREE in Tokyo in 2004 and was named Asia's youngest self-made billionaire in 2010.
Yoshimori Ito (Toggle Holdings Co., Ltd.)
Yoshimori Ito (伊藤嘉盛) is a Japanese serial entrepreneur who co-founded the SaaS company Itanji and founded the Tokyo real estate and AI group Toggle Holdings in 2020.
Yosuke Tsuji
Yosuke Tsuji (辻 庸介), born 1976 in Osaka, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the Tokyo fintech company Money Forward in 2012 and serves as its Group CEO.
YOUTRUST
YOUTRUST, Inc. (株式会社YOUTRUST) is a Tokyo-based human-resources technology company founded in December 2017 by Yuka Iwasaki, operating a career social networking service with about 500,000 users and the YOUTRUST TALENT recruiting service.
Yuka Iwasaki (YOUTRUST)
Yuka Iwasaki (岩崎由夏) is a Japanese entrepreneur, founder and president of YOUTRUST, a Tokyo career SNS she started in 2017 after working in recruitment at DeNA.
Zachary Jones
Zachary Jones is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Portea Medical, a Bengaluru-based home-healthcare company, in 2012, led it as chief executive, and sold it in 2013.
Zigbang
Zigbang (직방) is a Seoul-based South Korean property technology company, founded by Ahn Sung-woo in 2010, whose rental listing platform became a 2022 unicorn valued at KRW 2.5 trillion before its valuation fell sharply.
Zimplistic
Zimplistic is a Singapore-based food-technology company founded in 2008 by Pranoti Nagarkar and Rishi Israni, best known for the Rotimatic, a kitchen robot that makes a flatbread in about 90 seconds.
Zip Co (Australian company)
Zip Co is a Sydney-based Australian financial services company, founded in 2013, known for its buy-now-pay-later installment products in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.
Zuper
Zuper is a field-service-management software company founded in 2016, headquartered in Seattle with an Indian entity in Chennai, led by CEO Anand Subbaraj and serving HVAC, plumbing, and cleaning businesses.