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Kaneto Kanemoto

Kaneto Kanemoto (兼元 謙任), born 1966, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the company behind OKWave, Japan's first Q&A community site, launched in 2000 and listed on the Nagoya Stock Exchange in 2006.

Karan Aneja

Karan Aneja is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Portea Medical, an Indian in-home healthcare company, with Zachary Jones in 2012, and now leads Reframe Financial.

KCE Electronics

KCE Electronics is a Thai manufacturer of printed circuit boards, headquartered in Bangkok and listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand since 1988, known chiefly for automotive boards.

Keith Wong

Keith Wong is a Singaporean businessman who co-founded the footwear brand Charles & Keith with his brother Charles in 1996 and serves as its chief operating officer.

Kelvin Teo

Kelvin Teo is a Singapore-based fintech entrepreneur, co-founder and Group CEO of Funding Societies | Modalku, an SME digital financing platform operating across Southeast Asia since 2015.

Ken Kutaragi

Ken Kutaragi (久多良木健) is a Japanese engineer and former Sony executive known as the "Father of the PlayStation", who led Sony Computer Entertainment before retiring in 2007.

Kenichi Hasuda

Kenichi Hasuda (蓮田健一) is a Japanese entrepreneur, founder and CEO of hacomono, a Tokyo SaaS company for wellness facilities installed at more than 13,000 stores.

Kenji Kasahara

Kenji Kasahara (笠原 健治), born in 1975, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded MIXI, the Tokyo company behind the mixi social network and the mobile game Monster Strike.

Kentaro Kawabe

Kentaro Kawabe (川邊健太郎) is a Japanese internet executive who was chief executive of Yahoo Japan from 2018 and chaired LY Corporation, operator of LINE and Yahoo! JAPAN.

Ketan Malkan

Ketan Malkan is an Indian business executive who co-founded Medikabazaar, the Mumbai-based B2B marketplace for medical devices and hospital supplies, in 2015, serving as chief financial officer until 2023.

Khadim Batti

Khadim Batti was an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the digital adoption platform company Whatfix in Bengaluru in 2014 and led it as chief executive until his death at 51.

Kim Beom-su

Kim Beom-su (김범수, also known as Brian Kim) is a South Korean internet entrepreneur who founded the game portal Hangame in 1998 and the messaging platform Kakao in 2010.

Kim Hyun-tae

Kim Hyun-tae (김현태, born 1976) is a South Korean executive who is co-CEO and largest shareholder of Voronoi, an AI-driven precision-oncology biotech in Songdo, Incheon.

Kissflow

Kissflow is an Indian SaaS company in Chennai offering a low-code/no-code work-management platform, founded by Suresh Sambandam, grown from OrangeScape, and serving 1,200 customers in 87 countries.

Kiyoyuki Suzuki

Kiyoyuki Suzuki (鈴木 清幸), born in 1952, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the voice recognition company Advanced Media in 1997 and leads it as chairman and president.

Kohei Nishiwada

Kohei Nishiwada (西和田浩平) is a Japanese entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Asuene, a Tokyo climate tech company measuring corporate CO2 emissions, which he founded in 2019 after about eleven years at Mitsui & Co.

Koichi Kitazumi

Koichi Kitazumi (北角浩一, born 1961) is a Japanese game-industry founder who established the company that became Nippon Ichi Software, the Kakamigahara developer known for Disgaea.

Koichi Nakamura

Koichi Nakamura (中村光一) is a Japanese game designer who founded Chunsoft in 1984, programmed the original Dragon Quest, pioneered the sound novel genre, and later chaired Spike Chunsoft.

Koki Sato

Koki Sato (佐藤光紀) is a Japanese technology executive, founder and CEO of Comisma, the Tokyo company behind the manga app GANMA! and the anime studio Qzil.la.

Korea Credit Data

Korea Credit Data (한국신용데이터) is a South Korean financial-technology company founded in Seoul in 2016. It operates Cashnote, a business-management app for small merchants with about 2.3 million users.

Kredivo Group

Kredivo Group, formerly known as FinAccel, is a Singapore-headquartered fintech group co-founded by Akshay Garg that provides digital credit, buy-now-pay-later financing, and digital banking in Indonesia and Vietnam.

Krish Subramaniam

Krish Subramaniam is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the subscription billing platform Chargebee in Chennai in 2011 and serves as its chief executive officer.

Krishnan Rajagopalan

Krishnan Rajagopalan is a streaming executive who headed HOOQ's India business, the Singapore-based video-on-demand joint venture of Singtel, Sony Pictures, and Warner Bros. that operated from 2015 to 2020.

Lai Chang Wen

Lai Chang Wen (赖长文) is a Singaporean entrepreneur, the co-founder and CEO of Ninja Van, the express logistics company he started in Singapore in 2014 with Shaun Chong and Boxian Tan.

Lalit Bhise

Lalit Bhise is an Indian technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Bizom, a Bengaluru retail-intelligence platform that raised a $12 million Series B in 2024.

Larry Diamond

Larry Diamond is an Australian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Zip Co with Peter Gray in Sydney in 2013 and led the buy now, pay later provider as Global CEO until 2023.

Lawrence Wu

Lawrence Wu is a Singapore solar entrepreneur and finance specialist who co-founded Sunseap Group in 2011 with Frank Phuan, now CFO of EDP Renewables APAC.

Le Hong Minh

Le Hong Minh (Lê Hồng Minh), born 1977, is a Vietnamese technology entrepreneur who founded VNG in 2004 as Vinagame, was its CEO until 2024, and now chairs the company behind Zalo.

Lee Seung-gun

Lee Seung-gun (이승건) is a South Korean entrepreneur and former dentist who founded Viva Republica, creator of the Toss finance super app and Toss Bank in Seoul.

LegalOn Technologies

LegalOn Technologies (株式会社リーガルオンテクノロジーズ), formerly LegalForce, is a Tokyo-based AI legal tech company founded by two former corporate lawyers in 2017; its LegalForce contract review service launched in 2019.