edgepedia

Asia-Pacific technology outside China

328 articles

Licious

Licious is a Bengaluru-based online meat and seafood delivery platform founded in 2015 by Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta, which became a unicorn in 2021.

Livesense

Livesense Inc. (株式会社リブセンス) is a Tokyo-based internet media company founded by Taichi Murakami in 2006, operating job and lifestyle websites including マッハバイト and 転職会議, and trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange under code 6054.

Lokvir Kapoor

Lokvir Kapoor is an Indian technology executive, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Pine Labs, a merchant-payments company that listed on Indian stock exchanges in 2025.

Luup

Luup (ループ) is a Tokyo-based shared micromobility company founded in 2018 by Daiki Okai that operates the LUUP service for electric kickboards and electric-assist bicycles.

Majestar Casino

Majestar Casino (마제스타카지노), a foreigner-only casino in the Jeju Shilla Hotel, Jungmun, Seogwipo, opened 19 April 2013; 42 tables and 86 machines as of 2018, run by Majestar Co. under J-Tech.

Malcolm Rodrigues

Malcolm Rodrigues is a Singapore-based telecommunications executive who co-founded MyRepublic in 2011 and serves as its Group CEO, launching a 1Gbit/s consumer fiber broadband service in January 2014.

Marc Hermann

Marc Hermann is a German-born technology founder and co-founder and CEO of Everlab, an Australian preventive health and longevity company founded in 2023 that had raised $80 million by 2026.

Maree Isaacs

Maree Isaacs is an Australian technology executive who co-founded the Sydney-based logistics software company WiseTech Global with Richard White in 1994 and remains an Executive Director.

Marina Budiman

Marina Budiman is an Indonesian technology entrepreneur who co-founded DCI Indonesia in 2011, the country's largest data-center operator and first Tier IV-certified in Southeast Asia, making her Indonesia's richest woman.

matsuri technologies

matsuri technologies is a Tokyo-based vacation rental (minpaku) operation company founded by Keita Yoshida in 2016, managing about 4,000 lodging facilities across Japan through its software-centered StayX model.

Maximilian Bittner

Maximilian Bittner, also known as Max Bittner, is an e-commerce executive who founded Lazada in 2012 and led the Singapore marketplace until Alibaba installed Lucy Peng in 2018.

Maximl Labs

Maximl Labs is an Indian SaaS company founded in 2016 in Pune, building a Connected Worker platform for frontline operations in oil and gas, steel, and chemicals.

MeetsMore Inc.

MeetsMore Inc. (株式会社ミツモア) is a Tokyo technology company co-founded in 2017 by Ayako Ishikawa that operates the Mitsumore quote-comparison platform, which returns up to five quotes across about 600 categories, and the ProOne field-service SaaS.

Megazone Cloud

MegazoneCloud (메가존클라우드) is a South Korean cloud managed services provider working with AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, spun off from Megazone Corp. in 2018 and Korea's first AWS partner.

Mercari

Mercari (メルカリ) is a Tokyo-based Japanese e-commerce company founded in February 2013 by Shintaro Yamada, operating a flea-market app that charges a 10% fee and includes the payments subsidiary Merpay.

Mitsuhiro Ikeda

Mitsuhiro Ikeda is the Japanese businessman who founded HAL Laboratory in Tokyo in February 1980 and was its first president until March 1984, before the Nintendo era.

MIXI, Inc.

MIXI, Inc. (株式会社MIXI) is a Tokyo internet company founded by Kenji Kasahara in 1999, known for the mixi social network and the mobile game Monster Strike.

Mobisy Technologies

Mobisy Technologies is a Bengaluru-based software-as-a-service company, incorporated in 2008, that owns Bizom, a retail-execution and sales-force-automation platform serving consumer packaged goods, dairy, and FMCG brands.

Moglix

Moglix is a B2B commerce company founded by Rahul Garg in 2015 that supplies industrial goods, supply-chain software, logistics, and trade financing to manufacturers, mainly in India.

Mohalla Tech

Mohalla Tech is an Indian technology company founded in Bengaluru in 2015, best known as the parent of the ShareChat social network and the Moj short-video app.

Mohit Yadav

Mohit Yadav is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Bold Care, a Mumbai-based direct-to-consumer men's sexual wellness company, in October 2019, and serves as its chief technology officer.

Money Forward, Inc.

Money Forward, Inc. (株式会社マネーフォワード) is a Tokyo-based fintech company founded by Yosuke Tsuji in May 2012 that operates the Money Forward ME personal finance app.

Mu Sigma Inc.

Mu Sigma Inc. is an analytics and decision-sciences firm founded by Dhiraj Rajaram in 2004, among India's first unicorns with a $1.5 billion valuation in 2013 and 100% founder-owned since 2022.

Muhammad Fajrin Rasyid

Muhammad Fajrin Rasyid, born in 1986, is an Indonesian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Bukalapak, served as its CFO and President, and joined Telkom Indonesia in 2020.

Musinsa

Musinsa (무신사) is a South Korean online fashion e-commerce platform headquartered in Seoul, founded in 2001 by Cho Man-ho as a sneaker-photo community and now Korea's largest fashion marketplace.

MYOB

MYOB (Mind Your Own Business) is an Australian accounting and payroll software company founded in 1991 by Craig Wiskler and Brad Shofer, based in Cremorne, Australia.

MyRepublic

MyRepublic is a Singapore telecommunications company, incorporated in 2011 by Malcolm Rodrigues and partners, that built retail fiber broadband in Asia-Pacific before selling its broadband business to StarHub.

N. S. Raghavan

Nadathur Sarangapani Raghavan is an Indian business executive who co-founded Infosys in 1981 and served as managing director until 2000, before chairing the Murugappa Corporate Board.

Nadiem Makarim

Nadiem Makarim is an Indonesian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Gojek in Jakarta in 2010, building it into Indonesia's first decacorn, and served as education minister from 2019 to 2024.

Nakul Aggarwal

Nakul Aggarwal is an Indian technology entrepreneur and IIT Bombay graduate who co-founded the software-testing company BrowserStack in Mumbai in 2011, now valued at $4 billion.