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Sanjay Aggarwal

Sanjay Aggarwal is an Indian technology executive and IIT Delhi graduate who co-founded the Bengaluru fintech lender Moneyview in 2014 with Puneet Agarwal, serving as its chief technology officer.

Sanjeev Barnwal

Sanjeev Barnwal is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Bengaluru-based e-commerce company Meesho in 2015, serves as its chief technology officer, and took it public in December 2025.

Sansan

Sansan, Inc. is a Tokyo-based software company founded by Chikahiro Terada in 2007, known for the Sansan business card service, the Eight app, and Bill One.

Satish Kannan

Satish Kannan is an Indian engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded MediBuddy, a Bengaluru-based digital healthcare platform, in 2013 with Enbasekar Dinadayalane and serves as its chief executive officer.

Satyam Computer Services

Satyam Computer Services was an Indian IT services company co-founded by B. Ramalinga Raju, sold to Tech Mahindra after its chairman confessed to fraud in 2009.

Saumya Singh Rathore

Saumya Singh Rathore is an Indian entrepreneur who co-founded WinZO, a Gurugram-based real-money mobile gaming platform, with Paavan Nanda; she was arrested under money laundering laws in November 2025 and later granted bail.

Seek (online employment marketplace)

Seek is an online employment marketplace founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1997, which facilitates nearly a third of Australian job placements and operates JobStreet and JobsDB across Asia.

Shailesh Kumar Davey

Shailesh Kumar Davey is an Indian engineer and business executive who co-founded Zoho Corporation, the Chennai software company started as AdventNet in 1996, and became its group CEO in January 2025.

Shan Krishnasamy

Shan Krishnasamy, full name Shanmugam Krishnasamy, is an Indian software engineer who co-founded Freshworks in Chennai in 2010 and served as its chief technology officer until 2022.

Shashank Kumar

Shashank Kumar (शशांक कुमार) is an Indian fintech entrepreneur who cofounded Razorpay, India's largest payment gateway, in Bengaluru in 2014 and serves as its Managing Director.

Shaun di Gregorio

Shaun di Gregorio is an Australian technology executive, co-founder and CEO of Frontier Digital Ventures until 2025, and previously chief executive of iProperty Group, sold to REA Group in 2016.

Shin Shibata

Shin Shibata (柴田 紳, born 1975) is a Japanese executive who leads Net Protections Holdings, a Tokyo fintech company, and chairs the Japan Deferred Payment Service Association.

Shintaro Yamada

Shintaro Yamada (山田進太郎), born 1977, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the used-goods marketplace app Mercari in 2013 and remains its chief executive and largest shareholder.

Shivakumar Ganesan

Shivakumar Ganesan is an Indian entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Exotel, the Bengaluru cloud telephony company he started in 2011 that handles about 2 billion calls a month.

Shota Horii

Shota Horii (堀井翔太), born 1985 in Kyoto Prefecture, is a Japanese fintech entrepreneur who founded FRIL, sold it to Rakuten in 2016, and founded SmartBank.

Shruti Kapoor

Shruti Kapoor is an Indian software entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Wingman, a Bengaluru conversation-intelligence startup acquired by Clari in 2022 and rebranded as Clari Copilot.

Siddharth Ramesh

Siddharth Ramesh is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Exotel, the Bengaluru-based cloud-telephony and customer-engagement company incorporated in 2011, with Shivakumar Ganesan and Ishwar Sridharan.

Skcript

Skcript is a self-funded software company based in Chennai, India, founded by Karthik Kamalakannan and Swaathi Kakarla, that builds enterprise AI applications and sells software as a service.

SmartBank, Inc.

SmartBank, Inc. (株式会社スマートバンク) is a Tokyo fintech company founded in April 2019 by Shota Horii, operating OneBank, formerly B/43, a prepaid-card and household-accounting app with 2 million downloads by July 2025.

SmartHR

SmartHR is a Japanese cloud human-resources and labor-management software company headquartered in Tokyo. Founded in 2013, it serves over 80,000 companies and became a unicorn in 2021.

SmartNews

SmartNews (スマートニュース株式会社) is a Tokyo-based media-technology company founded in 2012 that operates one of Japan's largest news-aggregation apps, serving about 21 million monthly users in Japan and the United States.

Socar

Socar (쏘카) is a South Korean car sharing and mobility company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Jeju City, with more than 10 million members.

Soichiro Minami

Soichiro Minami (南壮一郎), born in 1976, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the BizReach recruiting service in Tokyo in 2007 and now leads its parent company, Visional.

Son Chang-hyun

Son Chang-hyun (손창현, born 1977) is a South Korean entrepreneur who founded OTD Corporation in 2014, creator of Korea's first restaurant select-shop, Over the Dish.

Sophie Kim

Sophie Kim (김슬아, Kim Seol-ah), born 1983, is a South Korean entrepreneur who founded Kurly in 2014 and leads its Market Kurly online grocery service, known for dawn delivery.

SOU

SOU was a Tokyo-based Japanese reuse company founded by Shinsuke Sakimoto in 2011, which bought used brand goods and resold them to businesses; it became Valuence Holdings in 2020.

SPACECOOL

SPACECOOL is a Tokyo decarbonization materials company founded in 2021 as a carve-out from Osaka Gas, selling a zero-energy film that cools surfaces below air temperature in sunlight.

Sprinto

Sprinto is a Bengaluru-based SaaS company founded by Girish Redekar and Raghuveer Kancherla whose platform automates compliance programs such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA, serving over 3,000 customers.

Sriharsha Majety

Sriharsha Majety (श्रीहर्ष माजेटी) is an Indian entrepreneur and co-founder, Managing Director, and Group CEO of Swiggy, the Bengaluru food delivery platform founded in 2014.

Subroto Bagchi

Subroto Bagchi is an Indian entrepreneur, public servant, and author who co-founded the IT services company Mindtree in 1999, serving as its chief operating officer and executive chairman until 2016.