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Yu Yi
Yu Yi (余熠), born 1984, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded U-bicycle, a Shanghai dockless bike-sharing startup that peaked at 520,000 bikes and 11 million users in 2017.
Yuan Chenglong
Yuan Chenglong (袁成龙) is a Chinese fintech executive who co-founded the Beijing P2P online lending platform Xiangshang Jinfu in 2013 and served as its CEO.
Zebra Run
Zebra Run (斑马快跑) was a Chinese mobility startup founded in Wuhan in 2015 that offered ride-hailing, buses, and freight before entering bankruptcy reorganization in 2020.
Zhang Haoqian (Bluepha co-founder)
Zhang Haoqian (张浩千) is a Chinese synthetic biology entrepreneur and Peking University PhD who co-founded Bluepha (蓝晶微生物), a Beijing bio-manufacturing company founded in 2016 that produces biodegradable PHA plastics.
Zhang Lin (fintech entrepreneur)
Zhang Lin (张林, born 1987) is a Chinese fintech entrepreneur who co-founded the peer-to-peer lending platform Tuandai Wang and was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022.
Zhang Shishi
Zhang Shishi (张适时) is a Chinese internet-finance entrepreneur who co-founded the P2P lending platform Renrendai in Beijing in 2010 and led it as chief executive.
Zhang Siding
Zhang Siding (张巳丁) is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded the Peking University bike-sharing startup ofo in 2014 with Dai Wei, ran its operations, and left in 2019 to found BLANK.
Zhang Xiaolei
Zhang Xiaolei (张小雷), born 1969, is the Chinese founder of Qianbao Network, a Nanjing online platform exposed as a Ponzi scheme; he was sentenced to 15 years for fundraising fraud in 2019.
Zhao Weiping
Zhao Weiping (赵伟平), born 1961, is a Chinese entrepreneur known as the "fireworks king" who founded Panda Fireworks and supplied the 2008 Beijing Olympics fireworks.
Zhou Boyun
Zhou Boyun (周伯云, born 1967) is a Chinese businessman who founded Shanlin Jinrong, a Shanghai P2P lender that raised 73.7 billion yuan from investors before collapsing in 2018.