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Huang Yuanpu
Huang Yuanpu (黄渊普, born 1985) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the Beijing research and media company 亿欧 in 2014 and the global-expansion platform EqualOcean in 2018, stepping back from management in 2025.
Huya (虎牙直播)
Huya (虎牙直播) is a Chinese game live-streaming company headquartered in Guangzhou. Spun out of YY in 2014, it became the first Chinese game-streaming platform listed on the NYSE, in May 2018.
Hypergryph
Hypergryph (鹰角网络) is a Chinese video game developer founded in Shanghai in January 2017, best known as the developer and Chinese publisher of the tower defense gacha game Arknights.
Inke
Inke (映客) is a Chinese mobile live-streaming and social-entertainment company founded in Beijing in 2015 by Feng Yousheng, listed in Hong Kong in 2018 and renamed Inkeverse in 2022.
James Liang
James Liang, also known as Liang Jianzhang (梁建章), is a Chinese entrepreneur and economist who co-founded Ctrip in 1999 and leads its successor, Trip.com Group.
Jessie Chen
Jessie Chen (陈媛, Chen Yuan) is a Chinese education executive who describes herself as a co-founder of VIPKid, the Beijing online English-education company founded in 2013.
Ji Qi
Ji Qi (季琦, born 1966) is a Chinese serial entrepreneur who co-founded Ctrip, co-founded Home Inns, and founded Huazhu (H World Group), where he is executive chairman and CEO.
Jia Jiaya
Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚), born 1978, is a Chinese computer-vision researcher and chair professor at HKUST who founded SmartMore, a Hong Kong industrial AI unicorn, in 2019.
Jiao Ge Waimai
Jiao Ge Waimai (叫个外卖) was a Chinese food-delivery O2O venture founded in Changsha, Hunan in 2014, which sold its own standardized fast food and closed in 2015–2016.
Jinghai Company
Jinghai (京海) was a Beijing computer-room engineering company founded by Wang Hongde, a Chinese Academy of Sciences engineer, in 1982, and one of the four best-known firms of Zhongguancun's first wave.
JOYY Inc.
JOYY Inc. (欢聚集团) is a Nasdaq-listed live streaming and social media company headquartered in Singapore, co-founded by David Xueling Li in 2005 and known for Bigo Live, Likee, and imo.
Jumei Youpin
Jumei Youpin (聚美优品) was a Beijing-based Chinese e-commerce company founded by Chen Ou in 2010 that sold cosmetics through limited-time flash sales and listed on the NYSE in 2014.
Kao La Ban Che
Kao La Ban Che (考拉班车, "Koala Shuttle Bus") was a Beijing app-booked commuter shuttle service founded in March 2015, merged into Didi Bus in September 2015.
Kao La Jing Xuan
Kao La Jing Xuan (考拉精选) was a fresh-grocery community group-buying platform launched in Changsha, Hunan, in 2018, incubated by supplier Xingaoqiao and founded by Tang Guangliang, reaching 4 million members by 2020.
Kehai Company
Kehai (科海) was a Chinese technology company in Beijing, founded in 1983 and known as one of the early Zhongguancun firms called "Two Tongs, Two Hais".
Kenneth "Cat Daddy" Pogson
Kenneth "Cat Daddy" Pogson is an American businessman who co-founded Voodoo Doughnut in Portland, Oregon, in 2003 with Tres Shannon, supplying the voodoo theme and running the back-of-house operations.
Kingsoft
Kingsoft Corporation (金山软件) is a Chinese software and internet services company built around WPS Office, the JX game series, and Kingsoft Cloud, listed in Hong Kong since 2007.
Ku6
Ku6 (酷6网) was a Beijing-based user-generated video website founded in 2006 by former Sohu chief editor Li Shanyou, listed on Nasdaq in 2010 as Ku6 Media.
Kujie Wang
Kujie Wang (酷结网) was a Beijing wedding-services O2O startup founded in May 2014, billing itself as China's first one-stop online direct-purchase platform for wedding services; it later ceased operations.
Lalamove
Lalamove (货拉拉) is an on-demand logistics platform founded in Hong Kong in 2013 by Chow Shing-yuk, connecting merchants with van and truck drivers through a marketplace that owns no vehicles.
Lancai Wang
Lancai Wang (懒财网) was a Beijing-based online wealth-management and P2P lending platform founded by Tao Weijie in 2013, which reported RMB 23.4 billion in lending before a 2019 police case.
Lei Chen
Lei Chen (陈磊), also known as Chen Lei, is a Chinese technology executive and founding member of PDD Holdings, the e-commerce group behind Pinduoduo and Temu, and its co-chairman.
Lei Houyi
Lei Houyi (雷厚义, born 1991) is a Chinese entrepreneur from Chongqing who founded Wukong Bicycle, the first of China's bike-sharing startups to shut down, exiting in June 2017.
Lei Ming
Lei Ming (雷鸣) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur, one of Baidu's seven founding members and its chief architect, who left in 2003 and founded Kuwo Music in 2005.
Lei Xiaoliang
Lei Xiaoliang (雷小亮) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who left NetEase in 2011 to co-found Momo, the stranger-social app that listed on Nasdaq in 2014.
Li Jia (internet entrepreneur)
Li Jia (李佳) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur from Wuhan who founded and led Banma Kuaipao (Zebra Run), a ride-hailing company that became a 2017 unicorn before bankruptcy reorganization in 2020.
Li Jian (Renrenche founder)
Li Jian (李健), born 1980, is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who founded Renrenche, China's first consumer-to-consumer used-car trading platform, in 2014, after careers at Baidu, 58.com, and Microsoft.
Li Xinhe
Li Xinhe (李欣贺) is a Chinese finance entrepreneur who co-founded and leads the P2P lending platform Renrendai, once ranked third in China by loan balance, founded in Beijing in 2010.
Li Xueling
Li Xueling (李学凌), known internationally as David Xueling Li, is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded the live streaming company JOYY and served as its chief executive from 2005 to 2024.
Li Yifei
Li Yifei (李逸飞), legal name Li Weiwei (李卫伟), born 1977, is a Chinese games entrepreneur who co-founded 37 Interactive Entertainment in Guangzhou in 2011 and serves as its chairman.