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Luo Yuhao
Luo Yuhao (罗宇皓), born in 1989, is a Chinese games entrepreneur who co-founded miHoYo, developer of Genshin Impact, with classmates Cai Haoyu and Liu Wei.
Lvmama
Lvmama (驴妈妈, "Donkey Mama Travel") was a Shanghai-based online travel agency founded in 2008 by Hong Qinghua, a pioneer of online scenic-ticket sales in China that collapsed in 2024.
Ma Xintong
Ma Xintong (马昕彤, born 1994) is a Chinese retail entrepreneur from Lanzhou, Gansu, and founder of Zhekouniu (折扣牛), a hard-discount supermarket chain in Zhengzhou with over 600 stores by 2026.
Manycore Tech
Manycore Tech (群核科技) is a Chinese cloud-native spatial design software company based in Hangzhou, founded in 2011, known for the home-design platform Kujiale and its international version Coohom.
Maxwell Zhou
Maxwell Zhou (Zhou Guang, 周光) is a Chinese technology entrepreneur, founder and CEO of the autonomous driving company DeepRoute.ai, established in Shenzhen in 2019 after co-founding Roadstar.ai in 2017.
Meitu, Inc.
Meitu, Inc. (美图公司) is a Chinese photo and video technology company founded in Xiamen in 2008 by Wu Xinhong and Cai Wensheng, known for the Meitu app.
Meituan
Meituan (美团) is a Chinese local-services platform centered on food delivery, founded by Wang Xing in Beijing in 2010 and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Meng Zeyu
Meng Zeyu (孟泽宇, born 1985) is a former Chinese finance executive who was a division general manager at Beijing wealth-management firm Xinhe Fortune, convicted in 2022.
Miao Zhongying
Miao Zhongying (缪忠应) is a Chinese businessman who founded the P2P lending platform Youyi Wang, which collapsed in 2012; he received 13 years for fundraising fraud.
Michael Wu
Michael Wu is the co-founder and CEO of Amber Group, a cryptocurrency financial services firm founded in Hong Kong in 2017 and later headquartered in Singapore.
Min Fan
Min Fan (范敏) is a Chinese travel-industry executive who co-founded Ctrip, now Trip.com Group, in 1999 and served as its chief executive from 2006 to 2013.
Ming Liu
Ming Liu (刘明) is a Chinese robotics professor at HKUST and founder of Unity Drive Innovation (一清创新, UDI), a Shenzhen autonomous-driving company founded in 2018 whose unmanned vehicles operate in over 160 parks.
Mobike
Mobike (摩拜单车) was a Chinese dockless bike-sharing operator founded in Beijing in 2015 by Hu Weiwei, pioneering smart-lock shared bikes before Meituan acquired it for US$2.7 billion in 2018.
Momo (social networking company)
Momo (陌陌), known since 2021 as Hello Group, is a Beijing-based social networking and live-streaming company founded by Tang Yan in 2011 and listed on Nasdaq in 2014.
NetEase Youdao
NetEase Youdao (网易有道) is a Chinese education-technology and AI company founded in 2006 as part of NetEase, best known for the Youdao Dictionary app and Dictionary Pen.
Neusoft Group
Neusoft Group (东软集团) is a Chinese software company headquartered in Shenyang, founded in 1991 by Liu Jiren out of Northeastern University and listed in 1996.
ofo
ofo, known in China as ofo小黄车, was a Chinese dockless bike-sharing company founded by Dai Wei and Peking University classmates in 2014, valued at $3 billion before collapsing in 2018.
Ouku
Ouku (欧酷网) was a Shanghai-based B2C e-commerce site selling mobile phones and electronics, founded in 2007 by Huang Zheng, a former Google China engineer, and sold to LightInTheBox in 2010.
Pan Jibiao
Pan Jibiao (盘继彪), born 1973, is the founder of Changsha's Shengda Jinxi, sentenced to life imprisonment in 2025 for a RMB 91.1 billion fund-raising fraud.
Panda TV
Panda TV (熊猫直播) was a Chinese game livestreaming platform founded in 2015 by Wang Sicong, which shut down in March 2019 and was declared bankrupt in 2021.
Paowang
Paowang (泡宠网) was a Chinese pet-health platform launched in August 2013 by a Beijing company, offering free online vet consultations, hospital lookup, and appointment booking.
Pengyu He
He Pengyu (何鹏宇) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur, former Tongcheng Travel senior vice president, who founded Tongcheng Life, reaching a $1 billion valuation before its 2021 bankruptcy.
Perfect World
Perfect World (完美世界) is a Beijing-based online game developer and publisher founded by Chi Yufeng, known for MMORPGs such as Zhu Xian and for operating Dota 2, Counter-Strike, and Steam China.
PPmoney
PPmoney, originally Wanhui Tourong, was a Chinese P2P lending platform founded in Guangzhou in 2012 by Chen Baoguo, the city's largest before the 2020 shutdown.
Puxin Education
Puxin Education (朴新教育) was a Chinese private education group offering K-12 and study-abroad tutoring; founded in 2014, it listed on the NYSE in 2018 and was wound up in 2022.
Qian Zhiya
Qian Zhiya (钱治亚), known in English as Jenny Qian, is a Chinese business executive who co-founded Luckin Coffee in 2017 and served as its first CEO until 2020.
Qianbao Network
Qianbao Network (钱宝网, Qbao.com) was a Nanjing-based Chinese investment platform promising 20% to 60% returns that collapsed in 2017 as a Ponzi-style fraud by founder Zhang Xiaolei.
Qihoo 360
Qihoo 360 (奇虎360), now 360 Security Technology, is a Chinese internet security company founded in 2005 by Qi Xiangdong, best known for its free antivirus suite 360 Safeguard.
Qiu Bojun
Qiu Bojun (求伯君), also known as Bojun Qiu, is a Chinese software entrepreneur who founded Kingsoft in 1988 and wrote the WPS word processor, earning the label "China's First Programmer".
Qun Jielong
Qun Jielong (群接龙) is a WeChat mini-program group-ordering tool for community group buying, launched in 2017 by Guangxi Shangshi Technology, based in Nanning and Guangzhou.