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Qunar

Qunar (去哪儿网) is a Chinese online travel company founded in Beijing in 2005 that began as a travel metasearch engine and became China's largest online air-ticket booking platform.

Qunar.com

Qunar.com (去哪儿网) is a Beijing-based Chinese online travel platform founded in 2005, which listed on Nasdaq in 2013 and now operates as a budget brand inside Trip.com Group.

Reeve Kwan Chun-man

Reeve Kwan Chun-man (关俊文) is a Hong Kong entrepreneur who co-founded GoGoVan, now GOGOX, in 2013; the company listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange in 2022.

Renren Jucai

Renren Jucai (人人聚财) was a Chinese peer-to-peer lending platform founded by Xu Jianwen in Shenzhen in 2011, known for car-title loans before its supervised exit in 2020.

RenrenYouXin Group

RenrenYouXin Group (人人友信集团) is a Beijing-based Chinese financial group founded by Li Xinhe, Zhang Shishi, and Yang Yifu, best known for the P2P lending platform Renrendai.

Ricky Wong (Hong Kong entrepreneur)

Ricky Wong, also known as Wong Wai-kay (王维基), is a Hong Kong telecom and e-commerce entrepreneur who co-founded City Telecom in 1992 and built HKTVmall.

SenseTime

SenseTime (Shangtang Technology, 商汤科技) is a Chinese artificial intelligence company founded in 2014 by Tang Xiao'ou and Xu Li, headquartered in Hong Kong and listed there since 2021.

SF Express

SF Express is a Chinese express logistics company founded by Wang Wei in 1993 and headquartered in Shenzhen, the largest integrated logistics provider in China and Asia.

Sha Yunlong

Sha Yunlong (沙云龙, born 1976) is a Chinese education entrepreneur who founded Puxin Education in 2014 after serving as a senior vice president of New Oriental.

Shanda (Chinese online games company)

Shanda, or Shengda (盛大), formally Shanda Interactive Entertainment, was a Chinese online games company founded in Shanghai in 1999 and listed on Nasdaq in 2004.

Shanlin Jinrong

Shanlin Jinrong (善林金融) was a Shanghai-based P2P lending platform controlled by Zhou Boyun that raised 73.7 billion yuan from investors in a Ponzi scheme before collapsing in 2018.

Shao Yuanyuan

Shao Yuanyuan (邵元元) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Community 001, a Beijing grocery delivery service that became a well-known casualty of China's O2O funding wave in 2015.

Shaofanfan

Shaofanfan (烧饭饭) was a Shanghai-based on-demand private-chef platform launched in November 2014, backed by Lei Jun's Shunwei Fund and IDG, which closed in October 2015.

Shen Xiaoyong

Shen Xiaoyong (沈小勇) is a Chinese technology executive who co-founded the industrial AI company SmartMore in late 2019 with Jia Jiaya and serves as its CEO.

Shengda Jinxi

Shengda Jinxi (盛大金禧) was a Changsha, Hunan investment-financing intermediary founded by Pan Jibiao in 2011 that raised over 91.1 billion yuan unlicensed, leaving 12.9 billion yuan in losses.

Shishangmao

Shishangmao (时尚猫) was a Beijing-based hairdressing O2O startup that let users book hairstylists online and shut down in January 2015 after its Series A failed.

Shixianghui

Shixianghui (食享会) was a Chinese community group buying platform founded in Wuhan in December 2017 by Dai Shanhui, backed by Tencent, and shut down by mid-2021.

Shuai Ke

Shuai Ke (帅科) is a Chinese education-technology entrepreneur, co-founder of Yuanfudao, the online tutoring platform valued at $15.5 billion in 2020, and CEO of ClassUp.

Simon Loong

Simon Loong (龍沛智) is a Hong Kong fintech entrepreneur, born in 1977, who founded the lending and digital-banking group WeLab in January 2013 and remains its Group CEO.

Sina

Sina (新浪) is a Beijing-rooted Chinese internet company formed in 1998 from a merger, operator of the Sina.com news portal and controlling shareholder of Weibo.

Smartisan Technology

Smartisan Technology (锤子科技) was a Beijing smartphone company founded by Luo Yonghao in 2012, known for design-led phones running its own Smartisan OS; ByteDance absorbed its team in 2019.

Sohu

Sohu (搜狐) is a Chinese internet company founded by Charles Zhang in the 1990s, once one of China's three major web portals and now mainly a games business.

Song Shu Pin Pin

Song Shu Pin Pin (松鼠拼拼) was a Beijing-based community group-buying platform for low-price fresh food, founded by Meituan co-founder Yang Jun in 2018 and collapsed in 2019.

Steven Lam (GOGOX)

Steven Lam (林凯源, Lam Hoi Yuen) is a Hong Kong entrepreneur who co-founded the logistics platform GoGoVan in 2013 and serves as chairman and Co-CEO of successor GOGOX Holdings.

Su Hua

Su Hua (宿华), born 1982, is a Chinese technology entrepreneur who co-founded Kuaishou, the Beijing short-video and live-streaming company, serving as its chief executive until 2021 and chairman until 2023.

Su Qiqiang

Su Qiqiang (苏启强) is a Chinese software entrepreneur who co-founded the accounting software firm Yonyou with Wang Wenjing in Beijing in 1988, then founded Federal Software in 1994.

Sun Lei

Sun Lei (孙雷) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the internet finance company 9F Inc. in 2006 and led it to its 2019 Nasdaq listing.

Sun Yuanbo

Sun Yuanbo (孙元波) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who ran fruit group buys through QQ groups from 2011, co-founded 你我您 in 2016, and became COO of Nicetuan after their 2019 merger.

Tang Guangliang

Tang Guangliang (唐光亮), also known as Guangliang Tang, is a Chinese retail entrepreneur who founded the convenience-store brand Kuailehui in 2008 and the community group-buying platform Kaola Jingxuan in Changsha in 2018.

Tang Jun (Chinese entrepreneur)

Tang Jun (唐军), born 1987, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the P2P lending platform Tuandai in Dongguan, which collapsed in 2019 owing investors 34.82 billion yuan.