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Kobi Alexander
Kobi Alexander, born Jacob Alexander, is an Israeli businessman who co-founded Comverse Technology, fled stock-options fraud charges to Namibia in 2006, and pleaded guilty in 2016.
Kong Dehai
Kong Dehai (孔德海) is a Chinese chip designer who co-founded and co-leads the Shanghai GPU company Lisuan Tech, after more than 20 years in Silicon Valley chip development.
Korea Zinc
Korea Zinc (고려아연) is a South Korean non-ferrous metal smelting company headquartered in Seoul since 1974, operating the world's largest single zinc smelter at Onsan, Ulsan.
Kumar Malavalli
Kumar Malavalli (कुमार मलवल्ली) is a Silicon Valley founder and investor who co-founded Brocade Communications in 1995 and is credited as a principal architect of Fibre Channel.
Kuroda (company)
Kuroda Precision Industries Ltd. (黒田精工株式会社) is a Japanese precision equipment maker in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, founded in 1925 as Japan's first specialized gauge manufacturer, known for ball screws, press dies, and grinding machines.
L. J. Sevin
L. J. Sevin, born Leonce John Sevin Jr., is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded and led Mostek, then co-founded Sevin Rosen Funds, an early investor in Compaq.
Lai Yih Group
Lai Yih Group (来亿集团) is a Taiwanese footwear manufacturer founded in 1987 and headquartered in Taichung, producing athletic shoes for Adidas, Converse, and Deckers from factories in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Myanmar.
Laifen
Laifen (徕芬) is a Chinese personal-care appliance company founded in 2019 by Ye Hongxin, best known for high-speed hair dryers priced at a fraction of Dyson's.
Larry Boucher
Larry Boucher, also known as Lawrence Boucher, is an American storage-industry engineer who led the Shugart Associates team that developed SCSI, then founded Adaptec, Auspex Systems, and Alacritech.
Lars Magnus Ericsson
Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846–1926) was a Swedish instrument maker who founded the telephone workshop in Stockholm in 1876 that became LM Ericsson, leading it until 1900.
Lattice Semiconductor
Lattice Semiconductor is an American semiconductor company in Hillsboro, Oregon, founded in 1983, that designs low-power field-programmable gate arrays and is the last major FPGA maker still independent.
Lawrence T. Pileggi
Lawrence T. Pileggi, also known as Larry Pileggi, is an American electrical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University, a pioneer of circuit simulation who received the 2023 Phil Kaufman Award.
Lens Technology
Lens Technology (蓝思科技) is a Chinese precision-manufacturing company headquartered in Liuyang, Hunan, founded by Zhou Qunfei in 2003, a core Apple supplier making cover glass and assembling devices.
Leo Koguan
Leo Koguan, also written KoGuan, is an Indonesian-born Chinese American billionaire who co-founded and chairs SHI International in New Jersey and is known as one of Tesla's largest individual shareholders.
Leo Mechelin
Leo Mechelin (Leopold Henrik Stanislaus Mechelin, 1839–1914) was a Finnish statesman, law professor, and banker who co-founded Nokia in 1871 and later served as Finland's de facto head of government from 1905 to 1908.
Leonard Bosack
Leonard Bosack is an American networking engineer who co-founded Cisco Systems in 1984, building on router work at Stanford, and later founded the optical networking company XKL.
Li Auto
Li Auto (理想汽车), also known as Lixiang Auto, is a Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer founded by Li Xiang in 2015, known for extended-range family SUVs.
Li Ping (Chinese billionaire executive)
Li Ping (李平) is a Chinese billionaire who co-founded battery maker CATL and serves as its vice chairman, with a Forbes-estimated net worth of $11.7 billion.
Li Xiande
Li Xiande (李仙德, born 1975) is a Chinese solar entrepreneur who founded JinkoSolar in 2006 and built it into the world's top solar panel maker, shipping over 400 GW cumulatively.
Li Xinrong
Li Xinrong (李新荣), also known as Allen Lee, is a semiconductor executive who spent 15 years at AMD and has been co-CEO of Biren Technology since 2021.
Li Zexiang
Li Zexiang (李泽湘) is a Hong Kong-based HKUST engineering professor who founded Googol Technology and mentored DJI founder Frank Wang, backing startups valued at almost US$12 billion.
Li Zhenguo
Li Zhenguo (李振国), born 1968, is the founder of LONGi Green Energy, the Xi'an-based solar manufacturer and one of the world's largest monocrystalline silicon makers.
Lightbits Labs
Lightbits Labs is a private software-defined storage company founded in 2016, headquartered in San Jose, California, that builds disaggregated NVMe over TCP block storage software, shipping LightOS.
Lin Bin
Lin Bin (林斌), born in 1968, is a Chinese-born American engineer who co-founded Xiaomi with Lei Jun in 2010, serving as president until 2019 and later vice chairman.
Lin Chien-hsun
Lin Chien-hsun, known in English as Jeff Lin (林建勋), is a Taiwanese executive who leads Wistron Corporation as chief executive, transforming it into an AI server manufacturer.
Linear Technology
Linear Technology Corporation was an American semiconductor company founded in 1981 by Robert Swanson and Robert Dobkin, headquartered in Milpitas, California, and acquired by Analog Devices in 2017.
Lite-On Technology
Lite-On Technology is a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer specializing in power management and optoelectronics. Founded by Raymond Soong in 1975, it became Taiwan's first listed electronics company in 1983.
Liu De
Liu De (刘德), born 1973, is a Chinese industrial designer and co-founder of Xiaomi, who ran its supply chain and built an investment program backing over 200 hardware startups.
Liu Jincheng
Liu Jincheng (刘金成), born 1964, is the founder and chairman of EVE Energy, a lithium battery maker in Huizhou, Guangdong, founded in 2001 and listed on the Shenzhen ChiNext board in 2009.
Liu Jingkang
Liu Jingkang (刘靖康), born in 1991, is the founder, chairman, and chief executive of Arashi Vision, the Shenzhen company behind the Insta360 brand of panoramic and action cameras.