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Joseph Hsu

Joseph Hsu (徐祥, Hsu Hsiang), born 1957, is a Taiwanese executive who co-founded computer hardware maker Micro-Star International (MSI) in 1986 and has served as its chairman since.

Joseph J. DePaolo

Joseph J. DePaolo is an American banker who co-founded Signature Bank in 2001 and served as its president and CEO for 22 years until New York regulators closed it in March 2023.

Joseph Magen

Joseph Magen is an Israeli high-tech and venture-capital professional who co-founded the Christian news outlet All Israel News in 2020, serving as chief operating officer until 2025.

Joseph Phua

Joseph Phua is a Singapore-based technology entrepreneur who co-founded the dating app Paktor in 2013, then founded M17 Entertainment, now 17LIVE Group, which listed on the Singapore Exchange in 2023.

Joseph Taub

Joseph Taub was an American businessman who co-founded Automatic Data Processing (ADP), the payroll services company, with his brother Henry Taub, starting in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1949.

Joshua Becker

Joshua Becker is a German fintech co-founder and chief operating officer of Augustus (formerly Ivy), a Berlin payments company he co-founded in 2022 with Ferdinand Dabitz, Simon Wimmer, and Peter Lieck.

Joytech

Joytech is the mass-market brand of Joy Industrial Co., Ltd., a Taiwanese bicycle hub and wheelset maker founded in Taichung in 1971 by Chen Chun-hsiung.

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.

Jumia Nigeria

Jumia Nigeria is the Nigerian e-commerce marketplace of Jumia Technologies AG, a German-incorporated, NYSE-listed pan-African group launched in Lagos in 2012 under Rocket Internet's Africa Internet Holding.

Junglee Corp.

Junglee Corp. was a Sunnyvale, California software company founded in 1996 that developed virtual database technology for comparison shopping and job search, acquired by Amazon in 1998.

Justin Maier

Justin Maier is an American technology founder and CEO of Civitai, an open-source AI model-sharing platform he built in 2022 in Meridian, Idaho, backed by Andreessen Horowitz.

K.Y. Lee

K.Y. Lee (李焜耀, Lee Kun-yao) is a Taiwanese technology executive who joined Acer in 1976 and led BenQ and AU Optronics, the world's third-largest LCD panel maker.

Kai Bakker

Kai Bakker (born 1991) is a Dutch software engineer and cofounder and CTO of DataSnipper, an Amsterdam audit automation company that reached a $1 billion valuation in 2024.

Kai Johan Jiang

Kai Johan Jiang is a China-born entrepreneur with Swedish citizenship who founded National Electric Vehicle Sweden and bought Saab Automobile's assets from bankruptcy in 2012.

Kailash Joshi

Kailash Joshi is a retired IBM executive who co-founded TiE, the Silicon Valley nonprofit network for entrepreneurs, in 1992, and later served as President of TiE Silicon Valley.

Kailei Zhang

Kailei Zhang (张凯磊) is a Chinese education technology entrepreneur who founded the tutoring platform Xuebajun and now leads the AI children's reading product Miss Dora.

Kaivalya Vohra

Kaivalya Vohra is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Zepto, the Bengaluru-based quick-commerce grocery delivery company, with Aadit Palicha in 2021 after both left Stanford University.

Kam Eshghi

Kam Eshghi is a storage-industry executive and co-founder of Lightbits Labs, the San Jose company that developed NVMe over TCP for flash storage over Ethernet networks.

Kanayo Awani

Kanayo Awani is a banker serving as Executive Vice President, Intra-African Trade and Export Development, at Afreximbank, the first woman to reach vice-president level there.

Kaneto Kanemoto

Kaneto Kanemoto (兼元 謙任), born 1966, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the company behind OKWave, Japan's first Q&A community site, launched in 2000 and listed on the Nagoya Stock Exchange in 2006.

Kang Pao-huang

Kang Pao-huang (康寶煌) was a Taiwanese telecommunications research administrator, first director of Telecommunications Laboratories in 1969 and of the 1974 electronics center that executed the RCA semiconductor technology transfer.

Kanwal Rekhi

Kanwal Rekhi (कनवल रेखी) is an Indian-American technology entrepreneur and investor who co-founded Excelan, a San Jose networking company listed on Nasdaq in 1987, and later co-founded TiE.

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.

Kao Yu-shu

Kao Yu-shu (高玉树) was a Taiwanese engineer and politician who served three times as mayor of Taipei and, as transportation minister, approved the 1974 plan that seeded Taiwan's semiconductor industry.

Karan Aneja

Karan Aneja is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Portea Medical, an Indian in-home healthcare company, with Zachary Jones in 2012, and now leads Reframe Financial.

Kari Kivelä

Kari Kivelä is a Finnish technology engineer who co-founded Oura Health in Oulu in 2013, leading hardware development and miniaturization of the Oura Ring before stepping back in 2020.

Karim Atiyeh

Karim Atiyeh is a Lebanese-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded the New York financial operations company Ramp in 2019, serving as CTO before becoming co-CEO in 2026.

Karim Beguir

Karim Beguir is a Tunisian-British entrepreneur and mathematician who co-founded InstaDeep, Africa's biggest AI startup, in Tunis in 2014 and sold it to BioNTech in 2023.