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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.
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.
Kushki
Kushki is a Latin American payments technology company founded in 2017 by Aron Schwarzkopf and Sebastián Castro and headquartered in Quito, Ecuador. In 2022 it became Ecuador's first unicorn.
Kyle Vogt
Kyle Vogt is an American technology entrepreneur who co-founded Twitch, sold to Amazon for $970 million, and Cruise, bought by GM in 2016; he founded The Bot Company in 2024.
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.
Ladi Delano
Ladi Delano, born in 1982, is a British-Nigerian entrepreneur who co-founded and co-leads Moove, the mobility fintech that reached a $2.1 billion valuation in 2026.
Laércio Cosentino
Laércio Cosentino is a Brazilian software entrepreneur, an electrical engineering graduate of the University of São Paulo, who founded Microsiga in 1983 and chairs TOTVS, Latin America's largest software company.
Lai Chang Wen
Lai Chang Wen (赖长文) is a Singaporean entrepreneur, the co-founder and CEO of Ninja Van, the express logistics company he started in Singapore in 2014 with Shaun Chong and Boxian Tan.
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.
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.
Lalit Bhise
Lalit Bhise is an Indian technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Bizom, a Bengaluru retail-intelligence platform that raised a $12 million Series B in 2024.
Lamia Merzouki
Lamia Merzouki is a Moroccan business executive, chief operating officer of Casablanca Finance City since 2010 and chair of the World Alliance of International Financial Centers since 2024.
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.
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.
Larry Diamond
Larry Diamond is an Australian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Zip Co with Peter Gray in Sydney in 2013 and led the buy now, pay later provider as Global CEO until 2023.
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.
Lastminute.com
Lastminute.com is an online travel and leisure retailer founded in London in 1998 by Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox, known for late-booking flights and holidays.
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.
Laurent Ritter
Laurent Ritter is a French technology entrepreneur who co-founded Voodoo, the Paris-based mobile gaming company, with Alexandre Yazdi in 2013, serving as its managing director while Voodoo became a leader in hyper-casual mobile games.
Laurent Sifre
Laurent Sifre is a French artificial-intelligence researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded the Paris startup H, serving as its Chief Technological Officer, after nearly a decade at Google DeepMind.
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.
Lawrence Wu
Lawrence Wu is a Singapore solar entrepreneur and finance specialist who co-founded Sunseap Group in 2011 with Frank Phuan, now CFO of EDP Renewables APAC.
Le Hong Minh
Le Hong Minh (Lê Hồng Minh), born 1977, is a Vietnamese technology entrepreneur who founded VNG in 2004 as Vinagame, was its CEO until 2024, and now chairs the company behind Zalo.
Leandro Torres
Leandro Torres is a Brazilian banking executive and co-founder of C6 Bank, the São Paulo digital bank founded in 2018 by former BTG Pactual partners, where he runs the brokerage.
Lee Seung-gun
Lee Seung-gun (이승건) is a South Korean entrepreneur and former dentist who founded Viva Republica, creator of the Toss finance super app and Toss Bank in Seoul.
LegalOn Technologies
LegalOn Technologies (株式会社リーガルオンテクノロジーズ), formerly LegalForce, is a Tokyo-based AI legal tech company founded by two former corporate lawyers in 2017; its LegalForce contract review service launched in 2019.
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.