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Lei Houyi
Lei Houyi (雷厚义, born 1991) is a Chinese entrepreneur from Chongqing who founded Wukong Bicycle, the first of China's bike-sharing startups to shut down, exiting in June 2017.
Lei Ming
Lei Ming (雷鸣) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur, one of Baidu's seven founding members and its chief architect, who left in 2003 and founded Kuwo Music in 2005.
Lei Xiaoliang
Lei Xiaoliang (雷小亮) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who left NetEase in 2011 to co-found Momo, the stranger-social app that listed on Nasdaq in 2014.
Lendo
Lendo is a Saudi Arabian fintech company, founded in 2019 by Osama Alraee and Mohamed Jawabri, operating a Shariah-compliant debt crowdfunding marketplace that finances invoices for small and medium-sized businesses.
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 Jia (internet entrepreneur)
Li Jia (李佳) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur from Wuhan who founded and led Banma Kuaipao (Zebra Run), a ride-hailing company that became a 2017 unicorn before bankruptcy reorganization in 2020.
Li Jian (Renrenche founder)
Li Jian (李健), born 1980, is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who founded Renrenche, China's first consumer-to-consumer used-car trading platform, in 2014, after careers at Baidu, 58.com, and Microsoft.
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 Xinhe
Li Xinhe (李欣贺) is a Chinese finance entrepreneur who co-founded and leads the P2P lending platform Renrendai, once ranked third in China by loan balance, founded in Beijing in 2010.
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 Xueling
Li Xueling (李学凌), known internationally as David Xueling Li, is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded the live streaming company JOYY and served as its chief executive from 2005 to 2024.
Li Yifei
Li Yifei (李逸飞), legal name Li Weiwei (李卫伟), born 1977, is a Chinese games entrepreneur who co-founded 37 Interactive Entertainment in Guangzhou in 2011 and serves as its chairman.
Li Yong (Chinese entrepreneur)
Li Yong (李勇) is a Chinese education-technology entrepreneur, co-founder and chief executive of Yuanfudao, the Beijing online-education company he started in 2012 after a journalism career and a senior role at NetEase.
Li Yongjin
Li Yongjin (黎勇劲) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who founded the Shanghai online property brokerage Aiwujiwu, which raised US$350 million, reached a US$1 billion valuation, and collapsed in 2019.
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.
Li Zhigang
Li Zhigang (李志刚) is a Chinese finance executive who co-founded and led Touna Wang, a Shenzhen peer-to-peer lending platform for automobile-backed loans, and faced criminal measures in 2021.
Lian Jie
Lian Jie (连杰) is a Chinese serial entrepreneur and founder of Dingdantuo, founded in 2016 to provide SaaS tools for community group-buying companies in smaller Chinese cities.
Liang Changlin
Liang Changlin (梁昌霖), also romanized Changlin Liang, is a Chinese entrepreneur and former military officer who founded grocery delivery company Dingdong Maicai in Shanghai in 2017 and led it until 2026.
Liang Rubo
Liang Rubo (梁汝波) is a Chinese technology executive who co-founded ByteDance, owner of TikTok and Douyin, with Zhang Yiming in 2012 and became its chief executive in 2021.
Licious
Licious is a Bengaluru-based online meat and seafood delivery platform founded in 2015 by Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta, which became a unicorn in 2021.
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.
LightInTheBox
LightInTheBox (兰亭集势) is a Chinese cross-border e-commerce company founded in Beijing in 2007, selling Chinese-made goods to overseas consumers and listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 2013.
Lilith Games
Lilith Games (莉莉丝) is a Chinese mobile-game developer and publisher founded in Shanghai in May 2013, best known for Rise of Kingdoms and AFK Arena.
Lillian Schwartz
Lillian Schwartz (1927–2024) was an American artist and pioneer of computer-mediated art who spent 1968 to 2002 at Bell Labs making computer-animated films and proposing the Mona Leo hypothesis.