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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.
Lin Lin Yi
Lin Lin Yi (邻邻壹) was a Chinese community group-buying platform founded in Suzhou in March 2018 by Xiao Zhilong, selling groceries through WeChat neighborhood group leaders.
Lin Qiao
Lin Qiao is a technology executive who co-created PyTorch during seven years at Meta before founding Fireworks AI, an AI inference platform, in Redwood City, California, in 2022.
Lincoln Quirk
Lincoln Quirk is an American fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Sendwave, sold to WorldRemit for up to $500 million, and Wave, Francophone Africa's first unicorn, with Drew Durbin.
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.
Linhao Zhang
Linhao Zhang is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Formation Bio, a New York pharma company using AI to develop in-licensed drug candidates, founded in 2016.
Linode
Linode is a cloud infrastructure provider offering Linux virtual machines, founded by Christopher Aker in 2003 and acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2022 for about $900 million.
Linus Olsson
Linus Olsson, born 1978, is a Swedish fintech entrepreneur and former CEO of Flattr, the Malmö micropayment service launched with Peter Sunde and acquired by Eyeo in 2017.
Lionshare
Lionshare is a majority Black-owned investment holding company based in Johannesburg, South Africa, founded by Ike Cha (Isaac Chalumbira) and investing in real estate, fuel retail, transport, and energy.
List of unicorn startup companies
The list of unicorn startup companies covers private venture-backed companies valued at $1 billion or more, a term coined in 2013; trackers count roughly 1,300 to 1,600.
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 Chuanzhi
Liu Chuanzhi (柳传志), also romanised Chuanzhi Liu, is a Chinese entrepreneur born in 1944 who founded Lenovo and its parent Legend Holdings in 1984, retiring as chairman in 2019.
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 Hui
Liu Hui (刘辉) is a Chinese technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Beijing cosmetics flash-sale site Jumei Youpin in 2010, ran its research and development, and left in 2013.
Liu Huiyu
Liu Huiyu (刘辉宇), also known as Huiyu Liu, is a Chinese entrepreneur and co-founder of Xingsheng Youxuan, a community group-buying platform based in Changsha, Hunan, holding a 4.349% stake in its operating company.
Liu Jianguo
Liu Jianguo (刘建国) is a Chinese search-engine engineer who was Baidu's first employee after its co-founders and its chief technology officer, later founding the local-life search site Aibang.
Liu Jiexian
Liu Jiexian (刘界显) is a Shanghai-based Chinese serial entrepreneur, founder and CEO of the on-demand beauty O2O platform Meimei Zuoyou, which he founded in December 2014 after an earlier failed car-wash venture.
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.
Liu Jiren
Liu Jiren (刘积仁, born 1955) is a Chinese computer scientist and entrepreneur who founded Neusoft Group in Shenyang in 1991 and led it as chairman until 2025.
Liu Jun (finance executive)
Liu Jun (刘军) is a Chinese finance executive who served as CEO of Mindai Tianxia, a Guangzhou P2P lending platform that announced an orderly exit in January 2020.
Liu Kai (internet entrepreneur)
Liu Kai (刘凯) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who spent 13 years at Tencent before becoming chairman and CEO of the community group-buying platform Niwo Nin.
Liu Lirong
Liu Lirong (刘立荣), born 1972, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the Gionee phone maker in 2002, which peaked at 40 million handsets in 2016 before its 2018 bankruptcy.
Liu Qingxun
Liu Qingxun (刘庆逊) is a Chinese education-technology founder who created the AI contextual English course Wala English through his Beijing startup Makee, after leading TAL's online school.
Liu Xu
Liu Xu (刘旭), born 1960, is a Chinese antivirus software engineer who led Beijing Rising as chief engineer and president, designed Rising Antivirus, and founded Oriental Micropoint in 2005.
Liu Yan (internet entrepreneur)
Liu Yan (刘岩) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who founded the video-sharing site 6.cn in Beijing in 2006 and later led its merger with Huajiao Live.
Liu Ye (entrepreneur)
Liu Ye (刘夜), also known as Leo Liu, is a Chinese education-technology entrepreneur who co-founded KnowBox in 2014, led it to a billion-dollar valuation, and founded VisionFlow in 2023.
Liu Yi (chip engineer)
Liu Yi (刘毅, born 1985) is a Chinese chip engineer serving as deputy general manager of Cambricon Technologies, a Beijing-based AI chip designer he joined in 2016.
Liujianfang
Liujianfang (六间房), also known as 6.cn, is a Chinese online entertainment company founded in Beijing in 2006, which pivoted from video sharing to paid show livestreaming.