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Sergio Furio

Sergio Furio is a Spanish former investment banker who founded Creditas, a Brazilian online secured-lending company in São Paulo, in 2012 and serves as its chief executive officer.

Sergiy Grygorovych

Sergiy Grygorovych is a Ukrainian game designer and businessman who founded GSC Game World in Kyiv in 1995 and led the studio behind the Cossacks and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series.

SF Express

SF Express is a Chinese express logistics company founded by Wang Wei in 1993 and headquartered in Shenzhen, the largest integrated logistics provider in China and Asia.

Sha Yunlong

Sha Yunlong (沙云龙, born 1976) is a Chinese education entrepreneur who founded Puxin Education in 2014 after serving as a senior vice president of New Oriental.

Shailesh Kumar Davey

Shailesh Kumar Davey is an Indian engineer and business executive who co-founded Zoho Corporation, the Chennai software company started as AdventNet in 1996, and became its group CEO in January 2025.

Shan Krishnasamy

Shan Krishnasamy, full name Shanmugam Krishnasamy, is an Indian software engineer who co-founded Freshworks in Chennai in 2010 and served as its chief technology officer until 2022.

Shanda (Chinese online games company)

Shanda, or Shengda (盛大), formally Shanda Interactive Entertainment, was a Chinese online games company founded in Shanghai in 1999 and listed on Nasdaq in 2004.

Shanghai Aiko Solar Energy

Shanghai Aiko Solar Energy, known as Aiko Solar, is a Chinese solar cell and module maker in Shanghai, founded by Chen Gang, known for N-type ABC cells.

Shanghai Betone Semi-Conductor Energy Technology

Shanghai Betone Semi-Conductor Energy Technology (陛通半导体) is a Shanghai manufacturer of thin-film deposition equipment for chip fabrication, founded in Zhangjiang in 2008 by Song Weicong, a 13-year Applied Materials veteran.

Shanlin Jinrong

Shanlin Jinrong (善林金融) was a Shanghai-based P2P lending platform controlled by Zhou Boyun that raised 73.7 billion yuan from investors in a Ponzi scheme before collapsing in 2018.

Shao Jianxiong

Shao Jianxiong (邵建雄) is a Chinese businessman who founded and chairs Hoymiles, a Hangzhou maker of solar microinverters whose 2021 stock listing made him a billionaire.

Shao Yuanyuan

Shao Yuanyuan (邵元元) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Community 001, a Beijing grocery delivery service that became a well-known casualty of China's O2O funding wave in 2015.

Shaofanfan

Shaofanfan (烧饭饭) was a Shanghai-based on-demand private-chef platform launched in November 2014, backed by Lei Jun's Shunwei Fund and IDG, which closed in October 2015.

Shashank Kumar

Shashank Kumar (शशांक कुमार) is an Indian fintech entrepreneur who cofounded Razorpay, India's largest payment gateway, in Bengaluru in 2014 and serves as its Managing Director.

Shashvat Nakrani

Shashvat Nakrani is an Indian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded BharatPe, the New Delhi merchant payments and lending company, while a 19-year-old student at IIT Delhi.

Shaul Shani

Shaul Shani is an Israeli technology entrepreneur and investor who founded the Brazilian telecom GVT, sold to Vivendi for $4.5 billion in 2009, and cofounded XM Cyber.

Shaun di Gregorio

Shaun di Gregorio is an Australian technology executive, co-founder and CEO of Frontier Digital Ventures until 2025, and previously chief executive of iProperty Group, sold to REA Group in 2016.

Shelley Day

Shelley Day is an American software producer and business executive who co-founded Humongous Entertainment in Woodinville, Washington in 1992, conceived Putt-Putt, and led the studio until 2001.

Shen Wei

Shen Wei (沈炜) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Vivo, the Dongguan-based smartphone maker with over 500 million users, and serves as its chief executive officer.

Shen Xiaoyong

Shen Xiaoyong (沈小勇) is a Chinese technology executive who co-founded the industrial AI company SmartMore in late 2019 with Jia Jiaya and serves as its CEO.

Shengda Jinxi

Shengda Jinxi (盛大金禧) was a Changsha, Hunan investment-financing intermediary founded by Pan Jibiao in 2011 that raised over 91.1 billion yuan unlicensed, leaving 12.9 billion yuan in losses.

Sheryl Handler

Sheryl Handler is an American technology executive who co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation in 1983, led the parallel-supercomputer maker as CEO until 1993, and later founded Ab Initio Software.

SHI International

SHI International is a closely held IT products and solutions provider headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, founded in 1989 by Leo KoGuan and Thai Lee.

Shigenobu Nagamori

Shigenobu Nagamori (永守重信) is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the motor maker Nidec in Kyoto in 1973 and built it into the world's largest maker of small precision motors.

Shin Shibata

Shin Shibata (柴田 紳, born 1975) is a Japanese executive who leads Net Protections Holdings, a Tokyo fintech company, and chairs the Japan Deferred Payment Service Association.

Shinkawa (company)

Shinkawa Ltd. was a Japanese manufacturer of semiconductor back-end assembly equipment, best known for die, wire, and flip chip bonders; it joined Yamaha Motor in 2019.

Shintaro Yamada

Shintaro Yamada (山田進太郎), born 1977, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the used-goods marketplace app Mercari in 2013 and remains its chief executive and largest shareholder.

Shishangmao

Shishangmao (时尚猫) was a Beijing-based hairdressing O2O startup that let users book hairstylists online and shut down in January 2015 after its Series A failed.

Shiv Rao

Shiv Rao is an American cardiologist and technology founder, the co-founder and CEO of Abridge, an AI medical documentation company founded in 2018 in Pittsburgh, while still practicing at UPMC.

Shivakumar Ganesan

Shivakumar Ganesan is an Indian entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Exotel, the Bengaluru cloud telephony company he started in 2011 that handles about 2 billion calls a month.