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Slintel
Slintel was a B2B sales and marketing intelligence company founded by Deepak Anchala and Rahul Bhattacharya that sold technographic data and buying-intent signals before its 2021 acquisition by 6sense.
SmartBank, Inc.
SmartBank, Inc. (株式会社スマートバンク) is a Tokyo fintech company founded in April 2019 by Shota Horii, operating OneBank, formerly B/43, a prepaid-card and household-accounting app with 2 million downloads by July 2025.
SmartHR
SmartHR is a Japanese cloud human-resources and labor-management software company headquartered in Tokyo. Founded in 2013, it serves over 80,000 companies and became a unicorn in 2021.
Smartisan Technology
Smartisan Technology (锤子科技) was a Beijing smartphone company founded by Luo Yonghao in 2012, known for design-led phones running its own Smartisan OS; ByteDance absorbed its team in 2019.
SmartNews
SmartNews (スマートニュース株式会社) is a Tokyo-based media-technology company founded in 2012 that operates one of Japan's largest news-aggregation apps, serving about 21 million monthly users in Japan and the United States.
Socar
Socar (쏘카) is a South Korean car sharing and mobility company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Jeju City, with more than 10 million members.
Sodick Co., Ltd.
Sodick Co., Ltd. (株式会社ソディック) is a Japanese machine-tool maker headquartered in Yokohama, founded by Toshihiko Furukawa in 1976, best known for electrical discharge machines, machining centers, and metal 3D printers.
Software AG
Software AG was a German enterprise software company founded in Darmstadt in 1969, best known for ADABAS and Natural, and taken private by Silver Lake in 2023.
Software Arts
Software Arts was a Massachusetts software company founded by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston in 1979, best known as the developer of VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet.
Sohu
Sohu (搜狐) is a Chinese internet company founded by Charles Zhang in the 1990s, once one of China's three major web portals and now mainly a games business.
Soichiro Minami
Soichiro Minami (南壮一郎), born in 1976, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the BizReach recruiting service in Tokyo in 2007 and now leads its parent company, Visional.
SolarMente
SolarMente was a Barcelona-based residential solar and home-electrification subscription company founded by Wouter Draijer and Victor Gardrinier, backed by Y Combinator and Leonardo DiCaprio, which entered liquidation in 2026.
Solectron
Solectron was an electronics manufacturing services company founded in 1977 in Milpitas, California, that peaked at $18.7 billion in revenue before Flextronics acquired it in 2007.
Solomon Hykes
Solomon Hykes is a French engineer and entrepreneur who founded Dotcloud in Paris in 2008, created the Docker open-source container project, and led Docker, Inc. as CEO and then CTO.
Somayeh Taheri
Somayeh Taheri is an Iranian-born, Manchester-based energy technology entrepreneur who co-founded UrbanChain in 2017, a peer-to-peer renewable energy exchange, and was an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 UK finalist.
Son Chang-hyun
Son Chang-hyun (손창현, born 1977) is a South Korean entrepreneur who founded OTD Corporation in 2014, creator of Korea's first restaurant select-shop, Over the Dish.
Song Shu Pin Pin
Song Shu Pin Pin (松鼠拼拼) was a Beijing-based community group-buying platform for low-price fresh food, founded by Meituan co-founder Yang Jun in 2018 and collapsed in 2019.
Song Weicong
Song Weicong (宋维聪), born in 1955, is a Chinese semiconductor entrepreneur who spent thirteen years at Applied Materials before founding Betone, a Shanghai thin-film deposition equipment maker, in 2008.
Sophie Kim
Sophie Kim (김슬아, Kim Seol-ah), born 1983, is a South Korean entrepreneur who founded Kurly in 2014 and leads its Market Kurly online grocery service, known for dawn delivery.
SOU
SOU was a Tokyo-based Japanese reuse company founded by Shinsuke Sakimoto in 2011, which bought used brand goods and resold them to businesses; it became Valuence Holdings in 2020.
Soulbrain
Soulbrain is a South Korean company in Seongnam producing lithium-ion battery electrolytes from plants in Korea, the United States, Hungary, and Malaysia, plus semiconductor etchants and display materials.
Soundcore (audio brand)
Soundcore (声阔) is the audio brand of Anker Innovations, a Chinese consumer-electronics group founded in 2011, selling wireless earbuds, headphones, and speakers in more than 50 countries.
SPACECOOL
SPACECOOL is a Tokyo decarbonization materials company founded in 2021 as a carve-out from Osaka Gas, selling a zero-energy film that cools surfaces below air temperature in sunlight.
Sprinto
Sprinto is a Bengaluru-based SaaS company founded by Girish Redekar and Raghuveer Kancherla whose platform automates compliance programs such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA, serving over 3,000 customers.
Sriharsha Majety
Sriharsha Majety (श्रीहर्ष माजेटी) is an Indian entrepreneur and co-founder, Managing Director, and Group CEO of Swiggy, the Bengaluru food delivery platform founded in 2014.
Stan Shih
Stan Shih, also known as Shi Zhenrong (施振榮), is a Taiwanese entrepreneur who co-founded Acer in 1976, led it to second place among world PC makers, and proposed the smiling curve.
Stanley Mazor
Stanley Mazor, born 1941 in Chicago, is an American engineer who co-developed the Intel 4004, the world's first microprocessor, and later worked on the 8008 and 8080, sharing the 1997 Kyoto Prize.
StarkWare Industries
StarkWare Industries is an Israeli cryptography company founded in 2018 by Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Michael Riabzev, and Uri Kolodny, building blockchain scaling with STARK proofs through Starknet and StarkEx.
Stef van Grieken
Stef van Grieken (Stefan van Grieken, born 1986) is a Dutch technology entrepreneur and former Google engineer who co-founded Cradle, a generative AI protein design company, in 2021.
Stefan Jansson
Stefan Jansson is a Swedish battery-industry entrepreneur with over 25 years in energy storage who co-founded Polarium in 2015, led it as CEO until 2024, and saw it reach a $1 billion valuation in 2022.