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Wukong Bicycle
Wukong Bicycle was a dockless bike-sharing startup in Chongqing, China, founded by Lei Houyi, and the first of China's bike-sharing apps to shut down, in 2017.
Wuxi Lead Intelligent Equipment Co Ltd
Wuxi Lead Intelligent Equipment Co Ltd, known as Lead Intelligent, is a Chinese maker of lithium-ion battery production equipment, founded by Wang Yanqing in 2002 and headquartered in Wuxi, Jiangsu.
Wynn Al Marjan Island (مرجان)
Wynn Al Marjan Island (مرجان) is a US$5.1 billion integrated resort under construction on Al Marjan Island, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, by Wynn Resorts and Marjan. It holds the UAE's only land-based casino licence, topped out at 352 meters, and opens in 2027.
Xian Le Pin
Xian Le Pin (鲜乐拼) is a Chinese community group-buying platform for fresh produce and household goods, launched in May 2018 in Shijiazhuang and operated by Beijing Tianxia Yimao Technology.
Xiao Dun
Xiao Dun (肖盾) is a Chinese education-technology entrepreneur who co-founded 17zuoye with Liu Chang in 2011, one of China's largest online homework platforms for primary and secondary students.
Xiao Zhilong
Xiao Zhilong (肖志龙) is a Chinese entrepreneur, founder and chairman of Linlin Yi, a Suzhou community group-buying platform launched in March 2018 that raised nearly US$100 million before merging into rival Tongcheng Life in July 2020.
Xiaoming Bike
Xiaoming Bike (小鸣单车) was a dockless bike-sharing service founded in Guangzhou in 2016, which deployed over 430,000 bikes and became China's first bike-sharing company to enter bankruptcy liquidation in 2018.
Xijing Dai
Xijing Dai, known as Jacob Dai, is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded the payments fintech Airwallex in Melbourne in 2015, alongside chief executive Jack Zhang.
Xiong Lin
Xiong Lin (熊林) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Ziroom, the Beijing-based long-rental housing operator, in 2011 and has led it as chief executive, becoming chairman in 2021.
Xiongdi Lian
Xiongdi Lian (兄弟连, Xiongdilian Education) was a Beijing adult IT vocational training company best known for PHP training, founded by Li Chao in 2006 and closed in February 2020.
XM Cyber
XM Cyber is an Israeli cybersecurity company, founded in 2016 in Herzliya by former Mossad director Tamir Pardo, that simulates cyberattacks to find network weaknesses.
Xu Chenye
Xu Chenye, also known as Daniel Xu (许晨晔), is a Chinese executive who co-founded Tencent in Shenzhen in 1998 and serves as Chief Information Officer.
Xu Jianwen
Xu Jianwen (许建文), born in 1984, is a Chinese internet-finance entrepreneur who founded and led Renren Jucai, a Shenzhen P2P lending platform specializing in car-backed loans.
Xu Li (business executive)
Xu Li (徐立) is a Chinese computer-vision researcher and business executive who co-founded SenseTime in 2014 and has served as its chief executive officer, adding the executive chairman role in 2023.
Xu Lingjie
Xu Lingjie (徐凌杰) is a Chinese semiconductor executive who co-founded Biren Technology, the Shanghai-based GPU developer, in 2019 and was its president until resigning in January 2024.
Xu Yong (businessman)
Xu Yong (徐勇), known as Eric Yong Xu, is a Chinese biochemist-turned-businessman who co-founded Baidu with Robin Li and served as its chief strategy officer until 2004.
Xu Zheng (Chinese entrepreneur)
Xu Zheng (徐正) is the Chinese entrepreneur who founded and led MissFresh, the Beijing online grocer that listed on Nasdaq in 2021 and collapsed a year later.
Xuan Yifang
Xuan Yifang (宣以方) is a Taiwanese-born GPU engineer who spent about 30 years in Silicon Valley, led S3 Graphics' Trio chips, and co-founded Shanghai's Lisuan Tech in 2021.
Xue Dong
Xue Dong (薛鼎) is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded the Beijing bike-sharing company ofo in 2014 alongside Dai Wei and three other Peking University students.
Xue Jiping
Xue Jiping (薛济萍) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Nantong-based Zhongtian Technology in 1992 and chaired the optical fiber and submarine cable maker until 2025.
Xue Liang
Xue Liang (薛亮) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the wealth-management platform Jucaimao in Shanghai in 2014 and was convicted of fundraising fraud in 2021.
Xuebajun
Xuebajun (学霸君) was a Shanghai-based Chinese K12 education-technology company founded in 2013 by Zhang Kailei, known for its photo-search homework app and abrupt December 2020 shutdown.
Ya-Qin Zhang
Ya-Qin Zhang, also known as Zhang Yaqin or 张亚勤, is a Chinese AI scientist and executive who served as president of Baidu from 2014 to 2019.
Yaak Technologies
Yaak Technologies is a Berlin automotive-technology company founded in 2020 that develops driver-coaching software, data-collection hardware, and AI for driving safety; its German entity entered liquidation in January 2024.
Yageo
Yageo (国巨) is a Taiwanese maker of passive electronic components such as resistors and capacitors, founded by Pierre Chen in 1977 and first globally in chip resistors.
Yair Goldfinger
Yair Goldfinger (יאיר גולדפינגר) is an Israeli internet entrepreneur who co-founded Mirabilis, creator of ICQ, sold to AOL in 1998 for up to $407 million.
Yamini Bhat
Yamini Bhat is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Vymo, a sales engagement platform for financial institutions, in 2013 and has led it as chief executive officer since.
Yang Chang-Chih
Yang Chang-Chih (杨长基) is a Taiwanese businessman who founded printed circuit board maker Gold Circuit Electronics in Taoyuan, Taiwan, in 1981, and debuted at No. 13 on the 2026 Forbes Taiwan 50 Richest list.
Yang Cheng-tse
Yang Cheng-tse (杨承泽) is the chairman and CEO of Gold Circuit Electronics, a Taiwanese printed circuit board maker, where he succeeded his father in 2017.
Yang Chonghe
Yang Chonghe (杨崇和), known in English as Howard Yang, is a semiconductor executive who co-founded Montage Technology in Shanghai in 2004 and serves as its chairman, CEO, and chief scientist.