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Yang Haoyong
Yang Haoyong (杨浩涌) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who founded the classifieds site Ganji.com in Beijing in 2005, was co-CEO of 58.com after their 2015 merger, and then led the used-car platform Guazi.
Yang Jian (chip engineer)
Yang Jian (杨建, born 1973) is a Chinese chip engineer who co-founded the GPU designer MetaX in Shanghai in 2020 and serves as its chief technology officer.
Yang Jun (internet entrepreneur)
Yang Jun (杨俊) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur, born in 1984, who co-founded the social network Xiaonei, was Meituan's vice president of sales, and founded Songshu Pinpin.
Yang Lingang 杨㟀罡
Yang Lingang, also known as Alston, is a Chinese finance entrepreneur and Peking University graduate who co-founded the Beijing internet gold investment platform G-banker, which collapsed in 2020.
Yang Yifu
Yang Yifu (杨一夫, born 1984) is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded the P2P lending platform Renrendai in Beijing in 2010, running risk control until the government shut the sector in 2020.
Yang Yuanqing
Yang Yuanqing (杨元庆) is a Chinese business executive who joined Lenovo as a salesman in 1989 and has served as its chairman and chief executive officer since 2011.
Yankee Company (Korean travel platform)
Yankee Company, or Good Choice Company, is a South Korean travel platform company in Seoul whose Yeogi Eotteo app, launched in 2014, became a unicorn in 2022.
Yao Jinbo
Yao Jinbo (姚劲波), born in 1976 in Yiyang, Hunan, is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who founded the classifieds platform 58.com in 2005 and led its 2013 New York Stock Exchange listing.
Yao Runhao
Yao Runhao (姚润昊), born 1988, is a Chinese gaming entrepreneur who founded Paper Games in Suzhou in 2013, a studio specializing in games for female players such as Love and Producer.
Yaron Inger
Yaron Inger is an Israeli software engineer who co-founded Lightricks in Jerusalem in 2013 and serves as its chief technology officer, leading more than 150 developers and researchers.
Yashish Dahiya
Yashish Dahiya is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded PB Fintech, the parent of Policybazaar and Paisabazaar, in 2008 and serves as its Chairman and Group CEO.
Yassir
Yassir is an Algerian super app founded in 2017, conceived in Palo Alto, that bundles ride-hailing, delivery, and financial services and had raised $193.25 million by November 2022.
Yasukane Matsumoto (Raksul)
Yasukane Matsumoto (松本恭攝), born 1984, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Raksul in 2009, led it as CEO until 2023, and now serves as its Chairman.
Yasuyuki Honne
Yasuyuki Honne (本根 康之) is a Japanese game developer who co-founded Monolith Soft in 1999 after leaving Square, where he was art director on Xenogears; he later directed the Baten Kaitos games.
Yat Siu
Yat Siu (萧逸) is a Hong Kong technology entrepreneur, born in Vienna, who founded Outblaze, sold its messaging division to IBM in 2009, and co-founded Animoca Brands.
Yazeed Al-Shamsi
Yazeed Al-Shamsi is a Saudi entrepreneur who co-founded Ejari in 2022 with three schoolmates, a Riyadh proptech whose rent-now-pay-later service converts annual rents into monthly payments.
Yeh Kuo-i
Yeh Kuo-i (叶国一), born 1941, is a Taiwanese electronics entrepreneur who founded Inventec in 1975 and built it into one of Taiwan's major notebook and server manufacturers.
Yello Mobile
Yello Mobile (옐로모바일) was a Seoul-based mobile app holding company founded by Lee Sang-hyuk in 2012, once valued at about US$4 billion, that closed in 2024.
Yellow.ai
Yellow.ai is an enterprise conversational and agentic AI software company founded in 2016 as Yellow Messenger, headquartered in San Mateo, California, and serving 650+ enterprises in 85+ countries.
Yerzat Dulat
Yerzat Dulat (Ерзат Дулат) is a Kazakh-born AI researcher who co-founded Higgsfield, a San Francisco generative video company, in 2023 and serves as its chief technology officer.
Yiersan
Yiersan (衣二三, also known as YCloset) was a Beijing-based women's fashion-rental subscription platform founded in 2015 by Liu Mengyuan, charging 499 yuan monthly and backed by Alibaba before it shut down in 2021.
Yigal Kaminka
Yigal Kaminka is an Israeli oboist who co-founded Simply (formerly JoyTunes) in Tel Aviv with his brother Yuval, and served as its principal oboist-trained Content Director.
Yiguo Fresh
Yiguo Fresh (易果生鲜) is a Shanghai fresh-food e-commerce company that launched China's first online fresh-grocery platform in October 2005 and entered bankruptcy restructuring in 2020.
Yin Qi (Chinese technology entrepreneur)
Yin Qi (印奇, born 1988) is a Chinese technology entrepreneur who co-founded the computer-vision company Megvii in 2011 and led it as chairman and chief executive for over a decade.
Yin Zhiyao
Yin Zhiyao (尹志尧), also known as Gerald Yin, is a Chinese semiconductor engineer who founded AMEC, a Shanghai plasma etch equipment maker, in 2004 after a Silicon Valley career.
Yinon Costica
Yinon Costica is an Israeli software executive, co-founder and VP of Product at cloud security company Wiz, which Google acquired for about $32 billion in 2026.
Yoel Gat
Yoel Gat (יואל גת) was an Israeli entrepreneur who co-founded Gilat Satellite Networks in 1987, led it as CEO until 2003, and later founded the satellite-chip maker SatixFy, dying in 2022.
Yokogawa Electric
Yokogawa Electric Corporation (横河電機) is a Japanese manufacturer of process-control and measurement instruments, founded in Tokyo in 1915 and known for the CENTUM distributed control system.
Yonatan Wexler
Yonatan Wexler is an Israeli computer vision researcher and technology executive who co-founded Q.ai, an AI speech startup Apple acquired in January 2026 for about $1.6 billion.
Yonyou
Yonyou (用友网络, Yonyou Network Technology Co., Ltd.) is a Beijing-based enterprise software company founded by Wang Wenjing in 1988, ranked first in China's ERP market and listed in Shanghai.