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Yooli.com
Yooli.com (有利网) was a Chinese peer-to-peer lending marketplace founded in 2012 by Ren Yong, Liu Yannan, and Wu Yiran, which stopped new lending in 2020.
Yoshikazu Tanaka
Yoshikazu Tanaka (田中良和), born in 1977, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded GREE in Tokyo in 2004 and was named Asia's youngest self-made billionaire in 2010.
Yoshimori Ito (Toggle Holdings Co., Ltd.)
Yoshimori Ito (伊藤嘉盛) is a Japanese serial entrepreneur who co-founded the SaaS company Itanji and founded the Tokyo real estate and AI group Toggle Holdings in 2020.
Yossarian King
Yossarian King is a Canadian game technologist who co-founded the Vancouver studio Blackbird Interactive in 2010 and served as its Chief Technical Officer until 2024.
Yossi Vardi
Yossi Vardi (יוסי ורדי), born Joseph Vardi, is an Israeli entrepreneur and angel investor whose founding investment in Mirabilis created the ICQ instant messaging program.
Yosuke Tsuji
Yosuke Tsuji (辻 庸介), born 1976 in Osaka, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the Tokyo fintech company Money Forward in 2012 and serves as its Group CEO.
YOUTRUST
YOUTRUST, Inc. (株式会社YOUTRUST) is a Tokyo-based human-resources technology company founded in December 2017 by Yuka Iwasaki, operating a career social networking service with about 500,000 users and the YOUTRUST TALENT recruiting service.
Youyi Wang
Youyi Wang (优易网) was a Chinese peer-to-peer lending platform in Nantong, Jiangsu, that ran from August 2012 until its operators fled with investors' money in December 2012.
Yu Dan (business executive)
Yu Dan (于丹) is a Chinese internet executive and CEO of Huafang Group, the live-streaming company behind Huajiao Live, listed in Hong Kong in 2022.
Yu Dunde
Yu Dunde (于敦德), born in 1981, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the Nanjing-based online travel agency Tuniu in 2006 and leads it as chairman and CEO.
Yu Kai
Yu Kai (余凯), also known as Kai Yu, is a Chinese AI scientist and entrepreneur who founded Horizon Robotics, a Beijing-based autonomous-driving computing company, in 2015.
Yu Liu
Yu Liu (刘禹) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who founded the translation platform 365翻译, sold it to Alibaba in 2015, and served as Mobike's president and then CEO from 2018 to 2019.
Yu Minhong
Yu Minhong, known internationally as Michael Yu, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded New Oriental in 1993 and led its 2006 New York Stock Exchange listing.
Yu Renrong
Yu Renrong (虞仁荣), born in 1966, is a Chinese semiconductor entrepreneur who founded Will Semiconductor in Shanghai in 2007 and built it into one of the world's largest CMOS image sensor makers.
Yu Yi
Yu Yi (余熠), born 1984, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded U-bicycle, a Shanghai dockless bike-sharing startup that peaked at 520,000 bikes and 11 million users in 2017.
Yuan Chenglong
Yuan Chenglong (袁成龙) is a Chinese fintech executive who co-founded the Beijing P2P online lending platform Xiangshang Jinfu in 2013 and served as its CEO.
Yuan Jiangtao
Yuan Jiangtao (袁江涛), born in 1979, is a Chinese electronics entrepreneur who co-founded Shenzhen JLC Technology Group in 2006, an online PCB prototyping and component platform listed in 2026.
Yuan Shuai
Yuan Shuai (袁帅) is a Chinese video-game producer who co-founded Shanghai mobile game developer Lilith Games in 2013 with two Nanjing University classmates, and serves as Chief Product Officer.
Yuan Yue
Yuan Yue (袁岳, born 1965) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the market research firm Zero and chairs Dataway Horizon, a data analytics company listed in Shenzhen.
Yubico
Yubico is a Swedish cybersecurity company founded in Stockholm in 2007 by Stina and Jakob Ehrensvärd, maker of the YubiKey hardware security key and co-inventor of the FIDO U2F and WebAuthn standards.
Yue Lihua
Yue Lihua (岳立华, born 1973) is a Chinese entrepreneur from Hunan who founded the Furong Xingsheng convenience-store chain and, from it, the community group-buying platform Xingsheng Youxuan.
Yuka Iwasaki (YOUTRUST)
Yuka Iwasaki (岩崎由夏) is a Japanese entrepreneur, founder and president of YOUTRUST, a Tokyo career SNS she started in 2017 after working in recruitment at DeNA.
Yuncheng Interactive, Fengyun Live
Yuncheng Interactive (云成互动) was a Beijing internet company founded by Zhang Xuan in 2011; its successor launched Fengyun Live, and LeTV Sports bought Zhangyu TV for 300 million RMB in 2016.
Yuncheng Interactive, later MetaApp
Yuncheng Interactive, later MetaApp, is a Beijing internet company founded by Hu Sen that operates 233乐园 (233 Playground), a mobile game platform whose sandbox technology runs games without downloads.
Yuval Kaminka
Yuval Kaminka is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Simply (formerly JoyTunes), a Tel Aviv-based music education company that reached a $1 billion valuation in 2021.
Yuzo Torizuka
Yuzo Torizuka (鳥塚祐三) is the Japanese founder CEO of TORICO LTD, a Tokyo company founded in 1973 as an electronic-parts trader and now centered on repairing semiconductor and LCD manufacturing equipment.
YY Live
YY Live (YY直播) is a Chinese live-streaming platform founded in 2005 in Guangzhou by Li Xueling, known for virtual-gift tipping, and acquired by Baidu in 2025.
Zach Perret
Zach Perret is an American technology entrepreneur, the co-founder and CEO of Plaid, the San Francisco fintech whose APIs connect bank accounts to apps like Venmo and Robinhood.
Zachary Jones
Zachary Jones is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Portea Medical, a Bengaluru-based home-healthcare company, in 2012, led it as chief executive, and sold it in 2013.
Zebra Run
Zebra Run (斑马快跑) was a Chinese mobility startup founded in Wuhan in 2015 that offered ride-hailing, buses, and freight before entering bankruptcy reorganization in 2020.