Top Tech Startups in Shanghai, China in 2024

We launched Riot Games in 2006 to develop, publish, and support games made by players, for players. In 2009, we released our debut title, League of Legends. League has gone on to be the most-played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports. Players are the foundation of our community and it’s for them that we continue to evolve the League experience both in and out of game. Founded by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill, and currently under the leadership of CEO Nicolo Laurent, we're headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and have 2,500+ Rioters in 20+ offices worldwide.

Veeva builds enterprise cloud technology that powers the biggest names in the pharmaceutical, biotech, consumer goods, chemical & cosmetics industries. Our customers make vaccines, life-saving medicines, and life-enhancing products that make a difference in everyday lives. Our technology has transformed these industries; enabling them to get critical products and services to market faster. Our core values, Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed, guide us as we make our customers more efficient and effective in everything they do.

We are an open, independent and global marketplace for out of home. We combine data and technology to enable brand safe and measurable advertising, connecting brands to the right audience, all with full transparency.

We are a community of designers, entrepreneurs, engineers, teachers, researchers, and more. Our shared values and beliefs influence the work that we do, and the impact we hope to achieve. ideo.com/case-study/nurturing-a-creative-culture

Zilliz is a leading vector database company for production-ready AI. Built by the engineers who created Milvus, the world's most popular open-source vector database, Zilliz is on a mission to unleash data insights with AI. The company builds next-generation database technologies to help organizations rapidly create AI/ML applications, and unlock the potential of unstructured data. By taking the burden of complex data infrastructure management off of its users, Zilliz is committed to bringing the power of AI to every corporation, every organization, and every individual. Headquartered in San Francisco, Zilliz is backed by a number of prestigious investors, including Aramco's Prosperity7 Ventures, Temasek's Pavilion Capital, Hillhouse Capital, 5Y Capital, Yunqi Partners, Trustbridge Partners and others. Zilliz's technologies and products help over 1000 organizations worldwide easily create AI applications in various scenarios, including computer vision, image retrieval, video analysis, NLP, recommendation engines, targeted ads, customized search, smart chatbots, fraud detection, network security, new drug discovery, and much more. Learn more at zilliz.com or follow @zilliz_universe.

Namefi tokenizes domain names for DeFi. Namefi is the world's first platform and protocol that tokenizes DNS domain names (like .com, .xyz) on Ethereum. As the pioneer in this space, Namefi has achieved several industry-first milestones: First to launch on Ethereum Mainnet and Base, a leading Ethereum Layer 2 network Pioneered innovative technologies like Namefi NFT, NamefiService Credit, AutoPark, AutoENS, and PrivacyMax (patent pending) Namefi was founded by Victor Zhou, one of the 7 EIP/ERC Editors of Ethereum, and a team with 30 years of ICANN experience. The platform has already tokenized over 500 domain names and has a thriving community of domain traders.

At AKQA we are trusted to work on prestigious assignments for many of the world’s most respected companies, families and institutions. At the same time, we are fortunate to receive industry-leading endorsement for the quality of our work, innovation and thinking. Our consistent track record of results achieved for clients have set our firm apart. While the clients we serve and the recognition we receive is a privilege and an honour, there is a responsibility on each of us to ensure our intentions and everyday actions are representative of our Purpose and Values. Many of us joined AKQA inspired by the potential our values envision and the behaviours we uphold and respect. Our founding purpose and values guide our work and the philosophy of our firm.

Over thirty years ago, we started business as a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam’s European Options Exchange. Today, we are a leading global electronic market maker, focused on pricing, execution and risk management. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies. Our independence allows us to objectively improve the markets and provide efficiencies for end investors.

Named "Best Apps of the Year" by Google Play, SideChef is an all-in-one home cooking platform that provides over 20,000 interactive smart recipes from over 300 content partners, with grocery delivery in one-click, dynamic recipe guidance featuring hands-free voice commands, step-by-step photos, how-to videos, and built-in timers. SideChef offers in-app meal planning, e-commerce fulfillment, and smart kitchen connectivity. SideChef is available for free on iOS, Android, Amazon Alexa, Google Home Hub, Samsung Bixby, and Portal from Facebook devices. SideChef powers the smart kitchen experience for world class partners such as Electrolux, LG, GE Appliances, V-Zug, BSH, Haier, and more. For Shoppable Recipe e-Commerce, SideChef partners with Walmart and Amazon Fresh to deliver recipe ingredients from over 3,000 stores across the USA with expansion into international markets in 2022. The SideChef platform is made up of over 16M users worldwide. As a company, we are 70 team members strong, from 16 different nationalities, from all over the world, that believes diversity and team work together can create the extraordinary. For more information, visit sidechef.com. CEO & Founder, Kevin Yu | Forbes Next 1000 of 2021 "Best Meal-Planning Apps of 2021" by Lifestyle Asia Singapore "Best Cooking Apps 2021 for Aspiring Master Chefs" by Tech Times "Best cooking app of 202" by BestApp.com "Best apps of 2017" - Google Play "Favorite cooking app" of The New York Times "Best entrepreneurial companies" - Entrepreneur.com (2018, 2019, 2020) "Favorite cooking app' - The New York Times "Best free Android cooking apps of 2016" - Phone Arena "Best Apps of 2014" - USA TODAY "Top 30 Android Apps" - The Guardian

A marketing agency built on the perfect union of marketers and engineers. Technology has transformed consumer lives A new breed of brands such as Google, Amazon, Netflix and Airbnb have captured consumers’ hearts & minds by disrupting the status quo across all sectors. These brands have defined higher standards of customer experience by continuously improving their products and services through digital media, data & AI. All brands must now live up to these new standards. Their strategic mediation and operational skills will allow you to take a fresh look at the project that you’ve entrusted us with.