Yahui Zhou

Yahui Zhou is the founder, chairman and CEO of Kunlun Tech (昆仑万维), which he started in 2008 after graduating from Tsinghua, per a Source Code Capital piece . The company rode China's first wave of digital going-overseas — Source Code's Yi Cao recalled Zhou "could barely speak English and the company had zero overseas groundwork," yet clawed out a major market with Chinese web- and mobile-game development and operations — then listed on the Shenzhen exchange in 2015 and moved upmarket by acquiring Opera (which went public on Nasdaq in July 2018) and Grindr . By 2019 he was also serving as CEO of OPay, the African mobile-payments and mobility company that raised a $120 million Series B that year, talking up plans for a fintech ecosystem across Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and Kenya . He's also part of Source Code Capital's LP circle, alongside Wang Xing, Zhang Yiming and others . As recently as May 2026, Qiming's Morning Star column quoted him observing that mobile-internet CPM had risen over the decade .