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KKR Ascendant Fund

KKR Ascendant Fund, legally KKR Ascendant Fund SCSp, is a private equity fund KKR launched in 2022 for North American middle-market buyouts, closed at $4.6 billion in 2024.

Kkr Asia Credit

KKR Asia Credit is KKR's Asia-Pacific private credit and special situations strategy, active since 2019, whose second fund closed at US$2.5 billion in January 2026.

Kkr Asia Pacific Infrastructure Investors

KKR Asia Pacific Infrastructure Investors is a family of Luxembourg infrastructure funds raised by KKR since 2019, investing across Asia-Pacific renewables, power, water, digital infrastructure, and transportation.

KKR Asian Funds

The KKR Asian Funds are a series of Asia-Pacific buyout funds raised and managed by KKR & Co. Inc., spanning five funds from 2007 to the present.

KKR Dislocation Opportunities Fund

The KKR Dislocation Opportunities Fund is a special-situations fund within KKR's Credit and Liquid Strategies business, which raised $2,967 million and ran an investment period from 2019 to 2021.

Kkr European

KKR European is the series of European buyout funds raised and managed by KKR, growing from about $3.5 billion in 2015 to roughly $7.4 billion in commitments by 2022.

KKR Global Climate Transition Fund

The KKR Global Climate Transition Fund is a climate and energy-transition private equity fund launched by KKR in 2023, targeting renewables, transportation, and decarbonization with checks of $300m to $750m.

Kkr Global Impact

KKR Global Impact is the impact-investing platform of KKR & Co., launched in 2018 and led by Robert Antablin and Ken Mehlman, with about $4.1 billion in commitments.

Kkr Global Infrastructure Investors

KKR Global Infrastructure Investors is a series of unlisted global infrastructure private equity funds managed by KKR, running from Fund I in 2008 to Fund V in 2025.

KKR Health Care Strategic Growth

KKR Health Care Strategic Growth is the health care growth-equity strategy inside KKR, launched in 2016 and led by Ali Satvat, with a $1.45 billion first fund.

KKR Next Generation Technology Growth Funds

KKR Next Generation Technology is the technology growth equity fund franchise of KKR, launched in 2016 and run from New York, with three closed funds totaling about $5.9 billion.

Kkr North America

KKR North America is not a standalone firm but KKR & Co.'s flagship North America buyout fund series, whose Fund XIV closed at about $23 billion in April 2026.

Kkr Real Estate Partners Europe

KKR Real Estate Partners Europe is a series of Luxembourg-domiciled private equity real estate funds through which KKR invests in European property, targeting value-add and opportunistic deals in Western Europe.

Kkr Special Situations

KKR Special Situations is a fund complex within KKR & Co.'s credit platform, formed in 2009, pursuing distressed and event-driven deep-value investing with about $9.1 billion raised.

KK集团

KK Group (KK集团) is a Chinese multi-brand retail company founded in 2015 in Dongguan, Guangdong, by Wu Yuening, operating the chains KKV, THE COLORIST, and X11.

KK馆

KK馆 ("KK Store") was a Chinese curated lifestyle-retail brand founded by Wu Yuening, whose first imported-goods store opened in 2014; it was absorbed into parent KK Group in 2019.

KL Bro Biju

KL Bro Biju Rithvik (@klbrobijurithvik1) is the Malayalam family vlog channel of Biju Rithvik from Kannur, Kerala, India, created July 2020, featuring wife Kavitha, mother Karthyayani and son Rithvik, India's most-subscribed individual channel at about 90 million subscribers.

KL Rahul

KL Rahul (Kannur Lokesh Rahul), born 1992 in Bangalore, is an Indian wicketkeeper-batter who has opened and batted middle order in all formats, with 12 Test and 9 ODI centuries, and plays IPL for Delhi Capitals.

KL regularization in RLHF

KL regularization in RLHF is a penalty term that keeps a fine-tuned language model close to a frozen reference policy during reinforcement learning from human feedback.

KL Tower Mini Zoo

KL Tower Mini Zoo, a small indoor/outdoor petting zoo on the ground floor of Menara Kuala Lumpur, featured meerkats, parrots, llamas, tortoises, and a Falabella horse; sibling of Farm in the City, now reported permanently closed.

KL3M

KL3M is a copyright-clean training corpus of US, UK, and EU legal and government texts, launched by 273 Ventures in March 2024 and now maintained by the ALEA Institute.

KLA Corporation

KLA Corporation, formerly KLA-Tencor and KLA Instruments, is a San Jose semiconductor equipment company founded in 1975 that leads the process-control market with wafer inspection and metrology systems.

Kla Tham Party (กล้าธรรม)

Kla Tham Party (กล้าธรรม), formerly the Thai Economic Party, is a Thai political party led by Narumol Pinyosinwat with Thammanat Prompoa as de facto leader; it won 58 seats in the February 2026 election but is excluded from coalitions by the People's and Democrat parties.

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Dirk Jan Klaas Huntelaar), Dutch striker born 1983 in Drempt; starred for Ajax (158 goals in 257 games), Real Madrid, Milan, and Schalke, then worked in Ajax's technical staff until March 2025.

Klaas‐Jan Tielrooij

Klaas-Jan Tielrooij is a nanoscientist who leads the Ultrafast Dynamics in Nanoscale Systems group, founded at ICN2 in Barcelona in 2018, and became Full Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology in 2026.

Klaatu (band)

Klaatu, Canadian prog-pop trio (Woloschuk, Long, Draper) whose anonymous 1976 debut 3:47 EST sparked a Beatles-reunion rumor; known for Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, later covered by the Carpenters.

Klaatu (The Day the Earth Stood Still)

Klaatu is the humanoid alien emissary of the 1951 science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still, portrayed by Michael Rennie and known for the command "Klaatu barada nikto".

Klaatu barada nikto

Klaatu barada nikto is a command spoken in the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still, in which it stops the robot Gort from destroying Earth.

Klabat

Klabat (Gunung Klabat, Mount Kelang) is a dormant 1,995 m stratovolcano at the eastern tip of northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, east of Manado; highest peak in northern Sulawesi, with a crater lake and no verified historical eruptions.

Klaber

Klaberjass, also Klabberjass, Clobyosh, Klob, or Bela, is a Jass-family point-trick card game with a 32-card pack, jack of trumps worth 20 and nine worth 14, played by two, three, or four players.