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Kim Beom-su
Kim Beom-su (김범수, also known as Brian Kim) is a South Korean internet entrepreneur who founded the game portal Hangame in 1998 and the messaging platform Kakao in 2010.
Kim Byung-kuk
Kim Byung-kuk (김병국) is a South Korean semiconductor-equipment entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of ESOL, a Hwaseong-based maker of EUV mask review and inspection tools.
Kim Hyun-tae
Kim Hyun-tae (김현태, born 1976) is a South Korean executive who is co-CEO and largest shareholder of Voronoi, an AI-driven precision-oncology biotech in Songdo, Incheon.
King Slide Works
King Slide Works is a Taiwanese precision slide-rail manufacturer in Kaohsiung, founded in 1986, holding an estimated 70 to 80 percent of the global AI server rail kit market.
Kingsoft
Kingsoft Corporation (金山软件) is a Chinese software and internet services company built around WPS Office, the JX game series, and Kingsoft Cloud, listed in Hong Kong since 2007.
Kissflow
Kissflow is an Indian SaaS company in Chennai offering a low-code/no-code work-management platform, founded by Suresh Sambandam, grown from OrangeScape, and serving 1,200 customers in 87 countries.
Kitopi
Kitopi (كيتوبي), short for Kitchen Utopia, is a Dubai-based food technology and restaurant company founded in January 2018, which raised $415 million from SoftBank in 2021.
Kiyoyuki Suzuki
Kiyoyuki Suzuki (鈴木 清幸), born in 1952, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the voice recognition company Advanced Media in 1997 and leads it as chairman and president.
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.
Kobi Alexander
Kobi Alexander, born Jacob Alexander, is an Israeli businessman who co-founded Comverse Technology, fled stock-options fraud charges to Namibia in 2006, and pleaded guilty in 2016.
Koby Katz
Koby Katz (Yacob Katz) is an Israeli energy executive who co-founded Navitas Petroleum in 2015, after serving as Director General of Israel's energy ministry and Co-CEO of Delek Energy.
Kohei Nishiwada
Kohei Nishiwada (西和田浩平) is a Japanese entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Asuene, a Tokyo climate tech company measuring corporate CO2 emissions, which he founded in 2019 after about eleven years at Mitsui & Co.
Koichi Kitazumi
Koichi Kitazumi (北角浩一, born 1961) is a Japanese game-industry founder who established the company that became Nippon Ichi Software, the Kakamigahara developer known for Disgaea.
Koichi Nakamura
Koichi Nakamura (中村光一) is a Japanese game designer who founded Chunsoft in 1984, programmed the original Dragon Quest, pioneered the sound novel genre, and later chaired Spike Chunsoft.
Koki Sato
Koki Sato (佐藤光紀) is a Japanese technology executive, founder and CEO of Comisma, the Tokyo company behind the manga app GANMA! and the anime studio Qzil.la.
Kolja Hebenstreit
Kolja Hebenstreit is a Berlin technology founder and early-stage investor, known as a co-founder of Delivery Hero in 2011 and of Team Europe and Point Nine Capital.
KondZilla
KondZilla is a Brazilian media and entertainment holding company headquartered in São Paulo, founded by Konrad Dantas and built on funk music video channels on YouTube.
Konfío
Konfío, also known as Konfio, is a Mexican financial technology company founded in 2013 that lends digitally to small businesses, becoming a $1.3 billion unicorn in 2021.
Kong Dehai
Kong Dehai (孔德海) is a Chinese chip designer who co-founded and co-leads the Shanghai GPU company Lisuan Tech, after more than 20 years in Silicon Valley chip development.
Konrad Dantas
Konrad Dantas, known professionally as Kondzilla, is a Brazilian entrepreneur who founded KondZilla, the São Paulo entertainment company behind Brazil's largest YouTube music channel, and the Netflix series Sintonia.
Korea Credit Data
Korea Credit Data (한국신용데이터) is a South Korean financial-technology company founded in Seoul in 2016. It operates Cashnote, a business-management app for small merchants with about 2.3 million users.
Korea Zinc
Korea Zinc (고려아연) is a South Korean non-ferrous metal smelting company headquartered in Seoul since 1974, operating the world's largest single zinc smelter at Onsan, Ulsan.
KR1 plc
KR1 plc is a digital asset investment company headquartered in Douglas on the Isle of Man, listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker KR1.
Kredivo Group
Kredivo Group, formerly known as FinAccel, is a Singapore-headquartered fintech group co-founded by Akshay Garg that provides digital credit, buy-now-pay-later financing, and digital banking in Indonesia and Vietnam.
Krish Ramineni
Krish Ramineni is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded the AI meeting assistant Fireflies.ai with Sam Udotong in 2016 and serves as its chief executive officer.
Krish Subramaniam
Krish Subramaniam is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the subscription billing platform Chargebee in Chennai in 2011 and serves as its chief executive officer.
Krishnan Rajagopalan
Krishnan Rajagopalan is a streaming executive who headed HOOQ's India business, the Singapore-based video-on-demand joint venture of Singtel, Sony Pictures, and Warner Bros. that operated from 2015 to 2020.
Kristo Käärmann
Kristo Käärmann is an Estonian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the cross-border payments company TransferWise in London in 2011 and serves as chief executive of its successor, Wise.
Kronos, Incorporated (software company)
Kronos, Incorporated was an American workforce-management software company founded by Mark S. Ain in Massachusetts in 1977, known for time-and-attendance systems; it merged into UKG in 2020.
Kry
Kry, formerly Livi outside the Nordics, is a Stockholm digital health company founded in 2014 that combines app-based video consultations with its own physical clinics across four European countries.