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Kalshi

Kalshi, an American financial exchange founded in 2018 by Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, lets members trade event contracts on outcomes like elections, sports, and weather.

Kalyan Jewellers

Kalyan Jewellers is an Indian jewelry retail chain founded in 1993 in Thrissur, Kerala, by T. S. Kalyanaraman, listed on the NSE and BSE since its 2021 IPO.

Kam Eshghi

Kam Eshghi is a storage-industry executive and co-founder of Lightbits Labs, the San Jose company that developed NVMe over TCP for flash storage over Ethernet networks.

Kamil Yazıcı

Kamil Yazıcı (1929–2026) was a Turkish industrialist who co-founded Anadolu Group with İzzet Özilhan in 1950, chaired it until 2007, and founded the Anadolu Foundation in 1979.

Kamran Elahian

Kamran Elahian is an Iranian-born American entrepreneur and venture investor who has co-founded ten companies, including Cirrus Logic, and chairs the venture firm Global Catalyst Partners.

Kan Chen

Kan Chen is a scientist-turned-investor who serves as Partner and Co-Head of Healthcare at Qiming Venture Partners, known for biotech investments including Insilico Medicine, LaNova Medicines, and MediLink Therapeutics.

Kan'ei Tsūhō

Kan'ei Tsūhō (寛永通宝) is the copper, brass, and iron cash coin minted by Japan's Tokugawa shogunate from 1636, ending reliance on Chinese imports and serving as the standard small coin through the Edo period.

Kanayo Awani

Kanayo Awani is a banker serving as Executive Vice President, Intra-African Trade and Export Development, at Afreximbank, the first woman to reach vice-president level there.

Kanban board

A kanban board is a visual work-management tool that displays work items as cards moving left to right through columns representing workflow states, with limits on work in progress.

Kandji, Inc. (company)

Kandji is a San Diego, California software company, founded in 2018, selling a platform that manages and secures Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV fleets.

Kandou (company)

Kandou, since 2025 trading as Kandou AI, is a Swiss fabless semiconductor company founded at EPFL in 2011 that designs high-speed, low-power copper interconnect and SerDes technology for AI and datacenter electronics.

Kandou AI

Kandou AI is a Swiss fabless semiconductor company founded at EPFL in 2011 as Kandou Bus, designing energy-efficient copper chip-to-chip interconnects for AI systems and datacenters.

Kandou Bus

Kandou Bus, since 2026 branded Kandou AI, is a Swiss fabless semiconductor company founded in 2011 as an EPFL spin-off, known for its Chord signaling method and retimer chips.

Kaneto Kanemoto

Kaneto Kanemoto (兼元 謙任), born 1966, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the company behind OKWave, Japan's first Q&A community site, launched in 2000 and listed on the Nagoya Stock Exchange in 2006.

Kang Pao-huang

Kang Pao-huang (康寶煌) was a Taiwanese telecommunications research administrator, first director of Telecommunications Laboratories in 1969 and of the 1974 electronics center that executed the RCA semiconductor technology transfer.

Kangchen Pharmaceutical

Kangchen Pharmaceutical (康辰药业) is a Chinese pharmaceutical company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange since 2018, known for the hemostatic drug Suling and the calcitonin brand Miacalcic.

Kangji Medical (康基医疗)

Kangji Medical Holdings Limited (康基医疗, HKEX: 9997) is a Chinese medical-device company in Hangzhou, founded in 2004, making minimally invasive surgical instruments; in 2025 it received a TPG-backed take-private offer.

Kangliming Biotechnology

Kangliming Biotechnology (广州康立明生物科技股份有限公司) is a Chinese in-vitro diagnostics company founded in Guangzhou in 2015 by Zou Hongzhi. Its stool-DNA colorectal cancer test Chang'an Xin won NMPA approval in 2018.

Kangma Bio (康码生物)

Kangma Bio (康码生物), formally Kangma (Shanghai) Biotechnology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese biotechnology startup founded in Shanghai in 2015 by Dr. Guo Min that develops cell-free protein synthesis, producing proteins without living cells.

Kangwon Land Casino

Kangwon Land Casino (강원랜드 카지노), in Jeongseon, Gangwon Province, opened October 28, 2000 as South Korea's only casino admitting Korean citizens, under the 1995 Abandoned Mine Areas Special Act, with exclusivity through 2045 and 13% of gaming revenue paid to the Abandoned Mine Fund.

Kanichiro Ishibashi

Kanichiro Ishibashi (石橋幹一郎) was a Japanese business executive, eldest son of Bridgestone founder Shojiro Ishibashi, who served as the tire maker's second president from 1963 to 1973.

Kannact

Kannact Inc. is a Portland, Oregon digital-health startup founded in 2012 by Krishna Rao that provides at-home management of diabetes and other chronic conditions through connected glucose monitoring, health coaching, and supply delivery.

Kano dyeing industry

The Kano dyeing industry is the centuries-old indigo cloth-dyeing trade of Kano, Nigeria, centered on dye pits and best known through the Kofar Mata pits, traditionally dated to 1498.

Kansai Electric Power

Kansai Electric Power, also known as 関西電力株式会社, is one of Japan's ten regional electric utilities, incorporated in 1951 and serving about 12 million customers in the Kansai region.

Kantar Group

Kantar Group, a London-based global market research firm, was launched in 1992 and measures consumer behavior. It was acquired by private equity firm Bain Capital in 2019.

Kanwal Rekhi

Kanwal Rekhi (कनवल रेखी) is an Indian-American technology entrepreneur and investor who co-founded Excelan, a San Jose networking company listed on Nasdaq in 1987, and later co-founded TiE.

Kao

Kao (花王) is a Japanese consumer-chemicals and cosmetics group that began with Kao Soap in 1890 and now sells detergents, sanitary products, skin care, and semiconductor chemicals.

Kao Ching-yuen (Uni-President Enterprises Corporation)

Kao Ching-yuen, also romanized Gao Qingyuan (高清愿), was a Taiwanese food-industry executive who founded Uni-President Enterprises in 1967 and built it into Taiwan's largest food conglomerate.

Kao La Ban Che

Kao La Ban Che (考拉班车, "Koala Shuttle Bus") was a Beijing app-booked commuter shuttle service founded in March 2015, merged into Didi Bus in September 2015.

Kao La Jing Xuan

Kao La Jing Xuan (考拉精选) was a fresh-grocery community group-buying platform launched in Changsha, Hunan, in 2018, incubated by supplier Xingaoqiao and founded by Tang Guangliang, reaching 4 million members by 2020.