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Kao Yu-shu
Kao Yu-shu (高玉树) was a Taiwanese engineer and politician who served three times as mayor of Taipei and, as transportation minister, approved the 1974 plan that seeded Taiwan's semiconductor industry.
Kaochong
Kaochong (考虫) was a Beijing-based Chinese online-education startup selling low-priced, live-streamed test-prep mega classes to college students, best known for its RMB 199 CET-4/6 English classes.
Kapila Ratnam
Kapila Ratnam is a General Partner at NewSpring Capital who leads its healthcare funds, with more than 20 years in healthcare and a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University.
Kapiva
Kapiva is a Bengaluru-based direct-to-consumer wellness brand founded in 2016 by Ameve Sharma and Shrey Badhani that sells modern Ayurvedic supplements, juices, and skin and hair care, raising over $60 million in 2025.
Karan Aneja
Karan Aneja is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Portea Medical, an Indian in-home healthcare company, with Zachary Jones in 2012, and now leads Reframe Financial.
Karan Bhagat
Karan Bhagat is an Indian financial services executive who founded IIFL Wealth Management in 2008 and leads its successor, 360 ONE WAM, India's largest dedicated wealth manager.
Karan Mohla
Karan Mohla is a General Partner at B Capital, leading the firm's South and Southeast Asia early-stage investing since 2022, known for investments in FirstCry, HealthifyMe, Bhanzu, and Carro.
Karan Paul
Karan Paul is an Indian businessman who chairs the Apeejay Surrendra Group, spanning tea, shipping, The Park hotels, and real estate, and co-owns Punjab Kings.
Kardd Dynamics (卡尔动力)
Kardd Dynamics (卡尔动力) is a Chinese L4 autonomous trucking company spun out of DiDi's KargoBot in 2023, headquartered in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, operating driverless heavy-truck platoons hauling coal.
Kardigan
Kardigan is a clinical-stage precision therapeutics company focused on cardiovascular disease, launched in 2025 by former MyoKardia executives and headquartered in South San Francisco and Princeton, New Jersey.
Kardium
Kardium Inc. is a privately held medical device company in Burnaby, British Columbia, founded in 2007, that makes the Globe system for treating atrial fibrillation.
Kareem Zaki
Kareem Zaki is a venture capitalist and General Partner at Thrive Capital who invests in healthcare and financial services, backing Stripe, Affirm, Ramp, and Robinhood.
Karel Komárek
Karel Komárek is a Czech billionaire investor and founder of KKCG, a Prague investment group holding the lottery operator Allwyn, energy company MND, and IT group Aricoma.
Karen Page (investor)
Karen Appleton Page is an American venture capitalist and General Partner at B Capital, known for her earlier career as a founding executive at Box.
Karen Silkwood
Karen Silkwood (1946–1974) was an American laboratory technician and union activist who died in a disputed 1974 car crash after plutonium contamination at an Oklahoma nuclear plant.
Karen Virginia Beckmann Legorreta
Karen Virginia Beckmann Legorreta is a Mexican businesswoman, daughter of Juan Francisco Beckmann Vidal, who holds 35.61% of Becle, the Jose Cuervo tequila maker, as its largest individual shareholder.
Kari Kivelä
Kari Kivelä is a Finnish technology engineer who co-founded Oura Health in Oulu in 2013, leading hardware development and miniaturization of the Oura Ring before stepping back in 2020.
Karim Atiyeh
Karim Atiyeh is a Lebanese-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded the New York financial operations company Ramp in 2019, serving as CTO before becoming co-CEO in 2026.
Karim Beguir
Karim Beguir is a Tunisian-British entrepreneur and mathematician who co-founded InstaDeep, Africa's biggest AI startup, in Tunis in 2014 and sold it to BioNTech in 2023.
Karishma Vijay
Karishma Vijay is a British-Indian beauty entrepreneur from Ashford, Surrey, who founded the skincare-infused cosmetics brand Kishkin and won the twentieth series of The Apprentice in 2026, securing £250,000 from Lord Sugar.
Karl Polanyi
Karl Polanyi (1886–1964) was an Austrian-born economic historian and social theorist whose 1944 book The Great Transformation argued the self-regulating market is a utopia that cannot exist.
Karma Kitchen
Karma Kitchen is a London-based commercial kitchen operator founded in 2018 by sisters Eccie and Gini Newton, renting fitted kitchen units to food businesses across six inner-London sites.
Karma Ventures
Karma Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tallinn, Estonia, founded in 2016 by Tommi Uhari, Margus Uudam, and Kristjan Laanemaa to invest in early-stage European deep-tech startups.
Karnataka Bank
Karnataka Bank Limited, also known as Karnataka Bank Ltd, is a private-sector scheduled commercial bank headquartered in Mangaluru, Karnataka, founded in 1924, with roughly ₹1.9 trillion of business and 975 branches across 22 states.
Karol Hausman
Karol Hausman is a robotics researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded Physical Intelligence in 2024 to build foundation models for robots, after working as a Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and teaching at Stanford.
Karolina Punovuori
Karolina Punovuori is a Finnish cancer researcher who co-founded MultivisionDx, a University of Helsinki spinout using machine learning to analyze tumor biopsies for personalized cancer diagnostics.
Karren Brady
Karren Brady, Baroness Brady, is an English business executive who ran Birmingham City at 23, served as West Ham United's vice-chairman until 2026, and appears on The Apprentice.
Karsanbhai Patel
Karsanbhai Khodidas Patel is an Indian first-generation founder who started Nirma detergent in 1969 in Ahmedabad, sparking a price war with Unilever, and received the Padma Shri in 2010.
Kartač
Kartač, styled Casino Kartáč, is a Czech casino brand run by CASINO KARTÁČ Group from Ostrava, with land-based casinos in Ostrava and Opava and a licensed online casino since 2020.
Karthik Reddy
Karthik Reddy is an Indian venture capital investor who co-founded Blume Ventures, an early-stage fund managing over $900 million and backing more than 175 startups.