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Karthik Sarma

Karthik Sarma is an Indian-born hedge fund manager who founded SRS Investment Management in New York and is known for his large stake in Avis Budget Group.

Karvy Fintech

Karvy Fintech Private Limited was a Hyderabad-based registrar and transfer agent for mutual funds and recordkeeper for India's National Pension System, renamed KFin Technologies in 2019.

Karyopharm Therapeutics

Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. is a pharmaceutical company in Newton, Massachusetts, founded in 2008, whose cancer drug XPOVIO (selinexor) won FDA approval for multiple myeloma in 2019.

Kashi (company)

Kashi is an American breakfast cereal and snack brand founded in 1984 in La Jolla, California, known for its seven whole grains and sesame blend, bought by Kellogg in 2000 and now owned by Ferrero.

Kasikornbank

Kasikornbank, known as KBank, is one of Thailand's four largest commercial banks, ranking second in Thai loans at the end of 2024 and expanding regionally into Indonesia and Vietnam through its K PLUS mobile-banking platform.

Kaszek

Kaszek is a Latin American early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011 by MercadoLibre veterans Hernán Kazah and Nicolás Szekasy, known for backing Nubank and raising more than $2 billion.

Kaszek Ventures

Kaszek Ventures is a Latin America-focused venture capital firm founded in 2011 by MercadoLibre executives Hernán Kazah and Nicolás Szekásy, headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay, with over $2 billion raised across seven funds.

Kat Zhang

Kat Zhang is a Partner focused on fintech at Lightspeed Venture Partners since March 2025, after investing at Upfront Ventures and working in bank supervision at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Katana MRP

Katana MRP, legally Katana Technologies OÜ, is a cloud inventory and production management software company founded in Tallinn, Estonia, in 2017 by Kristjan Vilosius and Priit Kaasik for small and medium-sized manufacturers.

Kate Chhabra

Kate Chhabra is a co-founder, Chief Financial Officer, and General Partner at Owl Ventures, a San Francisco venture capital firm, where she has served since 2014.

Kate Haviland

Kate Haviland is an American biotechnology executive who served as CEO of Blueprint Medicines from 2022 until Sanofi acquired the company in 2025 for about $9.1 billion.

Katherine Maher

Katherine Maher is an American technology executive who has served as President and CEO of NPR since March 2024, having previously led the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia's nonprofit parent, from 2016 to 2021.

Kathi Wilhelm

Kathi (Katharina) Wilhelm is a venture capitalist and Partner at Creandum in Berlin, previously a partner at Index Ventures, known for backing AI in B2B software.

Kathleen King

Kathleen King is an American baker and entrepreneur who founded Tate's Bake Shop in Southampton, New York, in 2000 and sold it to Mondelēz International for about $500 million in 2018.

Kathryn Mayne

Kathryn Mayne is a Canadian-born venture fund-of-funds investor, a managing director at Horsley Bridge Partners in London since 2003, known for backing Israeli venture managers and co-founding Level 20.

Kathy Chen

Kathy Chen (Chen Hua) is a venture capital investor who has been Managing Partner and CFO of SB China Capital (SBCVC) since 2010 and a director of GDS Holdings since 2011.

Kathy Ireland

Kathy Ireland is an American former model who founded kathy ireland Worldwide in 1993, a brand-licensing business with retail sales estimated at $3.1 billion in 2021.

Kathy Mazzarella

Kathy Mazzarella, formally Kathleen M. Mazzarella, is an American executive who has led Graybar Electric as Chairman, President, and CEO since 2012, its first woman leader.

Kathy Xu (徐新)

Kathy Xu (徐新) is a Chinese venture capitalist and founding partner of Capital Today, known as China's "queen of venture capital" for backing JD.com and NetEase.

Katie Riester

Katie Riester is a venture capital investor who serves as Managing Director and General Partner of fund-of-funds investing at Felicis, an early-stage venture firm, where she also leads Investor Relations.

Katie Riesterer

Katie Riester is an American venture fund-of-funds investor who was Managing Director at Felicis Ventures, which she first backed as an LP while at SVB Capital.

Katrina Leslie

Katrina Leslie is an Australian technology founder and the founder and chairman of Swipejobs, a Dallas-based AI talent platform that made $1.3 billion in revenue in 2025.

Katsuhisa Kinoshita

Katsuhisa Kinoshita (木下勝寿), born in 1968, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Kitanotatsujin Corporation in Osaka in 2002 and remains its president and majority shareholder, holding a 51.67% stake.

Kaushik Subramanian

Kaushik Subramanian is a venture capital investor who serves as a Partner at EQT Ventures in London, where he invests in AI and fintech companies.

Kavak

Kavak is a Mexico City-based e-commerce platform for buying, selling, financing, and servicing pre-owned cars, founded in 2016 by Venezuelan entrepreneurs and valued at US$8.7 billion in 2021.

Kaviya Maran (கவியா மாறன்)

Kaviya Maran, also known as Kaviya Kalanithi Maran, is an Indian media executive who leads Sunrisers Hyderabad and serves as Executive Director of Sun TV Network.

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, known as "K" Line, is a Japanese shipping company with a 440-vessel fleet spanning dry bulk, energy, car carriers, and logistics, plus a stake in Ocean Network Express.

KAWP Holdings, L.P.

KAWP Holdings, L.P. is a Delaware limited partnership formed in 2020 and headquartered in Mount Kisco, New York, which reported roughly $516.1 million raised across four private offerings from 2020 to 2023.

Kayou

Kayou (卡游) is a Chinese trading-card and pan-entertainment company founded by Li Qibin and headquartered in Shanghai, holding 71.1% of China's trading-card market by 2024 gross merchandise value.

Kazakh banking crisis 2008

The Kazakh banking crisis 2008 was the solvency collapse of Kazakhstan's largest banks after a credit boom, leading to state takeovers of BTA and Alliance Bank.