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Kazakhmys Holding
Kazakhmys Holding (Қазақмыс Холдинг) is a Kazakh holding company, founded in 2021 by Vladimir Kim and Eduard Ogai as the parent of Kazakhstan's largest copper producer.
Kazakhstan Stock Exchange
The Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) is Kazakhstan's main securities exchange, founded in 1993 as the Kazakh Inter-bank Currency Exchange, trading equities, bonds, currency, and money-market instruments.
Kazakhstan's accession to the World Trade Organization
Kazakhstan's accession to the World Trade Organization was the process by which Kazakhstan joined the WTO as its 162nd member on 30 November 2015, after 19 years of negotiation.
Kazakhstani tenge
The Kazakhstani tenge (Kazakh tenge) is the national currency of Kazakhstan, subdivided into 100 tiyns and introduced on November 15, 1993, at 1 tenge = 500 rubles.
Kazım Taşkent
Kazım Taşkent (1894–1991) was a Turkish chemical engineer turned banker who founded Yapı ve Kredi Bankası in Istanbul in 1944, the first private bank of the Republican era.
Kazuma Tateisi (Omron (Tateisi Electric Manufacturing))
Kazuma Tateisi (立石一真, born 1900) was a Japanese engineer-inventor who founded Tateisi Electric Manufacturing in Osaka in 1933 and built it into OMRON, the automation and sensing components maker.
Kazuo Inamori
Kazuo Inamori, also known as Inamori Kazuo (稲盛和夫), was a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Kyocera in Kyoto in 1959, founded DDI, the predecessor of KDDI, and led Japan Airlines after its 2010 bankruptcy.
Kazuo Kashio
Kazuo Kashio (樫尾和雄), also known as Kashio Kazuo, was a Japanese businessman who co-founded Casio in 1957 and led it as president and CEO from 1988 until his death in 2018.
Kazuo Tashima
Kazuo Tashima (田嶋一雄, 1899–1985) was a Japanese businessman who founded the company that became Minolta Camera in 1928, later making the first practical autofocus SLR.
Kazuya Shobayashi (N.B.Medical Inc.)
Kazuya Shobayashi (正林和也) is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded N.B.Medical Inc. in Tokyo in 2021, developing neurovascular stents and in-silico device technologies; Forbes JAPAN ranked him 8th in its Japan Entrepreneurs Ranking 2026.
KB Financial Group
KB Financial Group Inc. is a South Korean financial holding company, incorporated in Seoul in 2008, the largest of Korea's four major financial groups by profit.
KB Toys
KB Toys, also known as Kay-Bee Toys, was an American mall-based toy retailer that grew to second place behind Toys "R" Us before its 2009 liquidation.
KBC Group
KBC Group is a Belgian financial group serving about 13 million clients, focused on Belgium, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Bulgaria after exiting Ireland in 2023.
KCE Electronics
KCE Electronics is a Thai manufacturer of printed circuit boards, headquartered in Bangkok and listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand since 1988, known chiefly for automotive boards.
KCRise Fund
KCRise Fund is a Kansas City venture capital firm founded by Darcy Howe in 2016, co-investing in early-stage technology companies in western Missouri and Kansas.
KE Holdings
KE Holdings Inc. is a Cayman Islands holding company that operates China's Beike housing platform and Lianjia brokerage, dual-listed on the NYSE and Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Keating Five
The Keating Five, also called the Keating five scandal, were five US senators who pressured regulators in 1987 on behalf of Charles Keating, whose Lincoln Savings collapsed in 1989.
Kedaara Capital
Kedaara Capital is an India-focused private equity firm founded in 2011 by Manish Kejriwal, Sunish Sharma, and Nishant Sharma, investing in banking, healthcare, consumer, and software businesses.
Kedu Medical Technology (上海柯渡医学科技股份有限公司)
Kedu Medical Technology (上海柯渡医学科技股份有限公司) is a Shanghai company founded in 2006 that manages and maintains medical equipment for Chinese hospitals; it raised a nearly USD 60 million Series C in 2019.
Kee Lock Chua
Kee Lock Chua, also known as Chua Kee Lock, is a Singapore venture capitalist who leads Vertex Holdings, a Temasek-owned firm, and was an early investor in Grab.
Keebler Company
Keebler: American cookie brand behind E.L. Fudge, Fudge Stripes, and Club crackers; independent number-two baker, then Kellogg subsidiary (2001, $4.56B), now owned by Ferrero since 2019.
Keenon Robotics (擎朗智能)
Keenon Robotics (擎朗智能) is a Shanghai service robotics company founded in 2010 that makes autonomous delivery, hotel, cleaning, and medical robots for restaurants, hotels, and hospitals.
Keensight Capital
Keensight Capital, formerly R Capital Management, is a Paris-based European private equity firm founded in 1998 within the Rothschild group, specializing in growth buyouts of profitable technology and healthcare companies.
Kehai Company
Kehai (科海) was a Chinese technology company in Beijing, founded in 1983 and known as one of the early Zhongguancun firms called "Two Tongs, Two Hais".
Kehua Bio-Engineering
Kehua Bio-Engineering (Shanghai Kehua Bio-Engineering Co.) is a Chinese in vitro diagnostics company in Shanghai, founded in 1981 and in 2004 the first Chinese IVD company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
Keichō gold and silver coins
Keichō gold and silver coins (慶長金銀) are the coinage issued by Tokugawa Ieyasu from 1601, the first currency of unified style and weight in Japan, circulating until 1695.
Keiichiro Takahara (Unicharm)
Keiichiro Takahara (高原慶一朗, 1931–2018) was a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Unicharm, which led Japan's sanitary napkin market from 1972 and overtook P&G in diapers in 1983.
Keily Blair
Keily Blair is an Irish lawyer and business executive who has been chief executive officer of OnlyFans since July 2023, promoted from leading the platform's trust and safety operations.
Keiretsu
Keiretsu, also known as the keiretsu system, are large clusters of Japanese companies tied together by cross-shareholding and long-term transactions, dominating Japan's economy from the 1950s to the early 2000s.
Keita Yoshida
Keita Yoshida (吉田圭汰) is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded matsuri technologies in Tokyo in 2016 at age 23, leading it through the 2018 minpaku legalization and a first profit in 2026.