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Khalid Almunif
Khalid Almunif is a Saudi proptech and fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Ejari, a Riyadh rent-now-pay-later platform, in 2022, after five years at the Public Investment Fund.
Khalid Ashmawy
Khalid Ashmawy is an Egyptian entrepreneur and computer scientist who co-founded the Dubai property technology company Huspy in 2020 and founded the neobank Munify in January 2025.
Khalid Juma Al Majid
Khalid Juma Al Majid, born in 1964, is a Dubai businessman and Vice Chairman of Juma Al Majid Holding Group, the conglomerate his father founded in 1950.
Khatabook
Khatabook is a Bengaluru-based fintech startup, founded in 2018, whose free Android digital ledger app lets small merchants record credit extended to customers, with lending services attached.
Khawaja Masood Akhtar
Khawaja Masood Akhtar is a Pakistani industrialist, founder and CEO of Forward Sports in Sialkot, maker of the official FIFA World Cup match ball since 2014.
Khazanah Nasional Berhad
Khazanah Nasional Berhad is the sovereign investment holding company of the Government of Malaysia, incorporated in 1993 and holding net assets of RM105 billion at the end of 2025.
Khazna Tech
Khazna Tech is an Egyptian financial technology company founded in Cairo in 2019 that provides payroll, lending, payments, and insurance services to unbanked Egyptians through a mobile super app.
Kheng Nam Lee
Kheng Nam Lee is a Singapore-based venture investor who founded and led Vertex from 1988 to 2004 and has been a Venture Partner at Granite Asia since 2005.
Khoo family
The Khoo family are the heirs of Khoo Teck Puat, the Malaysian-born banker who founded Maybank in 1960 and died in 2004 as Standard Chartered's largest shareholder.
Khosla Ventures
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla in Menlo Park, California, known for early investments in OpenAI, DoorDash, and Block.
Khosla Ventures Excelsior
Khosla Ventures Excelsior is a $1 billion pooled venture capital fund sponsored by Khosla Ventures, based in Menlo Park, California, whose Form D was filed in May 2023.
Khosla Ventures Oai
Khosla Ventures OAI, LLC is a Delaware pooled venture capital fund created by Khosla Ventures in 2024 to hold exposure to OpenAI, reporting $405 million sold to 18 investors.
Khosla Ventures Seed F
Khosla Ventures Seed F is a seed-stage venture capital fund vehicle of Khosla Ventures, the Menlo Park firm founded by Vinod Khosla, reporting $428 million sold in 2023.
Khwaja Abdul Hamied
Khwaja Abdul Hamied, often cited as K. A. Hamied, was an Indian chemist and businessman who founded the pharmaceutical company Cipla in Bombay in 1935.
Kiat Lim
Kiat Lim (Lim Wee Kiat) is a Singapore businessman, son of billionaire Peter Lim, who is executive vice-chairman of Thomson Medical Group and president of Valencia CF.
Kids Planet Day Nurseries
Kids Planet Day Nurseries is a British nursery chain founded in 2008 by Clare Roberts and John Hoban, now the second-largest nursery group in the UK.
Kiersten Stead
Kiersten Stead is a venture capital investor and scientist who co-founded and serves as Managing Partner of DCVC Bio, DCVC's life-science arm, having previously invested at Monsanto Growth Ventures.
Kiichi Kubota
Kiichi Kubota (窪田 規一, born 1953) is a Japanese business executive who co-founded the peptide drug-discovery company PeptiDream in Tokyo in 2006 with Hiroaki Suga, serving as president until 2017.
Kiliaen van Rensselaer (merchant)
Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1586–1643) was an Amsterdam diamond and pearl merchant, a founding director of the Dutch West India Company, and founder of the Rensselaerswijck patroonship.
Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union
The Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union (KNCU), founded in the 1920s or 1930s, is a cooperative union of coffee-producing societies in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania, headquartered at Moshi.
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-hoon (businessman)
Kim Byung-hoon (김병훈, born 1988) is the South Korean cofounder and CEO of APR Corp, the Seoul beauty company behind Medicube, which he founded in 2014.
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.
Kim Jackson (investor)
Kim Jackson is an Australian investor who co-founded Skip Capital, the Sydney family office of Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar, in 2017, investing in technology start-ups and infrastructure.
Kim Joo-hee
Kim Joo-hee (김주희, born 1974 in Daegu) is a South Korean biotech entrepreneur, founder and CEO of the drug-delivery company Inventage Lab, listed on KOSDAQ in 2022.
Kim Popovits
Kim Popovits is an American healthcare executive who served as president and CEO of Genomic Health, maker of the Oncotype DX cancer tests, from 2009 to 2019.
Kim Puckett
Kim Puckett is an American businesswoman who co-founded Caribou Coffee with her husband John Puckett, opening the chain's first shop in Edina, Minnesota, in December 1992.
Kim Sung-woon
Kim Sung-woon (김성운), born 1972, is a South Korean executive who founded the K-beauty exporter Silicon2 in 2002 and led it past 1 trillion won in annual revenue in 2025.
Kimberley diamond rush
The Kimberley diamond rush was the influx of prospectors to the diamond fields around Kimberley, South Africa, beginning in the late 1860s and peaking in 1871.