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KION Group

KION Group is a German intralogistics company that makes Linde, STILL, and OM industrial trucks and supplies warehouse automation through its Dematic brand, majority-owned by Weichai Power.

Kiran Vasireddy

Kiran Vasireddy is an Indian venture investor who was a Partner at Bengaluru's Kalaari Capital from 2021 to 2025, after nearly a decade at Paytm.

Kirill Shamalov

Kirill Shamalov is a Russian businessman who became Russia's youngest billionaire through shares in the petrochemicals company SIBUR and was sanctioned from 2018.

Kirit Doshi

Kirit Doshi is an Indian businessman and promoter of Waaree Energies, India's largest solar module manufacturer, where he plays a key role in project acquisition, development, and execution.

Kirit R Kanakiya

Kirit R Kanakiya is a Mumbai-based chartered accountant turned value investor, tracked by The Economic Times with a portfolio of 28 listed companies worth about Rs 7.03 billion (Rs 703 crore).

Kirk Perron

Kirk Perron was an American entrepreneur who founded the smoothie chain Jamba Juice, opening the first store, called Juice Club, in San Luis Obispo, California, in 1990.

Kirk Ririe

Kirk Ririe is an American chemist and biomedical entrepreneur who co-founded Idaho Technology in 1990 and led it as CEO through its sale to bioMérieux in 2014.

Kirkbi

Kirkbi, formally KIRKBI A/S, is the private holding and investment company of the Kirk Kristiansen family, which owns 75% of the LEGO Group and manages a financial portfolio of DKK 81 billion.

Kirti K Mehta

Kirti K Mehta is an Indian investor tracked by The Economic Times as Kirti K Mehta & Associates, with a pharmaceuticals-heavy disclosed portfolio worth Rs 51.97 billion.

Kisan Credit Card (किसान क्रेडिट कार्ड)

The Kisan Credit Card (किसान क्रेडिट कार्ड) is an Indian government-backed revolving credit facility for farmers, proposed in the 1998-99 Union Budget and subsidized through the interest subvention scheme.

Kishore Biyani (किशोर बियानी)

Kishore Biyani (किशोर बियानी) is an Indian retail entrepreneur who founded the Future Group, built it into India's largest listed brick-and-mortar retailer, and lost it to insolvency in 2024.

Kissflow

Kissflow is an Indian SaaS company in Chennai offering a low-code/no-code work-management platform, founded by Suresh Sambandam, grown from OrangeScape, and serving 1,200 customers in 87 countries.

Kissht

Kissht is an Indian digital consumer-lending platform offering personal loans up to ₹500,000 (₹5 lakh) and loans against property, founded by former McKinsey executives Ranvir Singh and Krishnan Vishwanathan.

Kitanotatsujin Corporation

Kitanotatsujin Corporation (株式会社北の達人コーポレーション) is a Japanese direct-to-consumer seller of health foods and cosmetics, founded by Katsuhisa Kinoshita in 2000 and known for its Kitano Kaitei Kobo brand.

Kite Pharma

Kite Pharma is an American cell-therapy biopharmaceutical company in Santa Monica, California, founded by Arie Belldegrun in 2009 and bought by Gilead Sciences in 2017 for $11.9 billion.

Kith Meng

Kith Meng (គិត ម៉េង), born in 1968, is a Cambodian-Australian businessman who chairs The Royal Group, spanning telecoms, banking, media, and energy, and serves as president of the Cambodia Chamber of Commerce.

Kitopi

Kitopi (كيتوبي), short for Kitchen Utopia, is a Dubai-based food technology and restaurant company founded in January 2018, which raised $415 million from SoftBank in 2021.

Kitu Super Brands (Super Coffee)

Kitu Super Brands, also known as Kitu Life Inc., is an Austin, Texas beverage company whose zero-sugar Super Coffee was launched by the DeCicco brothers in 2015.

Kiwoom Securities

Kiwoom Securities (키움증권) is a South Korean online brokerage and the financial flagship of DaouKiwoom Group, holding the No. 1 share in retail stock trading since 2005.

Kiyoyuki Suzuki

Kiyoyuki Suzuki (鈴木 清幸), born in 1952, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the voice recognition company Advanced Media in 1997 and leads it as chairman and president.

Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen

Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, born in 1947 in Billund, Denmark, is the grandson of LEGO's founder and led the LEGO Group as chief executive from 1979 to 2004.

KKR Americas Fund XII

KKR Americas Fund XII is a 2017-vintage North American buyout fund managed by KKR & Co., closed at $13.9 billion in March 2017 to pursue buyouts in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

KKR Ascendant Fund

KKR Ascendant Fund, legally KKR Ascendant Fund SCSp, is a private equity fund KKR launched in 2022 for North American middle-market buyouts, closed at $4.6 billion in 2024.

Kkr Asia Credit

KKR Asia Credit is KKR's Asia-Pacific private credit and special situations strategy, active since 2019, whose second fund closed at US$2.5 billion in January 2026.

Kkr Asia Pacific Infrastructure Investors

KKR Asia Pacific Infrastructure Investors is a family of Luxembourg infrastructure funds raised by KKR since 2019, investing across Asia-Pacific renewables, power, water, digital infrastructure, and transportation.

KKR Asian Funds

The KKR Asian Funds are a series of Asia-Pacific buyout funds raised and managed by KKR & Co. Inc., spanning five funds from 2007 to the present.

KKR Dislocation Opportunities Fund

The KKR Dislocation Opportunities Fund is a special-situations fund within KKR's Credit and Liquid Strategies business, which raised $2,967 million and ran an investment period from 2019 to 2021.

Kkr European

KKR European is the series of European buyout funds raised and managed by KKR, growing from about $3.5 billion in 2015 to roughly $7.4 billion in commitments by 2022.

KKR Global Climate Transition Fund

The KKR Global Climate Transition Fund is a climate and energy-transition private equity fund launched by KKR in 2023, targeting renewables, transportation, and decarbonization with checks of $300m to $750m.

Kkr Global Impact

KKR Global Impact is the impact-investing platform of KKR & Co., launched in 2018 and led by Robert Antablin and Ken Mehlman, with about $4.1 billion in commitments.