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Kkr Global Infrastructure Investors

KKR Global Infrastructure Investors is a series of unlisted global infrastructure private equity funds managed by KKR, running from Fund I in 2008 to Fund V in 2025.

KKR Health Care Strategic Growth

KKR Health Care Strategic Growth is the health care growth-equity strategy inside KKR, launched in 2016 and led by Ali Satvat, with a $1.45 billion first fund.

KKR Next Generation Technology Growth Funds

KKR Next Generation Technology is the technology growth equity fund franchise of KKR, launched in 2016 and run from New York, with three closed funds totaling about $5.9 billion.

Kkr North America

KKR North America is not a standalone firm but KKR & Co.'s flagship North America buyout fund series, whose Fund XIV closed at about $23 billion in April 2026.

Kkr Real Estate Partners Europe

KKR Real Estate Partners Europe is a series of Luxembourg-domiciled private equity real estate funds through which KKR invests in European property, targeting value-add and opportunistic deals in Western Europe.

Kkr Special Situations

KKR Special Situations is a fund complex within KKR & Co.'s credit platform, formed in 2009, pursuing distressed and event-driven deep-value investing with about $9.1 billion raised.

KK集团

KK Group (KK集团) is a Chinese multi-brand retail company founded in 2015 in Dongguan, Guangdong, by Wu Yuening, operating the chains KKV, THE COLORIST, and X11.

KK馆

KK馆 ("KK Store") was a Chinese curated lifestyle-retail brand founded by Wu Yuening, whose first imported-goods store opened in 2014; it was absorbed into parent KK Group in 2019.

KLA Corporation

KLA Corporation, formerly KLA-Tencor and KLA Instruments, is a San Jose semiconductor equipment company founded in 1975 that leads the process-control market with wafer inspection and metrology systems.

Klar Partners

KLAR Partners is a European private equity firm launched in March 2020 by former Triton professionals, making control investments in mid-market services and industrial technology businesses.

Klarna

Klarna, also known as Klarna Bank, is a Swedish fintech company founded in 2005 that lets shoppers pay online immediately, later, or in installments, earning most revenue from retailer fees.

Klaus Hommels

Klaus Hommels is a Swiss-based venture capital investor who founded Lakestar in Zurich in 2012, after early angel investments in Skype, Facebook, Spotify, and Airbnb.

Klaus Schwab

Klaus Schwab, born 1938 in Ravensburg, Germany, is the engineer and economist who founded the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1971 and led it for 55 years.

Klaus-Michael Kühne

Klaus-Michael Kühne (1937–2026) was a German-born logistics entrepreneur who led Kuehne+Nagel for over half a century and held major stakes in Hapag-Lloyd, Lufthansa, and Brenntag.

Klaxoon

Klaxoon is a French visual-collaboration software company founded in Rennes by Matthieu Beucher in 2015, best known for its workshop and whiteboard platform, acquired by Wrike in 2024.

Klcp Domestic

Klcp Domestic, or KLCP Domestic Fund LP, is a family of Delaware private equity fund vehicles managed by Kennedy Lewis Management LP, a New York investment manager.

Klein–Goldberger model

The Klein–Goldberger model is a small Keynesian econometric model of the United States economy, published by Lawrence Klein and Arthur Goldberger in 1955 and used for forecasting.

Kleiner Perkins

Kleiner Perkins, formerly Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California, known for early bets on Genentech, Netscape, Amazon, and Google.

Klépierre

Klépierre is a French listed real estate investment trust owning 70 shopping centers in 12 countries, valued at €21.2 billion at the end of 2025.

Kline Hill Partners

Kline Hill Partners is a private equity secondaries firm founded in 2015 in Greenwich, Connecticut, buying existing fund and company stakes rather than making primary investments.

Kline Hill Partners Solutions

Kline Hill Partners Solutions is a series of private equity secondaries funds backing GP-led transactions, managed by Kline Hill Partners, a Greenwich, Connecticut firm founded in 2015.

KLM

KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij, Royal Dutch Airlines) is the Netherlands' airline, founded in 1919, the world's oldest under its original name, and a subsidiary of Air France–KLM since 2004.

Kmart

Kmart is an American discount department store chain founded in 1962 by the S.S. Kresge Company, which shrank from over 2,100 stores to a handful by 2024.

Knauf family

The Knauf family is a German entrepreneurial family that wholly owns Gebr. Knauf KG, parent of the building-materials group Knauf Gruppe, founded in 1932 in Iphofen, Bavaria.

Knight Capital Group

Knight Capital Group, also known as Knight Trading Group, was a New Jersey market-making firm handling about 10% of US equity trading until a 2012 software error.

Knight Fintech

Knight Fintech is a Mumbai-based fintech startup founded in 2019 by Kushal Rastogi and Parthesh Shah that builds co-lending, digital-lending, and treasury software for banks and NBFCs.

Knights of Labor

The Knights of Labor, founded in 1869 as a secret society, was an American labor organization that united skilled and unskilled workers under Terence V. Powderly.

Knome

Knome was a genomics company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, co-founded in 2007 by Harvard geneticist George Church, which sold whole-genome sequencing and interpretation to consumers for $350,000.

Knoops Chocolate

Knoops Chocolate, also known as Knoops, is a British premium hot chocolate chain founded by Jens Knoop in Rye, East Sussex, in 2013, with over 20 percentage chocolates on its menu.

Knorr-Bremse

Knorr-Bremse AG is a Munich-based German industrial group, founded in 1905, that leads the world market in rail brakes and supplies braking systems for trucks and buses.