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Knotel
Knotel was a New York-based flexible workspace company founded in 2015 by Amol Sarva and Edward Shenderovich, which filed for bankruptcy in January 2021 and was acquired by Newmark.
KnowBe4, Inc.
KnowBe4, Inc., originally SEQRIT, LLC, is a Clearwater, Florida security awareness training company selling simulated phishing software, founded by Stu Sjouwerman in 2010 and taken private by Vista Equity Partners in 2023 for about $4.6 billion.
Knowledge economy
The knowledge economy, also called the knowledge-based economy, is an economy in which knowledge is the main driver of growth and employment across all industries, not one sector.
Knowledge management
Knowledge management (KM) is a structured process for getting information and knowledge to the right people at the right time so employees can create value.
Knowledge worker
A knowledge worker, also called an information worker, is a worker whose value comes from applying knowledge and information rather than manual skill, a term coined by Peter Drucker in 1959.
Knox Mine disaster
The Knox Mine disaster was the 1959 flooding of a coal mine near Pittston, Pennsylvania, which killed 12 miners and ended deep anthracite mining in the Wyoming Valley.
Knut Agathon Wallenberg
Knut Agathon Wallenberg (1853–1938) was a Swedish banker, politician, and diplomat who ran Stockholms Enskilda Bank from 1886 to 1911 and served as Sweden's foreign minister during most of World War I.
Knut Kloster
Knut Kloster (1929–2020) was a Norwegian shipping executive who co-founded Norwegian Cruise Line in 1966 and converted the liner France into the world's largest cruise ship.
Kobalt Music Group
Kobalt Music Group, also known as Kobalt Music, is a London-based independent music publishing and rights-management company founded by Willard Ahdritz around 2000, known for its KTech platform.
Kobe Steel
Kobe Steel, Ltd. (株式会社神戸製鋼所), known by the KOBELCO brand, is a diversified Japanese materials group headquartered in Kobe, founded in 1905 and ranked third among Japanese steelmakers.
Kobi Alexander
Kobi Alexander, born Jacob Alexander, is an Israeli businessman who co-founded Comverse Technology, fled stock-options fraud charges to Namibia in 2006, and pleaded guilty in 2016.
KoBold Metals
KoBold Metals is a Berkeley, California startup founded in 2018 that uses artificial intelligence to explore for copper, lithium, nickel, and cobalt, including the Mingomba copper project in Zambia.
Koby Katz
Koby Katz (Yacob Katz) is an Israeli energy executive who co-founded Navitas Petroleum in 2015, after serving as Director General of Israel's energy ministry and Co-CEO of Delek Energy.
Koç Holding
Koç Holding A.Ş. is Turkey's largest industrial and services group, an investment holding company established by Vehbi Koç in 1963 with roots in a 1926 trading business.
Koch family
The Koch family is an American business dynasty founded by Fred Koch, whose descendants control Koch, Inc., a Wichita conglomerate with roughly $125 billion in revenues.
Kohei Nishiwada
Kohei Nishiwada (西和田浩平) is a Japanese entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Asuene, a Tokyo climate tech company measuring corporate CO2 emissions, which he founded in 2019 after about eleven years at Mitsui & Co.
Kohey Takashima
Kohey Takashima (髙島 宏平), born in 1973, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the organic food home-delivery company Oisix in 2000 and has led it since.
Kohl's
Kohl's Corporation is an American department store retailer with more than 1,100 stores, known for off-mall locations, Kohl's Cash, and in-store Sephora shops and Amazon return counters.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, known as KKR, is an American investment firm founded in 1976 that pioneered the leveraged buyout and manages $744 billion in assets.
Koichi Kitazumi
Koichi Kitazumi (北角浩一, born 1961) is a Japanese game-industry founder who established the company that became Nippon Ichi Software, the Kakamigahara developer known for Disgaea.
Koichi Nakamura
Koichi Nakamura (中村光一) is a Japanese game designer who founded Chunsoft in 1984, programmed the original Dragon Quest, pioneered the sound novel genre, and later chaired Spike Chunsoft.
Koichiro Nakamura
Koichiro Nakamura, known as Koh, is a Japanese venture capitalist who cofounded Sozo Ventures in 2012 and became the first Japanese investor on the Forbes Midas List in 2021.
Koios Medical, Inc.
Koios Medical, Inc., formerly Clearview Diagnostics, is a New York City biotechnology company, founded in 2011, that develops FDA-cleared artificial intelligence decision-support software for breast and thyroid ultrasound.
Kojo Osei
Kojo Osei is a venture capitalist and Partner at Matrix Partners in New York City, investing from first check through Series A out of the firm's $800 million 12th fund.
Koki Sato
Koki Sato (佐藤光紀) is a Japanese technology executive, founder and CEO of Comisma, the Tokyo company behind the manga app GANMA! and the anime studio Qzil.la.
Kolaboration Ventures Corporation
Kolaboration Ventures Corporation is a Wyoming-incorporated, diversified California cannabis company headquartered in Rio Vista, formed in 2021 by Charles Wesley and his sons Martin and Andrew to consolidate family cannabis businesses.
Kolja Hebenstreit
Kolja Hebenstreit is a Berlin technology founder and early-stage investor, known as a co-founder of Delivery Hero in 2011 and of Team Europe and Point Nine Capital.
Kolkhoz
A kolkhoz (колхоз, "collective farm") was a nominally cooperative agricultural enterprise in the Soviet Union, dominant from forced collectivization in 1929 and reorganized, not formally abolished, after 1991.
Kolltan Pharmaceuticals
Kolltan Pharmaceuticals was a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company in New Haven, Connecticut, founded in 2007 by Joseph Schlessinger and Arthur Altschul, and acquired by Celldex Therapeutics in 2016.
Kondratiev wave
The Kondratiev wave, also spelled Kondratieff wave or K-wave, is a hypothesized 40-to-60-year economic cycle of alternating upswings and downswings, named for Soviet economist Nikolai Kondratiev.