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Kotak Mahindra Bank

Kotak Mahindra Bank, formerly Kotak Mahindra Finance Ltd, is an Indian private-sector bank founded by Uday Kotak in 1985 and licensed as a bank in 2003.

Kotoo's Scam Shop

Kotoo's Scam Shop is a casino in Dala Township, Yangon, Myanmar, mapped in OpenStreetMap (node 4753755426) under operator "kotoo"; the name echoes traveler reports of a Dala scammer named Kotoo.

Kotter's 8-step process for leading change

Kotter's 8-step process for leading change is a change management model John P. Kotter introduced in 1995, describing eight steps from creating urgency to anchoring change in culture.

KPCB Digital Growth Fund

KPCB Digital Growth Fund was the growth-stage fund family of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, begun in 2010 and led by Mary Meeker until the team spun out in 2018.

Kpler

Kpler is a Brussels-based provider of data and analytics on global physical commodity trade, founded in 2014, which began with LNG cargo tracking and operates MarineTraffic.

KPMG

KPMG, also known as KPMG International Limited, is a global network of professional-services firms providing audit, tax, and advisory services, headquartered in Amsterdam, and the smallest of the Big Four accounting networks.

KR1 plc

KR1 plc is a digital asset investment company headquartered in Douglas on the Isle of Man, listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker KR1.

Kraft Group

The Kraft Group is a privately held, family-operated holding company in Foxborough, Massachusetts, whose assets include the New England Patriots, Gillette Stadium, and the New England Revolution.

KreditBee

KreditBee is a Bengaluru-based digital lending platform founded in 2016, offering app-based personal and business loans through its RBI-registered NBFC; it became a unicorn with a $1.5 billion valuation in April 2026.

Kredivo Group

Kredivo Group, formerly known as FinAccel, is a Singapore-headquartered fintech group co-founded by Akshay Garg that provides digital credit, buy-now-pay-later financing, and digital banking in Indonesia and Vietnam.

Krish Ramineni

Krish Ramineni is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded the AI meeting assistant Fireflies.ai with Sam Udotong in 2016 and serves as its chief executive officer.

Krish Subramaniam

Krish Subramaniam is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the subscription billing platform Chargebee in Chennai in 2011 and serves as its chief executive officer.

Krishna Mehra

Krishna Mehra is a venture capital investor serving as AI Partner at Elevation Capital in Silicon Valley, where he leads Enterprise AI investing after joining from Meta in December 2024.

Krishnan family

The Krishnan family are the heirs of Malaysian billionaire Ananda Krishnan, who died in 2024, controlling Usaha Tegas and stakes in Maxis, Astro, and Bumi Armada.

Krishnan Rajagopalan

Krishnan Rajagopalan is a streaming executive who headed HOOQ's India business, the Singapore-based video-on-demand joint venture of Singtel, Sony Pictures, and Warner Bros. that operated from 2015 to 2020.

Krishnan Sastry

Krishnan Sastry, also known as Krish Sastry, is an American venture investor and Managing Director at Insight Partners since April 2022, formerly President and CEO of Appriss.

Kristalina Georgieva (Кристалина Георгиева)

Kristalina Georgieva (Кристалина Георгиева) is a Bulgarian economist serving as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund since 2019, the first emerging-market leader of the institution.

Kristen Fortney

Kristen Fortney is a Canadian-trained computational biologist and co-founder and CEO of BioAge Labs, a biopharmaceutical company developing drugs targeting the biology of human aging since 2015.

Kristian Tapaninaho

Kristian Tapaninaho, born in 1981, is a Finnish-British entrepreneur who co-founded Ooni, the Edinburgh maker of portable pizza ovens sold in more than 90 countries, in 2012.

Kristina Bergström

Kristina Bergström is a Swedish chemical engineer who co-founded the Stockholm proteomics company ProteomEdge AB, and earlier co-founded Atlas Antibodies and helped start the Human Protein Atlas project.

Kristina Burow

Kristina Burow is a Managing Director at ARCH Venture Partners, where since 2002 she has co-founded biotech companies including Receptos, Vividion Therapeutics, and Neumora Therapeutics, four of which were acquired by major pharmaceutical firms.

Kristo Käärmann

Kristo Käärmann is an Estonian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the cross-border payments company TransferWise in London in 2011 and serves as chief executive of its successor, Wise.

Krit Ratanarak

Krit Ratanarak (กฤตย์ รัตนรักษ์) was a Thai media baron who chaired Bangkok Broadcasting & Television, operator of Thailand's market-leading Channel 7, until his death in October 2025.

Kriya Therapeutics

Kriya Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company in Morrisville, North Carolina, founded in 2019, that develops AAV gene therapies for chronic diseases like eye and metabolic conditions.

Kroll Inc.

Kroll Inc., also known as Kroll Associates, is a global financial and risk advisory firm founded by Jules Kroll in 1972, known for investigations and due diligence.

Kronos, Incorporated (software company)

Kronos, Incorporated was an American workforce-management software company founded by Mark S. Ain in Massachusetts in 1977, known for time-and-attendance systems; it merged into UKG in 2020.

Krsnaa Diagnostics

Krsnaa Diagnostics is an Indian diagnostics company founded by Rajendra Mutha in Pune in 2010, serving 18 states through public-private partnership contracts with state governments.

Krui Tiancheng acquiring Biotest AG

Krui Tiancheng acquiring Biotest AG refers to the 2017–2018 takeover of German plasma-products maker Biotest by a Chinese consortium led by Creat Group and Krui Tiancheng (科瑞天诚).

Krung Thai Bank

Krung Thai Bank, trading as KTB, is Thailand's only majority state-owned commercial bank. Established in 1966, it is the country's third-largest bank by total assets.

Krupp

Krupp is a German steel and armaments firm founded in Essen in 1811 by Friedrich Krupp, which became Germany's largest company and main arms supplier.