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Kry
Kry, formerly Livi outside the Nordics, is a Stockholm digital health company founded in 2014 that combines app-based video consultations with its own physical clinics across four European countries.
Ksl Capital Partners
KSL Capital Partners is a Denver-based private equity firm founded in 2005 by Michael Shannon and Eric Resnick that invests exclusively in travel and leisure businesses.
Ksl Capital Partners Credit
KSL Capital Partners Credit is the private credit arm of KSL Capital Partners, a Denver-based firm that lends exclusively to travel and leisure businesses, starting in 2013.
KSL Capital Partners Tactical Opportunities
KSL Capital Partners Tactical Opportunities is the opportunistic investment sleeve of KSL Capital Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm specializing in travel and leisure, led by Dan Rohan.
KSQ Therapeutics
KSQ Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company founded in 2015 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that uses genome-scale CRISPR screening to discover cancer drug targets and develop engineered TIL therapies.
Ku6
Ku6 (酷6网) was a Beijing-based user-generated video website founded in 2006 by former Sohu chief editor Li Shanyou, listed on Nasdaq in 2010 as Ku6 Media.
Kuafu Zhachuan (夸父炸串)
Kuafu Zhachuan (夸父炸串), or Kuafu Fried Skewers, is a Chinese fried-skewer snack chain founded in Beijing in 2018 by Yuan Zelu, with more than 2,000 franchised stores by 2024.
Kuaile Group
Kuaile Group (Kuailu, 快鹿集团), formally Shanghai Kuaile Investment Group, was a Shanghai conglomerate that raised 43.4 billion yuan from the public and collapsed in 2016.
Kuawei Intelligence (跨维智能) (Cross-Dimensional Intelligence)
Kuawei Intelligence (跨维智能), brand DexForce, is a Shenzhen embodied-AI startup founded in 2021 by Jia Kui, supplying synthetic-data-trained systems for industrial robotic arms and its own W1 humanoid.
Kudakwashe Tagwirei
Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei is a Zimbabwean businessman who founded the fuel and commodities group Sakunda Holdings, was US-sanctioned in 2020, and became a minister in 2026.
Kujie Wang
Kujie Wang (酷结网) was a Beijing wedding-services O2O startup founded in May 2014, billing itself as China's first one-stop online direct-purchase platform for wedding services; it later ceased operations.
KUKA Home
KUKA Home (顾家家居), legally Jason Furniture (Hangzhou), is a Hangzhou-based Chinese maker of sofas and upholstered furniture and China's largest listed upholstered-furniture company by revenue.
Kulak (кулак)
A kulak (кулак, Russian for "fist"; Ukrainian kurkul) was a prosperous peasant in Russia and the USSR, dispossessed and deported under Stalin's campaign to liquidate kulaks as a class.
Kumar Malavalli
Kumar Malavalli (कुमार मलवल्ली) is a Silicon Valley founder and investor who co-founded Brocade Communications in 1995 and is credited as a principal architect of Fibre Channel.
Kumar Mangalam Birla (कुमार मंगलम बिड़ला)
Kumar Mangalam Birla, also known as Kumar Birla, is an Indian industrialist who has chaired the Aditya Birla Group since 1995, growing it into a $67 billion conglomerate.
Kumpulan Wang Persaraan
Kumpulan Wang Persaraan, known as KWAP, is Malaysia's statutory retirement fund for public servants, managing contributions, investments, and pension payments through programs like the RM6 billion Dana Pemacu.
Kumquat Biosciences
Kumquat Biosciences Inc. is a privately held, clinical-stage biotechnology company in San Diego, California, founded in 2018, whose lead KRAS G12D inhibitor entered a first-in-human Phase I trial under license to Bayer.
Kun-Liang Guan
Kun-Liang Guan (管坤良) is a Chinese-born biochemist, formerly Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego, known for Hippo pathway research and cofounding OncoImmune, acquired by Merck in 2020.
Kunal Bahl (कुणाल बहल)
Kunal Bahl (कुणाल बहल) is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Snapdeal in 2010, valued at $6.5 billion at its peak, and later the venture firm Titan Capital.
Kunal Shah (કુનાલ શાહ)
Kunal Shah (કુનાલ શાહ) is an Indian fintech entrepreneur and angel investor from Ahmedabad who founded CRED, co-founded FreeCharge, and was named to lead WhatsApp under Meta.
Kunal Shroff
Kunal Shroff is the Managing Partner of ChrysCapital, an India-focused private equity firm he joined in 1999 and has led since founder Ashish Dhawan's 2012 departure.
Kuntien Eläkevakuutus (KEVA)
Kuntien Eläkevakuutus, known as Keva, is a Finnish public-law pension institution that administers municipal employees' pensions and invests a EUR 74 billion portfolio, serving about 1.3 million people.
Kunyao Medicine (ClinChoice)
Kunyao Medicine, also known as ClinChoice (昆翎医药), is a clinical contract research organization formed from three merged companies, with over 3,000 employees and a $150 million Series E round in 2022.
Kunyou Optics (鲲游光电)
Kunyou Optics (鲲游光电), legally Shanghai Kunyou Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese startup founded in 2016 that mass-produces wafer-level optics for 3D sensing, AR waveguides, and LiDAR.
Kuok Group
The Kuok Group is a family-controlled Asian conglomerate founded by Robert Kuok, the "Sugar King of Asia," in 1949 in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, now spanning hotels, agribusiness, and logistics.
Kuok Khoon Hong
Kuok Khoon Hong (郭孔丰) is a Singapore-based agribusiness executive who co-founded Wilmar International, the world's largest palm oil trader, in 1991 and has chaired it since 2006.
KuppingerCole
KuppingerCole Analysts AG is an independent German technology research firm founded in Stuttgart in 2004 and headquartered in Wiesbaden, best known for its Leadership Compass vendor rankings.
Kura Oncology, Inc.
Kura Oncology, Inc. is an American biopharmaceutical company founded in 2014 that develops precision small-molecule cancer therapies, best known for ziftomenib, approved by the FDA in 2025 for acute myeloid leukemia.
Kura Sushi
Kura Sushi (くら寿司) is a Japanese conveyor-belt sushi chain founded by Kunihiko Tanaka in 1995, known for its Bikkura Pon! plate prize game and restaurants in Japan, the United States, and Taiwan.
Kurma Partners
Kurma Partners is a French venture capital firm specializing in biotechnology and healthcare, founded in Paris in 2009, wholly owned by Eurazeo, and managing about €1 billion in assets.