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Kuroda (company)
Kuroda Precision Industries Ltd. (黒田精工株式会社) is a Japanese precision equipment maker in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, founded in 1925 as Japan's first specialized gauge manufacturer, known for ball screws, press dies, and grinding machines.
Kushal Pal Singh (कुशल पाल सिंह)
Kushal Pal Singh (कुशल पाल सिंह), or K.P. Singh, is an Indian real estate developer who built DLF into India's biggest listed property firm and developed Gurgaon.
Kushki
Kushki is a Latin American payments technology company founded in 2017 by Aron Schwarzkopf and Sebastián Castro and headquartered in Quito, Ecuador. In 2022 it became Ecuador's first unicorn.
Kushner Companies
Kushner Companies, also known as Kushner Cos, is a family-owned American real estate firm founded in 1985 by Charles Kushner with his father Joseph that owns and develops multifamily, office, retail, and hotel properties.
Kuwa Technology (酷哇科技有限公司) (酷哇科技)
Kuwa Technology (酷哇科技), also known as Coowa Technology, is a Shanghai-based Chinese robotics company founded in 2015 that builds autonomous sanitation robots and sells unmanned sanitation as a service.
Kuwait Finance House
Kuwait Finance House (KFH) is Kuwait's first sharia-compliant bank, established by Law No. 72 in March 1977, ranked the world's second-largest Islamic bank by assets at end-2023, with operations across twelve countries.
Kuwait Investment Authority
The Kuwait Investment Authority (هيئة الاستثمار الكويتية), or KIA, is the sovereign wealth fund of Kuwait, the world's oldest, managing about $1 trillion from Kuwait City.
Kuwaiti banking crisis (1982–1985)
The Kuwaiti banking crisis of 1982–1985 followed the August 1982 collapse of the Souk al-Manakh, an unregulated stock market where shares were bought with post-dated checks worth about $94 billion.
Kuwaiti dinar (دينار كويتي)
The Kuwaiti dinar (دينار كويتي) is the currency of Kuwait, issued by the Central Bank of Kuwait and worth about US$3.24, the highest-valued currency in the world.
Kuznets curve
The Kuznets curve, also called the Kuznets hypothesis, is Simon Kuznets's 1955 idea that income inequality first rises and then falls as a country's income grows.
Kvanted Ventures
Kvanted Ventures is a Helsinki-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2023, focused on industrial technology in Northern Europe, with a first fund of €71.3 million.
Kwagalana Group
The Kwagalana Group is a Kampala-based association of Uganda's wealthiest businesspeople, set up in 2002 and chaired by tycoon Godfrey Kirumira; members include Sudhir Ruparelia.
Kwasi Kwarteng
Kwasi Kwarteng is a British Conservative politician and economic historian who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer for 38 days in 2022, the UK's first Black chancellor.
Kweichow Moutai
Kweichow Moutai (贵州茅台) is a state-controlled Chinese distiller, listed in Shanghai in 2001, that makes Moutai, the national liquor baijiu produced only in Moutai town, Guizhou.
Kwek Leng Beng
Kwek Leng Beng (郭令明) is a Singapore property and hotel tycoon who leads Hong Leong Group and City Developments Limited, one of Singapore's largest listed developers.
KWSP / EPF
The Employees Provident Fund (EPF), known in Malay as Kumpulan Wang Simpanan Pekerja (KWSP), is Malaysia's mandatory defined-contribution retirement savings fund, established in 1951, holding RM1.25 trillion in assets.
Kyla Scanlon
Kyla Scanlon is an American economic commentator, educator, and author who explains markets and the economy through short-form videos and books, and who coined the term "vibecession" in 2022.
Kyle Bass
J. Kyle Bass is an American hedge fund manager who founded Hayman Capital, earning a 212% return in 2007 by shorting subprime mortgage bonds before the financial crisis.
Kyle Daniel
Kyle Daniel is an American investment executive who has served as Chief Operating Officer of Glade Brook Capital Partners, a Greenwich, Connecticut growth equity firm, since 2015.
Kyle Krause
Kyle J. Krause is an American entrepreneur who led the Kum & Go convenience-store chain, sold to Maverik in 2023, and now runs the Krause Group.
Kyle T. Doherty
Kyle T. Doherty is an American growth-stage venture investor who co-led General Catalyst's late-stage Endurance strategy after five years at Coatue, investing in Step and Ethos.
Kyle Teamey
Kyle Teamey is a venture capitalist who leads climate investments at RA Capital Management; he was previously a partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures and co-founded the startup Liquid Light.
Kyle Vogt
Kyle Vogt is an American technology entrepreneur who co-founded Twitch, sold to Amazon for $970 million, and Cruise, bought by GM in 2016; he founded The Bot Company in 2024.
Kyle Welborn
Kyle Welborn is an American venture capital investor in St. Louis, Missouri, best known as a cofounder and General Partner of Cultivation Capital, an early-stage firm started in 2012.
Kynexis
Kynexis is a Dutch clinical-stage biotechnology company in Naarden developing brain-disease therapeutics, with lead candidate KYN-5356 in Phase 2 testing for cognitive impairment in schizophrenia.
Kyoto Financial Group
Kyoto Financial Group (株式会社京都フィナンシャルグループ) is a Japanese bank holding company established in 2023 as the sole parent of the Bank of Kyoto, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime market.
Kyrgyzstan's accession to the World Trade Organization
Kyrgyzstan's accession to the World Trade Organization made it the WTO's 133rd member on 20 December 1998, the first CIS country and among the fastest accessions.
Kyrgyzstani som
The Kyrgyzstani som (кыргыз сом) is the national currency of Kyrgyzstan, legal tender since May 1993, divided into 100 tyiyns and issued by the National Bank.
Kyruus Health (formerly Kyruus)
Kyruus Health, legally Kyruus, Inc., is a Boston healthcare technology company operating a care access platform for provider search, scheduling, and cost transparency, agreed to be acquired by RevSpring in 2025.
Kyushu Electric Power
Kyushu Electric Power (九州電力) is a Japanese electric utility serving the Kyushu region since 1951, holding about 80% market share, operating four nuclear reactors, and running Japan's highest-solar grid.