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KKR

Private Equity · Founded 1976 · New York City, United States

#251 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 2% of investors worldwide

American multinational private equity firm which has completed over $400 billion of private equity transactions and was a pioneer in the leveraged buyout industry

193 Portfolio companies+62% in 5 years
201 Unicorns
46 Decacorns
571 Investments
Aug 2026 Last investment
02 · Biggest holdings

KKR’s biggest current holdings.

KKR is a named shareholder in 16 companies. Dealroom estimates those stakes are worth about $27.2B in total — the disclosed percentage × each company’s latest valuation. The 12 biggest are below, each sized by that estimate.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 ByteDanceTelecom · Centicorn 4% $550B $22.0B
  2. 2 OutSystemsEnterprise Software · Unicorn 30.5% $4.4B $1.3B
  3. 3 Xingsheng YouxuanFood · Unicorn 16.5% $6.0B $990M
  4. 4 ReliaQuestSecurity · Unicorn 19% $3.4B $646M
  5. 5 o9 SolutionsEnterprise Software · Unicorn 12.8% $3.7B $474M
  6. 6 ContentSquareEnterprise Software · Unicorn 4.5% $5.6B $252M
  7. 7 12.5% $2.0B $250M
  8. 8 8% $3.0B $240M
  9. 9 11.5% $2.0B $230M
  10. 10 8.5% $2.6B $220M
  11. 11 14.5% $1.0B $145M
  12. 12 8.5% $1.5B $128M

Showing the 12 largest of 16 disclosed direct holdings.

6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = KKR’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. KKR also appears inside investor groups in Epic Games, Magic Leap, Oodle Car Finance, Pepper Money, Rebel Foods, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

03 · Exits

KKR’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from KKR’s transaction record.

$29B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $117BMarketing
$3.5B acquisition · 2018
Now $29BMusic
$24B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $6.1BTransportation
Acciona
acquisition · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $22BEnergy
$2.0B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $18BHealth
BrightSpring Health Services
IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $15BHealth
$4.5B IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $14BHosting
$7.7B IPO · 2025
Now $13BFashion
$8.1B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+Food
Coty
IPO · 2023
Now $5.8BWellness Beauty
$2.2B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $5.3BSecurity
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres
$5.1B acquisition · 2026
Entered Series B+Energy
04 · Portfolio analysis

Where KKR’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 193 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA252
  2. India46
  3. UK45
  4. China30
  5. Germany29
  6. Spain26
  7. Australia24
  8. Japan19
  9. France17
  10. Canada14
  11. Netherlands12
  12. South Korea11
By sectorCount
  1. Health89
  2. Energy88
  3. Fintech73
  4. Enterprise Software62
  5. Food43
  6. Transportation43
  7. Telecom31
  8. Real Estate27
  9. Marketing26
  10. Media24
  11. Security18
  12. Education15
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+216
  2. Series A17
  3. Seed5
By growth stageCount
  1. Late Growth229
  2. Mature170
  3. Early Growth127
  4. Breakout Stage85
05 · Portfolio market map

Inside KKR’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 193 tracked.

Reliance Jio
Telecom · Centicorn
$115B
Epic Games
Gaming · Decacorn
$18B
Lyft
Transportation · Unicorn
$6.1B
Gojek
Food · Decacorn
$11B
ByteDance
Media · Centicorn
$550B
Xingsheng Youxuan
Food · Unicorn
$6.0B
Magic Leap
Gaming · Unicorn
$2.0B
Flexport
Transportation · Unicorn
$8.0B
Lenskart
Fashion · Decacorn
$13B
Zenobe Energy
Energy · Unicorn
$1.1B
ContentSquare
Marketing · Unicorn
$5.6B
ReliaQuest
Security · Unicorn
$3.4B
Treeline Biosciences
Health · Unicorn
$2.1B
Musinsa
Fashion · Unicorn
$1.7B
Cloudera
Security · Unicorn
$5.3B
Global Atlantic
Fintech · Unicorn
$4.7B
Uxin Group
Transportation
$529M
MASAN Group
Fintech · Unicorn
$6.2B
GetYourGuide
Travel · Unicorn
$2.0B
Saviynt
Security · Unicorn
$3.0B
Cross River Bank
Fintech · Unicorn
$3.0B
Wolt
Food · Unicorn
$8.1B
TMON
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.3B
PayMaya
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.4B
OutSystems
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$4.4B
Avant
Fintech · Unicorn
$2.0B
BridgeBio
Health · Decacorn
$18B
Hyundai Global Service
Transportation
Qonto
Fintech · Unicorn
$4.8B
Skydance Media
Media · Unicorn
$4.0B
Rebel Foods
Food · Unicorn
$1.4B
Zwift
Gaming · Unicorn
$1.0B
PropertyGuru
Real Estate · Unicorn
$1.1B
Pure Gym
Sports · Unicorn
$2.0B
Huohua
Education · Unicorn
$1.5B
Bowery Farming
Food
$944M
Box
Security · Unicorn
$5.2B
o9 Solutions
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$3.7B
DZS
Telecom
$19M
Guesty
Real Estate
$360M
NetSPI
Security
Yiguo
Food · Unicorn
$1.0B
The Hut Group
Fashion · Unicorn
$1.2B
Anchorage Digital
Fintech · Unicorn
$4.2B
LivSpace
Real Estate · Unicorn
$1.0B
Lighthouse
Travel · Unicorn
$2.4B
Five Star Business Finance
Fintech · Unicorn
$3.0B
Youxinpai
Transportation
$680M
Restaurant365
Food · Unicorn
$1.0B
FanDuel
Gaming · Decacorn
$31B
Employment Hero
Jobs Recruitment · Unicorn
$1.4B
SmartHR
Jobs Recruitment · Unicorn
$1.6B
AppLovin
Marketing · Centicorn
$117B
KnowBe4
Security · Unicorn
$4.6B
Laureate Education
Education · Unicorn
$5.8B
Semperis
Security · Unicorn
$1.0B
Feedzai
Security · Unicorn
$2.0B
Clarify Health Solutions
Health · Unicorn
$1.4B
BlackBerry
Telecom · Unicorn
$5.1B
Ajax Health
Health
$340M
06 · Portfolio founders

Where KKR’s portfolio founders come from.

180 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States83
  2. India19
  3. China15
  4. United Kingdom14
  5. France6
  6. Israel5
  7. South Korea4
  8. Australia3
  9. Canada3
  10. Finland3
UniversityCount
  1. ETH Zurich6
  2. Harvard Business School4
  3. Stanford University4
  4. Stanford University Graduate School of Business4
  5. Aalto University3
  6. Harvard University3
  7. Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow3
  8. INSEAD Business School3
  9. London Business School3
  10. Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
Previous companyCount
  1. McKinsey & Company10
  2. Microsoft6
  3. Alphabet | Google4
  4. ClearCarbon4
  5. Deloitte4
  6. Sun Microsystems4
  7. Altitude Software3
  8. Bersin by Deloitte3
  9. Aereo2
  10. Critical Software2