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Investor profile

KKR

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

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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 Private Equity · $39B invested · 566 investments · Investor rank #72 · Last investment 7/2026
Portfolio companies ↑ 41% 5y
193
Decacorns
10
Thoroughbreds ↑ 32% 5y
50
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.

AppLovin
$29B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $143BMarketing
Lyft
$24B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $5.4BTransportation
BridgeBio
$2.0B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $17BHealth
BrightSpring Health Services
IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $16BHealth
GoDaddy
$4.5B IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $15BHosting
Wolt
$8.1B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+Food
Max Financial Services
IPO · 1999
Entered Series B+Now $7.4BFintech
The Hut Group
$5.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $1.1BFashion
Darktrace
$2.2B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $5.3BSecurity
BlackBerry
IPO · 1999
Entered Series B+Now $5.1BTelecom
KnowBe4
$3.5B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $4.6BSecurity
Rackspace
IPO · 2008
Entered Series B+Now $4.2BHosting
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. USA168
  2. UK24
  3. China17
  4. India11
  5. Australia8
  6. Canada7
  7. France7
  8. Spain6
  9. Germany5
  10. Philippines4
  11. South Korea4
  12. Denmark3
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software73
  2. Health48
  3. Fintech46
  4. Marketing23
  5. Food20
  6. Transportation20
  7. Energy17
  8. Security16
  9. Media11
  10. Telecom11
  11. Real Estate10
  12. Legal9
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+237
  2. Series A22
  3. Seed6
By growth stageCount
  1. Late Growth138
  2. Breakout Stage78
  3. Early Growth46
  4. Mature34
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
$5.4B
Gojek
Food · Decacorn
$11B
ByteDance
Media · Centicorn
$550B
Xingsheng Youxuan
Food · Unicorn
$6.0B
Magic Leap
Gaming · Unicorn
$2.0B
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
Uxin Group
Transportation
$620M
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
$17B
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
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
$1.1B
Anchorage Digital
Fintech · Unicorn
$4.2B
LivSpace
Real Estate · Unicorn
$1.0B
Lighthouse
Travel · Unicorn
$2.4B
Five Star Business Finance
Fintech · Unicorn
$3.1B
Youxinpai
Transportation
$680M
Restaurant365
Food · Unicorn
$1.0B
FanDuel
Gaming · Decacorn
$31B
SmartHR
Jobs Recruitment · Unicorn
$1.6B
AppLovin
Marketing · Centicorn
$143B
KnowBe4
Security · Unicorn
$4.6B
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
58 Daojia Inc.
Wellness Beauty · Unicorn
$1.3B
Cylance
Security · Unicorn
$1.4B
Darwinbox
Jobs Recruitment · Unicorn
$1.0B
Paddle
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.4B
Starry
Telecom
Ontic Technologies
Security
$920M
Policygenius
Fintech
$400M
OVHcloud
Telecom · Unicorn
$3.6B
Fresha
Wellness Beauty · Unicorn
$1.0B
Portfolio founders

Where KKR's portfolio founders come from.

171 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 States79
  2. United Kingdom18
  3. India11
  4. China10
  5. France8
  6. Philippines4
  7. South Korea4
  8. Canada3
  9. Finland3
  10. Israel3
UniversityCount
  1. ETH Zurich6
  2. Stanford University5
  3. Harvard Business School4
  4. Aalto University3
  5. Harvard University3
  6. HEC Paris3
  7. Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow3
  8. INSEAD Business School3
  9. London Business School3
  10. Stanford University Graduate School of Business3
Previous companyCount
  1. McKinsey & Company8
  2. Deloitte6
  3. Microsoft6
  4. ClearCarbon5
  5. Alphabet | Google4
  6. Bersin by Deloitte3
  7. Boston Consulting Group3
  8. Procter & Gamble3
  9. PwC3
  10. Sun Microsystems3
How KKR stacks up

Similar investors.

Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

Sequoia
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#3 rank 1,918 companies $23T portfolio
Accel
Venture Capital · Palo Alto
#32 rank 1,156 companies $3.1T portfolio
Techstars
Accelerator · New York City
#836 rank 2,279 companies $254B portfolio
Tiger Global
Venture Capital · New York City
#18 rank 811 companies $3.9T portfolio
Bessemer Venture Partners
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#54 rank 847 companies $1.9T portfolio
Plug and Play
Venture Capital · Sunnyvale
#435 rank 1,539 companies $283B portfolio
Y Combinator
Accelerator · San Francisco
#64 rank 7,063 companies $1.9T portfolio
Kleiner Perkins
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#51 rank 775 companies $8.4T portfolio
Key people

Key people at KKR.

Tiffany(Xiaotong) Yang
Tiffany(Xiaotong) Yang
CEO
 Henry Kravis
Henry Kravis
Founding Partner
 Peter Stavros
Peter Stavros
Partner
 Ken Mehlman
Ken Mehlman
Global Head of Public Affairs
 David Petraeus
David Petraeus
Partner
 Stephen Shanley
Stephen Shanley
Partner
 Emmanuel Lagarrigue
Emmanuel Lagarrigue
Partner
 Philipp Pausder
Philipp Pausder
Founder
 George R Roberts
George R Roberts
CEO
 Sanjay Nayar
Sanjay Nayar
CEO
Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.
Every figure on this page is sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API. Sections v1 shows that the API does not yet expose — shareholding-based holdings, Power-Law rankings & vintage time-series, entity-filtered news, and market sentiment — are omitted here rather than sourced elsewhere.