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KKR

30 Hudson Yards, New York, NY, 10001, United States

Overview

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is an investment firm that manages multiple alternative asset classes, including private equity, energy, infrastructure, real estate, credit, and, through its strategic partners, hedge funds. The company generates investment returns for its fund investors through a patient and disciplined investment approach, employing people, and driving growth and value creation.

Total investments
164
Lead investments
119
Investments · 12mo
8
Active investors
25

Sector focus

  • Advice
  • Asset Management
  • Financial Services
  • Real Estate
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Fresha

    Led · Equity · May 2026

    Fresha operates a booking marketplace for beauty and wellness businesses, providing scheduling and related platform services to salons and independent professionals. Founded in 2015 and based in London, the company has expanded its merchant footprint to more than 140,000 businesses. Those businesses are booking over 35 million appointments per month on Fresha, or more than a billion appointments annually. The company previously reported about 60,000 businesses and more than 150,000 professionals across 120 countries in 2021, showing substantial growth since then. Fresha has raised $285 million in total funding to date, including the recent $80 million growth equity investment from KKR. Fresha intends to use the new capital to expand into additional countries and develop AI features for its platform.

  • Reserv

    Led · Series C · May 2026

    Founded in 2022, Reserv provides TPA services and claims intelligence technology for property and casualty insurers and related risk-bearing entities. Its Reserv Glance platform centralizes historical and open claims into a single database and applies fully explainable AI to analyze and act on critical claims while scaling human and automated workflows. Clients can choose levels of automation ranging from automated handling of simpler claims to supported approaches for complex cases, allowing migration away from legacy claims systems in weeks. Reserv reports annual recurring revenue of $100 million, serves nearly 200 insurers, corporate captives, MGAs, and brokers, and employs over 500 claims adjusters. The company says it has more than doubled claims processing capacity each year and aims to scale from 500,000 annual complex claims capacity today to 30 million in four years. Reserv positions itself as operating in a "post-AI" environment where the latest AI tools are production-ready and integrated into its platform to improve outcomes and speed.

  • Coder

    Led · Series C · Apr 2026

    Coder provides a centralized platform that lets enterprises build and run software development environments in the cloud, replacing fragmented local setups with standardized, customer-controlled workspaces. The platform enables both human developers and AI coding tools to operate within the same governed infrastructure. Coder positions this approach to improve consistency across teams, accelerate developer onboarding, and help organizations maintain control over how software is built. The company is led by CEO Rob Whiteley and was founded in 2017, operating out of Austin, TX. Following its $90M Series C, Coder plans to prioritize platform innovation aimed at enterprise AI workflows and enhanced governance capabilities. No revenue, user metrics, or valuation figures were disclosed in the article.

  • Advanced Navigation

    Participated · Series C · Mar 2026

    Advanced Navigation develops multi-sensor navigation solutions and AdNav Intelligence software that fuse inertial hardware and onboard intelligence to provide resilient positioning, navigation, and timing when GPS is degraded or unavailable. Its multi-sensor architecture supports applications across land, air, sea, and space, and the company reports more than 100,000 systems deployed worldwide. Advanced Navigation generates over 80% of its revenue from the United States and Europe and has worked with customers including Anduril, NOAA, Hanwha, BHP, Rheinmetall, and Intuitive Machines. The company has experienced triple-digit growth over the past year and serves mission-critical sectors such as defense, mining, marine operations, and space exploration. Going forward, it plans to expand engineering and operations globally, establish Centers of Excellence, pursue targeted acquisitions in adjacent technologies, and maintain its headquarters, core R&D, and manufacturing in Australia.

  • GTR

    Led · Equity · Jan 2026

    Global Technical Realty (GTR) develops and operates customized, energy-efficient data centers for global hyperscalers. Founded in 2020 by data-center entrepreneur Franek Sodzawiczny in partnership with KKR, the company focuses on build-to-suit projects that meet the demanding power, cooling and sustainability requirements of cloud and AI workloads. GTR has already established a meaningful footprint across both primary and emerging high-growth markets, leveraging a team drawn from some of the industry’s most experienced professionals. Its facilities are engineered to be scalable and environmentally responsible, aligning with hyperscaler sustainability mandates. The fresh capital infusion will fund further geographic expansion and accelerate construction of new sites. Although the article does not disclose revenue or capacity metrics, GTR’s rapid rollout suggests growing customer demand and a sizeable project pipeline.

Team

  • George R Roberts

    Co-Chairman and Co-CEO

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  • Scott Nuttall

    Co-Chief Executive Officer

  • Henry Kravis

    Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman

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  • Ken Mehlman

    Partner & Global Head of Public Affairs; Co-head KKR Global Impact

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