Our mission is to fortify companies and communities and create retirement security for the institutions and individuals counting on us. We have a deep commitment to our clients and portfolio companies and believe in shared success.
Tools for First-Generation College Students
Helping students break barriers and excel in college
Fueling Innovative Storytelling
A strategic investment to help a forward-thinking production company expand
Building An Audiobook Publishing Powerhouse
Unlocking growth at the world’s leading audiobook publisher
Tools for First-Generation College Students
Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business
Students who are the first in their families to attend college sometimes face obstacles on their path to graduation. To help ensure that these students have every opportunity to become tomorrow’s business leaders, KKR became the founding sponsor of the Accelerator Scholars program, a four-year curriculum that aims to provide mentorship, coaching, networking, relationship-building, and professional and life skills to first-generation students at Dyson and Nolan Hotel School at Cornell University’s SC Johnson School of Business.
Fueling Innovative Storytelling
Skydance
Skydance Media, an independent global media company founded by David Ellison, produced Top Gun: Maverick and other award-winning film and television content. Our expertise and strong relationships across gaming, entertainment, media, and sports helped make the firm a partner of choice to lead a $400 strategic investment that is accelerating Skydance's expansion into gaming, sports and animation.
During KKR’s five year ownership of RBmedia, we supported the company in doubling the size of its catalog, expanding its distribution channels, adding international offerings, delivering award-winning content for audiobook fans, and creating value for a diverse group of authors and creators. Learn how all employees participated in the company’s success.
Building a circular economy by turning waste into energy and recycling plastics
Wiring Chile for the Future
Bringing the promise of digital to Colombian homes
INVESTING IN AN OWNERSHIP CULTURE
C.H.I. Overhead Doors
During KKR’s investment in C.H.I. Overhead Doors, a garage door manufacturing company based in Illinois, the value creation plan included a broad-based employee ownership program in which all 800 employees participated. In addition to boosting employee engagement, the program enhanced the company’s performance and created substantial gains for KKR’s investors and employees when we exited the company in 2022.
Committed to building a world where waste is useful, Viridor has invested £1.2 billion in energy recovery facilities across the U.K. that produce enough energy to power more than 600,000 homes. KKR bought the company in March 2020, believing even during a time of market turmoil that the company was building critical infrastructure for a sustainable future.
Wiring Chile for the Future
ON*NET
At a time when high-speed internet is an essential way to connect people to jobs, education, and services, an ambitious strategic partnership between KKR and Telefonica in Colombia aims to provide fiber optic access to thousands of homes and businesses. Building on its experience with a similar project in Chile, KKR and Telefonica announced the arrangement in 2021.
DEVELOPING THE GLOBAL CARBON MARKET
Addressing climate change-related challenges
Making the Digital World Accessible
Bringing full digital experiences to people with a wide range of abilities
RENEWABLE INFRASTRUCTURE AND COMMUNITY INVESTMENT
A leading U.S. solar energy firm delivering and operating renewable energy projects and supporting communities that lack resources or are vulnerable to climate change
DEVELOPING THE GLOBAL CARBON MARKET
GreenCollar
GreenCollar is a leading environmental markets investor, natural resource manager and conservation-for-profit organization in Australia. With the support of an equity investment from KKR’s Global Impact fund, GreenCollar is helping governments, corporates and individuals address climate change-related challenges through projects that generate revenue and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As part of its commitment to fostering an ownership culture, KKR implemented Australia’s first-ever private equity-backed broad-based ownership program at GreenCollar, which is also the first for its Global Impact Fund. KKR exited its investment in GreenCollar in 2023.
The digital revolution should be for everyone. Level Access is an Accessibility-as-a-Service firm, helping organizations ensure that they are meeting all regulations and standards that apply to technology accessibility. KKR is proud to be a major investor in the firm through our Technology Growth business, as well as a customer. We use the firm’s suite of innovative technology replacement solutions to ensure our own website is accessible.
RENEWABLE INFRASTRUCTURE AND COMMUNITY INVESTMENT
Sol Systems
Sol Systems develops and finances renewable energy projects in the U.S., helps customers ranging from large corporations to municipalities procure clean energy, and manages environmental commodities such as renewable energy credits. In partnership with local leaders, Sol Systems works to create positive change in communities that are under resourced and vulnerable to climate change. KKR made a significant minority investment in the firm through its Infrastructure fund in 2021 and committed up to $1 billion to a strategic partnership that aims to develop and acquire utility-scale renewable energy and storage projects.
People are key to delivering shared success to those we serve and the world at large. Learn about careers at KKR.
