About This Fund
KKR North America Fund XIII (NAX3) is a $19 billion mega-cap private equity buyout fund managed by KKR & Co. Inc., one of the world's leading global alternative asset managers headquartered in New York. Reaching final close on April 25, 2022, NAX3 was the largest fund in KKR's history at the time of closing, surpassing the firm's previous flagship vehicle, the $17.6 billion KKR 2006 Fund. KKR committed $2.0 billion of its own balance sheet alongside investor capital—one of the most significant GP alignment commitments in the fund's history—reflecting the firm's conviction in its North American investment pipeline and strong alignment of interests with its limited partners.
NAX3 is structured as a generalist large-cap buyout fund with a primary geographic mandate across North America, principally the United States and Canada. The fund pursues opportunistic private equity investments across financial services, healthcare, retail, industrials, technology, media, and telecommunications. KKR's investment model emphasises operational value creation through the KKR Capstone operational improvement platform, strategic bolt-on acquisitions, ESG integration, and long-term ownership of market-leading franchises through controlled or significant-minority positions. Despite aggregate investor interest of approximately $24 billion, KKR scaled the fund back to $19 billion to preserve capital deployment selectivity and returns discipline.
KKR North America Fund XIII attracted a broad global institutional investor base across public pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, and family offices. KKR has invested in more than 250 companies across North America over the past four decades, generating over $240 billion in cumulative invested capital globally. NAX3 continues this tradition with a diversified portfolio of control and co-control buyouts in some of North America's most consequential industries, with the fund now in its active investment and value creation phase following the April 2022 close.