Kim Kardashian Companies: Every Business She Owns in 2026

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Kim Kardashian's business empire has three pillars: SKIMS (the $5 billion shapewear and apparel company she co-founded in 2019, in which she holds roughly one-third), SKKN BY KIM (her skincare line, relaunched 2022, with SKIMS Beauty planned for 2026), and SKKY Partners (the private-equity firm she co-founded in 2022, now in a senior operating advisor role). Earlier ventures — KKW Beauty, KKW Fragrance — were folded into the current brands, and the NikeSkims collaboration (2025) extends the empire into athleticwear.

Together these companies explain her $1.9 billion net worth (Forbes, 2026): the SKIMS stake alone is worth about $1.67 billion on paper. For the fortune math, see her net worth breakdown; for the story of how she built it, how she made her money.

Portfolio at a glance

SKIMS: the $5 billion flagship

SKIMS is the company that made Kim Kardashian a billionaire. Co-founded in 2019 with entrepreneur Jens Grede (who serves as CEO), it began as direct-to-consumer shapewear and grew into loungewear, apparel, and activewear. The November 2025 funding round — $225 million led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with BDT & MSD Partners participating — valued the company at $5 billion, up from $4 billion in 2023, as annual net sales approached $1 billion.

The operating footprint now includes 18 stores across the US plus one in Mexico City, with plans to open more internationally in 2026 and become a predominantly physical retailer. The NikeSkims collaboration, launched in 2025 and sold out within hours, pushes the brand into performance categories; SKIMS is also the official underwear partner of the WNBA, NBA, and USA Basketball. Kardashian's reported roughly one-third ownership makes this the single largest asset she holds.

Beauty: from KKW to SKKN to SKIMS Beauty

Kardashian's beauty arc started with KKW Beauty in 2017 — a reported $100 million in first-year sales — and its 2020 milestone, when Coty bought 20% for $200 million, implying a $1 billion valuation. She later repurchased the Coty stake and relaunched as SKKN BY KIM in 2022, bringing beauty under her own naming architecture.

The next step, announced by CEO Jens Grede, is SKIMS Beauty in 2026, led by Diarrha N'Diaye (founder of Ami Colé). The strategy is consolidation: one master brand, SKIMS, spanning shapewear, apparel, activewear, and beauty — each category reinforcing the others. A $48 Seamless Sculpt Face Wrap using SKIMS' signature sculpting fabric already hinted at the direction.

SKKY Partners: the Wall Street experiment

In September 2022, Kardashian and former Carlyle Group dealmaker Jay Sammons launched SKKY Partners, a private-equity firm targeting control and minority investments in consumer and media companies, with Kris Jenner as a partner. The ambition was a $1 billion debut fund; the reality was a reported $121 million raised and a slower start than planned.

In 2024, securities filings showed Kardashian was no longer an executive officer — her title changed from managing partner to senior operating advisor, clarifying that she does not run the firm day-to-day. The portfolio so far includes a significant minority stake in the truffle condiment brand TRUFF (announced late 2023) and a minority stake in the British skincare brand 111Skin. SKKY remains a long-dated bet: valuable if the investments compound, immaterial to her net worth today.

Media and licensing: the attention assets

Not every asset is a company she founded. The Kardashians on Hulu continues the family's television franchise after Keeping Up with the Kardashians (E!, 2007-2021), and her starring role in Hulu's All's Fair adds acting to the portfolio. The Kim Kardashian: Hollywood mobile game — 45 million-plus downloads before its 2024 removal — proved her audience spends as well as watches.

These are income assets rather than balance-sheet assets: they generate cash and, more importantly, attention that feeds SKIMS. The flywheel is the business model — television and social media at the top, commerce at the bottom. With more than 350 million Instagram followers, Kardashian can launch a product to a larger audience than most television networks reach in primetime, which is why every media appearance doubles as a product launch.

The early experiments: DASH, fragrance, and licensing

Before SKIMS, there was a decade of trial and error. The DASH boutiques — run with sisters Kourtney and Khloé, with locations in Calabasas, Miami, and New York — taught her physical retail basics before she ever opened a SKIMS store. Fragrance lines (including the KKW Fragrance collection) proved her audience would buy scent the way they bought cosmetics. Paid appearances, endorsement deals, and the endless licensing of her name and image generated the cash that funded her first real equity bets.

None of these were billion-dollar businesses, and most no longer exist — DASH closed its doors in 2018. But they were the laboratory: every failed or shuttered venture taught her something about inventory, pricing, and her customers that SKIMS later industrialized. The pattern was consistent even then — she was always reaching for ownership rather than one-off checks, a habit that culminated in keeping roughly a third of SKIMS through every funding round.

What is next: IPO, beauty, and global retail

Three catalysts could re-price the empire. First, the long-discussed SKIMS IPO — on the table since at least 2024 — would convert her paper stake into a public, tradable value. Second, SKIMS Beauty in 2026 opens a high-margin category inside the brand. Third, international retail expansion in 2026 takes the 19-store footprint global. Any one of them could move the $5 billion valuation — and with it, her $1.9 billion net worth.

The through-line across every company is the same: Kardashian kept equity instead of licensing her name, and built operating businesses rather than endorsement deals. That discipline — visible from the DASH laboratory years through the $5 billion SKIMS valuation — is what separates a celebrity portfolio from a genuine empire. For how that strategy compares to her closest rival's, see Kim Kardashian vs Rihanna: net worth compared, and for her annual cash flow, her income breakdown.

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