0001547576 2026-08-10 2026-08-10 0001547576 cik0001547576:S000085506Member 2026-08-10 2026-08-10 false 497 N-1A 2026-08-10 Krane Shares Trust 0001547576 KraneShares Public-Private AI & Technology ETF (the “Fund”) <p id="xdx_A82_eoef--SupplementToProspectusTextBlock_gRBSTPTB-GTWPC_zrwf3UFCeYS7" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in"><b>Supplement dated August 10<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">, 2026, to the Fund’s Summary Prospectus, Statutory Prospectus, and Statement of Additional Information, each dated August 1, 2026, as each may be supplemented and amended from time to time.</span></b><span id="xdx_900_eoef--ProspectusDate_c20260810__20260810_zXqQFe55YAkb" style="display: none">August 10, 2026</span></p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in"> </p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><i>Capitalized terms and certain other terms used in this supplement, unless otherwise defined in this supplement, have the meanings assigned to them in the Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information.</i></p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Effective August 14, 2026, Etna Capital Management Company Ltd. (“Etna”) will no longer be the Fund’s investment sub-adviser and will no longer provide a portfolio manager for the Fund. Accordingly, as of such date, all references to Etna and Max Chen are hereby deleted from the Fund’s Summary Prospectus, Statutory Prospectus, and Statement of Additional Information.</p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify"> </p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Additionally, as of August 14, 2026, the section of the Summary Prospectus titled “Principal Investment Strategies” is hereby replaced with the following:</p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><b>PLEASE RETAIN THIS SUPPLEMENT FOR FUTURE REFERENCE.</b></p> 2026-08-10 Principal Investment Strategies <p id="xdx_A8E_eoef--StrategyNarrativeTextBlock_zHdABKlEjQZg" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in">Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in the publicly-traded and privately-offered securities of “Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and Technology” companies and other instruments that have economic characteristics similar to such securities. With respect to publicly-traded securities, the Fund considers a company to be an “AI and Technology” company if it meets the following two criteria on the quarterly rebalance date of the Solactive Worldline Artificial General Intelligence Index (“Underlying Index”):</p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in"> </p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><tr style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; vertical-align: top"> <td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.75in"></td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.5in">(1)</td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify">The company is classified in the Technology economy within the FactSet Revere Business Industry Classification system (“RBICS”). This RBICS classification requires a company to generate at least 50% of its revenue from within the Technology economy; and</td></tr></table> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"> </p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><tr style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; vertical-align: top"> <td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.75in"></td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.5in">(2)</td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify">The company has an AI Exposure Score greater than zero.</td></tr></table> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"> </p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in">The AI Exposure Score is designed to quantify the exposure of a company to AI. Zero implies minimal to no exposure of the company to AI. Five implies that a company is materially exposed to AI. The AI Exposure Score is based on companies’ public business descriptions, public filings, press releases, and financial disclosures made by companies in the Eligible Universe (defined below) for information regarding the companies’ involvement in AI-related businesses or the incorporation of AI technologies in their key operations, offerings, and research and development activities.</p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in"> </p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in">Solactive AG (“Solactive” or “Index Calculator”), which is not affiliated with the Fund, and the Fund’s investment adviser, Krane Funds Advisors, LLC (“Krane” or “Adviser”), determine the Eligible Universe on each quarterly rebalance date by identifying companies that meet the following criteria:</p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in"> </p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><tr style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; vertical-align: top"> <td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.75in"></td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.5in">(a)</td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify">The company is headquartered, located or primarily listed in a developed market, which Solactive defines to mean Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, or United States;</td></tr></table> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"> </p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><tr style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; vertical-align: top"> <td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.75in"></td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.5in">(b)</td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify">The company’s equity securities are a constituent of the Solactive GBS Global Markets All Cap USD Index PR;</td></tr></table> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"> </p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"> </p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><tr style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; vertical-align: top"> <td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.75in"></td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.5in">(c)</td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify">The company is classified by RBICS as being in the Technology economy and in one of the following industries: biotechnology, computer peripherals, data processing services, information technology services, internet retail, internet software/services, motor vehicles, packaged software, semiconductors, or telecommunications equipment; and</td></tr></table> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"> </p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><tr style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; vertical-align: top"> <td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.75in"></td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.5in">(d)</td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify">The company has a free-float market capitalization of at least $2 billion, has been publicly-listed for at least one month and has an average daily trading volume of at least $2 million over the last one-month and six-month periods.</td></tr></table> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"> </p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in">Each company in the Eligible Universe that has an AI Exposure Score greater than zero is categorized by the Adviser as an AI Applications, AI Hardware or AI Infrastructure company.</p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in"> </p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><tr style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; vertical-align: top"> <td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.75in"></td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.5in">●</td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify">AI Applications companies are those that leverage AI technologies within their business models, products and services to drive efficiencies cost savings, new revenue streams or improved customer experience services.</td></tr></table> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"> </p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><tr style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; vertical-align: top"> <td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.75in"></td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.5in">●</td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify">AI Hardware companies are semiconductor and data center companies that power the training of large language models.</td></tr></table> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"> </p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><tr style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; vertical-align: top"> <td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.75in"></td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.5in">●</td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify">AI Infrastructure companies are those that provide cloud, security and data management for large language models.</td></tr></table> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"> </p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in">The Adviser then provides the list of companies in each category to Solactive along with each such company’s AI Exposure Score, and Solactive calculates the Underlying Index quarterly, on the first Wednesday of February, May, August and November, by multiplying each company’s AI Exposure Score by its free-float adjusted market capitalization to establish its weight in the Underlying Index, subject to the following limits:</p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in"> </p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><tr style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; vertical-align: top"> <td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.75in"></td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.5in">●</td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify">No category comprises more than 40% of weight of the Underlying Index.</td></tr></table> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"> </p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><tr style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; vertical-align: top"> <td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.75in"></td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.5in">●</td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify">Each constituent’s weight must be less than 10% and more than 0.5%.</td></tr></table> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"> </p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><tr style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; vertical-align: top"> <td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.75in"></td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; width: 0.5in">●</td><td style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify">If any weights above 5% add up to more than 50% of the Underlying Index, the Index Calculator will cap such weights at 10%, 9%, 8%, 7%, 6% and 4.5%, accordingly.</td></tr></table> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"> </p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in">Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests primarily in the constituents in the Underlying Index and, with respect to such investments, seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, track the performance of the Underlying Index. Although the Fund expects to replicate (or hold all components of) the Underlying Index, the Fund reserves the right to use representative sampling for the portion of the Fund that tracks the Underlying Index. “Representative sampling” is a strategy that involves investing in a representative sample of securities that collectively have an investment profile similar to the Underlying Index.</p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in"> </p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in">The Fund intends to invest, directly or indirectly (such as through special purpose vehicles (“SPVs”)), approximately 10% of net assets in privately offered securities, as measured at the time of investment. Such privately offered securities will not be in the Underlying Index. In selecting securities of private companies, the Adviser looks for companies that are engaged in the same artificial intelligence-related business activities as the companies in the Underlying Index that may be preparing for an initial public offering or may be in earlier stages of development. The Fund may also invest in publicly-traded equity securities and depositary receipts not in the Underlying Index, derivative instruments (including swaps and futures), spot currencies and currency forwards (including for hedging), other investment companies (including SPVs, exchange traded funds or “ETFs”) and cash or cash equivalents (including money market funds). Certain other investment companies in which the Fund may invest may be advised, sponsored or otherwise serviced by Krane and/or its affiliates.</p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in"> </p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in">As of March 31, 2026, the Underlying Index included 55 securities of companies with a market capitalization range of approximately $5.0 billion to $5.2 trillion and an average market capitalization of approximately $657.8 billion. The Fund is non-diversified. To the extent the Underlying Index is concentrated in a particular industry, the Fund is expected to be concentrated in that industry. As of March 31, 2026, the Index was concentrated in the Technology sector, as defined by FactSet/RBICS.</p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in"> </p> <p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in">The Fund may engage in securities lending.</p>