[2] Work started on IKVM early in 2000 to assist migration of a Java-based reporting package from Sumatra to Microsoft .NET.

[4] In 2022 Jerome Haltom and others picked up the work on a new GitHub organization and finished .NET Core support.

[5] IKVM.NET includes the following components: IKVM.NET can run compiled Java code (bytecode) directly on Microsoft .NET or Mono.

[6] The "IKVM" portion of the name is a play on "JVM" in which the author "just took the two letters adjacent to the J".

The IKVM organization also maintains IKVM.Maven.Sdk,[8] an extension to the .NET PackageReference system that allows direct references to and transpiling of Maven artifacts.