Kakao Investment is the corporate venture capital arm of Kakao Corporation, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. It invests in startups across sectors including AI, fintech, healthcare, entertainment, and robotics, providing growth capital and leveraging Kakao's ecosystem to accelerate portfolio company growth.
They made 2 investments in the last 12 months. Their most common stage is series-a (42% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $33.0M (across 22 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
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Fund Size
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Top Stage
Series A
Last 12 Mo
2
Team
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
31 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 RLWRLD Inc. | Seed | $26M | Feb 2026 |
 Brave group | Series E | $10M | Jan 2026 |
| PParallax Worlds | Seed | $4M | Nov 2025 |
 FuriosaAI | Series C | $125M | Jan 2025 |
 SqueezeBits | Series A | — | Jan 2024 |
| SqueezeBits | Seed | — | Jan 2024 |
| GGoodGang Labs | Seed | $2M | May 2023 |
 SUPERPLASTIC, INC. | Series A | $20M | Feb 2023 |
 Rabbit | Series A | — | Jan 2023 |
 ReCon Labs Inc. | Series A | $4.4M | May 2022 |
 Neubility | Series A | $21M | May 2022 |
 SWATCH ON | Series A | $10M | Apr 2022 |
| BBusiness Canvas | Seed | $2.5M | Sep 2021 |
 H2O Hospitality | Series C | — | Sep 2021 |
| DDanggeun | Series D | $162M | Aug 2021 |
 FASTFIVE | Unknown | $27M | Jun 2021 |
 3billion | Series C | $13M | Mar 2021 |
| H2O Hospitality | Series C | $30M | Jan 2021 |
 Humelo | Series A | $2.6M | Jan 2021 |
 Spatial | Series A | $14M | Jan 2020 |
 Minerva Project | Series C | $57M | Jul 2019 |
 Megazone Cloud | Series A | — | Jan 2019 |
| TTridge | Series C | $60M | Jan 2019 |
 Bluespace | Seed | $3.5M | Jan 2019 |
 LetinAR | Series A | $3.6M | Oct 2018 |
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Top Co-Investors
IMM Investment5 shared
Korea Development Bank5 shared
Korea Investment Partners4 shared
KT Investment4 shared
Samsung Next3 shared
DSC Investment3 shared
Atinum Investment3 shared
NAVER D2SF2 shared
Shinhan Capital2 shared
Animoca Brands2 shared
Global Brain's KDDI Open Innovation Fund2 shared
Mirae Asset2 shared
InterVest2 shared
Cool Japan Fund2 shared
Wing Venture Capital2 shared
Global Brain Corporation2 shared
Mizuho Bank2 shared
Goodwater Capital2 shared
Benchmark1 shared
TAL Education Group1 shared
Last updated: 20 October 2026