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 (43% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $21.4M (across 17 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
23
Fund Size
—
Top Stage
Series A
Last 12 Mo
2
Team
DD
Derek Do Young Kim
CEO
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
23 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| RRLWRLD Inc. | Seed | $26M | Feb 2026 |
| PParallax Worlds | Seed | $4M | Nov 2025 |
 SqueezeBits | Seed | — | Jan 2024 |
| GGoodGang Labs | Seed | $2M | May 2023 |
 Superplastic | Series A | $20M | Feb 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 |
 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 |
 Letinar | Series A | $3.6M | Oct 2018 |
| BBinaryVR | Series A | $4.5M | Jul 2018 |
| TTapas | Series A | — | — |
 Brave group | Series E | — | — |
 Team Fresh | Series C | — | — |
| BBrave group Inc. | Unknown | — | — |
| FFuriosa AI | Unknown | $123M | — |
Top Co-Investors
IMM Investment4 shared
KT Investment4 shared
Korea Investment Partners3 shared
Korea Development Bank3 shared
Shinhan Capital2 shared
Samsung Next2 shared
Mirae Asset2 shared
Atinum Investment2 shared
Cool Japan Fund2 shared
Wing Venture Capital2 shared
Global Brain Corporation2 shared
Mizuho Bank2 shared
TAL Education Group1 shared
ByteDance1 shared
Deloitte Ventures1 shared
NAVER D2SF1 shared
Animoca Brands1 shared
Day One Ventures1 shared
Galaxy Ventures1 shared
Scribble Ventures1 shared
Last updated: 8 September 2026