Kakao Pay

Kakao Pay is the financial technology division of Kakao. It allows over-counter payments, peer-to-peer transactions, bill payments, web banking, and more, and it will move to offer financial services such as loans and financing. Kakao Pay is a platform that aims for a new financial effortless that is completely different from the existing and difficult and cumbersome finance beyond just cashless and walletless life without cash or wallet.

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S.M. Entertainment

Post in 2023
SMTown is the umbrella name for the recording artists under South Korean entertainment company.

NFTBank

Series A in 2022
NFTBank involves the creation of a digital asset in the form of a non-fungible token that builds and manages the entire portfolio in one place. They enable holders to overcome the illiquid nature of their instruments and help users better manage liquidity risk.

THECHEAT

Series A in 2022
THECHEAT provides financial fraud prevention services.

Superplastic

Series A in 2021
Superplastic is a character-based product and entertainment company. It creates limited edition art toys, apparel, games, and animation based on characters created in collaboration with some of the greatest artists in the world. Superplastic is founded on the principle that effort and scarcity are intrinsic components of value. The company appropriates the tools of mass media and mass production to create limited edition works of art for a limited audience. It was established in 2017 and is based in Burlington, Vermont.

ZIGZAG

Acquisition in 2021
ZIGZAG is a shopping meta-service app for women. ZIGZAG finds a user's style across thousands of online shops. ZIGZAG is transforming Korea's Fast Fashion Industry. Users can effortlessly browse and bookmark their favorite shops, and search results are tailored for each individual. Retailers have their items automatically synced to match ZIGZAG's UI/UX. ZIGZAG constantly updates new items and prices to keep everyone on the same page. Staying stylish has never been so easy.

KP Insurance Service

Acquisition in 2019
Inbyu is an online platform for purchasing insurance, allowing subscribers to choose insurance terms depending on coverage needs, instead of having to buying a standardized insurance package.

PeopleFund

Series B in 2018
Founded in 2015, PeopleFund is Korea's leading data-driven digital lender focused on consumer finance. Our mission is to give financial freedom to all consumers through more affordable loans and better investment opportunities. Leveraging its proprietary, data-driven credit model and eliminating inefficiencies with technology, PeopleFund delivers better loan rates for borrowers while maintaining an industry low loss rate to benefit retail and institutional investors. PeopleFund is the first digital lender in Korea to surpass $1B in loan originations and has provided an innovative way to invest to nearly 400,000 retail investors. It is notably the first fintech platform to offer loan and investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea's equivalent of WhatsApp. To date, PeopleFund has completed its Series C round of funding with a total of $63.4M of equity capital raised. For more information, visit www.peoplefund.co.kr.

Now Waiting

Venture Round in 2018
Now Waiting provides store management service for small businesses.

TOROOC

Venture Round in 2017
At TOROOC, we build intelligent biped robots using various A.I. and motion technologies. Since its foundation in 2012, we have prepared the era of 'a robot in every home'. We finally introduce our first robot LiKU, a social robot designed to live with you. Starting with LiKU, we plan to bring more advanced robots to the world to make our lives better.

Dunamu

Series C in 2017
Dunamu owns and operates a digital asset exchange (UPbit), two investment exchange platforms (Stockplus and U-Stockplus), and an equity management platform (Onboard). UPbit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform with presence in Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. Stockplus is a securities information/trading platform with an active partnership with 11 broker-dealers. U-Stockplus is an OTC platform providing a trading service for private companies. Onboard helps private companies manage equity electronically for their shareholders.

Seerslab

Seed Round in 2016
ARGear is the world-first SaaS based Augmented Reality software platform to help app developers to create Snapchat like AR features not only all-in-one AR SDK, but over free 3,000 AR contents varied from AR stickers to avatars. ARGear is the world-leading 5G AR studio and providing 5G killer applications with Samsung, ebay, and leading 5G carriers. it is the all-in-one solution to adopt AR features in any product. It will not only offer the basic AR selfie features such as real-time face-tracking and camera filter but will also provide advanced features such as real-time beautification, 3D sticker and various trigger effects. Free Download ARGear for Andorid AR SDK and iOS AR SDK > www.argea.io

Dunamu

Series B in 2015
Dunamu owns and operates a digital asset exchange (UPbit), two investment exchange platforms (Stockplus and U-Stockplus), and an equity management platform (Onboard). UPbit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform with presence in Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore. Stockplus is a securities information/trading platform with an active partnership with 11 broker-dealers. U-Stockplus is an OTC platform providing a trading service for private companies. Onboard helps private companies manage equity electronically for their shareholders.

Daum Communications

Acquisition in 2014
The Daum is a popular web portal in South Korea, with its rival Naver. Daum offers many Internet services to web users, including a popular free web-based e-mail, messaging service, forums, shopping and news. The popularity of Daum is a reflection of the high level of internet use in South Korea. The country has the highest level of broadband users, and one of the most widespread levels of computer and Internet access. The popularity of Daum stems from the range of services it offers, but also from the fact that it was the first Korean web portal of significant size. Its popularity started when it merged with the then most popular e-mail service, daum.net or hanmail.net. After the merging, Daum started the forum service DaumCafe which brought its firm status in the market. The term cafe is now used as the synonym for "Internet forum" in Korean. On August 2, 2004 Daum announced the purchase of Lycos for $95.4 million, and closed the transaction on October 6

Tapas Media

Series A in 2014
Tapas is the “Youtube for story tellers” -- a platform and community for over 50,000 creators, who publish original stories in the form of serialized webcomics and novels. Tapas has over 2 million monthly unique readers, who collectively spend 70 million minutes per month on the platform with stories on Tapas having been read over 5 billion times to date. We co-produce original IPs with our top creators that can be shopped and brokered into the next hit TV series/movies/games/physical books. About 70% of Tapas’s audience are female millennials primarily located in the US. The Tapas app has been downloaded over 2 million times and is one of the top grossing comics apps on iOS and Android. Check out some of the latest news articles about Tapas here: https://tapas.io/site/about

ISEEYOU Co., Ltd.

Acquisition in 2012
ISEEYOU, a game company which previously operated smartphone app service. ISEEYOU Co., Ltd has debuted with astonishing UGC (User Generated Contents) service, STORYBERRY. Specialized in Web, Mobile Platform with inspirational concepts, and developing Web Services and Games.

Thinkreals

Acquisition in 2012
Thinkreals develops online services including Coupon Moa, a social commerce information comparison service; and Pocket Style, an online clothing retail service.

Lotiple

Acquisition in 2011
Lotiple Inc. operates as web-based platform for selling discount coupons for different products and services online. Rotipeul offers a mobile service that connects consumers with real-time location-based stores and to relieve the discomfort of traditional social commerce. The shops that offer consumers discounts and deals in less time, consumers can use to verify your payment and immediately offered a deal from their surroundings.
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