Kakao

Kakao Corp. is a leading mobile lifestyle platform based in Jeju, South Korea, offering a diverse range of online services that include messaging, email, search, news, advertising, gaming, e-commerce, music, and navigation. The company operates under well-known brands such as Kakao, Daum, and Melon. Its messaging service enables users to communicate seamlessly, while platforms like Kakao Music and Kakao Page enhance daily life by providing access to music, webtoons, and novels. Kakao Pay, the company's financial technology division, facilitates various transactions, including peer-to-peer payments and bill payments, with plans to expand into lending and financing services. Additionally, Kakao supports innovation through its venture capital initiatives, including the Kakao Young Entrepreneur Fund, which invests in technology and consumer goods sectors within South Korea. Founded in 1995 and previously known as Daum Kakao Corp., Kakao continues to shape the digital landscape in the region.

27 past transactions

S.M. Entertainment

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

THECHEAT

Series A in 2022
TheCheat Co., Ltd. offers database and search services for information related to fraud cases. TheCheat Co., Ltd. was founded in 2012 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Superplastic

Series A in 2021
Superplastic, Inc. is a character-based product and entertainment company founded in 2017 and based in Burlington, Vermont. The company specializes in manufacturing and marketing limited edition art toys, apparel, games, and animation, featuring unique characters created in collaboration with renowned artists. Superplastic leverages the principles of effort and scarcity to enhance the value of its offerings, creating exclusive works of art for a select audience. The company also operates a platform that engages customers through various media, including animated videos and music, enabling interactions with its synthetic superstars in innovative ways. Products are primarily sold online, reflecting a modern approach to retail and entertainment.

Neubility

Seed Round in 2021
Neubility, Inc. is a South Korean company founded in 2017, specializing in the development of robotic software aimed at improving delivery services. The company focuses on creating autonomous delivery robots that utilize vision-based localization and path-planning technologies. This innovative approach addresses the challenges of last-mile delivery, particularly for food and parcel services, by enabling robots to operate in urban environments without human intervention. Neubility's solutions offer a cost-effective delivery option for caterers and consumers, helping businesses streamline their logistics and enhance service efficiency.

ZIGZAG

Acquisition in 2021
Creator of ZIGZAG, Korea's top 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.

Inbyu

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.

Tidesquare

Corporate Round in 2019
TIDESQUARE presents new standards of Life & Travel via outstanding human resources, infrastructure and premium service.

PeopleFund

Series B in 2018
PeopleFund is Korea’s leading tech-based financial platform that is opening doors to financial freedom through affordable loans and attractive alternative investment products. It is the fastest growing marketplace lender in Korea and uniquely positioned as the first and only Korean marketplace lending platform to fully integrate with a top-tier commercial bank to process personal and business loans that are government approved. PeopleFund is also the first fintech platform to offer investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea’s most popular messaging app, which has allowed the company to grow and scale up its business. PeopleFund was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Seoul, Korea.

Kakao Japan

Corporate Round in 2018
Kakao Japan Corporation provides KakaoTalk, a mobile email application that allows its users to send and receive photos, videos, voice messages, URL links, and contact information on a one-to-one basis and in groups. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Kakao Japan Corporation operates as a joint venture of Z Holdings Corporation and Kakao Corp.

Korea Credit Data

Series A in 2017
Korea Credit Data Co., Ltd. is a software development company based in Seoul, South Korea, specializing in business management solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises. Founded in 2016, the company offers its flagship product, CashNote, which enables users to manage card payment schedules, conduct customer analyses, monitor customer reviews, and perform tax invoice inquiries. Since its launch in April 2017, CashNote has gained significant traction, serving over 600,000 businesses in Korea and Japan. The platform leverages data and connections to enhance business operations, facilitating efficient transaction management and addressing the everyday challenges faced by its users.

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 Inc. is a South Korean company specializing in blockchain and securities services. Founded in 2012 and based in Seoul, it operates UPbit, a global cryptocurrency exchange that offers a mobile-ready trading platform with real-time coin prices and market analysis. Additionally, Dunamu provides a cryptocurrency market index through UBCI and blockchain-as-a-service via Luniverse. The company also offers securities information services through its Stockplus platform and investment services. In the media sector, Dunamu has developed News Mate, a mobile application that delivers digital copies of various Korean newspapers and magazines, enhancing access to news in the region.

Seerslab

Seed Round in 2016
Seerslab Inc. is a mobile media service and technology company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2015. The company is known for its application, lollicam, which allows users to create and share mobile videos with real-time editing features. Lollicam offers a variety of tools including moving stickers, cinematic effects, and animated GIFs. In addition to its video editing capabilities, Seerslab also develops ARGear, a SaaS-based augmented reality platform. ARGear provides app developers with tools to integrate augmented reality features into their applications, including face tracking, camera filters, and a library of over 3,000 AR content options such as stickers and avatars. This combination of video editing and augmented reality solutions positions Seerslab as an innovative player in the mobile media industry, catering to both casual users and developers seeking to enhance their applications with engaging visual content.

Parking Square

Acquisition in 2016
Parking Square Inc provides smart mobile solutions and services for parking services in Korea. It provides solutions for real time parking services involving booking and discounts. Parking Square Inc provides an application known as Park Here, which allows users to find, locate, and book parking spaces at discounted rates. Parking Square is available as an iOS and Android app. It also enables garage owners and operators to promote and rent out their idle parking space. The company was established on May 7, 2013, based in Seoul, Korea.

Kakao M

Acquisition in 2016
LOEN ENTERTAINMENT, INC. is a Korea-based company engaged in manufacturing and distributing album. Its main product is compact disc used for listening to music The Company operates its business through two segments: digital music segment, which provides digital music and online music under the brand of MelOn, and album segment which plans, manufactures and distributes albums.

MELON

Acquisition in 2016
MelOn, which is said to be Korea’s top music streaming service with 28 million registered users

Dunamu

Series B in 2015
Dunamu Inc. is a South Korean company specializing in blockchain and securities services. Founded in 2012 and based in Seoul, it operates UPbit, a global cryptocurrency exchange that offers a mobile-ready trading platform with real-time coin prices and market analysis. Additionally, Dunamu provides a cryptocurrency market index through UBCI and blockchain-as-a-service via Luniverse. The company also offers securities information services through its Stockplus platform and investment services. In the media sector, Dunamu has developed News Mate, a mobile application that delivers digital copies of various Korean newspapers and magazines, enhancing access to news in the region.

Path

Acquisition in 2015
Path is a mobile photo-sharing and messaging service designed to facilitate personal social networking among users and their closest contacts, limited to 150 connections. The platform emphasizes simplicity, quality, and privacy, aiming to enhance the way individuals share their life's moments with friends and family. Path offers features that enable users to capture and share experiences in a secure environment, underlining the importance of close relationships. The service has evolved with a focus on creating meaningful connections, reflecting the belief that mobile technology can transform social interactions.

Kids Note

Acquisition in 2015
Kids Note, Inc. develops application and platform that provides childcare solutions. It helps institutions to provide information such as meal plans and other announcements to parents regarding their children. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea. As of January 5, 2015, Kids Note, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Kakao Corp.

Seoul Bus Mobile

Acquisition in 2014
SeoulBus provides you real-time bus and bus stop information of 57 Korean cities.

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 Media, Inc. owns and operates, Tapastic, an online platform and community for indie comic artists and visual storytellers. It specializes in creating visual stories online. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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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