Kakao Investment

Kakao Investment, established in 2015 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Kakao, is a private equity firm based in Seoul, South Korea. The firm specializes in venture capital investments, focusing on technology companies that align with Kakao's philosophy of "Connect Everything." By investing in innovative start-ups, Kakao Investment aims to enhance interpersonal connections and facilitate connections between individuals and their environments. Additionally, the firm is committed to fostering a positive ecosystem in the venture landscape by supporting mergers and acquisitions as well as initial public offerings.

Park Ji-hwan

CEO

Scott Kwon

Director

25 past transactions

Hexlant

Series A in 2022
At Hexlant, we’ve developed a one-stop blockchain-based development platform that finally enables our clients to create blockchain use cases easily with existing engineering resources. Hexlant’s blockchain solution boasts security, interoperability and ease of use. On the security side, it has partnered with Shinhan Bank & Ground X (Kakao) to develop a private key management system. We are also developing a powerful AML solution is also in the works. We offer our B2B solution to large enterprises, and we also offer an API on a traffic or data-usage basis. Monthly subscription options are available as well. Our technology also boasts a unique transaction and monitoring API for each mainnet network, real time API management for accuracy and consistency, JSON-RPC and HTTP API support and other features. Our fully customizable API modules are suitable for a wide range of use cases, and our Transaction Alert API enables live tracking of large crypto transactions to and from exchanges, private wallets and unknown wallets for BTC, ETH, KLAY and TRON. Over 75 clients are now using Hexlant Node. We support 18 blockchain mainnets and process over 1 million API calls every day. We are also the official blockchain platform partner for a number of high profile universities.

N.Light

Seed Round in 2022
N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.

Amazing Brewing Company

Series B in 2022
Amazing Brewing Company is a craft beer manufacturing company. They also provide amazing oak barrel, buddy malt lager, sunset homemade ale, seoul forest handmade lager, seongsu-dong pale ale, miltand weizen, jaeger brown, sopra hard seltzer, and gimpo golden rice ale services.

Bigwave Robotics

Seed Round in 2021
Bigwave Robotics is a developer of robotics devices designed to automate processes.

Humelo

Seed Round in 2021
Humelo develops a voice synthesis and editing program that allows to create and edit AI voice with controllers like emotions and more. The company also develops a K-POP production system utilizing its AI music technology and SM entertainment's global network.

Autonomous a2z

Series A in 2021
Autonomous a2z is a driving mobility platform that provides autonomous driving service with judgement, control and recognition technologies.

H2O Hospitality

Series C in 2021
H2O Hospitality is the largest vacation rental management company in Japan and Korea. H2O manages accommodation facilities without any on-site human resources by automating all the operational flows through the property management system (“PMS”) H2O developed that links and manages calendars between the guests, rooms, and housekeepers. This allows significant decrease in fixed cost of the operational expenses, increasing the yield of the facility.

LOVO

Seed Round in 2021
LOVO operates voiceover creation platform that allow users to connect with their loved ones and friends. It offers custom voices, including voiceovers for games and audio books, emotional voices, and other voices and voice preservation services. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Klleon

Seed Round in 2021
Revolutionizing AI-Human Interactions with Real-Time Digital Avatars Established in 2019, Klleon pioneers a fresh dimension in AI-human relations through its real-time digital avatar video chat. Recognized by industry giants like NVIDIA, AWS, and Microsoft, Klleon's unique technologies facilitate emotionally resonant AI digital avatar interactions. Features include rapid-response digital human animations and optimized GPT processing, ensuring efficiency in both time and cost. By creating lifelike digital avatars from just a facial snapshot and 30 seconds of voice, Klleon transcends physical, temporal, spatial, and linguistic boundaries. With Klleon, your digital twin can converse globally, anytime, in any language.

Fast Five

Series E in 2021
Fast Five operates as a premium office business center, specializing in co-working spaces designed for startups and small-to-medium-sized companies. With a focus on creating an offline social network, Fast Five provides attractive and efficient office environments in high-demand areas without requiring a deposit for leasing. The company emphasizes community building through a dedicated community manager who fosters connections among members, including founders, investors, professionals, and freelancers. In addition to office space, Fast Five offers communal amenities such as free coffee, draft beer, and networking events, enhancing the overall experience for its members while allowing them to avoid the complexities of managing independent office spaces.

3billion

Series C in 2021
3billion was founded with the goal of ending the diagnostic odyssey of rare disease patients through comprehensive genetic testing. It has reduced the amount of time and cost that was previously required for genome interpretation by using bioinformatics and machine learning technology, making genome-scale rare disease genetic testing affordable for patients in need. The company was established in 2016 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Monolabs Co

Funding Round in 2020
Monolabs Co provides digital transformation, information technology, health subscription, and advisory services to the healthcare industry.

Monolabs Co

Series A in 2020
Monolabs Co provides digital transformation, information technology, health subscription, and advisory services to the healthcare industry.

Devotion Foods

Series A in 2020
Devotion Foods offers a variety of processed foods.

BlablaENM

Seed Round in 2020
BlablaENM connects random people through voice.

Bobobox Indonesia

Series A in 2020
Bobobox is a trusted accommodation service where the traveler can stay in a smarter way and commuter can rest to recharge their energy.

Hyperithm

Series A in 2019
Hyperithm is a private digital asset manager that provides comprehensive cryptocurrency services tailored for institutions and high-net-worth individuals. The company operates a fund management platform and a digital asset gateway, facilitating digital asset management and execution brokerage. Its clientele includes publicly listed companies, family offices, venture capital firms, as well as cryptocurrency exchanges and miners. Hyperithm aims to streamline cryptocurrency trading for its clients, ensuring efficient and effective management of digital assets.

Terra

Corporate Round in 2019
Terra is a price-stable cryptocurrency designed for mass adoption. It builds financial infrastructure for the next generation of decentralized applications. Terra is backed by Luna, a decentralized asset that derives its value from transaction fees collected on the Terra network. Much like the moon stabilizes the earth’s rotation, Luna is Terra's eternal guardian of stability.

Orbs

Venture Round in 2018
Orbs is public blockchain infrastructure designed for businesses looking at trust as a competitive strategy. With blockchains as the new standard for impartial third-party source of verification, solutions can give strong guarantees that will make them more attractive to their users and ecosystem partners. To accommodate business needs, Orbs is pioneering a hybrid consensus architecture, keeping businesses in control of costs, governance and guaranteed performance, while still capturing the disruption of a truly decentralized Proof-of-Stake ecosystem with a permissionless validator pool. By acting as a decentralized serverless cloud, The Orbs Network alleviates this problem and enables programmers to expand smart contracts with L3 decentralized backend services. Projects are freed from the need to rely on centralized backend solutions thanks to the deployment of these to be executed by Orbs PoS validators. Founded in 2017, Orbs is being developed by a dedicated team of more than 60 people out of its offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; San Francisco, California, Singapore and Seoul, South Korea. Orbs was named Gartner's “Cool Vendor in Blockchain Technology” for 2018.

VITCON

Series A in 2018
VITCON offers products and services that make it easy for anyone to configure IoT. Vitcon develops and supplies “MODLINK”, a new concept built-in controller, which has been created with S/W and H/W technology and experienced accumulated over years. In addition, we provide free software that allows non-software engineers to use IoT by connecting to MODLINK.

QueryPie

Seed Round in 2018
B2B SaaS Platform: QueryPie governs enterprise-wide data access on multi-cloud native environments. With its all-in-one solution, users can simplify data privacy regulations while streamlining access management, reducing costs, and increasing security in real time.

Linewalks

Seed Round in 2018
Linewalks is a data tech company for healthcare system.

Supergene

Series A in 2017
Supergene is a social content and HTML5 game development company based in Pangyo, South Korea, and Manila, Philippines. Having launched more than 30 instant games on the Facebook Gaming platform, Supergene develops and operates Facebook Gaming platform-based instant games and a social matching service, namely Signal, The Puzzle, OMG, OMG AR, Puzzle Wizard, and Super Pop. Especially, OMG has been No. 1 game by MAU, marking 300 million once in 2020, among entire games on Facebook Game platform.

LUXROBO

Venture Round in 2017
LUXROBO is a venture company specializing in robotics. Based on its robot technology, LUXROBO creates products that make electrical appliances smarter and easier to use. The company develops educational robots, IoT platform, and modular robotics kit. It also provides technology consulting services.

Cleaning Lab

Seed Round in 2017
Cleaning Lab is a housekeeping service provider. They offer systematic cleaning services. Its costs are measured on a fixed and hourly basis. Their services include office floor cleaning and dust removal, common tables, furnishing room dust removal, inside toilet cleaning, and office move-in cleaning.
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