Kakao Ventures
kakao.vc Direct investor
Kakao Ventures is a South Korean venture capital firm affiliated with Kakao, investing in early-stage startups in deep tech, services, digital healthcare, and games. It provides support and resources to its portfolio companies.
Kakao Ventures is a corporate venture arm headquartered in Seongnam, South Korea, founded in 2012. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in deep tech, service, digital healthcare and game. 4300+ 억 원 under management and 280 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“선행기술, 서비스, 게임 사업분야를 중심으로 ICT 및 소프트웨어 기업에 집중 투자합니다.”
— Kakao Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Headquarters
- Seongnam, South Korea
- Invests in
- global
- Sectors
- deep tech, service, digital healthcare, game, ICT, software
- Founded
- 2012
- Assets under management
- 4300+ 억 원
- Portfolio
- 280 companies
Team, as Kakao Ventures publishes it
- 김기준 대표이사 | 파트너
- 김치원 부대표 | 파트너
- 장동욱 상무 | 파트너
- 김정록 전무 | CFO
- 김지웅 이사
- 조현익 수석
- 신정호 수석
- 정주연 수석
- 안혜원 수석
- 김영무 심사역
- 공지유 심사역
- 최병민 수석 매니저
Names and roles exactly as listed on kakao.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 3 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- BonAngels Venture Partners 1 shared company: kakao.com
- Anchor Equity Partners 1 shared company: mk.co.kr
- Asia2G Capital 1 shared company: mk.co.kr
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Kakao Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.kakao.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, description, aum, portfolio_count, status
- https://www.kakao.vc/about-4invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, founded
- https://www.kakao.vc/teampeople
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Record 1552 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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