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
- 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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 3 co-investors found.
- 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 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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