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Kakao Investment
Corporate VC · Seongnam, South Korea · Asia Pacific
Kakao Investment is a venture investment firm that discovers and supports startups creating next S-curve innovation, aiming to build a virtuous venture ecosystem. It supports portfolio companies through links to Kakao's services and business assets, global alliances, and specialized accounting, tax and legal advisory.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware
In its own wordsaimetaverseplatformcommercehealthcaremobility
Your fit with Kakao Investment
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Or find every investor that fitsKakao Investment lists 8 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Growth, 75% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (40%), Robotics & Hardware (27%) and Cybersecurity (13%). 50% of its companies are based in South Korea. It invests most often alongside FuturePlay, Global Brain and IMM Investment.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Kakao Investment, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 25% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 75% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 15th | 8 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 60th | 25% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 98th | 38% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 74th | 40% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 69th | 4 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| FuturePlay | 3 |
| Global Brain | 2 |
| IMM Investment | 2 |
| Atinum Investment | 1 |
| BASE Partners | 1 |
| CRIT Ventures | 1 |
| Cisco Investments | 1 |
| DSC Investment | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers8100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 40% | 18% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 27% | 1% |
| Cybersecurity | 13% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 7% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
| Media & Entertainment | 7% | 4% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Kakao Investment head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Kakao Investment| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Oct 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 22 Apr 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 25 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 22 Oct 2024 | Series C+ |
Round details for Kakao Investment
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Kakao Investment's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
8 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brave group produces and manages intellectual property, including virtual entertainment and esports | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Apr 2026Series C+ | Page + round | |
| BROZ is a Spatial AI company structuring real spaces into 3D data so AI and robots can understand and act on them. | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| FuriosaAI develops and provides AI acceleration hardware and software solutions | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Oct 2026Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Glosori builds AI that identifies a person from their voice, separates the real from the manufactured, and answers the phone in your place. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Mobilint develops and provides Edge AI NPUs for on-device and on-premises AI | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops AI brains for robots to solve industry dexterity problems with industry data. | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Feb 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Superb AI develops and provides industrial artificial intelligence solutions for various industries, including mobility, security, defense, logistics, and manufacturing. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Oct 2024Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Tommoro Robotics develops and implements robotic intelligence and workforce-as-a-service solutions | Robotics & Hardware | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- kakaoinvestment.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 22 Oct 2024
- Companies checked
- 8
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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