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Kakao Corp
eCommerce & Marketplaces · Jeju, South Korea · Founded 2010 · IPO 2003 Decacorn
Kakao Corp mafia
Startups founded by Kakao Corp alumni
Former Kakao Corp employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Jisang YoonSouth Korea
Seongmoo KimUnited States
Steve LeeUnited States
Jiwon ShinSouth Korea
Jiyong AhnSouth Korea
Andrew Baek SangyeopSouth Korea
Jinuk JangSouth Korea
Dan HongSouth Korea
Keum Chae MinSouth KoreaGlobal footprint
Where Kakao Corp has talent and traffic
(2 of 3,210 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$115M patent portfolio · 916 active families
Where Kakao Corp concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Kakao Corp and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Kakao Corp's 404 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Kakao Corp appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2008–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
404 deals across Kakao Corp's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Kakao Corp deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
Kakao Corp's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Kakao Corp
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Kakao Corp on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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