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Kakao Ventures
Corporate venture · Founded 2012 · Active in 2026
Kakao Ventures is a corporate venture based in South Korea, founded in 2012. The page below shows 6 Power Law outcomes from Kakao Ventures's portfolio — 6 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Other B2B Software · Marketing; top portfolio geographies are South Korea. Kakao ranks #442 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Kakao’s biggest exits.
Kakao portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
The 6 Kakao Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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South Korea6
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Fintech2
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Other B2B Software1
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Marketing1
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Biotech & Life Sciences1
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AI1
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Series B+1
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Series A1
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Seed4
Kakao’s biggest current holdings.
An estimate of Kakao’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 2 companies where Kakao is a named shareholder, worth about $80M in estimated equity value.
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Korea Credit Data
6%
$1.1B
$65M
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Oasis Market
1.5%
$1.0B
$15M
Estimated value = Kakao’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Kakao also appears inside investor groups in Megazone Cloud, Rebellions, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Kakao's 6 Power Law outcomes.
How does Kakao stack up?
Kakao in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by selected outcome stageSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsBeyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds
% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.Where Kakao's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
22 founders across the 6 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and SpaceX | xAI are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Kakao.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Kakao Ventures
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Kakao 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
In the news
Latest news about Kakao Ventures
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Kakao — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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