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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 · Marketing · AI; top portfolio geographies are South Korea. Kakao ranks #442 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Sequoia’s biggest exits.
Sequoia 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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Marketing1
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AI1
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Biotech & Life Sciences1
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Other B2B Software1
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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 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.
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 Sequoia'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 TMON 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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