KV
Kakao Ventures
Corporate · Founded 2012 · South Korea
Kakao Ventures’ biggest current holdings.
The most valuable companies Kakao Ventures still holds — unicorns and thoroughbreds it has backed, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Where a cap table names Kakao Ventures directly, the stake and its estimated value are shown too.
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Danggeun Market
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$2.7B
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Rebellions
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$2.3B
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Korea Credit Data
6%
$1.1B
$65M
Estimated value = Kakao Ventures’ disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Kakao Ventures also appears inside investor groups in Megazone Cloud, Rebellions, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Where Kakao Ventures’ portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 263 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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South Korea213
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USA35
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Indonesia3
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Singapore3
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China2
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Germany2
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Bangladesh1
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Canada1
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Czechia1
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Hong Kong1
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Israel1
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Japan1
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Gaming31
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Health27
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Enterprise Software26
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Media24
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Marketing16
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Fintech11
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Semiconductors11
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Fashion9
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Transportation9
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Education8
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Travel8
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Food7
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Seed181
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Series A67
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Series B+15
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Early Growth203
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Breakout Stage51
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Late Growth14
Inside Kakao Ventures’ portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 263 tracked.
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A2Where Kakao Ventures’ portfolio founders come from.
95 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.
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South Korea60
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United States24
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Germany2
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Israel2
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China1
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Japan1
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Romania1
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Sweden1
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Switzerland1
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United Kingdom1
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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology9
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Seoul National University8
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
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Pohang University of Science and Technology4
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Yonsei University3
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Columbia University2
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London School of Economics and Political Science2
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New York University2
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Stanford University2
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University of California, Berkeley2
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NAVER6
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Alphabet | Google4
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Nexon4
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Samsung Electronics4
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SK Planet4
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Algorima3
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Hyperconnect2
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Kakao Corp2
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Microsoft2
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NCSOFT West2
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.
