Kakao Games
VC Fund
Seongnam, South Korea
Kakao Games is a KaKao gaming subsidiary, serving various genres of games including PC and mobile. Kakao Games is a global multi-platform game company that leads the way in the global game industry through reinforcing an in-house development capability and going into partnership with other game companies.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 63%
Last updated:
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Industries Kakao Games invests in
Stages Kakao Games invests in
Countries Kakao Games invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $766k–$4.1M
- Series A
- $2.5M–$25M
- Series B
- $2.5M–$83M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Gaming 9 (47%)
- Video Games 5 (26%)
- Software 4 (21%)
- Online Games 4 (21%)
- Mobile 3 (16%)
Stage
- Series B 4 (21%)
- Seed 3 (16%)
- Series A 3 (16%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (16%)
- Corporate Round 2 (11%)
Country
- South Korea 10 (53%)
- United States 3 (16%)
- Singapore 1 (5%)
- Russian Federation 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
KyeHyun Cho
Co-CEO
|
Co-CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| BackendX develops backend systems to support data processing and service functionality for digital platforms. The company designs server architectures, implements traffic distribution strategies, and integrates large language models to manage operational workloads, ensuring reliable and efficient performance of digital services across variousenvironments. | Sep 02, 2026 | ||
| Me3 is a crypto wallet to purchase, send, receive, and exchange tokens and NFTs. | $3M / Seed / Oct 24, 2025 | ||
| Clover, part of the company's gaming portfolio, it offers a mobile animation RPG game that focuses on recruiting heroes, expanding territories, and revolutionizing the world, so that players can enjoy engaging content. | $11.4M / Series B / Nov 09, 2023 | ||
| Lionheart is a developer of mobile and online games that specializes in multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea. | $915.2M / Secondary Market / Jul 11, 2022 | ||
| Onion Crew is a gaming company that specializes in game design and development. | $766.2K / Seed / Jul 06, 2022 | ||
| Playable Worlds is a computer games company that specializes in the fields of game development, online games, and gamification. The company is driven by its mission is to build a truly cloud-native game, taking advantage of technology to create a true persistent work that involves and changes over-time. | $25M / Series B / Apr 20, 2022 | ||
| HAEGIN is a game development company. | $83.5M / Series B / Feb 27, 2022 | ||
| Frost Giant Studios is a production studio focused on real-time strategy (RTS) games for competitive gaming on PCs. | $25M / Series A / Jan 25, 2022 | ||
| Nine Arc is a game company | $7.1M / Series A / May 20, 2021 | ||
| Neptune (넵튠) is a Korean online game center. It provides services for game developers to create games for smartphones and tablet PCs. Neptune was launched in 2012 in Gyeonggi-do, Korea. | $177.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 18, 2020 | ||
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FAQ
What does Kakao Games invest in?
Kakao Games invests primarily in Gaming, Video Games and Software startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Kakao Games invest in?
Kakao Games typically joins rounds of $766k–$4.1M at Seed, $2.5M–$25M at Series A and $2.5M–$83M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Kakao Games's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Kakao Games took part in.
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Who are the partners at Kakao Games?
The team at Kakao Games includes KyeHyun Cho (Co-CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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