Kakao Mobility
VC Fund
Seongnam, South Korea
Kakao Mobility is a VC fund in Seongnam focused on Transportation and Software. Kakao Mobility provides online taxi-hailing and parking services. Kakao Mobility brands include Kakao Taxi, Kakao Driver, and Kakao Navi. Kakao Mobility also provides its services.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 46%
Last updated:
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Industries Kakao Mobility invests in
Stages Kakao Mobility invests in
Countries Kakao Mobility invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $368k–$654k
- Series A
- $150k–$17M
- Corporate Round
- $7.6M–$34M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Transportation 6 (46%)
- Software 4 (31%)
- Automotive 4 (31%)
- Apps 3 (23%)
- Information Technology 3 (23%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (31%)
- Corporate Round 4 (31%)
- Seed 3 (23%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
Country
- South Korea 7 (54%)
- Japan 2 (15%)
- United States 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jongwon Chae
Head of Franchise Business
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Head of Franchise Business | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Seungil You
Chief Technology Officer
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Chief Technology Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Stefano Jang
manager for Mobility, Project management, Business strategy, Strategic partnership
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manager for Mobility, Project management, Business strategy, Strategic partnership | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Taeksoo Lee
Android Developer
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Android Developer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Chang-Min Lee
Chief Financial Officer
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Chief Financial Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autonomous a2z is a driving mobility platform that provides autonomous driving service with judgement, control and recognition technologies. | $25.3M / Series B / Oct 10, 2023 | ||
| The National Cargo Yard is a freight brokerage platform that locates cargo near the user and offers personalized services. | Corporate Round / Oct 11, 2022 | ||
| AltiMobility manages various shared mobility services such as car sharing, car hailing, rental automation, and micro-mobility. The company also provides reservation, parking, and payment, and supports integrated smart parking control and centralized management for operators. | Series A / Aug 26, 2022 | ||
| Daedong Mobility, which has played a vital role in factory automation in Korea for the past 40 years by delivering high-quality industrial chains, has manufactured high-quality chain products, gardening equipment, and leisure vehicles. We are now leaping forward as a future high-tech e-mobility company by adding electricity-based platformconversion, based on the movement, transit, work, and leisure platform technology and know-how gathered over the years. | $7.6M / Corporate Round / Aug 17, 2022 | ||
| Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services. | Seed / Aug 01, 2022 | ||
| ThorDrive is a company that develops software solutions related to automated and unmanned technology. ThorDrive provides an automated and unmanned platform and associated products as well as intellectual properties that can be applied to other areas. | $16.7M / Series A / Feb 17, 2022 | ||
| Autonomous a2z is a driving mobility platform that provides autonomous driving service with judgement, control and recognition technologies. | $13.7M / Series A / Sep 13, 2021 | ||
| Mars Auto is developing autonomous trucks to completely automate warehouse to warehouse truck operations.The startup is developing autonomous trucks for the $50 billion Korean trucking market. The goal is to fully automate warehouse to warehouse truck operations to save the trucking market billions. The company has two LOIs with two of the largestlogistic businesses in Korea. | $150K / Series A / Aug 19, 2019 | ||
| Mobility Technologies provides vehicle allocation systems for taxi operators. | $13.4M / Corporate Round / Sep 14, 2018 | ||
| JapanTaxi is a Provider of taxi booking services designed to cater the needs of people in Japan. The company's services offer a fare calculator application if users took a taxi offline, enabling users to easily travel from one place to another. | Corporate Round / Sep 06, 2018 | ||
| See all 13 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Kakao Mobility invest in?
Kakao Mobility invests primarily in Transportation, Software and Automotive startups, most often at Series A and Corporate Round stage. Most of the 13 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 Mobility invest in?
Kakao Mobility typically joins rounds of $368k–$654k at Seed, $150k–$17M at Series A and $7.6M–$34M at Corporate Round. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Kakao Mobility's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Kakao Mobility took part in.
How do I contact Kakao Mobility?
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Who are the partners at Kakao Mobility?
The team at Kakao Mobility includes Jongwon Chae (Head of Franchise Business), Seungil You (Chief Technology Officer) and Stefano Jang (manager for Mobility, Project management, Business strategy, Strategic partnership), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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