Kakao Pay
VC Fund
Jeju, South Korea
Kakao Pay is a VC fund in Jeju focused on Finance and Financial Services. Kakao Pay is the financial technology division of Kakao. It allows over-counter payments, peer-to-peer transactions, bill payment, web banking and more, and it will move to offer financial services such as loans and financing. Kakao Pay is a platform that aims for a new financial effortless that is completely different from the existing anddifficult and cumbersome finance beyond just cashless and wallet less life without cash or wallet.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 67%
Last updated:
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Industries Kakao Pay invests in
Stages Kakao Pay invests in
Countries Kakao Pay invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $1.4M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Finance 5 (56%)
- Financial Services 5 (56%)
- FinTech 3 (33%)
- Payments 2 (22%)
- Mobile Payments 2 (22%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (44%)
- Series B 2 (22%)
- Seed 1 (11%)
- Debt Financing 1 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (11%)
Country
- South Korea 7 (78%)
- Malaysia 1 (11%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alex Ryu
CEO & Founder
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CEO & Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Alison Shim
Senior Manager
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Senior Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Jin Lee
Chief Business Officer / VP
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Chief Business Officer / VP | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Jitae Kim
Frontend Developer
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Frontend Developer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Won-Keun Shin
Chief Strategy Officer
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Chief Strategy Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Paywatch
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Paywatch offers a platform that allows employees to access their earnings before payday anytime. | $20M / Series A / Nov 05, 2025 | |
CC Media Service
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CC Media Service is an IT company that specializes in data modelling, web analysis, and bigdata consulting solutions. | Series B / Apr 18, 2024 | |
Pay Months
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Pay Months is a fintech startup that solves financing problems in e-Commerce. It has developed a B2B deferred payment service platform. It allows suppliers to receive advance payment and buyers to secure liquidity by deferring cash expenditures for 30 to 60 days. It also eliminates the risk of uncollectible receivables and manages transaction risksthrough guarantee insurance. | $1.4M / Series A / Feb 01, 2024 | |
GLN International
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GLN International is a fintech firm that offers a payment network linking financial institutions, retailers, e-wallet, and coupon providers. | $3.8M / Seed / Apr 11, 2023 | |
Global Loyalty Network
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The Global Loyalty Network is an integrated global platform that offers cross-border access to digital assets and benefits. It has sharing benefits, including locally offered deals and discounts for customers worldwide. It's enabling the payment, transfer, exchange, redemption and earning of digital assets across borders. | $81.7M / Debt Financing / Mar 03, 2023 | |
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Global Loyalty Network
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The Global Loyalty Network is an integrated global platform that offers cross-border access to digital assets and benefits. It has sharing benefits, including locally offered deals and discounts for customers worldwide. It's enabling the payment, transfer, exchange, redemption and earning of digital assets across borders. | $83.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 02, 2023 | |
OKPOS
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OKPOS is a POS hardware sales and POS solution supplier company. | Series A / Sep 29, 2022 | |
THECHEAT
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THECHEAT provides financial fraud prevention services. | Series A / Jul 21, 2022 | |
PeopleFund
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Founded in 2015, PeopleFund is Korea's leading data-driven digital lender focused on consumer finance. Our mission is to give financial freedom to all consumers through more affordable loans and better investment opportunities. Leveraging its proprietary, data-driven credit model and eliminating inefficiencies with technology, PeopleFunddelivers better loan rates for borrowers while maintaining an industry low loss rate to benefit retail and institutional investors. PeopleFund is the first digital lender in Korea to surpass $1B in loan originations and has provided an innovative way to invest to nearly 400,000 retail investors. It is notably the first fintech platform to offer loan and investment products directly on KakaoTalk, Korea's equivalent of WhatsApp. To date, PeopleFund has completed its Series C round of funding with a total of $63.4M of equity capital raised. For more information, visit www.peoplefund.co.kr. | $11M / Series B / Oct 30, 2018 |
Co-Investors
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank
2 deals together
Taishin International Bank
2 deals together
500 Global
1 deal together
Artem Ventures
1 deal together
BNK Securities
1 deal together
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FAQ
What does Kakao Pay invest in?
Kakao Pay invests primarily in Finance, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Kakao Pay's check size?
Kakao Pay typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$20M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kakao Pay participates in.
How do I contact Kakao Pay?
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Who are the partners at Kakao Pay?
The team at Kakao Pay includes Alex Ryu (CEO & Founder), Alison Shim (Senior Manager) and Jin Lee (Chief Business Officer / VP), among 8 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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