Kakao Ventures
VC Fund
Seongnam, South Korea
Kakao Ventures is a VC fund in Seongnam focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Kakao Ventures Corp. is an independent subsidiary of Kakao Corp. & the most active, startup-friendly early stage VC of Korea.
- Total investments:
- 420
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
- Fund size:
- $40B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Kakao Ventures invests in
Stages Kakao Ventures invests in
Countries Kakao Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 8 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $280k–$4.2M
- Series A
- $988k–$11M
- Series B
- $3.4M–$27M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 57 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 45 (11%)
- Information Technology 34 (8%)
- Gaming 28 (7%)
- Health Care 26 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 198 (47%)
- Series A 84 (20%)
- Series B 29 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 16 (4%)
- Funding Round 13 (3%)
Country
- South Korea 214 (51%)
- United States 36 (9%)
- Indonesia 3 (1%)
- Germany 2 (0%)
- Singapore 2 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Anne Ahn
Senior Associate
|
Senior Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Brian Jang
Director
|
Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Jacob Kim
Director
|
Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jade Chung
Senior Associate
|
Senior Associate | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Jun Kim
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 29 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| OQT is focusing on developing QPUs utilizing neutral atoms. | $10.4M / Seed / Oct 15, 2026 | ||
| Korologic develops cardiovascular imaging AI solutions for medical procedures. | Seed / Sep 15, 2026 | ||
| Intellicia is an AI Research Platform that focuses on synthetic research and media intelligence. It provides a beta phase survey service, 'TheSurvey.ai', that employs Synthetic Consumers technology. This service specializes in conducting large-scale surveys swiftly by generating AI respondents based on the demographic information,behavior, and preference data of actual consumers. | $2.5M / Seed / Sep 02, 2026 | ||
| Sume provides agent-native video generation APIs and tools for creating avatar-based and UGC-style videos. The company offers Sume Avatar 1.0, a multi-model orchestration system that behaves like a single avatar endpoint for generating talking-head and product-focused clips. Developers use the Sume Developer API and CLI to create reusable avatars,submit structured video generation jobs, track status, and retrieve production-ready media. The platform supports workflows where agents or applications coordinate creative inputs such as avatars, scripts, and product images. Sume for Brands provides an AI creative application that turns product URLs, product assets, and creative direction into ad-ready UGC-style videos. Its services are used for advertising, branded content, and other video-based communication scenarios. | Pre-Seed / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| XIOM is a manufacturer and distributor of sporting equipment. | Seed / Aug 12, 2026 | ||
| Bunker Kids is a startup that provides solutions optimized for achieving personal health goals using data and algorithms. | $10.6M / Series A / Aug 11, 2026 | ||
6pence
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6pence is a K-beauty skincare startup that develops skincare products for global consumers from the outset. | $1.4M / Seed / Aug 06, 2026 | |
| Adit & Ark operates an AI-powered advertising platform that connects brands with Instagram-based digital magazines and content creators, enabling targeted collaborations and more effective marketing campaigns. | Seed / Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| UNX is an emerging AI entertainment technology startup that develops fully autonomous AI Creators capable of running 24 hour live streams and interacting with vast online audiences simultaneously. | Seed / Jul 30, 2026 | ||
| Algorix is an AI data infrastructure startup building a platform to combine organized and unstructured multimodal data across enterprise platforms. | Pre-Seed / Jul 14, 2026 | ||
| See all 420 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Kakao Ventures invest in?
Kakao Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 420 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 Ventures invest in?
Kakao Ventures typically joins rounds of $280k–$4.2M at Seed, $988k–$11M at Series A and $3.4M–$27M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Kakao Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Kakao Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Kakao Ventures?
Public channels for Kakao Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at Kakao Ventures?
The team at Kakao Ventures includes Anne Ahn (Senior Associate), Brian Jang (Director) and Jacob Kim (Director), 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 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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