# Kakao

> Kakao is a VC fund in Jeju backing Mobile, Content and Software. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jeju, South Korea
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 48%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kakaocorp
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/kakaocorpglobal
- Website: http://www.kakaocorp.com/en/main
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kakaotalk

Kakao is a mobile lifestyle platform company with services spanning messaging, mail, search, news, advertising, gaming, e-commerce, music, maps and more. Its content platform offers a diverse array of content that can be enjoyed by users of all interest range. Daum News offers tens of thousands of news articles from top news outlets every day, andStory Funding, the country’s first crowdfunding service, is building a healthy platform for new information in hand with users. Kakao Music, Kakao Page, Daum Webtoon and more, enrich user's daily lives enabling users to easily share and enjoy music, cartoons, novels and more. Kakao Game is a mobile gaming platform that allows users to compete with friends on their social graph. Its popularity has resulted in explosive growths for the Korean mobile gaming industry while establishing mobile games as a mainstream phenomenon. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Jeju, South Korea.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$2.5M |
| Series A | $2M–$28M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 3 | 14% |
| Content | 3 | 14% |
| Software | 3 | 14% |
| Blockchain | 3 | 14% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 14% |

59 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 19% |
| Seed | 3 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 14% |
| Corporate Round | 3 | 14% |
| Series C | 2 | 10% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 14 | 67% |
| United States | 3 | 14% |
| Japan | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yeo Min-soo | Vice President | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yeo-min-soo |
| Andy Kang | CLO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-kang-2 |
| Choi Hee-doo | Senior Business Development Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/choi-hee-doo |
| Jaehyun Bae | Executive Vice President | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jaehyun-bae |
| Joh Su-yong | Chief Executive Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joh-su-yong |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kakao Healthcare | Kakao Healthcare creates services that enable anyone to easily manage their health with technology. | $34.1M | Corporate Round | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| Cha Bio&Diostech | Cha Bio&Diostech is a Biotechnology Company. | $20.4M | Post-IPO Equity | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| SM Entertainment | SMTown is the umbrella name for the recording artists under South Korean entertainment company. | $173M | Post-IPO Equity | Feb 07, 2023 |  |
| Sellerhub | Imagine if you are the online seller, having to sign up and upload your products to 30+ different major eCommerce websites to maximize your sales. Sellerhub is a web-based eCommerce platform where you as the seller sign up, upload product data ONCE then it will be transferred/synched on up to 30+ different major eCommerce websites at the sametime. From distribution channel expansion to marketing/ad, fulfillment, Sellerhub is a one-stop solution for online sellers. Key Benefits: 1. Single product upload, API-transferred to up to 30+ major eCommerce websites and begin selling simultaneously 2. Daily payment received - supported by VISA - once your order has been shipped&confirmed, you will get your payment in 4 days. 3. Fulfillment, Sourcing, Photoshoot and many additional services are available for you to choose from, either directly or through partnership programEstablished in 2012, Sellerhub offers a full suite of products/services that empower online seller's selling activity, providing the most revenue as possible as a platform. Today we are venturing into the US market with DropK - Dropshiping Korean products - for SHOPIFY sellers online. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 26, 2022 |  |
| NFTBank | NFTBank involves the creation of a digital asset in the form of a non-fungible token that builds and manages the entire portfolio in one place. They enable holders to overcome the illiquid nature of their instruments and help users better manage liquidity risk. | $28M | Series A | Sep 29, 2022 |  |
| Coactus | Coactus is a comprehensive mobility enterprise that operates the 'Goyohan M' service, employing hearing-impaired individuals as drivers under a platform transportation business license. It aims to increase the demand by leveraging the linked employment system, which enables companies obligated to pay disability employment levies toreceive a reduction in these levies when they utilize the 'Goyohan M' service. Regarding social impact, it fosters the independence of disabled drivers through direct employment and takes the initiative in enhancing mobility rights. Coactus has also introduced 'Black Cabs' from the UK, designed with universal accessibility in mind, to assist wheelchair users. |  | Seed | Dec 20, 2021 |  |
| Coactus | Coactus is a comprehensive mobility enterprise that operates the 'Goyohan M' service, employing hearing-impaired individuals as drivers under a platform transportation business license. It aims to increase the demand by leveraging the linked employment system, which enables companies obligated to pay disability employment levies toreceive a reduction in these levies when they utilize the 'Goyohan M' service. Regarding social impact, it fosters the independence of disabled drivers through direct employment and takes the initiative in enhancing mobility rights. Coactus has also introduced 'Black Cabs' from the UK, designed with universal accessibility in mind, to assist wheelchair users. |  | Seed | Dec 20, 2021 |  |
| Coactus | Coactus is a comprehensive mobility enterprise that operates the 'Goyohan M' service, employing hearing-impaired individuals as drivers under a platform transportation business license. It aims to increase the demand by leveraging the linked employment system, which enables companies obligated to pay disability employment levies toreceive a reduction in these levies when they utilize the 'Goyohan M' service. Regarding social impact, it fosters the independence of disabled drivers through direct employment and takes the initiative in enhancing mobility rights. Coactus has also introduced 'Black Cabs' from the UK, designed with universal accessibility in mind, to assist wheelchair users. |  | Seed | Dec 20, 2021 |  |
| Humanscape | Humanscape is a rare disease health-tech company working to bring better chances of cure for patients. By collecting comprehensive patient health data from genotype, clinical to phenotype data and systematically compiling it into a complete, ready-to-use data set, pharmaceuticals and researchers can significantly reduce both time and cost for newdrug development. | $12.7M | Series C | Nov 18, 2021 |  |
| Superplastic | Superplastic is a character-based product and entertainment company. It creates limited edition art toys, apparel, games, and animation based on characters created in collaboration with some of the greatest artists in the world. Superplastic is founded on the principle that effort and scarcity are intrinsic components of value. The companyappropriates the tools of mass media and mass production to create limited edition works of art for a limited audience. It was established in 2017 and is based in Burlington, Vermont. | $20M | Series A | Oct 20, 2021 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kakao Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kakao-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SK Telecom](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sktelecom) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Woori Technology Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/woori-technology-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [6th Man Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6th-man-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atinum Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atinum-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Betaworks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Kakao invest in?

Kakao invests primarily in Mobile, Content and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 21 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's check size?

Kakao typically joins rounds of $2M–$2.5M at Seed and $2M–$28M 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 participates in.

### How do I contact Kakao?

Public channels for Kakao 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?

The team at Kakao includes Yeo Min-soo (Vice President), Andy Kang (CLO) and Choi Hee-doo (Senior Business Development Manager), among 9 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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