# Yeo Min-soo

> Yeo Min-soo is a seed investor at Kakao backing Automotive, Taxi Service and Venture Capital. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Kakao](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kakao)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Dec 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/minsoo-yeo-70b30411/?originalSubdomain=kr

Yeo Min-soo is a seed investor at Kakao focused on Automotive and Taxi Service. Minsoo Yeo serves as the CEO at Kakao.he attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Automotive | 1 | 100% |
| Taxi Service | 1 | 100% |
| Venture Capital | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SK Telecom](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sktelecom) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Kakao

VC Fund · Jeju, South Korea

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.

5 contacts available at Kakao.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Yeo Min-soo invest in?

Yeo Min-soo invests primarily in Automotive, Taxi Service and Venture Capital startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Yeo Min-soo last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yeo Min-soo closed in Dec 2021. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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