In 1995 was created Kakao, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Jeju. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in South Korea.
The current fund was established by Brian Kim, JB Lee, Saehoon Choi, Sirgoo Lee.
Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Credit Bureau, Publishing. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Korea Credit Data, Tapas Media Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - South Korea.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Kakao, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Strong Ventures, SK Planet. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Matt Humphrey, Louis Beryl. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Strong Ventures, Shinhan Card, SBI Investment Korea.
The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2017. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.
| Fund Name | Location |
| Atypical Ventures | New York, New York, United States |
| Boxee | Israel, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District |
| Century Equity Partners | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority | Connecticut, Rocky Hill, United States |
| FashionValet | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| FlyCap | Latvia, Riga, Riga |
| H&CK Partners | - |
| Hudson River Trading | New York, New York, United States |
| ING Corporate Investments | Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands |
| Lab360 Hardware Incubator | California, Santa Clara, United States |
| McConnell Foundation | Canada, Montreal, Quebec |
| NeuroNetworks Fund | New York, New York, United States |
| Nodex Capital | Central Region, Singapore, Singapore |
| NZXT | California, Maryland, United States |
| Phoenix Rising | - |
| PSP Growth | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| SBI FinTech Fund | - |
| Shenzhenshi Tianhe Tongxin Touzi | China, Guangdong, Shenzhen |
| Siruixue Touzi | China, Ningbo Shi, Zhejiang |
| West Coast Ventures Inc. | - |
Notable deals
| Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
NFTBank.ai | $34M | 29 Sep 2022 | South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | ||
Coactus | 20 Dec 2021 | Kyonggi-do, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | |||
Humanscape | $13M | 18 Nov 2021 | South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | ||
Superplastic | $20M | 20 Oct 2021 | Burlington, Vermont, United States | ||
Dunamu | $11M | 27 Dec 2017 | South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | ||
Korea Credit Data | $3M | 25 Oct 2017 | South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | ||
Seerslab | $2M | 01 Jun 2016 | Palo Alto, California, United States | ||
Dunamu | $4M | 02 Oct 2015 | South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | ||
Tapas Media | $2M | 28 Jan 2014 | California, United States |
– Superplastic, a company from the creator of Ello and Kidrobot, raised $20m funding.
– The round was led by Google Ventures, Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Craft Ventures, Day One Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Kakao, LINE Friends and individual investors like Cyan Banister, Jared Leto, Justin Timberlake and Scooter Braun.
– The company owns an animated collab house of “synthetic superstars” — characters who live on social media and pop up everywhere else through partnerships with celebrities, iconic fashion brands and gaming platforms.
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| Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
NFTBank.ai | $34M | 29 Sep 2022 | South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | ||
Coactus | 20 Dec 2021 | Kyonggi-do, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | |||
Humanscape | $13M | 18 Nov 2021 | South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | ||
Superplastic | $20M | 20 Oct 2021 | Burlington, Vermont, United States | ||
Dunamu | $11M | 27 Dec 2017 | South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | ||
Korea Credit Data | $3M | 25 Oct 2017 | South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | ||
Seerslab | $2M | 01 Jun 2016 | Palo Alto, California, United States | ||
Dunamu | $4M | 02 Oct 2015 | South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | ||
Tapas Media | $2M | 28 Jan 2014 | California, United States |
