Kakao Investment

Total investments

43

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

40

Rounds per year

4.78

Lead investments

11

Follow on index

0.07

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceFood and BeverageHealth CareVirtual RealityBlockchainDatabase

Summary

Kakao Investment is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Seongnam. The venture was found in Asia in South Korea. Kakao Investment seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Database, Artificial Intelligence. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Israel. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Orbs.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1 participant.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
43
Lead investments
11
Exits
1
Rounds per year
4.78
Follow on index
0.07
Investments by industry
  • Information Technology (9)
  • Software (5)
  • Artificial Intelligence (5)
  • Health Care (4)
  • E-Commerce (4)
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Investments by region
  • South Korea (31)
  • Japan (3)
  • United States (5)
  • Indonesia (1)
  • Singapore (2)
Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
27M
Group Appearance index
0.65
Avg. company exit year
1
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Devotion Foods 21 Sep 2020 Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Organic Food Early Stage Venture 2M Gyeonggi-do, Seongnam-si, South Korea
Zehitomo 17 Apr 2024 Internet, Training, Marketplace, Professional Services, Local Business Late Stage Venture 10M Chiyoda, Japan

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