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Kakao Investment

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Total investments 41
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 38
Rounds per year 5.12
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.07
Exits 1
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Health Care
  • E-Commerce
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

rabbit

Artificial Intelligence
Hardware
Operating Systems
$20M04 Oct 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Klleon

Artificial Intelligence
Content Creators
Video
Virtual Reality
$8M13 Sep 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

NPCx

Computer
$3M29 Aug 2023 Bonita Springs, Florida, United States

GoodGang Labs

$2M25 May 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

PeopleFund

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$20M18 Jan 2023 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Hexlant

Blockchain
Information Technology
$5M30 Mar 2022 Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

N.Light

3D Technology
Information Technology
Media and Entertainment
20 Jan 2022 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

Amazing Brewing Company

Food and Beverage
$2M10 Jan 2022 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Bigwave Robotics

E-Commerce
Industrial
Robotics
$1M06 Dec 2021 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
News
H2O Hospitality secures $30M Series C to expedite hotel digital transformation

– H2O Hospitality, a South Korea and Japan-based unmanned hotel management company, raised $30m funding.
– The round was led by Kakao Investment and Korea Development Bank, Gorilla Private Equity, Intervest and NICE Investment also participated.
– H2O Hospitality will expand its business further by adding various types of accommodations in South Korea and Japan in 2021 and 2022 and plans to enter Singapore and Indonesia in 4Q in 2022 in line with its Southeast Asia penetration strategy.

AI voice, synthetic speech company LOVO gets $4.5M pre-series A funding

– LOVO, a Berkeley, California-based artificial intelligence (AI) voice & synthetic speech tool developer, closed a $4.5m pre-Series A round.
– The round was led by South Korean Kakao Entertainment along with Kakao Investment and LG CNS, an IT solution affiliate of LG Group.
– The proceeds will be used to propel its research and development in artificial intelligence and synthetic speech and grow the team.
– LOVO has 17 people, including both co-founders, chief executive office Charlie Choi and COO Lee.
– The company plans to double down on improving LOVO’s AI model, enhance its AI voices and develop a better product that surpasses any that exists in the current market, Lee said.

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Total investments 41
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 5.12
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.07
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.66

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

rabbit

Artificial Intelligence
Hardware
Operating Systems
$20M04 Oct 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Klleon

Artificial Intelligence
Content Creators
Video
Virtual Reality
$8M13 Sep 2023 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

NPCx

Computer
$3M29 Aug 2023 Bonita Springs, Florida, United States

GoodGang Labs

$2M25 May 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

PeopleFund

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$20M18 Jan 2023 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Hexlant

Blockchain
Information Technology
$5M30 Mar 2022 Yeoksamdong, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

N.Light

3D Technology
Information Technology
Media and Entertainment
20 Jan 2022 Seongnam, Kyonggi-do, South Korea

Amazing Brewing Company

Food and Beverage
$2M10 Jan 2022 South Korea, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Bigwave Robotics

E-Commerce
Industrial
Robotics
$1M06 Dec 2021 Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
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