Kakao Ventures is a South Korea based venture capital firm. They prefer early-stage investments in mobile and software companies. They have $200 million in assets under management. Kakao Ventures is fully owned by Kakao Corporation but operates independently. They were renamed to Kakao Ventures from K Cube Ventures in March of 2018.
Kakao Ventures has made investments in Smart Radar System, Selecstar.ai, The Minerva Project, Jaranda, Standigm, Mojo Vision, Terra, Eineblume, Lunimedia, DOJO Madness and Open The Table.
Kakao Ventures has exited their investments in Kids Note, Red Sahara Studio and O'ol Blue.
Timeline
Funded Companies
Mojo Vision is creating the Mojo Lens, a smart contact lens that gives users insight and information without getting in the way.
Minerva Project is a San Francisco-based company.
People
Aiden Jang
Principal
Brian Jang
Principal
Jacob Kim
Principal
Jun Kim
Partner
Lee Inbae
Principal
Mike Cho
Associate
Shina Chung
CEO & Managing Partner
