Kakao

Kyrgyzstan
Nookat, Osh Region, Kyrgyzstan, 63309

Company profile

Kakao company profile

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, and Story 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.

Business identity

Contact email
[email protected]
Phone number
+8207074921300
Operating status
Active
Company type
For Profit
Employee range
1,001-5,000 employees
Revenue range
$100M-$1B
Founded
2006-01-01, Year

Headquarters

Postal code
63309
Country code
KG
Continent
Asia

Capital profile

Funding and company signals

Funding stage
IPO
Funding rounds
6
Total equity funding
$1.6B
Last funding
Post IPO Debt / $212M / 2024-04-29
Last equity funding
Post IPO Equity / $170M
Investors
8
Lead investors
3
Founders
4
Articles
434
Exited on
2010-10-15

Founders and investors

Founders

Brian KimCatherine Sison-PariñoJessica ParkKim Beom-Soo

Lead investors

Anchor Equity PartnersBerjayaTPG

Investors

DCM VenturesKorea Investment PartnersMaverick VenturesTPGWemade