There is this one early portfolio company that is often talked about among us, and around unexpected corners of Seoul and Korea, that has gone unnoticed up till now. And that name is Dunamu. But those in know will nod their head if they also hear “Upbit”. …

It started with a real simple notion — let users trust each other, and let users also give to one another. And this month Karrot, after 5 years of growing from a simple free second hand item trading platform, entered unicorn status, thanks to the Series D backings of DST…

Our lead for global discussions went on air last week here in Korea to talk about the Korean Unicorns and VC scene. Inbae Lee was invited into the studio at Arirang TV, the national English broadcast station that covers all topics, and this time they wanted an insider’s perspective and take on why unicorn companies end up taking on a lot of foreign capital. There are a lot of intricacies and legacy issues behind such phenomena. Inbae shares a bit of them in front of the camera on their evening news in-depth segment.

KV portfolio company Asleep (https://www.asleep.ai/) was featured on Euronews last week! It was showcased as “… one of the few sleeping technologies that you do not have to wear on your body.” All one has to do is to fall asleep with the IoT enabled Asleep system to keep track of one’s behavioral patterns to monitor quality of sleep, and get provided with recommendations on how to improve. All this via utilizing smart speakers by analyzing slight changes in its Wi-Fi signal. Yes, it’s cool and it works.

It is time to wash away some of the misbeliefs and wrong impressions about how we do things here. Fact 1. Kakao Ventures is not a venture investment arm “for” Kakao. As explained before, we operate vintage funds explicitly set up (under the guidance of the relevant framework) by pooling…

Hi, Voice of KV here. Today I wanted to speak up and provide with you some context. A first-ever narrative over the substance of what is KV, and what made KV, KV. Most of this will be “useful facts” that has never been spelled out in English before — a…

Korean startup’s product aims to run trade-executing AI faster Could be welcomed by speedy firms fighting limits of physics (Originally published by Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-14/ex-quant-is-building-a-chip-to-save-traders-vital-microseconds) In the unfathomably fast realm of high-frequency trading, a South Korean startup’s plan to build a microchip that speeds markets up by a few microseconds is…

(Brought to us by Korea Economic Daily. Original article: https://www.kedglobal.com/newsView/ked202104200005) South Korea-based fintech firm Korea Credit Data (KCD) has raised around 40 billion won ($36 million) from Singapore-based private equity firm Pavilion Capital, GS Holdings, Kakao Ventures, KT Investment and KB Bank, the company announced on Apr. 20. Leading firms…

MORAI hosted a seminar on autonomous vehicle simulation technology for global tech experts MORAI has been collaborating with NVIDIA as NVIDIA’s Inception Partner MORAI Inc., …