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Kakao Ventures Corp.

·Nov 27, 2021

Newswire: Korea Credit Data raises to be near-unicorn

Newswire: Korea Credit Data raises to be near-unicorn '기업가치 8000억' 한국신용데이터, 또 투자 유치... 유니콘 초읽기 기업가치 8000억 한국신용데이터, 또 투자 유치... 유니콘 초읽기 소상공인 데이터 스타트업 한국신용데이터KCD가 400억원 규모 투자를 유치했다고 18일 밝혔다. 투자 유치 과정에서 인정받은 기업가치는…www.chosun.com In the latest fundraising round, Korea Credit Data secured 40B KRW to be marked at 800B KRW (roughly 770M USD). That’s 2x jump from earlier this year in April when KCD was able to raise at 400B KRW. The lead for this round was GS Corporation, along with KB Bank and K-Clavis, who all re-upped together.

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Newswire: Korea Credit Data raises to be near-unicorn
Newswire: Korea Credit Data raises to be near-unicorn

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Kakao Ventures Corp.

·Oct 3, 2021

The story behind Dunamu: KV’s 1st unofficial unicorn now officially becomes a decacorn & more

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”. …

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The story behind Dunamu: KV’s 1st unofficial unicorn now officially becomes a decacorn & more
The story behind Dunamu: KV’s 1st unofficial unicorn now officially becomes a decacorn & more
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Kakao Ventures Corp.

·Aug 22, 2021

Newswire: Karrot now at 3x🦄

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…

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Newswire: Karrot now at 3x🦄
Newswire: Karrot now at 3x🦄
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Kakao Ventures Corp.

·Aug 10, 2021

Newswire: Inbae on Arirang TV

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.

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Newswire: Inbae on Arirang TV
Newswire: Inbae on Arirang TV
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Kakao Ventures Corp.

·Aug 10, 2021

Newswire: Asleep (Ae-sleep) featured on Euronews

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.

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Newswire: Asleep (Ae-sleep) featured on Euronews
Newswire: Asleep (Ae-sleep) featured on Euronews
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Kakao Ventures Corp.

·Jun 11, 2021

PSA: Kakao Ventures isn’t…

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…

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Kakao Ventures Corp.

·Jun 7, 2021

PSA: Kakao Ventures is…

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…

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PSA: Kakao Ventures is…
PSA: Kakao Ventures is…
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Kakao Ventures Corp.

·Apr 22, 2021

Newswire: ‘Rebellions.ai’ [Bloomberg]

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…

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Newswire: ‘Rebellions.ai’ [Bloomberg]
Newswire: ‘Rebellions.ai’ [Bloomberg]
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Kakao Ventures Corp.

·Apr 22, 2021

Newswire: ‘Korea Credit Data’ raises over $35M from Pavilion, GS, KT, KB [Korea Economic Daily]

(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…

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Newswire: Korea Credit Data closes series C [Korea Economic Daily]
Newswire: Korea Credit Data closes series C [Korea Economic Daily]
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·Apr 22, 2021

Newswire: ‘MORAI.ai’ showcased its autonomous vehicle technology at NVIDIA GTC21

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., …

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Newswire: ‘MORAI.ai’ at NVIDIA’s GTC21
Newswire: ‘MORAI.ai’ at NVIDIA’s GTC21
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