Kakao
Jeju · Founded 2006
About Kakao
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.
Company Facts
- Founded: 2006
- Operating status: Active
- Company type: For Profit
- IPO status: Public
- Employees: 1,001 – 5,000
- Estimated revenue: $1M – $10M
- Total funding: $1.8B
- Funding stage: IPO
- Last round: Post-IPO Debt (Apr 2024)
- Ticker: krx:035720
- Website: http://www.kakaocorp.com/en/main
- Phone: +8207074921300
Industries & Categories
Apps, Internet, Messaging, Mobile
Investment Activity
- 6 exit(s) (3 via IPO)
Social Profiles
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