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Kakao Mobility

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Kakao's mobility arm. The Kakao T app hails taxis, drivers, bikes, parking, intercity buses, trains and flights, and dispatches a self-driving service on HD maps the company builds with its own mobile mapping system.

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HeadquartersSeongnam, South Korea

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• BRING Platform Sold on its own

  BRING (브링) is Kakao Mobility's robot delivery service, which takes over errand trips inside hotels, offices, apartments, hospitals and other everyday buildings. An open API lets customers wire BRING to whatever ordering channel they already use, and a standard integration spec means the same BRING deployment works regardless of robot make or model. Kakao Mobility sells it as a full package covering consulting, infrastructure integration, operations and after-sales service.

Inside Kakao T

• 카카오모빌리티 자율주행 Application Included with the parent

  Kakao Mobility Autonomous Driving (카카오모빌리티 자율주행) is a self-driving ride service hailed from the Kakao T app when both the origin and the destination fall inside a designated operating zone. There are no fixed stops or fixed routes - riders board and alight where they choose - and a trained autonomous-driving manager (자율주행 매니저) rides along. The vehicles run on high-precision maps that Kakao Mobility builds with its own mobile mapping system.

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No sourced competitor yet: no filing, vendor document or measured-market report read so far names a rival for this company, so none is asserted. The companies below are the closest by what their products do.

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TTeslaPublic · $1.4T카카오모빌리티 자율주행 and Robotaxi do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareWWaymoPrivate · $126B카카오모빌리티 자율주행 and Waymo One do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareZZooxPrivate · $990M raised카카오모빌리티 자율주행 and Zoox do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAvridePrivate카카오모빌리티 자율주행 and Universal Driver do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareARAgility RoboticsPrivate · $2.5BBRING and Agility Arc do comparable work on robot control; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNuroPrivate · $6B카카오모빌리티 자율주행 and Nuro Driver do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareWWaabiPrivate · $1B raised카카오모빌리티 자율주행 and Waabi Driver do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareWWayvePrivate · $8.6B카카오모빌리티 자율주행 and Wayve AI Driver do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAIApplied IntuitionPrivate · $15B카카오모빌리티 자율주행 and Vehicle OS do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSymboticPublic · $24.6BBRING and SymMicro do comparable work on robot control; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHRHorizon RoboticsPublic · $8.8B카카오모빌리티 자율주행 and Horizon Mono do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFAFigure AIPrivate · $39BBRING and Helix do comparable work on robot control; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAApptronikPrivate · $5.3BBRING and Apollo do comparable work on robot control; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded; ships robot rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareBDBoston DynamicsAcquiredBRING and Spot / Atlas do comparable work on robot control; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded; Boston Dynamics is acquired, with no independent scale; ships robot rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSASanctuary AIPrivateBRING and Phoenix do comparable work on robot control; scale not recorded for either; ships robot rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSASkild AIPrivate · $14BBRING and Skild Brain do comparable work on robot control; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMobileyePublic카카오모빌리티 자율주행 and SuperVision / Chauffeur do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; scale not recorded for either; ships hardware rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare1T1X TechnologiesPrivate · $820MBRING and NEO do comparable work on robot control; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded; ships robot rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareBBaiduPublic · $31.6B카카오모빌리티 자율주행 and Apollo Go do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHelsingPrivate · $18BBRING and Centaur do comparable work on robot control; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAIAnduril IndustriesPrivate · $61BBRING and Ghost do comparable work on robot control; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRunwayPrivate · $5.3BBRING and Runway Robotics do comparable work on robot control; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePIPhysical IntelligencePrivate · $11.2BBRING and π0 do comparable work on robot control; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNNVIDIAPublic · $5.1T카카오모빌리티 자율주행 and NVIDIA DRIVE do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAHArm HoldingsPublic · $282.8B카카오모빌리티 자율주행 and Arm Zena CSS do comparable work on autonomous driving; both also serve buyers who need to build a self-driving system; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded; ships hardware rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSSenseTimePublic · $7.7BBRING and SenseRobot do comparable work on robot control; Kakao Mobility's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare

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Sources

Total funding

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Privately held subsidiary; outside investment (TPG, Carlyle) is reported by third parties but no figure is stated by the company. Bare until sourced.

Valuation

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No standalone valuation published by the company.

Employees

Not found · 4 Sep 2026

No headcount published.

Founded

Not found · 4 Sep 2026

No establishment date on the company site. UNFOUND, not absent.

Revenue

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Not broken out in a source reachable from here, and a KRW figure would need an fx_rate/fx_date pair this record cannot cite.

Description

Official documentation · 6 Sep 2026

The service list is confirmed by the vendor's own service index (택시, 대리, 바이크, 주차, 항공, 기차, 시외버스 and more) and the autonomous service appears there by name — but no reachable page states the designated Seoul zones or the trained safety manager aboard, and both are exactly the kind of detail that ages within a quarter.

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