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Kakao

035720.KS

Application

South Korean messaging and platform company whose Kanana models power AI features across KakaoTalk and its broader consumer services.

Total funding—

Market cap$16B

Employees3,992

Founded2010

HeadquartersJeju, South Korea

StatusPublic

Products

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

• Kanana Application

  Conversational AI mate ('Nana' for one-on-one chats, 'Kana' for groups) that remembers context, summarises conversations and sets reminders inside a messenger.

• PlayMCP Agent platform Sold on its own

  Kakao-operated Model Context Protocol platform where developers register MCP servers and users bundle up to ten of them into a toolbox exposed to third-party LLMs through a single OAuth2 gateway endpoint.

Inside KakaoTalk

• Kanana in KakaoTalk Application Included with the parent

  On-device AI agent inside KakaoTalk that reads conversation context to brief users on schedules mentioned in chats, surface recommendations, and find places on request.

Similar products 138

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TBThe Browser CompanyPrivateKanana in KakaoTalk and Arc Max do comparable work on summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; The Browser Company's scale not recorded.2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCluelyPrivate · $15M raisedKanana in KakaoTalk and Cluely do comparable work on summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; similar scale (private).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHyperWritePrivateKanana in KakaoTalk and HyperWrite do comparable work on search answers; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; HyperWrite's scale not recorded.3 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareZZoomPublic · $28.7BKanana in KakaoTalk and Zoom Paper do comparable work on summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; same layer and the same scale band (mid-cap).6 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareAApplePublic · $4.6TKanana in KakaoTalk and Siri AI both serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; larger scale (public).3 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareSStepFunPrivate · $10BKanana and 阶跃AI (StepFun AI) do comparable work on image generation, search answers and speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video, draft and edit written content and turn speech into text; similar scale (private).7 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMicrosoftPublic · $3.7TKanana in KakaoTalk and Microsoft Copilot do comparable work on search answers and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; larger scale (public).7 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareBByteDancePrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration, image generation, text generation and 1 more; larger scale (private).4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareWFWispr FlowPrivate · $2BKanana and Wispr Flow Dictation do comparable work on speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content and turn speech into text; smaller scale (private).3 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleComparePPerplexityPrivate · $20.4BKanana in KakaoTalk and Perplexity do comparable work on search answers and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; similar scale (private).4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCanvaPrivate · $42BKanana in KakaoTalk and Magic Write do comparable work on summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; larger scale (private).4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareYYandexPublicKanana and Alice AI do comparable work on image generation and search answers; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video, create synthetic voice and audio and draft and edit written content; Yandex's scale not recorded.6 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNotionPrivate · $11BKanana in KakaoTalk and Notion AI do comparable work on summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; similar scale (private).5 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSpeakPrivate · $162M raisedKanana and Speak do comparable work on speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio and turn speech into text; similar scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMAMistral AIPrivate · $13.8BKanana in KakaoTalk and Mistral Vibe do comparable work on search answers and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; similar scale (private).5 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDropboxPublic · $7.8BKanana in KakaoTalk and Dropbox Dash do comparable work on search answers and summarization; smaller scale (public).3 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareDDuolingoPublic · $7.3BKanana in KakaoTalk and Duolingo Max both serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; smaller scale (public).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareAAdobePublic · $115.9BKanana and Adobe Podcast do comparable work on speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio and turn speech into text; larger scale (public).7 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareEElevenLabsPrivate · $11BKanana and ElevenCreative do comparable work on image generation and text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; similar scale (private).4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNaverPublic · $22.5BKanana in KakaoTalk and Place Agent do comparable work on search answers; same layer and the same scale band (mid-cap).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareFFathomAcquiredKanana and Fathom do comparable work on speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; Fathom is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHubSpotPublic · $13BOverlaps on agent orchestration, summarization, text generation and 1 more; same layer and the same scale band (mid-cap).4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareOOpenAIPrivate · $852BKanana and ChatGPT do comparable work on image generation, search answers and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video and draft and edit written content; larger scale (private).8 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareKHKakao HealthcarePrivateKanana and PASTA do comparable work on speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content and turn speech into text; Kakao Healthcare's scale not recorded.2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSuperhumanPrivateKanana in KakaoTalk and Grammarly do comparable work on summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; Superhuman's scale not recorded.4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGranolaPrivate · $1.5BKanana and Granola do comparable work on speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; smaller scale (private).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareIIdeogramPrivateKanana and Ideogram 4.0 do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; Ideogram's scale not recorded.1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDocusignPublic · $12.7BKanana in KakaoTalk and Docusign AI-Assisted Review do comparable work on summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; same layer and the same scale band (mid-cap).4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareGGlean (Glean Technologies)Private · $7.2BKanana in KakaoTalk and Glean Assistant do comparable work on search answers and summarization; smaller scale (private).4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareZZ.ai (Zhipu AI)Public · $58.6BKanana in KakaoTalk and AMiner do comparable work on search answers and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; same layer and the same scale band (mid-cap).6 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareIInception42PrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration, summarization, text generation and 1 more; Inception42's scale not recorded.4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLightricksPrivate · $335M raisedKanana and Photoleap do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBridgeMindPrivateKanana and BridgeVoice do comparable work on speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; BridgeMind's scale not recorded.2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDeepLPrivate · $2BKanana and DeepL Voice for Conversations do comparable work on speech to text and text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; smaller scale (private).4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareAAArtisse AIPrivate · $6.7M raisedKanana and Artisse do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGensparkPrivate · $645M raisedKanana and Speakly do comparable work on speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; similar scale (private).5 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFFigmaPublic · $14.4BKanana and Figma Weave do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; same layer and the same scale band (mid-cap).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareHHeyGenPrivate · $500MKanana and HeyGen Video Translator do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video and create synthetic voice and audio; smaller scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleComparePPhotoroomPrivate · $500MKanana and Photoroom AI Fashion Models do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleComparePProfoundPrivateKanana in KakaoTalk and Profound AI Marketer do comparable work on search answers; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; Profound's scale not recorded.2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRespeecherPrivate · $4M raisedKanana and AI Voice Lab do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; similar scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareJJasperPrivateKanana and Jasper do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video and draft and edit written content; Jasper's scale not recorded.3 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTencentPublic · $510.1BKanana in KakaoTalk and Tencent Yuanbao do comparable work on search answers and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; larger scale (public).7 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareLLeonardo.AiAcquired ($31M deal)Kanana and Leonardo AI do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; Leonardo.Ai is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAlphabet (Google)Public · $4.2TKanana in KakaoTalk and Gemini do comparable work on search answers and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; larger scale (public).8 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareCCerencePublic · $384.9MKanana and Cerence Assistant do comparable work on speech to text and text to speech; smaller scale (public).3 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareRRunwayPrivate · $5.3BKanana and Runway do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (private).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareKKrispPrivateKanana and Krisp do comparable work on speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio and turn speech into text; Krisp's scale not recorded.2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHiggsfieldPrivate · $1.3BKanana and Higgsfield do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareFFreshworksPublic · $3.4BKanana in KakaoTalk and Freddy AI Copilot do comparable work on summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; smaller scale (public).4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareCCartesiaPrivateKanana and Sonic / Ink do comparable work on speech to text and text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio and turn speech into text; Cartesia's scale not recorded; ships API service rather than the same layer.2 of 8 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCCaptionsPrivate · $500MKanana and AI Edit both serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareSSynthesiaPrivate · $4BKanana and Synthesia do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video and create synthetic voice and audio; smaller scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareLLinagoraPrivateKanana and LinTO do comparable work on speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; Linagora's scale not recorded.3 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMPMeta PlatformsPublic · $1.5TKanana and Meta AI do comparable work on image generation and search answers; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video and draft and edit written content; larger scale (public).5 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareZZendeskPrivate · $10.2BKanana in KakaoTalk and Zendesk Copilot do comparable work on summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; similar scale (private).4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLLuma LabsPrivate · $3.9BKanana and Luma Agents do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareAAbridgePrivate · $5.3BKanana and Abridge do comparable work on speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; smaller scale (private).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareMAMoonshot AIPrivate · $35BKanana in KakaoTalk and Kimi do comparable work on search answers and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; larger scale (private).4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareMMidjourneyPrivate · $0 raisedKanana and Midjourney do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; Midjourney's scale not recorded.1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOtter.aiPrivateKanana and OtterPilot do comparable work on speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; Otter.ai's scale not recorded.1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareWLWellSaid LabsPrivateKanana and WellSaid Labs voice platform do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; WellSaid Labs's scale not recorded.1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHAHalo AIPrivateKanana and Halo AI do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; Halo AI's scale not recorded.1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKKreaPrivate · $83M raisedKanana and Krea do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIMInsilico MedicinePublic · $4.3BKanana in KakaoTalk and Science42: DORA do comparable work on summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; smaller scale (public).3 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareDDXPrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration, summarization and workflow automation; DX's scale not recorded.3 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareXxAIAcquired ($230B deal)Kanana and Grok do comparable work on image generation, search answers and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video, create synthetic voice and audio and draft and edit written content; xAI is acquired, with no independent scale.7 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKKlaviyoPublic · $5.5BKanana and Klaviyo Image Remix do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (public).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareOOpenEvidencePrivate · $12.2BKanana in KakaoTalk and OpenEvidence do comparable work on search answers; similar scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRingCentralPublic · $2.3BKanana and AI Conversation Expert (ACE) do comparable work on speech to text and summarization; smaller scale (public).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareAAmazonPublic · $2.8TOverlaps on agent orchestration, search answers, speech to text and 2 more; larger scale (public).5 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareDDeepSeekPrivate · $50BKanana in KakaoTalk and DeepSeek do comparable work on summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; larger scale (private).3 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareRRecraftPrivate · $42M raisedKanana and Recraft do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIIBMPublic · $216.6BOverlaps on agent orchestration, speech to text, text generation and 2 more; larger scale (public).5 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleComparePLPika LabsPrivate · $470MKanana and Pika both serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareCConsensusPrivate · $45M raisedKanana in KakaoTalk and Consensus do comparable work on summarization; similar scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAHAmbience HealthcarePrivate · $1.3BKanana and Ambience do comparable work on speech to text and summarization; smaller scale (private).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareAAnthropicPrivate · $965BKanana in KakaoTalk and Claude do comparable work on search answers and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; larger scale (private).5 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareFRFurhat RoboticsPrivateKanana and Furhat robot do comparable work on speech to text and text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; Furhat Robotics's scale not recorded; ships platform and robot rather than the same layer.3 of 8 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareEEvenUpPrivate · $2BKanana in KakaoTalk and EvenUp AI Drafts both serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; smaller scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareSSemrushAcquired ($1.9B deal)Kanana in KakaoTalk and Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit do comparable work on search answers; Semrush is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAlibabaPublic · $273.4BKanana and Quark do comparable work on image generation and search answers; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video and draft and edit written content; larger scale (public).5 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareHHarveyPrivate · $11BKanana in KakaoTalk and Harvey Knowledge do comparable work on search answers; similar scale (private).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRSRosetta StoneAcquiredKanana and Rosetta Stone Sapphire do comparable work on speech to text; Rosetta Stone is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareZZapierPrivate · $5BOverlaps on agent orchestration, summarization, text generation and 1 more; smaller scale (private).4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleComparePPlayAIPrivateKanana and Play.ht do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded; ships API service rather than the same layer.1 of 8 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareRReplitPrivate · $9BKanana and Replit Design do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (private).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMManusPrivateKanana and Manus do comparable work on image generation and search answers; smaller scale (private); ships AI agent rather than the same layer.3 of 8 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMMiniMaxPublic · $12.6BKanana and MiniMax Audio do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; same layer and the same scale band (mid-cap).4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareNCNAVER CloudPrivateKanana and CLOVA AiCall do comparable work on speech to text and text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio and turn speech into text; NAVER Cloud's scale not recorded.4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMoveworksAcquiredKanana in KakaoTalk and Moveworks Brief Me do comparable work on summarization; Moveworks is acquired, with no independent scale.4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBaiduPublic · $31.6BKanana and Baidu Wenxin Assistant do comparable work on image generation and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video and draft and edit written content; same layer and the same scale band (mid-cap).4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareSSlackPrivateKanana in KakaoTalk and Slack AI do comparable work on summarization; Slack's scale not recorded.3 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareYYou.comPrivate · $1.5BKanana in KakaoTalk and You.com Answer API do comparable work on search answers; smaller scale (private); ships API service rather than the same layer.1 of 8 capabilitiesDifferent layerSmaller scaleCompareXXiao-iPublicKanana and Xiao-i cognitive intelligence platform both serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio and draft and edit written content; smaller scale (public).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFFirefliesPrivateKanana and Fireflies.ai meeting assistant do comparable work on speech to text; Fireflies's scale not recorded.1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSESamsung ElectronicsPublic · $1.2TKanana and Bixby do comparable work on speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio and turn speech into text; larger scale (public).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareSSmartsheetPrivate · $8.4BKanana in KakaoTalk and Smartsheet AI do comparable work on summarization; similar scale (private).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAutoGPTPrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; AutoGPT's scale not recorded.2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLightOnPublic · $29.6MKanana in KakaoTalk and LightOn Enterprise do comparable work on summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; smaller scale (public).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareSSenseTimePublic · $7.7BKanana in KakaoTalk and Office Raccoon (RaccoonWork) both serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; smaller scale (public).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareIIntelPublic · $463.7BKanana and Intel AI Playground do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video and draft and edit written content; larger scale (public).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareRARelevance AIPrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; Relevance AI's scale not recorded.2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTricentisPrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; Tricentis's scale not recorded.2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareUUniphorePrivate · $2.5BKanana and Conversation Insights Agent do comparable work on speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; smaller scale (private).4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareKKuaishouPublic · $18.6BKanana and CyberCut do comparable work on speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video and turn speech into text; same layer and the same scale band (mid-cap).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareEElicitPrivate · $100MKanana in KakaoTalk and Elicit do comparable work on summarization; smaller scale (private); ships AI agent rather than the same layer.1 of 8 capabilitiesDifferent layerSmaller scaleCompareWWritesonicPrivateKanana in KakaoTalk and Writesonic AI Article Writer both serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; Writesonic's scale not recorded.2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSAStability AIPrivate · $495.9MKanana and Brand Studio do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareCCiscoPublic · $433.3BKanana and AI Assistant for Webex Contact Center do comparable work on speech to text and summarization; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; larger scale (public).4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareUUiPathPublic · $7.2BOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; smaller scale (public).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareHAHume AIPrivateKanana and Creator Studio do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; Hume AI's scale not recorded.1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareITInvisible TechnologiesPrivate · $144M raisedOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; similar scale (private).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBFBlack Forest LabsPrivate · $3.3BKanana and Playground do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; smaller scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareSSunoPrivate · $5.4BKanana and Suno both serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; smaller scale (private).Shared product typeSmaller scaleCompareSSpeechmaticsPrivateKanana and Voice Agent API do comparable work on speech to text and text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio and turn speech into text; Speechmatics's scale not recorded; ships API service and developer tool rather than the same layer.3 of 8 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLLaunchpadPrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; Launchpad's scale not recorded; ships platform rather than the same layer.2 of 8 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCCopy.aiAcquired ($13.9M deal)Kanana in KakaoTalk and Copy.ai Brand Voice both serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; Copy.ai is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMmonday.comPublic · $3.9BOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; smaller scale (public).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareAAccenturePublic · $111BOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; larger scale (public).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareRAResemble AIPrivateKanana and Security Awareness Training do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; Resemble AI's scale not recorded.2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePPegasystemsPublic · $6.1BOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; smaller scale (public).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareDDataikuPrivate · $3.7BOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; smaller scale (private).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareGGammaPrivate · $2.1BKanana in KakaoTalk and Gamma both serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; smaller scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareNNeuralGaragePrivate · $1.5M raisedKanana and SyncMonster both serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (private).Shared product typeComparePPalantirPublic · $426.5BOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; larger scale (public); ships infrastructure service and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 8 capabilitiesDifferent layerLarger scaleCompareRRunPodPrivateKanana and Public Endpoints do comparable work on image generation and text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video, create synthetic voice and audio and draft and edit written content; RunPod's scale not recorded; ships developer tool, infrastructure service and 2 more rather than the same layer.4 of 8 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCCivitaiPrivate · $5.1M raisedKanana and Civitai do comparable work on image generation; both also serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (private); ships API service and platform rather than the same layer.1 of 8 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareIInVideoPrivate · $52.5M raisedKanana and invideo AI both serve buyers who need to create images and video; similar scale (private).Shared product typeCompareSSAPPublic · $256.3BOverlaps on agent orchestration and workflow automation; larger scale (public).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareIAInflection AIPrivate · $1.5B raisedKanana in KakaoTalk and Pi both serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; similar scale (private).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDD-IDPrivateKanana and Creative Reality Studio both serve buyers who need to create images and video; D-ID's scale not recorded.Shared product typeCompareHOHour OnePrivateKanana and Reals both serve buyers who need to create images and video; Hour One's scale not recorded.Shared product typeCompareLLegoraPrivate · $5.6BKanana in KakaoTalk and Legora Editor both serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; smaller scale (private).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareAAssemblyAIPrivate · $115M raisedKanana and AssemblyAI Universal Speech-to-Text API do comparable work on speech to text; both also serve buyers who need to turn speech into text; similar scale (private); ships API service rather than the same layer.1 of 8 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare44ParadigmPublic · $2BKanana in KakaoTalk and 4Paradigm SageGPT both serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; smaller scale (public).2 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareSShopifyPublic · $196.7BKanana and Sidekick both serve buyers who need to create images and video; larger scale (public).1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareHCHuawei CloudPrivateKanana and MetaStudio both serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; Huawei Cloud's scale not recorded.1 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare

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Market cap

Third-party database · 28 Aug 2026

Market capitalisation 22.03T KRW, stockanalysis.com, converted at 1,377.69 KRW/USD (2026-08-28).

Employees

Third-party database · 31 Dec 2025

Employee count as of 2025, stockanalysis.com.

Founded

Wikipedia · 29 Aug 2026

Formed 2010 by the merger of Daum Communications and the original Kakao Inc.; Daum's own roots go back to 1995, but the Kakao entity dates from the 2010 merger.

Revenue (TTM)

Third-party database · 28 Aug 2026

Trailing-twelve-month revenue 8.29T KRW, stockanalysis.com, converted at 1,377.69 KRW/USD (2026-08-28).

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