NAVER Ventures

Corporate venture arm

Corporate venture capital arm of NAVER Corporation backing founders in AI, robotics, and fintech.

Strategy

Sectors
AIRoboticsFintech

Recent changes

  1. Sep 6, 2026Sectors updated: AI, Robotics, Fintech naverventures.com
  2. Sep 4, 2026Invested in Krafton (Growth, $250M) TechCrunch
  3. Aug 3, 2026Follow-on: Invested in TwelveLabs (Series B, $100M) GlobeNewswire
  4. Jul 1, 2026Invested in TwelveLabs (Series B, $100M) PYMNTS

Portfolio

4 total

Recent Investment Activity

3

Sector / Stage Activity

By sector (portfolio)
AI infra
2 · 50%
Gaming
1 · 25%
Consumer AI
1 · 25%
By stage (tracked rounds)
Series B
2 · 67%
Growth
1 · 33%

Co-Investors

12

Latest Pulse

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  1. TwelveLabs Raises $100M to Build Video SuperintelligenceTwelveLabs raised a $100M Series B co-led by NEA and NAVER Ventures to expand beyond video-understanding models into a full-stack agentic system combining perception, knowledge and reasoning for video.
  2. TwelveLabs Raises $100M Series B to Build 'Video Superintelligence,' Deepens AWS PartnershipTwelveLabs closed a $100 million Series B on July 1, co-led by NEA and Naver Ventures with Amazon participating directly, pushing total funding above $200 million. The company builds foundation models that understand video the way humans do, and is expanding from video-understanding models into a full-stack agentic system combining perception, knowledge and reasoning, while committing AWS Trainium as its preferred inference chip.
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