Top 15 Organic Food VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in April 2025
A list of 15 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Organic food startups based in South korea. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Organic food companies from South korea. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Organic Food VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Korea in April 2025
Investor | Organic Food South Korea investments |
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SBVA | 2 |
Big Basin Capital | 1 |
KB Investment | 1 |
Translink Investment | 1 |
Base Investment | 1 |
Hana Ventures | 1 |
POSCO CAPITAL | 1 |
Smilegate Investment | 1 |
Bass Investment | 1 |
Donghoon Investment | 1 |
Hyundai Motor Company | 1 |
Draglim Ventures | 1 |
IPS Ventures | 1 |
Coolidge Corner Investment | 1 |
Seoul National University of Science and Technology | 1 |
Established in 2000 as an early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group, SBVA has a storied history of empowering extraordinary entrepreneurs across the globe. In 2023, we joined forces with The Edgeof, a global startup ecosystem builder founded by Taizo Son, JP Lee, and Atsushi Taira and began our new chapter as an independent entity with arenewed commitment to fostering innovation and technological advancement.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- South Korea, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Class101 — Class101 is an online platform where people can make and enjoy hobbies.
- HyperAccel — HyperAccel provides hardware solutions for developing AI applications.
- Gole Robotics — Gole Robotics is an intelligent robotics company that focuses on developing robots specially to transporting construction materials to help on-site workers.
Big Basin Capital is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, investing in early-stage startups in Korea and the United States.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
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- Recl — Recl is an application that collects and recycles old clothes.
- Lynens — Linenance prioritizes operational excellence by systematizing the entire process, from customer contracts through washing. We believe that operational excellence leads to affordable rates and that reasonable rates lead to customer happiness.
- Purple AI — Purple AI is a brain disease AI platform company.
Founded in 1990, KB Investment Co., Ltd. (KBIC) is one of Korea’s leading investment firms of venture capital and private equity funds with over USD 2.6 Billion of asset under management as of December 2023. KBIC is a subsidiary of KB Financial Group, Korea’s premier financial group with the largest domestic customer base as well as the widestnetwork of service branches in Korea.KBIC’s team is recognized for industry thought leadership, a broad network of powerful industry relationships, and a unique professional investment approach to investing. KBIC passionately support our portfolio companies with active guidance in all key aspects of team building, strategy, operations and governance
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Emocog — Emocog monitors and provides customized cognitive training to increase memory for dementia patients.
- Selta Square — Selta Square is an AI-based drug monitoring company that provides full-cycle drug monitoring solutions using artificial intelligence technology.
- Pin Therapeutics — Pin Therapeutics is founded in Feb 2017, fast growing stage with member composition of 25% in USA and 75% in Korea. Drug discovery leaderships are from global pharma and biotech companies along with talented scientists both in Korea and USA.* Active Focus - PinE3: E3 ligase screening cascade for identifying novel warheads - PinGLUE: Assaycascade for molecular glue degrader screening* Programs - Selective Molecular Glue Degrader (CK1α) - Molecular Glue Degrader Programs (5-6 Undisclosed) - PROTAC Program (1 Undisclosed)
Translink Investment is a startup investment company.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States, Canada
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- ControlM — ControlM is a food technology company that provides optimum AI solutions to F&B and franchise operators.
- Dentlink — Seamless Access to South Korean Premium Labs Using Digital Dentistry
- Coreshell Technologies — Battery Capacity Unlocked
Base Investment connects private equity, strategic buyers, and private individuals with opportunities to invest. The company works with well-known, enormous national firms that are looking to acquire a business that will help them extend their brand or make better use of their current facilities.
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- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Korea, United States
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- Money Walk — Money Walk is a novel pedometer program that allows users to earn money simply by walking.' Creddy,' the yellow companion who loves to walk, will look after your health and your wallet. Install the Money Walk app right now and you'll be able to catch both health and money.
- Building Care — Building Care is a building care management company that provides schedule management, cloud, and building statistics services.
Hana Ventures is a corporate venture capital of Hana Financial Group.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, Japan, Malaysia
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- Storelink — Storelink is an open market optimization platform that analyzes and processes accurate online sales data.
- Unastella — Unastella operates its own launch vehicles to provide human space travel platform services.
- At Home — AtHome is a home lifestyle solution company which solves the hidden problems for the customers.
POSCO Capital offers financial services.
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- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- South Korea, United States
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- H Energy — H Energy provides optimal operation of distributed resources and power brokerage services.
- AIDIN ROBOTICS — AIDIN ROBOTICS redefine interactive sensors. Advanced force/torque sensor, proximity sensor for human-robot collaboration.
- Nanosilicon — Nano Silicon is a company that manufactures silicon anodes, which are important materials for secondary batteries in the electric vehicle sector.
Smilegate Investment, founded in 1999 originally as MVP Capital, is a venture capital and private equity firm that grows remarkably alongside invested companies. Since initial venture capital funding in 2000, the firm has since organized and managed more than 30 venture capital and private equity funds and has invested in more than 200 companieswith promising growth potential.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Vietnam
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- AI SPERA — AI Spera provides AI driven security based on cyber threat intelligence
- Nirvanana — Nirvanana is a game developer that develops an online gaming platform to connect gamers across the world.
- Tiro — Tiro is an AI-powered note-taking service designed to capture and summarize multilingual conversations in real-time, allowing users to focus on the conversation rather than note-taking.
Bass Investment is a venture capital firm based in South Korea.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Singapore
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- Magnendo — Advancing neurovascular care with cutting-edge robotic technologies.
- Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.
- Kompass — Kompass is building the world's first comprehensive fertility monitor that is portable, easy to use, and low cost. We're breaking barriers to fertility care and redefining blood testing for accessibility and affordability.
Dooghoon Investment is an investment firm that invests in biotechnology and information technology companies.
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- Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- South Korea
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- Sweet Bio — Sweet Bio is a food-based biotech company that changes the lifestyle of everyone in the world to be healthy and happy.
- NeoCannBio — NeoCannBio provides natural product processing facilities for generating new medications derived from natural goods and built a cannabinoid library of hemp, and medical cannabis.
- Endorobotics — Endorobotics is a healthcare centre that offers endoscopic surgery services.
The Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer. It has various vehicle lineups, brand vision, and global campaigns like clean mobility, sustainability, art, and sports partnership.The company was founded in 1967 and, along with its 32.8% owned subsidiary, Kia Motors, together comprise the Hyundai Motor Group,which is the world's fifth-largest automaker based on annual vehicle sales in 2012. In 2008, Hyundai Motor (without Kia) was ranked as the eighth largest automaker. As of 2012, the company sold over 4.4 million vehicles worldwide in that year, and together with Kia total sales were 7.12 million.
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Investment focus
- Automotive, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Israel
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- 42dot — The answer to mobility and everything
- WeaveGrid — WeaveGrid operates with utilities and owners of electric vehicles (EV) to allow and speed up transportation electrification. Using machine learning, optimization, and predictive analytics, the company's software solution solves several EV-grid integration challenges for utilities in a systems-oriented manner; helps integrate renewable energyresources on the grid; and saves utility customers' money on their bills.
- Obsidian Sensors — Obsidian Sensors develops a glass microelectromechanical system designed to manufacture automotive sensors. The MEMS uses infrared imaging for applications like security cameras and autonomous vehicles, enabling clients to get incumbent silicon MEMS-based sensors easily. it was founded in La Jolla, California in 2017.
Draglim Ventures
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- Grocery, Organic Food, Food Delivery
- Seed
- South Korea
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- Livfarm — Livfarm is an online platform that delivers fresh vegetables and salad samplers.
IPS Ventures provides investment support to technology startups in South Korea.
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- Apps, Medical, Online Portals
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea
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- Huject — Huject is a Hanyang University laboratory startup company founded in 2020 with the goal of commercializing energy harvesting technology. The company develops and sells a wide range of products that use energy-harvesting source technology. Energy harvesting is an environmentally friendly energy technology that collects discarded energy and converts,stores, and uses it to generate electrical energy.
- InHandPlus — We are working to solve the issue of medical nonadherence, where patients don't follow their prescribed medical regimes. This is a common and costly problem, and can even result in serious consequences. Our proprietary smartwatch is able to tell what medicine users take, and when they take it. Our AI-based management platform then collects thedata and provides personalized healthcare services and insights.
- Mediwhale — Medi Whale seeks to achieve sustainable healthcare where every eye can truly be the window to one’s health with our world's first-of-its-kind 1-stop AI screening platform solution for cardiovascular, renal, metabolic risk assessment, and eye disease diagnosis. Our AI Platform was developed through several clinical collaborations (Korea,Singapore, India, UK, and other European datasets) using structured longitudinal event-based datasets for the development of our retinal biomarker engines. RetiCVD® (cardiovascular disease risk assessment): Developed using coronary artery calcium (CAC) score, CAC is recognized as the gold standard for precise CVD risk calculation. Our CVD engine predicts the presence of CAC and provides a stratified probabilistic risk based on US ASCVD and EU SCORE guidelines.RetiCKD® (chronic kidney disease risk assessment): Developed using eGFR and full lab panel, our CKD engine has been demonstrated to achieve better predictive capability as compared to eGFR or full panel analysis.RetiEYE®: Referable Eye Disease engine detects and flags common aging-related eye modalities such as diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, and cataract at its referable disease state.Medi Whale retinal-based systemic biomarkers have been clinically demonstrated to be non-inferior to current gold standards and are recognized by clinical and scientific communities with two Lancet Digital Health publications.
Coolidge Corner Investment (CCVC) provides Seed and Seed+ funding to the most innovative tech startup companies in Korea. They proudly provide their portfolio companies a customized support in professional incubating, growth hacking, strategy, network and more.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Apps, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Belgium
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- Relay — Relay is a second-hand market solution that provides technology, logistics, and operational solutions required for the used business.
- Sendy — sendy Korea is a cloud-based logistics platform that provides on-demand freight transportation services.
- Geek Planner — Geek Planner provides an ultra-short-term work optimization platform and manpower management tool.
Seoul National University of Science and Technology is a school in Seoul.
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- Apps, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea
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