BNK Ventures
VC Fund
Seoul, South Korea
BNK Ventures is a VC fund in Seoul focused on E-Commerce and AgTech. BNK Ventures focuses on early-stage startups across various industries. The firm provides both capital and strategic support to help startups develop their ideas and grow their businesses. By partnering with entrepreneurs, BNK Ventures aims to drive innovation and foster the success of emerging companies.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries BNK Ventures invests in
Stages BNK Ventures invests in
Countries BNK Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $2.8M–$4.5M
- Series A
- $8.1M–$13M
- Series B
- $10M–$13M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 2 (29%)
- AgTech 1 (14%)
- Retail 1 (14%)
- Farming 1 (14%)
- Flowers 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (29%)
- Series B 2 (29%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
- Funding Round 1 (14%)
Country
- South Korea 2 (29%)
- India 1 (14%)
- Kuwait 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| CellMEAT is a food technology that supplies protein for the coexistence of the earth and mankind. The company provides meat for the food market. The company's contact mode is at its physical address. | $13.2M / Series A / May 24, 2023 | ||
| CellMEAT is a food technology that supplies protein for the coexistence of the earth and mankind. The company provides meat for the food market. The company's contact mode is at its physical address. | $8.1M / Series A / Apr 20, 2022 | ||
| CellMEAT is a food technology that supplies protein for the coexistence of the earth and mankind. The company provides meat for the food market. The company's contact mode is at its physical address. | $4.5M / Seed / Jan 25, 2021 | ||
| Floward is an online flowers and gifts eCommerce solution sourced from local and international brands with same-day delivery schedules. It has been expanding aggressively and currently operates in 36 cities across nine countries in the MENA region and United Kingdom, offering same-day delivery for all orders. It expanded to its first market outsidethe Middle East in December 2020 with the launch of its platform in London. | $2.8M / Oct 07, 2020 | ||
| Floward is an online flowers and gifts eCommerce solution sourced from local and international brands with same-day delivery schedules. It has been expanding aggressively and currently operates in 36 cities across nine countries in the MENA region and United Kingdom, offering same-day delivery for all orders. It expanded to its first market outsidethe Middle East in December 2020 with the launch of its platform in London. | $2.8M / Seed / Oct 07, 2020 | ||
| Established in January 2014, N.THING is a Seoul-based Agri-Food tech company leading innovation in agricultural products, by extension, in the farm-to-table food value chain by combining IoT technology and data. It developed the world’s first modular vertical farm ‘CUBE’ which is easy to expand. N.THING CUBE is a modularized farm with massproductivity where a dedicated OS provides the most optimized environment for each crop so as to create maximized efficiency. N.THING is the world’s first smart farming company that won the iF Design Award, Architecture in 2020. Also, it is a winner of Best of Innovation at the CES 2020 for its excellence in technology, which is the first ever in the agricultural field. N.THING is planning to expand its business on a large scale this year after it successfully completes the PoC process in the U.A.E. Our North American branch office located in New York. N.THING hopes to connect people to nature, things to things, people to things, and people to people through IoT technologies by creating Number of Things out of Nothing. .CUBE : CUBE is internet connected modular container vertical farm. It's an ultimate indoor farm which contains LED technology, real time monitoring system through IoT sensors, collected cultivation data, and upgradable software. We deliver the farm of the desired container form to the desired place.SQUARE : SQUARE is modular hydroponic kit. SQUARE can connect each module and share water. Users can connect as many as they want, grow greens and herbs, and make food great themselves. Each Square consists of four Pickcells, which contains special nutrient-rich sponge. With special sponge and hydroponic, it gives the most simple and effective gardening experience.Planty : Planty is the first Internet-connected social pot in the world. Planty gives pleasure to grow plants with your family, friend, and colleague. Planty enables the user to monitor the environmental information on temperature, soil moisture, and ambient light around plants and give water to plants any me or anywhere.Life : Life is a smart gardening journal aimed at the gardening sector. Plant lovers and gardeners are able to record their gardening activities and information and share them through Social Media. The user can easily insert weather data, location data, gardening activities, and plants’ events. Moreover, all the gardening data can be shared through social media.Sikmulsung: Sikmulsung is our show room to explore 'freshness' of our product and service. It is a place for everyone seeking for 'freshness' in visual, in texture, in taste, in flavor or even in atmosphere with, N.THING's in-store farm, exclusively made for Sikmulsung, special F&B's and our end products. | $10.3M / Series B / Sep 17, 2020 | ||
| Jumbotail is an operator of an online marketplace that simplifies food and grocery shopping.Jumbotail is a VC funded startup building an online marketplace for food and grocery, targeted at wholesale buyers. It also operates a marketplace that connects tens of thousands of these Kirana stores with brands and traders. The company offers a wholesuite of services including supply chain logistics, a mobile app for placing orders, integration with point-and-sales devices, and credit solutions to shop owners that can’t easily get a loan from banks.They offer a wide selection of high-quality staples, homecare, packaged foods, and personal care products from all the leading brands, and staples producers. Their vision is to organize the food and grocery ecosystem in India using technology, data science, and design. They are building products, platforms, and services for the next billion people of India, who have fundamentally different needs - access, language, selection, supply chain, financial, cultural, and the like. Their market potential is huge - in the order of hundreds of billions of dollars. They have a strong core team consisting of alumni from Stanford, CMU, IIT, BITS, etc. having several years of industry experience in companies like Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, BCG, Housing, and Grofers.They are reimagining and reengineering the food and grocery ecosystem through intelligent technology, intuitive design, and innovative business and supply chain models. They are a passionate team driven by their sense of purpose to solve a critical real-world problem. Each team member will have significant ownership of key components that go into the next-generation e-commerce, supply chain, demand generation, and credit technology platforms and services that they are building. | $12.9M / Series B / Jun 12, 2019 |
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FAQ
What does BNK Ventures invest in?
BNK Ventures invests primarily in E-Commerce, AgTech and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is BNK Ventures's check size?
BNK Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.8M–$4.5M at Seed, $8.1M–$13M at Series A and $10M–$13M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds BNK Ventures participates in.
When did BNK Ventures last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for BNK Ventures closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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