# Jungju Kim

> Jungju Kim is a seed investor at Collaborative Fund backing Food and Beverage and E-Commerce. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Collaborative Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/collaborative-fund)
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Nov 2021
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jungjukim

Jungju Kim is a seed investor at Collaborative Fund focused on Food and Beverage and E-Commerce. Jungju (Jay) Kim is the Founder of NXC, Partner at Collaborative Fund.Jay holds a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from Seoul National University and an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, where he taught as Adjunct Professor. He also earned an MFA in Arts Managementfrom Korea National University of Arts.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $200k–$1.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 3 | 27% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 18% |
| Organic Food | 2 | 18% |
| Food Processing | 2 | 18% |
| Beauty | 1 | 9% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 36% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 18% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |
| Series D | 1 | 9% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Beaubble | beauty + bubble = beaubble [byoo-buhl] |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| Beaubble | beauty + bubble = beaubble [byoo-buhl] |  | Pre-Seed | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| Beaubble | beauty + bubble = beaubble [byoo-buhl] |  | Pre-Seed | May 31, 2021 |  |
| Beyond | Beyond Meat is a food processing company that specializes in providing plant-based meat. The company aims to make a positive impact on four growing global issues such as human health, climate change, constraints on natural resources, and animal welfare. Its plant-based meats are made by combining expert innovation with simple, non-GMO ingredients.Beyond Meat's products offer greater or equal protein levels than their animal counterparts, no cholesterol, less saturated fat, and no antibiotics or hormones. | $17M | Series E | Oct 15, 2015 |  |
| Impossible Foods | Impossible Foods focuses on developing plant-based substitutes for meat, dairy, and fish products. It selects specific proteins and nutrients from greens, seeds, and grains to recreate the experience of meats and dairy products. Founded by Patrick Brown and Monte Casino in 2011, Impossible Foods is headquartered in Redwood City, California. | $108M | Series D | Sep 30, 2015 |  |
| Mark One | Mark One is a consumer brand that aims to build desirable products that engage, inform, and inspire people to make healthier choices. It was co-founded by Justin Lee and Yves Behar, along with the fuseproject team.Mark One’s first product, Vessyl, is the cup that automatically knows and tracks everything you drink. It is based in San Francisco,California. |  |  | Jun 09, 2015 |  |
| Exo | Exo is a producer and provider of protein bars made from cricket flour. Its protein bars are a combination of cricket flour with organic ingredients such as raw cacao, dates, almond butter, and coconut to create a bar that is high in protein, low in sugar, nutritionally dense, and packed with omega 3 fatty acids, iron, and calcium that enable usersto get sports bar that is free of sugar, gluten, grains, dairy, soy, and artificial preservatives.It was founded in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York. | $1.2M | Seed | Sep 23, 2014 |  |
| Lit Motors | Lit Motors are designing and developing the future of urban transportation.The company was founded by life-long builder and DIYer Danny Kim. Following a near-death experience while hand-building two Land Rovers, Danny was inspired to "chop the car in half" and invent a new vehicle platform aimed at urban drivers.He and his teamare designing and developing a self-balancing two-wheeled electric vehicle — currently code-named "C-1" — that combines the romance and efficiency of a motorcycle with the safety and convenience of a car, yielding a new and exciting way to get around the city. | $1M | Seed | Mar 05, 2014 |  |
| Quarterly | Quarterly is somewhat of an outlier, having created a design-oriented subscription service and accompanying web platform, which allows anyone to sign up and receive curated, physical gifts from influential contributors like President of the Rhode Island School of Design, John Maeda, Behance Founder Scott Belsky, and Alexis Ohanian of Reddit,Breadpig, and Hipmunk fame by mail.Quarterly is a new way to connect with the people you follow and find interesting. They spend so much of their lives connecting with people online that they forget the value of tangible interactions that happen in the real world. Quarterly wants to bridge that gap by allowing anyone to subscribe to influential curators and receive physical items in the mail from them. It’s like a magazine, but instead of receiving words on a page, their subscribers receive actual items that tell a compelling story crafted by the curator. | $3.7M | Series A | Feb 24, 2014 |  |
| Moon Express | Moon Express is a privately financed commercial space company blazing a trail to the Moon. Their prime directive is to open up the Moon’s vast resources for humanity and establish new avenues for commercial space activities beyond Earth orbit. They begin with profitable on-ramps by disrupting space transportation with innovative, flexible, andscalable new spacecraft that will radically reduce the cost of commercial robotic space activities. In doing so they will extend the economic sphere of Earth and make the resources of the Moon and asteroids accessible.They have a team of driven, visionary people merging the best practices of traditional aerospace know-how with the innovation and entrepreneurial culture of Silicon Valley. They have partnerships with NASA as both collaborators and customers. They have signed a contract with NASA for lunar cargo delivery, and NASA has selected Moon Express as a partner in developing lunar landers to put the U.S. back on the surface of the Moon.The company was founded by Dr. Bob Richards, Naveen Jain, and Dr. Barney Pell in August 2010 and was quickly selected by NASA for its $30M Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) program. Moon Express entered and became the recognized leader in the $30M Google Lunar XPRIZE competition in October of that same year, and in 2014 was selected by NASA for its Lunar CATALYST program focused on a U.S. return to the Moon. Moon Express is headquartered at the NASA Ames Research Park in Mountain View, California, with facilities and operations in Huntsville, Alberta, and at the Kenneday Space Center and Cape Canaveral, Florida. | $12.5M |  | Dec 01, 2013 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bling Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bling-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Graph Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/graph-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Autodesk](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/autodesk) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Closed Loop Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/closed-loop-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DNS Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dns-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Collaborative Fund

VC Fund · New York, United States

Collaborative Fund is an investment fund that provides funding to companies based on creativity and collaborative consumption. The fund centers around two macro themes which drives business innovation in the coming years: the growth of the creative class and the concept of collaborative consumption. Craig Shapiro founded it in New York in 2010.

5 contacts available at Collaborative Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Guy Vidra | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guy-vidra |
| Jungju Kim | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jung-ju-kim |
| Bryan Chang | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryan-chang |
| Craig Dalton | VP Portfolio | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-dalton |
| Craig Shapiro | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-shapiro |

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## FAQ

### What does Jungju Kim invest in?

Jungju Kim invests primarily in Food and Beverage, E-Commerce and Organic Food startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Jungju Kim's check size?

Jungju Kim typically joins rounds of $200k–$1.2M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jungju Kim participates in.

### When did Jungju Kim last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jungju Kim closed in Nov 2021. Shizune tracks 11 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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