# KDB Bank Europe

> KDB Bank Europe is a VC fund in Budapest backing Software and Health Care. See 34 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Hungary
- Total investments: 34
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 24%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/korean-development-bank-europe/
- Website: http://www.kdbbank.eu

KDB Bank Europe is a VC fund in Budapest focused on Software and Health Care. KDB is a Hungarian financial market player that offers a wide range of commercial banking services to retail clients, SMEs, and large enterprises. It manages significant cross-border financing activity from its central office in Budapest, available in the countries of Central and Eastern European region and beyond. It aims to serve Hungariancorporates from micro, small, and medium-sized to large companies on a high professional level, by providing competitive, favorable financial solutions.KDB Bank Europe is a subsidiary in 100% ownership of the South Korean state bank The Korea Development Bank.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 21% |
| Health Care | 6 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 18% |
| Medical | 4 | 12% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 12% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 16 | 47% |
| Series A | 5 | 15% |
| Seed | 3 | 9% |
| Series C | 3 | 9% |
| Debt Financing | 2 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SSenStone | SSenStone, founded in November 2015, has started from password-less user authentication to prevent privacy information leakage and provide safe and convenient user login process. The integrated authentication platform, called ‘StonePASS’, has been certified by FIDO (Fast Identity Online). Now, we expand our inventive idea to the card industry andlaunch VOTC, which will completely change the card transaction landscape for secured payments. | $4.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 20, 2024 |  |
| jeongyookgak | jeongyookgak produces and sells fresh meat. | $35M | Series D | Nov 28, 2022 |  |
| Petnow Inc. | Petnow Inc. is a pet tech startup based in Seoul, Korea, and was founded in 2018. Petnow Inc. is a Korean pet tech startup established in 2018. We have been striving to build a world without missing pets through AI-driven pet biometric identification. As a technology-based company, we have filed 9 patents regarding our proprietary AI. Its researchwas published in IEEE Access in March 2021, which proves the accuracy of 98.97%. Also, we have been advancing technology non-stop and released the world’s first features, cat identification and selfie mode, in late 2022.Petnow Inc. has been accelerated by Samsung and POSCO and awarded Best of Innovation at CES 2022. We successfully raised $5M on the Pre-Series A round in 2022 and were selected for ‘Google for Startups Accelerator Korea’ in 2023. We entered the US pet ID market recently and will open a US office in early 2023. We are also looking for partnerships with various pet service providers, local government agencies, and insurance companies in the US. | $3.6M | Series A | Aug 01, 2022 |  |
| Petnow Inc. | Petnow Inc. is a pet tech startup based in Seoul, Korea, and was founded in 2018. Petnow Inc. is a Korean pet tech startup established in 2018. We have been striving to build a world without missing pets through AI-driven pet biometric identification. As a technology-based company, we have filed 9 patents regarding our proprietary AI. Its researchwas published in IEEE Access in March 2021, which proves the accuracy of 98.97%. Also, we have been advancing technology non-stop and released the world’s first features, cat identification and selfie mode, in late 2022.Petnow Inc. has been accelerated by Samsung and POSCO and awarded Best of Innovation at CES 2022. We successfully raised $5M on the Pre-Series A round in 2022 and were selected for ‘Google for Startups Accelerator Korea’ in 2023. We entered the US pet ID market recently and will open a US office in early 2023. We are also looking for partnerships with various pet service providers, local government agencies, and insurance companies in the US. | $4M |  | Aug 01, 2022 |  |
| Petnow Inc. | Petnow Inc. is a pet tech startup based in Seoul, Korea, and was founded in 2018. Petnow Inc. is a Korean pet tech startup established in 2018. We have been striving to build a world without missing pets through AI-driven pet biometric identification. As a technology-based company, we have filed 9 patents regarding our proprietary AI. Its researchwas published in IEEE Access in March 2021, which proves the accuracy of 98.97%. Also, we have been advancing technology non-stop and released the world’s first features, cat identification and selfie mode, in late 2022.Petnow Inc. has been accelerated by Samsung and POSCO and awarded Best of Innovation at CES 2022. We successfully raised $5M on the Pre-Series A round in 2022 and were selected for ‘Google for Startups Accelerator Korea’ in 2023. We entered the US pet ID market recently and will open a US office in early 2023. We are also looking for partnerships with various pet service providers, local government agencies, and insurance companies in the US. | $4.1M | Seed | Jul 18, 2022 |  |
| Bbodek | Bbodek provider of tableware rental and washing services intended for restaurants and school cafeterias. They provide products for children's tableware and hygiene management services. They specialize in using their self-developed smart factory to render low defect services to consumers, enabling them to just focus on cooking without worryingabout cleaning up. They are expanding their business to customized washing machine manufacture and sales. | $25.8M | Series B | Jun 21, 2022 |  |
| SSenStone | SSenStone, founded in November 2015, has started from password-less user authentication to prevent privacy information leakage and provide safe and convenient user login process. The integrated authentication platform, called ‘StonePASS’, has been certified by FIDO (Fast Identity Online). Now, we expand our inventive idea to the card industry andlaunch VOTC, which will completely change the card transaction landscape for secured payments. | $3.9M | Series B | Jun 14, 2022 |  |
| WI.Plat | WI.Plat is a water leakage management company that solves water leakage problems for the water utility. | $1.2M | Seed | May 11, 2022 |  |
| HAEGIN | HAEGIN is a game development company. | $83.5M | Series B | Feb 27, 2022 |  |
| Otus | Otus is a healthcare institute that specializes in advanced eyecare system. | $833.5K | Series B | Feb 12, 2022 |  |

10 of 34 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Korea Investment Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/korea-investment-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [DSC Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dsc-investment) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Bukuk Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bukuk-securities) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Daedeok Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daedeok-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [E&Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/e-networks-venture-investment) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [HB Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hb-investment) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does KDB Bank Europe invest in?

KDB Bank Europe invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 34 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did KDB Bank Europe last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for KDB Bank Europe closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 34 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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