# NongHyup Financial Group

> NongHyup Financial Group is a VC fund in Okdong backing Food and Beverage and Manufacturing. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Okdong, South Korea
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.nhfngroup.com

NongHyup Financial Group is a VC fund in Okdong focused on Food and Beverage and Manufacturing. NongHyup Financial Group offers property & casualty insurance, investment & securities, asset management, and banking services.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1.7M–$11M |
| Series B | $12M–$104M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 5 | 31% |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 25% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 25% |
| FinTech | 3 | 19% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 19% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 38% |
| Series B | 3 | 19% |
| Seed | 2 | 13% |
| Series C | 2 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 13% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 15 | 94% |
| Singapore | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pensées | Pensées is a 3D bio-printer company that develops cultured meat through 3D bioprinting technology. | $4.5M | Series A | Dec 29, 2025 |  |
| Korea Digital Asset Custody | Korea Digital Asset Custody provides custodial solutions for digital assets with security and blockchain technology services. |  | Seed | Nov 26, 2025 |  |
| Dabeeo | Dabeeo, an AI technology company specializing in geospatial data, creates digital twin earth by digitizing earth's spatial through AI-powered data transformation. Leveraging its cutting-edge AI technologies, Dabeeo delivers the essential digital spatial analysis data and insights to customers across various industries, enhancing productivityand convenience. | $8.2M | Series D | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| Lutem Bio | Lutem Bio is an online medicine firm that is intended for general health. The company provides medicine for memory, cognition, immunity, gut, joints, and bones, among others, enabling customers to get medicines recommended by a doctor. | $3M | Series A | Oct 17, 2025 |  |
| ELROILAB | ELROILAB provides an AI hyperspectral imaging solution to find foreign objects in food materials. | $1.7M | Series A | Jan 27, 2025 |  |
| Nature Loud | Nature Loud is an online store that supplies health and wellness products. | $8.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 28, 2024 |  |
| Green Vet | Green Vet is a specialized veterinary diagnostic and healthcare service that focuses on enhancing the health and welfare of animals. The company offers a wide range of animal diagnostic testing services, including automated biochemical analysis and hematology analysis, utilizing specialized equipment, enabling veterinarians and pet owners to accessdiagnostic insights for preventive care and treatment of companion animals. | $10.8M | Series A | Dec 22, 2023 |  |
| Agreable | Agreable is a brand commerce startup that manufactures and distributes lifestyle products. |  | Series C | Jan 31, 2023 |  |
| AP the Pin | AP the Pin is the online loan brokerage platform that helps its users to apply for loans. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 20, 2023 |  |
| Validus | Founded in 2015, Validus is the largest SME financing platform in Singapore, focused on SME lending via funds from HNWI and institutional investors. An award-winning Fintech using data analytics and AI to avail growth financing to underserved SMEs, Validus looks to drive inclusive growth for SMEs and economies in the ASEAN region. Backed by highlyreputed VCs, Validus is also present in Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand, partnering with Corporates to provide supply chain financing to SME ecosystems. Validus holds a Capital Markets Services Licence by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), and its Indonesian arm Batumbu has received OJK registration in April 2019. For more information, please visit https://validus.sg. |  | Series C | Dec 16, 2022 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Nau IB Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nau-ib-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [NH Investment & Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nh-investment-securities) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [Smilegate Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smilegate-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does NongHyup Financial Group invest in?

NongHyup Financial Group invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Manufacturing and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 16 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 NongHyup Financial Group's check size?

NongHyup Financial Group typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$11M at Series A and $12M–$104M 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 NongHyup Financial Group participates in.

### When did NongHyup Financial Group last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for NongHyup Financial Group closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 16 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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