Blissvine Ventures, an investment firm specializing in cutting-edge agricultural and food technology companies, announced on the 19th that it is recruiting companies to participate in the '2025 SMART AGRITECH' program.
This program is hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and organized by the Korea Agricultural Technology Promotion Agency, and targets startups established less than 7 years ago that possess innovative technologies in the agricultural and food sector. In particular, priority will be given to agricultural technology convergence companies that incorporate cutting-edge technologies such as AI, bio, new materials, and robots, as well as green bio companies, and a total of about 10 startups will be selected.
Recruitment will be held for two weeks starting on the 19th, and applications can be submitted via Google Form via the link or QR code provided on the poster. Based on the applications submitted within the document submission deadline, the first document evaluation and the second face-to-face evaluation will be conducted, and the final selection will be made on April 11th. Detailed schedules can be found on the Korea Agricultural Technology Promotion Agency website.
The startups that are finally selected will receive various support such as ▲technology commercialization and globalization capacity enhancement training ▲1:1 mentoring/consulting ▲IR coaching and investor networking ▲demo days through the '2025 SMART AGRITECH' program. In addition, excellent companies will be provided with ▲direct investment (follow-up investment and TIPS linkage) ▲support for technology commercialization (strengthening intellectual property rights, recommendations for innovative products from the Public Procurement Service, commercialization support funds, etc.).
Blissvine Ventures CEO Hyung-Jin Jin said, “In order to achieve sustainable growth in the agricultural and food industry, we plan to actively support the commercialization and scale-up of ultra-gap technology companies into the agricultural industry,” and added, “In particular, we will help them create tangible results by supporting investment linkages and strengthening their technology portfolios.”
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