# Blinkers

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/blinkers

- Industry: Financial Services
- Headquarters: Daejeon, South Korea
- Website: www.blinkers.company/
- Latest round: Seed (May 1, 2022)
- Investors on record: 2

## About

Founded in 2021, and based in Seoul, South Korea, Blinkers, Inc. operates a wine investment exchange that enables users to trade wines with high selling value for investment purposes. In June 2022, Blinkers, Inc. raised KRW 1.5 billion in pre-series A funding from Banks Foundation for Young Entrepreneurs, FuturePlay, and KB Investment. As of August 2023, the company is being led by its CEO, Sang-wook Park. The firm's partners include 7-Eleven, Pala, The Raum Social Venue, Startup KAIST, etc. 

The firm employs NFTs to verify new business models in the wine market and enables users to invest and own wine shops. The platform also allows for spot wine NFT investment transactions, ownership/experience certification, and a wine vault deposit platform called Bank of Wine, which uses blockchain technology to allow for the online trade of alcoholic beverages using virtual currency.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, May 1, 2022 — Bluepoint Partners, Korea Tech Incubator for Startup
- Seed, Mar 22, 2022 — Bluepoint Partners

## Investors

- Bluepoint Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/bluepoint-partners) — Seed
- Korea Tech Incubator for Startup — Seed