# Botanika

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

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Website: www.botanika.ai/
- Total disclosed funding: $1.5M
- Latest round: Seed (Aug 24, 2026)
- Investors on record: 4

## About

Based in Dubai, UAE, and founded in 2024, Botanika operates as a provider of decentralized storage platforms, offering secure, encrypted data fragmentation and storage solutions to clients needing scalable data storage. In October 2024, Botanika raised USD 1.5 million in angel funding from individual investors. As of 2024, the company is led by its CEO, Siwon Kim.

Botanika Ai specializes in decentralized data storage solutions that leverage advanced algorithms for data fragmentation, encryption, and management. Their core offerings include a proprietary erasure-coding system that continuously shards data into infinitely small pieces, ensuring enhanced security and accessibility. Users can deploy a B1 node, the company’s native hardware, to participate in the Botanika network while benefiting from efficient and secure file storage. This solution is intended for a wide range of end users, including businesses and individual consumers seeking reliable data protection and swift access to their files. The primary markets for Botanika's services include North America, Europe, and parts of Asia, where demand for advanced data solutions is rapidly increasing.

The revenue model of Botanika Ai is based on transactions facilitated through its network, where users can deploy storage nodes and participate in mining its native token, BONSAI. Clients engage in direct transactions with the company to set up and maintain these nodes, thereby contributing to the decentralized storage ecosystem. Revenue generation occurs as users pay fees associated with their node operations, which may include initial setup costs and ongoing transaction fees for data storage and retrieval. The company's flagship product, the B1 Node, serves as a cornerstone of its revenue structure, driving both token mining and storage utilization.

In August 2026, Botanika raised USD 1.5 million in seed funding from new investors CRIT Ventures, Baboon VC, Marblex, and Daedalus Partners, with participation from individual and other unspecified investors. The company will use the funding to finance mass production of its physical hardware assets, expand its core systems engineering team, and accelerate network bootstrapping to grow its global distributed computing footprint.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, Aug 24, 2026, $1.5M — Daedalus Partners, Crit Ventures, Baboon.VC, MARBLEX Corp.

## Investors

- Daedalus Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/daedalus-partners) — Seed
- Crit Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/crit-ventures) — Seed
- Baboon.VC (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/baboon-vc) — Seed
- MARBLEX Corp. — Seed