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Top 35 Angel Investors in Taiwan in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 35 angel investors that invest in startups based in Taiwan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Taiwan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Angel Investors in Taiwan in November 2024

Investor	Taiwan investments
Steve Chen	2
Kevin Lin	2
Kun Gao	2
Holly Liu	2
Patrick Lee	2
Pehong Chen	1
Cher Wang	1
Bill Chang	1
Kevin Chou	1
Victor Wang	1
Sasa Vucinic	1
Jeremy Lu	1
Rushabh Doshi	1
Younger Liang	1
Hari Kumar	1
Mason Ng	1
Toivo Annus	1
Scott Chen	1
Yan Jin	1
Sebastien Borget	1
Jack Herrick	1
Richard Ma	1
Samuel Yin	1
Su Jiayong	1
Jamie Lin	1
Marcus Brauchli	1
Michael van Paesschen	1
Mark Hsu	1
Jan Hung-Tze	1
John Hsuan	1
Roham Gharegozlou	1
Shannon Lee Chaluangco	1
Paul Wu	1
Chris Wang	1
Mark Cuban	1

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Steve Chen was an internet entrepreneur and the co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15.After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley andJawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a website designed to simplify video sharing online.Chen was named one of the "The 50 people who matter now" by Business 2.0 magazine in 2006. That year, he and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.Chen most recently co-founded AVOS Systems with YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Artue — Artue is pioneering the art industry's digital transformation.
E-Pal — E-Pal connects high-caliber gamers worldwide, offering you supportive gaming companions anytime, anywhere. You'll never battle alone!
Nest Wallet — A Wallet Engineered for Traders

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nest Wallet — A Wallet Engineered for Traders
Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps

Kun Gao is the Co-Founder, President, and COO of Forge and GGWP.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Moku — Moku is a web3 gaming platform that enables players connect to gaming guilds, NFT casting pages, game strategy communities, and more.
Nest Wallet — A Wallet Engineered for Traders
Clout Kitchen — Combining fandom and emerging technology, Clout Kitchen builds generational digital products with supercharged distribution. We help creators become icons that last.

Holly Liu is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of PKO Investments. She attended the University of California Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Moku — Moku is a web3 gaming platform that enables players connect to gaming guilds, NFT casting pages, game strategy communities, and more.
Blaze — Blaze is the smarter no-code platform for teams to build internal tools. Create beautiful client portals, admin panels, inventory management systems, and automated workflows without needing to write any code. Trusted by enterprise companies for security and scale. Loved by startup entrepreneurs for being so easy to use and build applications.
Chaos Genius — Chaos Genius is a DataOps Observability platform for Snowflake & Databricks. We help enterprises understand, monitor, and optimize cloud data costs

Patrick Lee is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fanverse. He previously worked at PKO Investments as a Co-Founder and Managing Partner. [NAME] attended the University of California, Berkeley.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Media and Entertainment, Comics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Taiwan, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Voyceme — Read action-packed and diverse English-originated webcomics, comics, webnovels, manga, and manhwa/manhua for FREE. Download the VoyceMe app now and connect with your favorite creators or monetize your stories while building a dedicated fanbase.
Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.

Pehong Chen is the Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors, President & Chief Executive Officer of BroadVision.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series B, Angel
United States, Taiwan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Tresl — Segments by Tresl is a self-guided data analytics platform that helps you build long-lasting customer relationships.
Rosetta.ai — Rosetta.ai helps e-commerce increase conversion and enlarge order value with deep learning-based technology to analyze the individual consumer's hidden preferences and behaviors, predict future sales, and provide personalized recommendations for online and offline during the consumer's shopping journey.Different vertical e-commerce hasdifferent shopping behaviors and preferences. Rosetta.ai focuses on the vertical e-commerce industry, the fashion industry, and dives more into fashion, e.g. apparel, cosmetics, and accessory, etc., to build the dedicated deep learning models and algorithms for it and automatically arrange suitable models and algorithms for e-commerce.
FreeDecision — FreeDecision offers instant credit solutions to financial institutions and merchants.

Cher Wang is the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and President at HTC and VIA Technologies. Cher has established a number of successful IT-related businesses, including founding VIA Technologies, Inc. in 1987 and co-founding HTC Corporation in 1997. Cher is currently Chairwoman of both companies and holds leadershiproles in numerous other enterprises and organizations. Cher is active in the international business community, participating as an Industry Partner at the World Economic Forum and as a Member of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC). In 2010, Cher co-founded the ABAC Women’s Forum to identify capacity-building policy recommendations that enhance opportunities for women in business and to hold outreach activities within APEC economies. Cher’s business achievements have been widely acclaimed in major international media. In 2011, Cher received the 20th spot on both Forbes’ and Fortune’s annual ‘most powerful women’ lists. Cher graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and is a devout Christian. Cher is married and has two children.

Investment focus

SaaS, Energy, Software
Series A, Funding Round
United States, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Gogoro — Gogoro is an electric scooter maker. With a mission to deliver consumer innovations that will improve how the world’s most populated cities distribute and utilize energy, the company is enabling the transformation of megacities into smart cities. Gogoro is working toward a better future by putting power in the hands of everyone – to move us allforward, faster.Founded in 2011, Gogoro is based in Taipei, Taiwan.
XRHealth — XRHealth is a medical device company that develops XR (VR\AR) therapeutic platform. The XRHealth Platform combines medical applications with advanced data analytics and remote monitoring, providing a comprehensive solution for clinicians and patients and pharma companies. The XRHealth Platform collects and analyzes patient interactions withvirtual objects in virtual environments. AI cloud computing algorithms let us deliver an enhanced experience and real-time data analytics that can be used in clinics and in the home. With our technology, patients can analyze and quantify their own performance and track their own improvement over time.XRHealth is the first Certified Virtual Reality (VR) Medical Company to develop FDA/CE Registered Medical Applications. Our products focus on motor, cognitive, physical, psychological, postural ability and pain assessment and treatment.
Splashtop — Splashtop delivers next-generation remote access and remote support software and services for enterprises, academic and research institutions, government agencies, small businesses, MSPs, IT departments, and individuals.Its cloud-based, secure, and easily managed remote access approach replaces legacy approaches such as virtual private networks(VPNs) while earning a stunning 93 Net Promoter Score (NPS), a standard for assessing customer satisfaction. Splashtop offers an enterprise-specific service that includes extra features, such as single-sign-on (SSO), with integrations for Microsoft Active Directory, JumpCloud, OKTA, OneLogin, and more. Moreover, companies can integrate Splashtop into enterprise services such as Salesforce, Jira, Zendesk, Freshdesk, and ServiceNow so support teams can help their end-users without having to switch from their help desk tool of choice. More than 30 million users, including those in 85% of Fortune 500 enterprises, enjoy Splashtop products globally.The San Jose, California-headquartered company was co-established by Mark Lee, Philip Sheu, Robert Ha, Thomas Deng, and Alex Lu in 2006.

Bill Chang

Investment focus

Genetics, Software, Health Care
Series A
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

ATGENOMIX — ATGENOMIX is a specialist next generation sequencing and enterprise-grade complete Bio-IT platform for accelerating genomic data processing with accuracy, scalability and reliability.

Kevin Chou is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SuperLayer. He previously worked at Kabam as a Co-Founder and CEO. Kevin Chou attended UC Berkeley, Haas Business School.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Japan, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Key — Key provides a unique method to making significant professional relationships while also promoting career advancement, financial well-being, and work-life balance
Syndicate — Infrastructure for powerful web3 products at scale
Community Gaming — CommunityGaming.io combines social gaming, match automation, and blockchain payment technology to make it easy to organize and compete in esports tournaments. Their solution uses automated software and blockchain payment tech to produce fair, transparent, automated results without the complexity normally associated with blockchain solutions. Ourevent platform is a network of thousands of gamers, dozens of venues, and brands who we've proudly brought together across over 200 live and online esports competitions.

Victor Wang is a Partner at HOF Capital. He attended the University of California Berkeley.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Heptabase — A note-taking tool for visual learning.
Extropic AI — The next era of computing isn't dead. It's alive. More coming soon.
Dialect — Discover the fastest, most intuitive, and safest way to trade tokens over chat

Sasa Vucinic - Co-founder, managing partner @ North Base Media

Investment focus

News, Social Media, Digital Media
Angel
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

The News Lens — The News Lens is an independent media for Chinese readers. The company aims to be a platform where a wide range of Chinese readers can engage in informed debates about important news, social, and political issues. The News Lens was established in August 2013.

Jeremy Lu - President, Founder & CEO @ JARVISH

Investment focus

Wearables, Augmented Reality, Internet of Things
Angel
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

JARVISH — JARVISH has teams consist of experts from optical design, product manufacturing and commercial marketing.

Engineering and Product leader, seed investor, ex-Facebook, ex-YouTube

Investment focus

CRM, Software
Pre-Seed
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Cooby — Supercharge your WhatsApp and integrate it with your CRM to reduce administrative work and lost customer data.

Younger Liang is the CTO and founder at JARVISH.

Investment focus

Wearables, Augmented Reality, Internet of Things
Angel
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

JARVISH — JARVISH has teams consist of experts from optical design, product manufacturing and commercial marketing.

Hari Kumar - Partner @ LionRock Capital

Investment focus

Digital Media, B2B, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, Taiwan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

MagicX — MagicX, has racked up 100,000 downloads since it was launched on Feb 24th 2016 and has also been the No. 1 new shopping app in Android.The app enables users to carry out day-to-day tasks like grocery shopping, bill payments, recharge, order food, book flight tickets and other utility services via a chat enabled, artificial intelligence platform andis currently available for free download in the Android store. MagicX has tied up with about 20 partners across e-commerce, bill payments, recharges, groceries, travel etc. In this short time, MagicX has successfully driven huge traffic to some of these partners – in some cases emerging among their top 10 transaction sources.
Pipa.Bella — Pipa.Bella currently offers custom-made and ready-made fashion jewelry at affordable prices to over 40,000 customers across India through an innovative online platform and aims to reach to 1.5 lakh customers over the next twelve months. With few branded players in the fashion jewelry segment, Pipa.Bella aims to solve a pain point that many womenface while shopping for jewelry - branded jewelry is either overpriced with high mark-ups, or unbranded jewelry is cluttered and lacks any proper curation or style guidance. Pipa.Bella launches approximately 100 new styles every week that are all priced well between INR 500 - 3000. The demand for fashion jewellery has grown significantly in the last few years due to high prices of gold and silver and is estimated to be a $6 billion market. The brand has hit operational profitability in FY 17-18 and is aiming to be cash flow positive in the next twelve months. Pipa.Bella targets the 22-35-year-old urban woman who is fashion-conscious, social media savvy and is quick to adapt to latest trends. Pipa.Bella derives its name from two European words that describe the company's range of products and customers. A typical "Pipa" woman is bold, edgy and always ready to experiment and a typical "Bella" woman is a classicist, graceful, more conservative. The brand celebrates the different styles that exemplify these two aesthetics through its product range, which consist of earrings, necklaces, bracelets and rings, sterling silver jewelry, charms, personalized jewelry, wedding jewelry Pipa.Bella is a recipient of the Google SMB Heroes 2017 Award, Top 25 Startups by Singapore's Javelin Startup-O Victory Fund, and Digital Women in E-Commerce 2017 Award by Shethepeople.tv. The brand has been worn on top Bollywood celebrities and has been featured in International fashion and business publications such as Vogue, Harpers, Femina, Grazia, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Economic Times, and Wall Street Journal.
The News Lens — The News Lens is an independent media for Chinese readers. The company aims to be a platform where a wide range of Chinese readers can engage in informed debates about important news, social, and political issues. The News Lens was established in August 2013.

Mason Ng - Technology and Product Leader @ Verizon Media

Investment focus

Venture Capital, Mobile, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

NGINX — NIGINX is part of F5, and all previous NGINX.com links now redirect to content on F5.com. Don't worry, we still have all your needs covered to navigate to the pages you're looking for.
Carta — Carta (formerly eShares) is an ownership and equity management platform trusted by thousands of founders, investors, and employees.
Eridan — Eridan builds software defined radios for 5G and beyond, based on a revolutionary gallium nitride architecture.

Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Singapore, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
Enview — Enview offers the next generation of Geospatial Analytics Software and GEOINT technology for energy companies and governments to protect their critical infrastructure.
GOSU Data Lab — Try the World`s first game voice assistant to master the game effortlessly. Learn more - how it works and how can it help you.

Scott Chen is President and Board Member at Grindr.

Investment focus

CRM, Software
Pre-Seed
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Cooby — Supercharge your WhatsApp and integrate it with your CRM to reduce administrative work and lost customer data.

Yan Jin has 15-year venture capital, investment banking, and corporate management experience covers more than 20 investment projects, involving consumer electronics, new materials, the Internet, and innovative services industries. Ms. Jin also serves as a leader of China’s Democratic National Construction Party, a political party separate from theCommunist Party of China. She is currently a legislative member of the Shenzhen Municipal Government. Ms. Jin is also a cofounder of Shenzhen Capital Group.

Investment focus

Fitness, mHealth, Wellness
Series A
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

iFit — iFit (爱瘦身) is a website and mobile community that focuses on health and slimming services.iFit currently emphasizes on content, communities, and electronic commerce services. It plans on expanding its services into wearable equipment, application software, hardware services, and more. In March 2013, iFit gathered pictures and articles andpublished a book named Get Food not Fat, which was on the best-selling list once released. At the same time, IFit entered the group buying market.iFit was founded by Chen Yunru in June 2012. She started her business through a fan club by sharing her own experiences of losing weight. In less than a year her fan base reached more than 400,000. The official iFit website was set up in December 2012.

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
Alliance Games — Next level Web3 Gaming Infrastructure, Now Fully Decentralized
OpenLedger — OpenLedger is the sovereign data blockchain for AI.

Jack Herrick is a serial entrepreneur and current CEO and Founder of wikiHow.Jack founded wikiHow, which is like Wikipedia for how-to. Jack started and self financed wikiHow from inception to it's current position as one of the most popular sites on the web receiving over 25 million unique visitors per month. Prior to wikiHow, Jack wasco-CEO of eHow. With Josh Hannah, Jack purchased eHow in 2004. Between 2004 and 2006 eHow grew 30x in traffic and revenue and became the largest pure play how-to site on the web. Demand Media acquired eHow in 2006.In 2002 Jack co-founded Luminescent Technologies with Dan Abrams, Eli Yablonovitch, and Stan Osher. Luminescent is a computational semiconductor lithography company that has raised over $25 MM in venture capital. From 1999-2001 Jack was CEO and co-founder at BigTray, a Sequoia funded e-commerce company. BigTray was sold in 2001 and remains the largest online vendor of restaurant equipment and supplies.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
SX Network — The global liqudity hub for betting
Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts

Richard Ma is the Founder and CEO of Quantstamp.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

DuelNow — DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms.
RiskLayer — RiskLayer is an economic security middleware for DeFi and providing services and validating Creating positive feedback loops.
Peach Worlds — The Only No-Code Builder for Extraordinary 3D Websites. Empowering designers to create stand out and premium 3D Sites without any coding.

Samuel Yin is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is best known for the establishment of the Tang Prize, and as chairman of the Ruentex Financial Group.

Investment focus

Energy, Automotive, Transportation
Series A, Post-IPO Equity
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Gogoro — Gogoro is an electric scooter maker. With a mission to deliver consumer innovations that will improve how the world’s most populated cities distribute and utilize energy, the company is enabling the transformation of megacities into smart cities. Gogoro is working toward a better future by putting power in the hands of everyone – to move us allforward, faster.Founded in 2011, Gogoro is based in Taipei, Taiwan.

Su Jiayong is the chief technology officer and co-founder of Appier, and he also serves as the representative director of Appier Group, Inc.

Investment focus

SaaS, Analytics, Machine Learning
Funding Round
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Appier — Comprehensive AI-Powered Solutions: Smoother Operaions. Elevated Customer Experience. Better Performance.

1999 year old bones Internet entrepreneur, he has co-founded four Internet companies, successfully raised venture capital 300 million yuan. Middle also join the venture capital fund of experience in the All Asia Partners and HSS Ventures and so on. Proton Business School Master of Business History at New York University, NTU Chemical /Bachelor of Economics

Investment focus

iOS, Software, Natural Language Processing
Seed, Series A, Series B
Taiwan, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

WritePath — WritePath is a global online solution provider for multi-lingual translation, document editing, proofreading and copy writing. Our mission is to provide B2B clients timely translation services via the T-Booster Internet platform in various languages and in high quality. WP targets clients that are Internet savvy, self-serve and with limited projectmanagement requirements and recurring demand, unlike traditional translation agencies. Our platform business model helps clients worldwide to go local in no time.
Splitforce — Splitforce is a developer of mobile testing applications that provides easy A/B testing for iOS, Android, and Unity apps. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York.
Nest Wallet — A Wallet Engineered for Traders

Marcus Brauchli - Co-Founder, Managing Partner @ North Base Media

Investment focus

Social Media, News, Publishing
Seed, Angel, Series A
Mexico, Taiwan, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Majarra — Majarra is an Arabic online content provider in the region.
PENTA Football — PENTA Football distributes football highlights.
The News Lens — The News Lens is an independent media for Chinese readers. The company aims to be a platform where a wide range of Chinese readers can engage in informed debates about important news, social, and political issues. The News Lens was established in August 2013.

Michael van Paesschen

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A
Taiwan, Bahamas

Portfolio highlights

WOO Network — Trade better on WOO X with low fees and deep liquidity. Buy, sell and earn on your crypto on a secure and trusted platform with live proof of reserves.
Orderly Network — Orderly Network is the omnichain liquidity layer with robust SDK for Web3 DeFi builders, while enhancing spot & derivatives trading in DeFi.

Mark Hsu is the Founder & Director of 11th Fleet. He previously worked at TMI Holding Corp. as a Venture Partner. Mark Hsu attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Education, Consulting, Higher Education
Seed
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

TopAdmit Holdings Pte Ltd — TopAdmit, an established online educational services business, will address opportunities among increasingly tech-savvy university applicants worldwide, replacing traditional bricks & mortar/mom & pop providers, while utilizing an agile and localized approach to recognize the differing pace of adoption among distinct geographicalmarkets. As a newly-independent business, the company's focus over the next year is to build a team that can execute innovative strategies and take the enterprise to new heights.Founded in 2009, TopAdmit Holdings Pte. Ltd. (www.TopAdmit.com) provides college and graduate school applicants with low-cost but high-quality editing and critiquing services for admissions essays and resumes/CVs. The company retains a longstanding online presence, predictable baseline demand, and a steadily growing and highly monetizable user base.After starting out as a unit of WritePath PTE (www.writepath.co), TopAdmit has been spun off to existing shareholders in order to maximize shareholder value. Following its registration as an independent company in May 2016, the firm has a unique opportunity to revitalize its own operations and strategy, maintaining a laser focus on providing the best possible solution for students who seek to study outside of their home countries.

A native of Nantou County born in the year 1956, Hung-Tze Jan graduated from the Department of Economics at National Taiwan University.Hung-Tze Jan is the chairman of PChome Online and also the founder of PChome Publication and Cite Publication.Hung-Tze Jan has over 30 years of experience in the media industry, having worked for United DailyNews, Commercial Times, China Times, Yuan-Liou Publishing, Rock Records, Chinese Television System, Business Weekly, and many more. During the time he served as editor-in-chief for numerous media companies, he planned and edited over thousands of books and periodicals and was the founder of over forty magazines, including PChome and Business Next.In Taiwan, Hung-Tze Jan is an acclaimed writer, opinion leader, filmmaker, editor, and publisher. He is highly respected for his insights on the issues between the socioeconomic environment and the trend towards the internet culture and creativity.Hung-Tze Jan is the chairman of the Taiwan Internet and E-Commerce Association (TiEA). He has also served as chairman, director, and supervisor for many other associations in the publishing and information industries. In 1997, the People Magazine of Taiwan awarded him the Diamond Award. In 2008, the Government Information Office awarded him the Special Award of the 2nd Golden Vessel Awards for Digital Publishers.

Investment focus

SaaS, Apps, PaaS
Seed, Series A
Japan, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

91APP — 91APP is a leading omnichannel commerce solution provider in Taiwan, providing brand-own shopping app and websites for retailers.
awoo Intelligence — Helps businesses connect with customer intentions across the marketing funnel from every possible touchpoint to drive actionable insights

John Hsuan

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Hukui Bio — Founded in November 2013, HuKui Bio provides total solution and value-added services to global medical devices customers. By focusing on medical electronics and handheld devices for digital healthcare and telemedicine, we do the designing and development in Taiwan, manufacturing in Asia, and delivering our sales & services globally. Combiningseasoned experts and investors from biomedical, tech, and financial industries, we strive to be the best partner in the Asia-Pacific region for MedTech developers, startups and corporates by completing projects on-time, on-budget and by meeting global quality standards concurrently. Our US company, HuKui Tech, is a subsidiary based in the Bay area, 100% owned by HuKui Bio since 2020.

Roham is founder and CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio that specializes in emerging technology. Axiom Zen’s first public blockchain project, CryptoKitties, is the world’s most successful blockchain game and the first decentralized application to effectively engage a consumer audience. CryptoKitties has been covered by Fortune,Bloomberg, and the BBC, accounting for roughly a quarter of the Ethereum network’s traffic within a week of launch and introducing hundreds of thousands of new users to blockchain technology. Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. Their products have touched 200+ million consumers and are used by the world’s leading companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA, as well as by eminent academic institutions and government organizations. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80+ creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike. Axiom Zen has been working with Bitcoin and various forms of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies since 2014. Axiom Zen is also the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, and Fast Company. History Prior to founding Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund bas

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Code — Code is a Canadian payment platform provider that makes it simple for web developers to collect modest payments from consumers worldwide.
Bastion — Bastion blends the best of web2 and web3 technologies to broaden opportunities for organizations and their customers.
Story Protocol — Powering web3 narrative universes via story legos

Shannon Lee Chaluangco

Investment focus

Hotel, Retail, Travel
Seed, Series A
Taiwan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

WEBUY — WEBUY offers affordable local food and beverage (F&B) products through its platform that runs on a group buying model. WEBUY said it designed its platform to mimic social media influencer-driven interactions to increase the visibility of small merchants.
TravelSkope — All-in-One OTA (Online Travel Agency) Solution

Paul founded GMobi in early 2011 when he saw the huge demand of mobile content and software services in emerging market. Before founding GMobi, Paul worked for a global internet platform and service development team at MediaTek, responsible for building up mobile service ecosystem with Google/Facebook/Yahoo/Tencent/Baidu forMediaTek chipset. Prior to MediaTek, Paul helped Foxconn to acquire a mobile internet company so it can enter into mobile software business. Before joining Foxconn group, Paul was PocketNet CEO , he successfully turn around the company in three years.During 2000 to 2005, Paul spent 6 years in Beijing working with Tom.com group, a company specialized in mobile content service with Nokia and China Mobile in China, Tom is owned by HK Tycoon Li Kashing Hutchison group.Paul received his MBA degree from Netherlands Rotterdam School of Management and a bachelor degree in Agri-Economics at National Taiwan University

Investment focus

Geospatial, Mobile, Machine Learning
Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

CITYDATA.ai — CITYDATA measures the presence, density, and movement of people to build digital replicas for smarter cities and real-world businesses.
LOTaDATA — LOTaDATA curates geospatial ground truth data sets on a global scale. We combine public and private data for discerning customers to help them make smarter decisions.
Kdan Mobile Software — KDAN is the best partner for businesses, offering eSignature, PDF editor, data analytics, and integrating KDAN AI to maximize your business value.

Chris spent two years as a Google engineer before founding Playdom. Before officially joining Google, Chris received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellonâ€”completed in a record-breaking two years and ten monthsâ€”and interned at, you guessed it, Google. Chris also holds a BA in computer science from Berkeley. However, his knack forprogramming and obsession with gaming goes much further back: As a high schooler, Chris took 14th place in the USA Computing Olympiad and spent countless days trying to program his first 3D RPG.

Investment focus

Software, IaaS, SaaS
Seed, Private Equity
United States, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Virtkick — Virtkick lets independent hosting companies increase conversion rates, simplify server management and take on the biggest players. Virtkick is a SaaS cloud management panel that offers simplicity and great user experience for our customers - hosting companies - and their end customers - software developers, software houses, designers etc.
CryptoSlam — An NFT industry data aggregator backed by Mark Cuban. Features project analytics, NFT values, rarity, scarcity, most popular collections, activity history & more.
Numbers Protocol — Explore Numbers Protocol, a leader in blockchain-driven digital media authenticity aligned with C2PA standards. Join our robust platform to secure and verify digital content through advanced blockchain technology.

Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

DIRT Research Technologies — DIRT is an AI-powered content measurement engine enabling AI models to recognize, evaluate, and generate content that grabs attention and predicts engagement. Linking human attention to images and videos, we teach models to understand what people are most interested in engaging with, watching, and playing. At DIRT, what you make matters. We makesure it connects.
TransCrypts — We all have that file box where we throw all our important documents. Our goal at TransCrypts is to make that box digital and have all the documents secured through the blockchain. We currently offer industry leading privacy and security standards on our file storage and sharing platform and have solutions for individuals all the way to enterprises.
Matter Intelligence — Matter Intelligence is creating the most detailed map of the world using first-of-a-kind sensors to understand our planet like never before

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