# Top 15 Digital Media Startup Investors in Taiwan in August 2026

## Steve Chen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

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.

## Kevin Lin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games

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.

## Hari Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Digital Media, B2B, Apps

Hari Kumar is the Founder and CEO of LionRock Capital & he attended The Wharton School. Hari previously worked at TPG-Axon Capital as Co Founder and Partner.

## Marcus Brauchli
- Type: Angel
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: News, Social Media, Digital Media

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

## North Base Media
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Digital Media, Advertising, News

NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.

## Darwin Venture Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology

Darwin Venture Management is a venture capital firm headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with offices in Hsinchu and the United States. Since our founding in 2009, we have managed eight funds, investing primarily in Series A/B, late-stage, and secondary funds. In 2022, we also launched an evergreen angel fund to enable more nimble bets onpromising early-stage teams, and especially those coming from Taiwan’s superb academic and research institutions. This exposure across stages and borders, coupled with the strong technical background of our team, is the source of Darwin’s differentiation. We recently launched our 8th fund Darjune.

## 8186 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Focus: Blockchain, Web3, Cryptocurrency

81/86 Capital is a token firm based out of Shanghai investing in early stage Blockchain projects.

## National Development Fund of Taiwan Government
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

The national development fund is the management unit of the non-business cycle budget fund, which is tasked with grouping. It aims to accelerate the industrial innovation value-added, promote economic transformation and national development, and help china's industrial innovation value-added, research and development and self-owned brands. Thefinancing method or assisting the competent authorities of the central government to handle the relevant plans to complete the purposes specified in article 30 of the "industry innovation ordinance".

## Chris Wang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Private Equity
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Financial Services

Chris spent two years as a Google engineer before founding Playdom. Before officially joining Google, Chris received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon—completed in a record-breaking two years and ten months—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.

## Protocol Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

Protocol Labs is an innovation network driving breakthroughs in computing to push humanity forward.

## DWeb3 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Digital fund focused on crypto & digital assets investments related to blockchain technology, Decentralized Finance DeFi, web 3, NFT, metaverse, Bitcoin, & more

## Sasa Vucinic
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: News, Video, Software

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

## Farfetch
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: Fashion, Blockchain, E-Commerce

Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom.

## Ying-Wei Wang
- Type: Angel
- Location: Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Software, Health Care

Angel Investor

## Definitive Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Finance

Definitive Capital invest in crypto projects shaping the future of finance.

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