Top 20 Enterprise Angel Investors in Taiwan in October 2024
A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Enterprise startups based in Taiwan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Enterprise companies from Taiwan. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Enterprise Angel Investors in Taiwan in October 2024
Investor | Enterprise Taiwan investments |
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Steve Chen | 2 |
Bill Chang | 1 |
Jeremy Lu | 1 |
Rushabh Doshi | 1 |
Jan Hung-Tze | 1 |
Paul Wu | 1 |
Chris Wang | 1 |
Toivo Annus | 1 |
Mark Cuban | 1 |
Pehong Chen | 1 |
Kevin Lin | 1 |
Marcus Brauchli | 1 |
Kevin Chou | 1 |
Sasa Vucinic | 1 |
Shannon Lee Chaluangco | 1 |
Roham Gharegozlou | 1 |
Scott Chen | 1 |
Younger Liang | 1 |
Richard Ma | 1 |
Su Jiayong | 1 |
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.
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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
Bill Chang
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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.
Jeremy Lu - President, Founder & CEO @ JARVISH
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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
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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.
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.
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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
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
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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 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.
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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.
Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Allstar — Allstar is a gaming company that believes every gamer can become a content creator, with the right tools. The company is driven by its mission is to make the everyday gamer the star of their greatest esports moments through technology that enables them to effortlessly create, discover, and share their own professional quality esports 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.
Pehong Chen is the Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors, President & Chief Executive Officer of BroadVision.
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
- Nest Wallet — A Wallet Engineered for Traders
- Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
Marcus Brauchli - Co-Founder, Managing Partner @ North Base Media
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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.
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.
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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.
Sasa Vucinic - Co-founder, managing partner @ North Base Media
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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.
Shannon Lee Chaluangco
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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
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
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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
Scott Chen is President and Board Member at Grindr.
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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.
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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.
Richard Ma is the Founder and CEO of Quantstamp.
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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.
- GoPlus Security — GoPlus Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users.
Su Jiayong is the chief technology officer and co-founder of Appier, and he also serves as the representative director of Appier Group, Inc.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Analytics, Machine Learning
- Funding Round
- Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- Appier — Comprehensive AI-Powered Solutions: Smoother Operaions. Elevated Customer Experience. Better Performance.
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Angel Investors in Taiwan by industry