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Top 50 Enterprise Startup Investors in Taiwan in January 2026

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 50 Enterprise Startup Investors in Taiwan in January 2026

Investor Enterprise Taiwan investments
Darwin Venture Management 11
National Development Fund of Taiwan Government 10
AVA Angels 7
WI Harper Group 7
SOSV 6
Cherubic Ventures 6
CDIB Capital 5
VENTURE+ 4
Taiwania Capital Management Corporation 3
Pear VC 3
JAFCO Asia 3
AVA Angels 3
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures) 3
Cornerstone Ventures 3
MediaTek 3
Wistron Corporation 3
CMS Holdings 2
Metaplanet 2
Animoca Brands 2
Axia8 Ventures 2
HTC 2
Artesian VC 2
Steve Chen 2
Sequoia Capital 2
Loyal VC 2
Accord Ventures 2
China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB) 2
Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund 2
Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute 2
Mynavi 2
Alameda Research 2
China-ASEAN etst Investment Cooperation Fund 1
Animoca Brands KK 1
CDH Investments 1
Circle Ventures 1
E.SUN VENTURE CAPITAL 1
Summer Ventures 1
Sunsino Ventures Group 1
Pinehurst Advisors 1
SBI Group 1
Mark Cuban Companies 1
BIGLOBE Capital 1
GMO VenturePartners 1
CID Group 1
Hotung Venture Capital 1
Chunghwa Telecom 1
SoftBank Capital 1
Commonwealth Capital Ventures 1
GD1 1
Xchange Taiwan 1
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Darwin Venture Management VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Taiwan, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • KKday — KKday is an e-commerce travel platform that offers 10,000+ experiences around the world. It provides a wide breadth of experiences, including theme park tickets, cooking classes, multi-day tours, airport transfers, sim cards, and hidden sights off the beaten path. KKday was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in T'ai-pei, Taiwan.
  • Instalimb — Instalimb is the world's first 3D printing prosthesis business.
  • Findy — Findy is a Japanese company once surprised the world by sending out products such as cars and home appliances one after another
National Development Fund of Taiwan Government VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
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".
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Taiwan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • FooSpace — FooSpace is an OMO smart retail solution provider enabling brands to start their offline and online business easily. With our technologies, much of the purchase, checkout, and payment steps associated with a retail transaction are completely automated. In the meantime, we focus on providing the right goods to the right people based on a variety ofdata collected by our innovative system.
  • PopChill — PopChill generates an online marketplace for second-hand trade, enabling users to share their fashion styles and sell idle items.
  • AnBogen Therapeutics — Harness the Power of Science to Cure Cancer.
AVA Angels VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
AVA Angels is an angel group which focus on connecting angel stage to venture stage of startups. AVA Angels has brought together many outstanding angel investors to find and evaluate together high-quality investment targets, to quickly establish the startup ecosystem and the startup investors network.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Taiwan, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Zeabur — A platform that help you deploy your service with one click, No matter what programming language you use, what framework you use.
  • Pet 100% — Pet 100% is a pet store that offers grooming services, nutritional supplements, deworming for pets, and protective services for animals.
  • AlleyPin — AlleyPin Interactive helps SMBs grow their businesses by elevating their online presence and bringing more customers to their doorsteps. These great results are achieved through our proprietary marketing solutions making it easy for customers of the SMBs to leave great online reviews.
WI Harper Group VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
We take a diversified approach, investing in the early stage, across multiple sectors with our deep domain expertise.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Taiwan, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Ultriva — Ultriva is a lean manufacturing software that enables you to adapt quickly and deliver impressive results. Experience modern lean manufacturing now. Learn more.
  • Blackpanda — Asia's premier digital forensics and cyber incident response firm.
  • Phase — Design and prototype websites and apps visually and intuitively, in a new powerful product reworked for the digital age.
SOSV VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 75 investments in the past 12 months
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
Cherubic Ventures VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Cherubic Ventures is an early stage focused venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley and Greater China.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, China, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • Wondera — Wondera is a developer of Web3-based social entertainment software designed to reward users for singing and other creative performances. The platform allows users to create personalized AI singers, participate in karaoke, record music, and contribute to the training of artificial intelligence models—all free of charge. By integrating user-generatedcontent with advanced AI technologies, Wondera enables individuals to express their creativity, develop their talents, and engage in an interactive, rewards-driven entertainment experience.
  • Patlytics — Patent discovery, analytics, comparison, and workflow. Simplified via Artificial Intelligence.
  • Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable digital future
CDIB Capital VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
CCIC CDIB International Corp.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • China, Taiwan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Redcliff — Redcliff is a drone management company that organizes aerial shows and events for private and public organizations.
  • QT Medical — QT Medical’s technology empowers the patients to take an active role in managing their heart disease. Heart disease is responsible for 1 out of every 4 deaths in the U.S. and is the number 1 killer world-wide. No longer do patients with heart disease have to make long trips to their cardiologists, hospitals, or emergency rooms to get diagnostic,hospital-grade ECG scans. They can now perform these tests from the comfort of their homes or anywhere with an internet connection, allowing peace of mind, saving time, reducing stress, and improving outcomes.
  • Beijing Ansong Technology — Beijing Ansong Technology Co., Ltd. is an enterprise focusing on the research and development, production, and sales of orthopedic medical devices. The company cooperates with domestic and foreign universities, research institutes, and doctors in hospitals, and is committed to creating original orthopedic products with independent knowledgeproducts.Beijing Ansong Technology was founded on June 27, 2011 by Liang Tao in Fengtai, Beijing.
VENTURE+ VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
VENTURE+ is the next generation venture capital bringing founders not only MONEY but also STRATEGIC VALUES. The company invests in early-stage companies and helps them with growth strategy and critical resources. With solid track records and hands-on experiences, VENTURE+ often plays a co-founding partner role providing more doing than talking. Weare thrilled and good at helping startups make an impact on the world.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Rental Property
  • Series A, Seed
  • Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • NUEIP — NUEIP focuses on creating smart databases, data visualization, and customized charts to enhance business operations efficiency.
  • 25sprout — 25sprout is a digital creative consultancy that provides website development, SaaS, business automation, software and app design.
  • Yifang Life — Yifang Life offers services related to rental renovations, leasing, and management, including a tenant management rental plan for tenants.
Taiwania Capital Management Corporation VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Taiwan, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • All eyes on screens — AdScanner made its mission to empower data-driven TV advertising to increase effectiveness, transparency, speed, reduce manual, complicated, delayed reports and also to make TV more interconnected and comparable with digital channels. Our approach is to combine proprietary technologies and data.
  • DataPelago — DataPelago provides big data analytics solutions. They also provide a data analytics platform that offers hardware and software based products. The platform also provides solutions for extracting insights from data of, speed, or structure at performance and cost levels unsurpassed in the industry.
  • Path Robotics — We create manufacturing robots that autonomously scan, position, and weld your parts without the need for skilled welders or robot programmers.
Pear VC VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States
Pear VC partners with entrepreneurs from day zero to build category-defining companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Brazil, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
  • Axle Health — Axle Health provides scheduling and workforce management software to help home healthcare and hospice providers improve their clinician productivity.
  • Flicker Corp. — Multi-agent AI system that finds and fixes vulnerabilities faster than ever before.
  • Nightfall — Nightfall is one trusted DLP platform to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data across SaaS and cloud apps with machine learning.
JAFCO Asia VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Since its establishment in 1990, JAFCO Asia has grown to become a leading brand in the venture capital industry in the Asia Pacific region. Currently, JAFCO Asia has offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul and Beijing.With more than US$1.2 billion funds under management in aggregate, JAFCO Asia's experienced investment team hasinvested in over 368 companies in 13 countries (Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Australia, India, Israel and Vietnam) and divested more than 260 companies of which at least 86 have been publicly listed.Since the new millennium, JAFCO Asia has shifted its focus entirely to technology related investments and is now one of the pre-eminent venture capital technology investors in the region. They believe that their existing portfolio in the Asia Pacific region and the worldwide business network offer their portfolio companies significant potential for synergistic partnerships.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • China, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Only Sanbio — Only Sanbio is a synthetic biotechnology company integrating R&D, production, and sales. Itsmed vision is to focus on the field of great health and great beauty, based on synthetic biology technology
  • Chitose Group — CHITOSE GROUP is a family of biotechnology companies operating mainly in Southeast Asia and Japan with an aim of leaving mankind with an environment where they can live in abundance for over a thousand years. CHITOSE GROUP is creating new values in the fields of agriculture, medical, food, energy, chemistry and others through “Technologicaldevelopment capabilities in the biotechnology field by constantly promoting economic rationality” and “Business development capabilities for drawing a path towards commercialization by understanding the essence and limitations of biotechnology”.
  • PrimaNova Lab — The time to resolve critical, significant unmet medical needs in neurosurgery is now. PrimaNova sets sight on resolving unmet medical needs by tackling life-threatening neuro conditions. As an innovator, leveraging decades of experiences in overcoming clinical challenges, harnessing capital, and succeeding to deliver clinical solutions thatfundamentally change treatment paradigms. Collaborating closely with leading neurosurgeons, we are dedicated to offering products that save lives and redefine the standard of care.
AVA Angels VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
AVA Angels is an angel group which focus on connecting angel stage to venture stage of startups. AVA Angels has brought together many outstanding angel investors to find and evaluate together high-quality investment targets, to quickly establish the startup ecosystem and the startup investors network.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Logistics
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Taiwan, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • PopChill — PopChill generates an online marketplace for second-hand trade, enabling users to share their fashion styles and sell idle items.
  • Buyandship — Buyandship provides cross-border eCommerce solution focusing on Marketing and Logistics. At Buyandship, is redefining the experience of E-Commerce without changing the sites, disrupting the underlying infrastructure, we provide consolidate, aggregate and load-balance shipments across the world to the consumer's doorstep. Our technologyfocuses on connecting the fragmented existing logistics infrastructure to create a seamless experience for both merchants and consumers, and the benefit is that they get a solution that is 30-50% less than other carriers. We also work with merchants, marketplaces, and platforms to create a channel to reach an audience across our geographies (9 Countries currently) and reaching over 1.5M+ people per month whilst growing. We envision our members being able to purchase from any site around the world and have it seamlessly be shipped home. No more geographical restrictions, No more price monopolies, No more ambiguous shipping situations. We are building towards a transparent system, where both buyers and sellers just focus on the product.
  • AlleyPin — AlleyPin Interactive helps SMBs grow their businesses by elevating their online presence and bringing more customers to their doorsteps. These great results are achieved through our proprietary marketing solutions making it easy for customers of the SMBs to leave great online reviews.
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures) VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • BACKSEAT — BACKSEAT provides embedded crypto exchange and Web3 Services.
  • Forest — Forest Co., Ltd. operates as an e-commerce aggregator, seeks to identify sustainable, high-quality products and brands that embrace the spirit of Japan and help them grow and enter the global market by using the power of technology.
  • Super Galaxy Records — Super Galaxy Records is a company that plans and produces IP that creates new works, and is also a record company that produces and manages voice actors and artists.
Cornerstone Ventures VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
Cornerstone Ventures is an early-stage VC firm with Internet, digitization, and AI as its main investment themes. It invests in startups in Taiwan with global vision, and also invests globally in startups that are interested in breaking into Taiwan market. With the main goal to help the founders grow in the journey of entrepreneurship, CornerstoneVentures is a long term investor and it actively provides its resource to support all founders.Cornerstone Ventures believes in its motto that "The Future is Unwritten".
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Investment focus
  • Logistics, E-Commerce, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Taiwan, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
  • Log 9 Materials — The spirit of innovation remains the cornerstone of every mission here at Log9. We have failed numerous times in this mission of ours, only to learn from them
  • AlleyPin — AlleyPin Interactive helps SMBs grow their businesses by elevating their online presence and bringing more customers to their doorsteps. These great results are achieved through our proprietary marketing solutions making it easy for customers of the SMBs to leave great online reviews.
MediaTek VC Fund · Hsinchu, T'ai-wan, Taiwan
MediaTek is another name for incredible innovation that powers the brands you love. From smartphones to smart homes, we are always by your side.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Semiconductor
  • Series A, Series B, Series D
  • Taiwan, China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Rivos — Homepage for Rivos Inc describes the main challenges Rivos addresses and the products and solutions including RISC-V CPUs and GPGPUs. Looks at challenges for Enterprises and Cloud Service Providers for AI Models and services
  • Path Robotics — We create manufacturing robots that autonomously scan, position, and weld your parts without the need for skilled welders or robot programmers.
  • InfiniLink — Empowering Hyperscale Datacenters Building Energy-Efficient Ultra-High-Speed Connectivity Solutions
Wistron Corporation VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
Wistron Corporation is a technology service provider supplying innovative.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Series B, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • GMI Cloud — GMI Cloud is a business of empowering the world's best ideas. Which provide businesses all over the globe with unmatched cloud access to top-tier GPUs like the NVIDIA H100 and streamlined software platform for integration, virtualization, and deployment.
  • Zettabyte — Zettabyte offers an AI-native platform that manages and scales GPU workloads efficiently using its intelligent orchestration system.
  • Princeton NuEnergy — Princeton NuEnergy is a clean-tech startup focused on the direct recycling of lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles and consumer electronics. Its patented Direct Battery Recycling technology to produce high-quality and high value-added cathode active materials with low operating cost from spent lithium-ion batteries and delivers sustainableenergy and environmental solutions.
CMS Holdings VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 17 investments in the past 12 months
CMS is a principal investment company that focuses on investing in the crypto-asset ecosystem. The firm plans to invest in both liquid and illiquid crypto tokens, as well as equity interests in select businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Perpl — Perpl improves financial systems by creating a clear pricing engine on an effective blockchain.
  • Rover — Rover is a liquid staking protocol on Botanix that exchanges Bitcoin for rovBTC.
  • Hyperdrive — Hyperdrive delivers investment growth strategies utilizing a portfolio-centered approach.
Metaplanet VC Fund · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia · 5 investments in the past 12 months
an early-stage investment firm making long-term bets on contrarians and leveraging the knowledge and network across sectors. We back mission-driven founders working on positively disruptive deep technologies.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Vok Bikes — We build heavy-duty cargo bikes and rent them out to on-demand delivery companies and their couriers — no surprises, no extra fees. Currently active in Tallinn and Vilnius and expanding to London and Berlin Q4 2021.
  • Parallel Bio — Using the immune system to cure disease. Parallel Bio uses a human immune system in a dish and AI to discover drugs more likely to work in patients.
  • Lightyear — Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.
Animoca Brands VC Fund · Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • DNABLOCK — We enable Web3 creator communities to design and mint NFT collections of truly custom photorealistic 3D avatars, environments and cinema-quality animated content with no code or animation knowledge.
  • Cool Cats — Welcome to the official website for Cool Cats. Discover Blue Cat and his friends, shop for merch, watch fun animations, and learn more about Cool Cats today.
  • Ignite Tournaments — Ready to take your mobile games to the next level? Join Ignite Tournaments and compete in real money esports tournaments. Download our app now and win big!
Axia8 Ventures VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
At Axia8 Ventures, we back early-stage founders bold enough to innovate in emerging Web3 frontiers.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • Oh Gamers — Oh Gamers is a developer and operator of an online community platform for Web3 gamers. The company evaluates high-quality Web3 games and delivers information to blockchain game users.
  • Raiinmaker — Multi - Chain Layer 2 Network. Powered by AI, Secured by Bitcoin.
  • Conductive.ai — Conductive.ai is an engagement platform for game developers to motivate players to increase player lifetime value.
HTC VC Fund · Taoyüan, T'ai-wan, Taiwan
HTC Corp is engaged in the design, development, and manufacture of smartphones and tablets in Taiwan.The company offers PDA phones and smartphones for mobile operators and distributors in Europe, the United States, and Asia. These machines are available as HTC devices and as products individually customized for operators and device partners.The company provides its own HTC self-branded products as well as supports operator-branded products and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners. It owns Dopod as a subsidiary company and is a member of the Open Handset Alliance.The company’s products are sold under various brand names such as HTC, Dopod, and Qtek and are often rebranded by major telecommunication carriers. Its products also include pocket PC phones (PDA Phone), ultra mobile phones, HTC kovsky (Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1), and HTC dream (T-mobile G1).HTC Corp was founded by Cher Wang and Peter Chou in 1997. It is headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan.
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Investment focus
  • Virtual Reality, Software, Augmented Reality
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Taiwan, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Hexa — Elevate your eCommerce experience with a 3D tech-stack that lets you create, manage, analyze, and distribute your 3D commerce assets.
  • Camsense — Camsense focuses on R&D and manufacturing of vision space positioning technology. It provides customers with highly precise sensors with its self-developed core algorithm and chips. Its products can be applied in consumer robots, industrial test, and surgeries.
  • Inworld AI — AI for Metaverse
Artesian VC VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Voltavate — Voltavate is dedicated to driving innovation in battery technology to support the global transition towards sustainable energy solutions.
  • SAMA Fertility — SAMA Fertility is a virtual fertility clinic that offers fertility care and treatments, including preservation and evaluation services.
  • Infiction labs — SPARC 1.2 is a solar panel robotic cleaning system designed and developed by Infiction Labs Pvt Ltd for commercial solar plants.
Steve Chen Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • 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!
  • Beaubble — beauty + bubble = beaubble [byoo-buhl] playground for beauty enthusiasts
Sequoia Capital VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States
We help the daring build We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, China, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Infracost — Infracost creates cloud cost estimates for infrastructure as code in pull requests, so developers know how much their cloud resources will cost before launching them, creating a cost-aware engineering organization.
  • Catch — Catch is a payment method that provides a new way to pay and earn store credit.
  • Papaya — Pay any bill in a matter of seconds. No stamps, no complicated portals, no stress.
Loyal VC VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • WASTETIDE — Wastetide turns these wastes into profit, and your excel sheets into useful data.
  • Bagel AI — Bagel AI is a product intelligence platform that automates product management, helping product teams turn data into insights, streamline GTM, and drive growth
  • Aisel Health — Aisel Health provides AI that imitates psychiatrists for psychiatric clinics and hospitals to ensure efficient patient access to care.
Accord Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
  • Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
  • Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
  • Thinkfree — Thinkfree Office is an On-Premise Office suite with extra security. It offers seamless MS Office Compatibility and swift support to enhance your workflow. Users can edit documents, sheets, and presentations in real time using the Co-edit feature's collaborative tools. The web browser-based document editor integrates smoothly with existingplatforms, supporting 14 languages including English and Korean, and making it accessible to a diverse user base. Additionally, Thinkfree Office is compatible with Microsoft Office and other major word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation programs, ensuring versatile application across different platforms.
China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB) VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
CDIB pioneered venture capital and investment banking in Taiwan and today it remains the predominant leader in venture capital business in Taiwan with a market share of over 30%. Along with Taiwan's industrial development, CDIB has built up a wealth of experience in high-tech investment while its investment overseas has extended to the US,Japan, Korea and S.E. Asia.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series B, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Taiwan, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Eden Biologics — Eden Biologics, formerly known as JHL Biotech ("JHL") , is a biopharmaceutical company that develops biosimilars and accelerates the development programs for clients & partners through the provision of contract development and manufacturing services. We are specialists in manufacturing biologics, from cell line development tocommercial manufacturing with both global and regional regulatory affairs expertise.
  • AnBogen Therapeutics — Harness the Power of Science to Cure Cancer.
  • Elixiron Immunotherapeutics — Elixiron Immunotherapeutics is a company developing therapeutics for cancer, neurological diseases, and inflammatory disorders.
Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund VC Fund · Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
The Entrepreneurs Fund is a not-for-profit initiative launched by Alibaba Group in 2015 to help entrepreneurs and young graduates realize their dreams and vision. Two separate funds have been set up in Hong Kong and Taiwan respectively to support specific programs in each place.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Hong Kong, Taiwan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Vpon Holdings — Vpon Holdings is an AI big data analysis and advertising company.
  • Ziwu Technology — Ziwu Technology offers the conversion of bio-based waste into sustainable new materials and provides environmentally friendly solutions.
  • Rice Robotics Limited — The friendliest robot at your service.
Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute VC Fund
Founded in 1973, ITRI has played a vital role in transforming Taiwan's industries from labor-intensive into innovation-driven
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Investment focus
  • Education, Language Learning, Indoor Positioning
  • Series A
  • Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • VoiceTube — Improve your English listening and pronunciation skills by watching fun and interesting videos with real-life talks and conversations. With over 100,000 videos across multiple topics, you will grasp authentic usages of vocabulary as well as idioms and phrases. Our videos offer transcription and translation of the subtitles and are paired with our built-in dictionary and pronunciation analysis tools to help increase your vocabulary and speak English fluently. Join our community of over 5 million users and start learning while having fun.
  • Starwing Technology Co. — Starwing, the leading indoor positioning system provider in Taiwan, has centimeter-level and 3D vert. indoor positioning technology. Starwing specializes in developing accurate indoor positioning system as well as the complete management system, including mobile applications. Starwing provides indoor positioning, automotive guiding, personneltracking, asset management, and customized innovation service to help factory warehousing, medical Facilities, exhibitions and other field owners upgrade service quality, strengthen management efficiency. Starwing has helped Taipei Expo Park, Breeze Center, Stipendiary, and many other field owners build this system. In the first quarter of 2018, Starwing finished Series A Founding, valuing the Company at NT$100 million. Till now Starwing has won several national and international awards and is seen as the key contributor of developing smart commerce and industry 4.0.
Mynavi VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Mynavi Corporation provides information services.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Marketing, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Japan, India, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
  • MyCaptain — MyCaptain is an online learning and teaching platform offering online courses with placements and certification programs. Upskill industry knowledge in the fields of business, marketing, design, content, and more.
  • Wecare247 — Wecare247 develops a technology platform designed to provide medical care services to customers at home and hospital. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City.
  • Awign — Awign is a work fulfillment platform specializing in gig workforce and provider of last-mile delivery services. It operates in sectors of education-technology, hospitality, e-commerce, mobility, information technology, and financial technology.The startup also fulfills on-the-ground work such as auditing, diligence, assessments, proctoring, newbusiness development, and digital gigs for clients, including Swiggy, ITC, Bigbasket, Britannia, and Aditya Birla Capital, among others. Awign also provides work opportunities to college students, graduates, and women wanting to come back to work, and is solving unemployment, under-employment, and skilling problems.IIT-alumni Annanya Sarthak, Gurpreet Singh, and Praveen Sah founded Awign in Bangalore, Karnataka, India in 2016.
Alameda Research VC Fund · Central and Western, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • 3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
  • Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
  • Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.
China-ASEAN etst Investment Cooperation Fund VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
China-ASEAN etst Investment Cooperation Fund ("CAF") is a USD-denominated offshore quasi-sovereign equity fund sponsored by the Export-Import Bank of China (“EXIM Bank”), among other institutional investors, under the direction of the PRC State Council and approved by the National Development and Reform Commission. The fund targetsinvestment opportunities in infrastructure, energy and natural resources in the ASEAN countries. CAF specializes in sustainable investments that not only bring financial growth to the investee company but also significant values to the community. The establishment of CAF was led by EXIM Bank and approved by the PRC State Council. It was formally announced by the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in 2009, and further approved by the National Development and Reform Commission in 2013. Operating with a high level of integrity and international best practices, the Fund's investment professionals pursue strategic opportunities that require growth capital to generate superior returns for its investors. CAF provides capital supports to the outstanding enterprises in both China and the ASEAN region and enhance value for the sponsors. The fund is aiming to become one of the most reputable and best-performing private equity funds in the region.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, SaaS
  • Series B, Funding Round
  • China, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • Appier — Comprehensive AI-Powered Solutions: Smoother Operaions. Elevated Customer Experience. Better Performance.
  • Squirrel AI Learning — Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Shanghai, Yixue Squirrel AI is the first K12 EdTech company which specializes in intelligent adaptive education in China and is the market leader. Yixue Squirrel AI is the first domestic adaptive learning engine based on the advanced algorithm and with the complete independent intellectual property developed byYiXue Education. Squirrel is the symbol for "agility, diligence and management." This aligns with the experience Yixue Squirrel AI provides for its students, to help them advance learning through the real-time adaptive system and cultivate good learning habits with practice.
Animoca Brands KK VC Fund · Japan, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia
Animoca Brands KK supports the global strategy of Web3.0 for Japanese intellectual property and content (IP) holders such as major publishers, brands, education, sports organizations, athletes, artists, and game companies. rice field. Animoca Brands KK builds and provides a platform that utilizes blockchain technology and provides a mechanism forIP / IP holders to have their own ecosystem in Web3.0 and issue NFTs and tokens within it.
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Investment focus
  • Media and Entertainment, Apps, Animation
  • Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
  • India, Taiwan, Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
  • Igloo — Our mission is to create the largest onchain community, driving the consumer crypto revolution.
  • Sunrise — Sunrise is a customized data stability layer used for proof of liquidity. It helps DA fee abstraction and helps users to obtain blobspace in exchange.
  • Redacted Coin — Redacted is a Web3 entertainment and gaming platform.
CDH Investments VC Fund · Kowloon City, Kowloon, Hong Kong · 29 investments in the past 12 months
CDH Investments is an international alternative asset fund manager with over $27 billion of assets under management. CDH Investments was established in 2002 by the former private equity group of China International Capital Corporation and is managed by an experienced team of senior private equity professionals who have worked together for manyyears focusing all their professional time on investing in China. CDH has consistently delivered superior returns relative to industry peers and is well positioned to continue to generate superior returns due to the team's proven investment experience and expertise investing in China.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • China, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Ruijiakang — Ruijiakang focuses on the research, development, and application of green synthetic biology production, as well as the layout and research of biofuels and biomaterials for non-grain anaerobic organic alkyd pipelines, and employs Zymomonas mobilis.
  • CYGNUSEMI — Cygnus Semi is a semiconductor chip technology company that focuses on 5G IoT applications.
  • Bach Hoa Xanh — Bach Hoa Xanh is a chain of minimarts and food stores that concentrate in fresh produce and everyday household necessities.
Circle Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Circle Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York, New York. The company prefers to invest in the field of technology.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Singapore, France
Portfolio highlights
  • AlloyX — AlloyX makes it simple and accessible for protocols, DAOs, and institutional investors to create diversified RWA investment strategies. We provide lenders with a flexible and efficient platform for managing all of their RWA assets based on their yield, risk, and liquidity preferences.
  • Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
  • Noble XYZ — Noble is changing how stablecoins and other real world assets are issued on blockchains by combining minimalistic, high security architecture with the cross-chain efficiencies of the IBC protocol.
E.SUN VENTURE CAPITAL VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
E.SUN VENTURE CAPITAL is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Bitcoin, FinTech, Software
  • Seed
  • Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • XREX — XREX is a neo fintech leveling the playing field by partnering with banks, regulators, and verified users to redefine banking together. Our blockchain-driven solutions create a collective financial system that empowers all to participate and contribute to the global economy.
Summer Ventures VC Fund · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Summer Ventures is an institutional venture fund dedicated to promote and invest in “real world application” of blockchain technology and infrastructure.
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Investment focus
  • Ethereum, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Series A
  • Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • TONX — TonX Studio acts as a venture studio. It also actively participates in community building, TON Meetups, and hackathon competitions.
  • RateX — RateX is the operator of a decentralized exchange platform designed for yield trading. The company provides leveraged yield trading, earning, and synthetic assets akin to perpetual futures contracts.
  • Zeek Network — Zeek Network is a decentralized network for on-chain social bounty and reputation.
Sunsino Ventures Group VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
Sunsino Ventures Group was founded in 1994, and has made investments in over 200 companies in Taiwan and the USA. AUM is about US$150MM.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
  • Series B, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • OmniEyes — OmniEyes is an IT company that collects and digitizes live street videos and converts them using AI technologies.
  • Loopd — Loopd provides physical intelligence to corporate events. It helps corporate marketers learn how people interact with each other, with the company, and with the company's products.  The Loopd event engagement system is a bi-directional CRM solution that enables the exchange of content and contact information passively and automatically.Through its enterprise IoT analytics and sensors, it gathers and interprets rich data so that marketers have a more sophisticated understanding of valuable business relationships and interactions at conferences, exhibits, and product activations. Headquartered in San Francisco, Loopd has raised $2.5 million in seed investment from Marc Benioff (founder of Salesforce), Tim Draper (founding partner of DFJ Ventures), Rick Dalzell (former CIO at Amazon) and other top investors.
  • ARIO Data Networks — ARIO Data Networks provides storage solutions and RAID controllers. It provides a line of Sanario RAID and JBOD SATA and SAS controllers. The company also offers Capacity RAID Array product family, which is a RAID storage subsystem product family; and Capacity Expansion Array product family, which is an expansion storage subsystem product familyfor storage original equipment manufacturers. Its solutions are deployed in SAN, NAS, and DAS environments. The company's solutions are used in various applications, such as information lifecycle management, near line storage, disk-to-disk back up, and high performance scientific computing. ARIO Data Networks was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Pinehurst Advisors VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
Pinehurst Advisors is an early-stage VC management company backing technology startups from Seed to series A.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, News, Events
  • Funding Round, Seed
  • Taiwan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • e27 — e27 is Asia's largest Tech media platform. We cover the latest news on emerging and disruptive businesses across the region. e27 also organizes world-class events like Echelon.
  • QLL — QLL (Quick Language Learning) Pte. Ltd. is a company specialized in developing language learning apps, they are based in Taiwan and registered in Singapore. 2007, they launched a break-through Chinese learning gadget, “Pocket Chinese Tutor”, it is an Mp4 player with Chinese speech assessment function, it can help learner correct their accent ofspeaking Chinese.
  • HelloWings — "See" the cheapest fare, year-round and fees included. Customized combination tickets. HelloWings ensures you'll arrive to destination on budget & in style.
SBI Group VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in the past 12 months
SBI Group aims to become a corporate entity that provides a variety of one-stop financial services over the Internet now that two major events, the Financial Big Bang resulting from deregulation, and the Internet Revolution resulting from IT innovation, have radically transformed the financial industry.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Carbon EX — Carbon EX is an online platform that connects carbon credit and emissions exchange suppliers with consumers.
  • Hakki Africa — HAKKI AFRICA provides microfinance services for SMEs.
  • Solaris — Solarisbank is Europe's leading Banking-as-a-Service platform. As a technology company with a full German banking license, Solarisbank enables other companies to offer their own financial services. Via APIs, partners integrate Solarisbank's modular banking services directly into their own product offering. The platform offers digital bankaccounts and payment cards, identification and lending services, digital asset custody as well as services provided by integrated third-party providers.To date, Solarisbank has raised more than EUR 160 million from a bluechip shareholder base, including ABN AMRO’s Digital Impact Fund, BBVA, finleap, Global Brain, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Lakestar, Samsung Catalyst Fund, SBI Group, Storm Ventures, Visa, Vulcan Capital, and yabeo Capital.
Mark Cuban Companies VC Fund · Dallas, Texas, United States
In 1995, Mark and long-time friend Todd Wagner came up with an internet based solution to not being able to listen to Hoosiers Basketball games out in Texas. That solution was Broadcast.com - streaming audio over the internet. In just four short years, Broadcast.com (then Audionet) would be sold to Yahoo for $5.6 billion dollars.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Blockchain
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Taiwan, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • portto / Blocto — portto aims to make blockchain simple for users and developers. With its most user-friendly blockchain application browser and wallet SDKs, portto has pushed it steps forward for blockchain to be used in real life scenarios.
  • SparkCharge — SparkCharge is a company dedicated to making EV ownership easy by creating Charging as a Service, a convenient way for drivers to have their electric vehicles charged. They have created the world's first and only portable, ultra-fast EV charging system called the Roadie. They have also created BoostEV.
  • 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.
BIGLOBE Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
BIGLOBE Capital was founded in 2007
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Content, Marketing
  • Seed
  • Japan, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • Pal+ — Pal+ is a free mobile messaging app that allows users to create and share images, videos, and voice messages while chatting with others. It is available for iOS and Android. Pal+ is formerly known as Cubie. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.
  • HEROZ — HEROZ, Inc. was founded in 2009 and our engineer has developed the most cutting edge artificial intelligence, “Ponanza” programme to play Japanese chess 'Shogi', which defeated an active professional player in a public match for the first time ever, in March 2013. Shogi presents a higher degree of complexity than many other strategygames, and has been of interest to Artificial Intelligence researchers.
GMO VenturePartners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 13 investments in the past 12 months
An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • 10x — 10x provides One-stop service from meal planning to grocery shopping.
  • RightTouch — RightTouch is a media company that offers customer support with KARTE RightSupport, and media CS Mag for tailored solutions and insights.
  • Zolve — Best neo bank in India offering international banking & financial services online. Apply for a US bank account, credit card & student education loan with Zolve!
CID Group VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
A trusted partner for entrepreneurs and investors, achieving a brighter future together through integrated partnership
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Video
  • Series B, Series D, Funding Round
  • United States, China, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • Carota — Our commitment is to provide safe, stable, reliable, and scalable OTA upgrade solutions to OEMs and IoT smart devices manufacturers. CAROTA is a significant player in the China market, with over 320 million smart devices installed and upgraded.
  • CyCraft — CyCraft secures national governments, Fortune 500 firms, and SMEs with our Japan Interop 2020 Best of Show and MITRE ATT&CK®-evaluated AI platform, CyCraft AIR, that delivers 1) endpoint detection & response, 2) network detection & response, 3) operational global threat intelligence and 4) enterprise cyber-health checks.
  • WEKA — NeuralMesh: Accelerated Infrastructure Solutions for Agentic AI | WEKA
Hotung Venture Capital VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
Hotung Venture Capital is a venture capital firm based in Taiwan which operates as a subsidiary of Hotung Investment Holdings. It is one of three subsidiaries of Hotung Investment Holdings focused on investments, joined by Daitung Development and Investment and Huiting Investments. It was formed through the merger of Hotung Venture Capital Corp,Litung Venture Capital Corp, and Futung Venture Capital Corp.Hotung Investment Holdings Ltd, a venture capital firm with operations in Taiwan, the US and China, was incorporated in March 1997 and has been listed on the Main Board of SGX-ST since August 1997. Hotung Investment Holdings Limited(和通投資控股有限公司)(“Hotung”) and together with its subsidiaries (the “Group”) is a premier venture capital investment management group, with almost 30 years of investment and fund management experience. Hotung has two business segments, namely, Venture Capital and Fund Management.Headquartered in Taiwan, the Group’s main core business is its venture capital business. Leveraging on its expertise and investment strategies, Hotung invests in innovative and promising businesses globally and across a variety of industries, that aim to improve general living standards. With a focus on companies that are in the start-up and expansion stages of development, Hotung works with its investee companies to build their business. Tapping on its strong network, resources and experience, Hotung is able to support the breakthrough in its investee companies’ products and services and grow along with its investees.The Group’s fund management business manages third party funds as well as the funds generated from its venture capital business. With its strong track record and sound investment strategy, Hotung has been engaged by the Taiwanese government since 2011, to participate in its investment programmes.To date, the Group has around 200 successful IPOs under its belt. Hotung’s portfolio of investee companies have not only been listed on major stock exchanges in Asia, but on exchanges in the United States and Europe as well. It has brought 38 companies to list on Nasdaq / NYSE and over 100 entities on the Taiwan Stock Exchange / Taiwan’s OTC market.Hotung has been listed on the Mainboard of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (“SGX-ST”) since 1997. It is the first and only Taiwan venture capital firm listed on the Singapore Exchange.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
  • Series B, Series C, Series A
  • United States, China, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • iKala — iKala's mission is to enable AI competencies of our enterprise customers, to increase their customer acquisition capability and customer lifetime value.
  • VoiceTube — Improve your English listening and pronunciation skills by watching fun and interesting videos with real-life talks and conversations. With over 100,000 videos across multiple topics, you will grasp authentic usages of vocabulary as well as idioms and phrases. Our videos offer transcription and translation of the subtitles and are paired with our built-in dictionary and pronunciation analysis tools to help increase your vocabulary and speak English fluently. Join our community of over 5 million users and start learning while having fun.
  • Layerwave Bio — Layerwave Bio is a developer of IVD diagnostic instrument reagents and biomedical scientific research instruments.
Chunghwa Telecom VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
Telecommunications company in Taiwan
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Investment focus
  • Music, Internet, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Private Equity
  • Taiwan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • iKala — iKala's mission is to enable AI competencies of our enterprise customers, to increase their customer acquisition capability and customer lifetime value.
  • Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
  • Aiello — Aiello provides End-to-End Open Voice Platform(AOVP) to reduce the entry barrier for business customers and enable own voice service for domain-specific applications.
SoftBank Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
SoftBank Group provides venture funding and strategic support to exceptional entrepreneurs building disruptive enduring businesses. They are a small team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors who take an "active" approach to helping their companies reach their full potential. They manage $600 million across three funds and investacross a company’s lifecycle, from early to growth stages. Through their close ties to a number of Asia’s leading mobile, internet and technology companies – including strategic partners SoftBank Corp, Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba Group – SoftBank Capital offers unique expertise to businesses seeking to address the Asian market. Since 1995, SoftBank Capital has partnered with internet pioneers such as Criteo, Gilt Groupe, OMGPOP (Zynga), betaworks, BuzzFeed, Buddy Media (Salesforce.com), Huffington Post (AOL), Associated Content (Yahoo!), Danger (Microsoft), Geocities (Yahoo!), E*Trade and Yahoo!.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Software, Advertising
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, India, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Birdie — Transform thousands of user feedback into insights with our Feedback Analytics Platform and take faster product decisions
  • FTX US — FTX is an easy to use crypto exchange where you can buy, sell, and store Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies and digital assets such as NFTs
  • Energy Vault — Energy Vault creates gravity and kinetic energy-based, long-duration energy storage solutions that are transforming the world's approach to energy storage.
Commonwealth Capital Ventures VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Commonwealth Capital Ventures is a leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth stage technology companies. Their experienced professionals empower management teams to build outstanding growth companies that deliver superior returns to investors. As true partners, they work beside their entrepreneurs with the patience needed tobuild successful businesses.With more than $580 million of committed capital under management, the firm’s partners have invested in roughly 140 high-growth companies, many of which are leaders in their respective industry categories. Their limited partners are highly sophisticated venture investors and include leading educational and financial institutions, pension funds, and family offices. They are aligned with their investors in providing patient capital with a view toward long-term success. Their current $250 million fund closed in early 2007 and is appropriately sized to focus on early stage opportunities and later stage venture growth enterprises.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • Sand 9 — Sand 9, Inc. is a venture funded startup company dedicated to the design of components that will dramatically improve the performance and increase the capabilities of wireless devices.
  • GAM3S.GG — The future of gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience across Steam, PlayStation, Epic Games, Xbox, Nintendo and web3.
  • BlueNote Networks — BlueNote Networks offers communications-enabled business applications. Its SessionSuite business communications platforms deliver voice, video, and other real-time interactive communication services to enterprise users. The company’s products include SessionSuite Enterprise Edition, a standalone software application that enables an enterpriseto deliver calling features and services, such as integral voicemail and conferencing to distributed Internet-connected users; and SessionSuite SOA Edition and SDK, which adds Web Service APIs that enable organizations to build business processes, applications, and Web sites. Its products also include SessionSuite WebCaller, a telephony client suited for a variety of applications, including portals, kiosks, customer-facing Web sites, Web 2.0 and thin client software applications, and software as a service solutions; SessionSuite Desktop, a Windows-based personal communications assistant that integrates telephony functions with business applications; and SessionSuite Management System, a secure Web-based application for administering SessionSuite services, users, and policies. The company’s software allows enterprises, ISVs, and solution providers to incorporate SIP-based interactive communication services into commercial or custom software applications, Web sites, and internal business processes. BlueNote was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Tewksbury, MassachusettsAs of July 9, 2008, BlueNote Networks, Inc. was acquired by Aspect Software, Inc.
GD1 VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 2 investments in the past 12 months
GD1 is a Venture Capital firm that invests with high conviction in exciting technology companies originating from New Zealand. Our team is passionate about creating and growing global businesses, and our goal is to transform NZ made into the next generation of globally disruptive tech solutions.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • New Zealand, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
  • Caruso — We're helping fund managers break free from expensive, clunky, legacy systems and empowering them with modern tools to help them grow and thrive. With Caruso, you can manage all your fund operations effortlessly in one place - onboard investors, complete AML / KYC, raise capital, issue distributions, complete secondary sales, andeverything in between.
  • Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.
Xchange Taiwan VC Fund
Xchange Taiwan is the most active network industry worker community in Taiwan, with physical interactive lectures, social design, and industry-academia projects; high-quality knowledge-based content; and a condensed industry cross-border force of the Internet circle, domestic and overseas cross-border forces, and social influence.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Social CRM, Lead Generation
  • Seed
  • Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • GoSky AI Inc. — “A company about technology, innovation and human connection.” As a platform, GoSky believes CHATBOT IS THE NEXT APP. Provide the chatbot solution to empower more than 400 top-tier enterprises to build Messenger chatbot apps with the social CRM (SCRM) solutions GoSky Loyal. Trusted by the world's largest brands such as Mercedes-Benz, VOGUE,Lazada.
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