Top 50 Enterprise Startup Investors in Taiwan in February 2025

Investor	Enterprise Taiwan investments
National Development Fund of Taiwan Government	10
Darwin Venture Management	10
WI Harper Group	7
Cherubic Ventures	6
SOSV	6
CDIB Capital	5
AVA Angels	5
Taiwania Capital Management Corporation	3
AVA Angels	3
Pear VC	3
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)	3
Wistron Corporation	3
Cornerstone Ventures	3
JAFCO Asia	3
Animoca Brands	3
MediaTek	3
Loyal VC	2
Artesian VC	2
China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB)	2
Sequoia Capital	2
Accord Ventures	2
Alameda Research	2
Metaplanet	2
Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute	2
Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund	2
Steve Zhao	2
HTC	2
Axia8 Ventures	2
Mynavi	2
CMS Holdings	2
Weston Digital Technologies	1
Gumi Ventures	1
CDIB Capital Group	1
IPX	1
Expara IDM Ventures	1
Hippo Technologies	1
GMO VenturePartners	1
CID Group	1
Alibaba Group	1
China-ASEAN etst Investment Cooperation Fund	1
Summer Ventures	1
Delta Blockchain Fund	1
Jiuyou Capital	1
Hotung Venture Capital	1
Macnica	1
3i Group	1
Jan Hung-Tze	1
Line	1
Foxconn Technology Group	1
Rookie Fund	1

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".

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.

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.

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.
Ball Wave — Ballwave uses the ball SAW sensor based on a new principle as the core of the differentiating factor, and becomes the human eye and the nervous system, and invites it to the horizon of technology.
EMobi — EMoBi is a transportation company that provides freight transport, and electric vehicle services with reservation facilities.

WI Harper Group is a venture capital firm that focuses on early and early expansion investments in Mainland China, Taiwan and Silicon Valley.It was founded in 1993. Made 300+ investments with 80+ exits. Manages 9 funds and over $1B in capital through 19 dedicated investment professionals located in Beijing, Taipei and San Francisco.Thefirm's focus is technology, clean technology and healthcare. Its track record includes

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Taiwan, China

Portfolio highlights

GDMC — GDMC is a pharmaceutical company that engages in manufacturing and designing genetic medicines.
Bitmark — Bitmark develops technology that secures the property rights of unique digital assets, without relying on trusted third parties.
Blackpanda — Asia's premier digital forensics and cyber incident response firm.

Cherubic Ventures is an early stage focused venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley and Greater China.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, China, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
Bot Auto — Bot Auto develops and operates autonomous trucks for middle-mile freight.
Anzen — USDz is a stablecoin backed by a diversified RWA portfolio, allowing holders to mitigate volatility and earn rewards through all market cycles

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.

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.

CCIC CDIB International Corp.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
Taiwan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

QT Medical — World's leading medical ECG/EKG machine company that aims to make hospital-grade 12-lead ecg machines available for everyone. Best portable ecg device during the pandemic. Focusing on innovations in the field of telemedicine and home care, we continue to invest in research and development of products that will bring better cardiac care to patients.
Micronbrane Medical — Micronbrane Medical offers biotechnology services. That provides detect Pathogen Directly from whole blood within a limited time. Sample processing library prep sequencing, data analysing and reporting services.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
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.

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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.

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.

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.

Pear VC partners with entrepreneurs from day zero to build category-defining companies.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

DevAI — DevAI is a Silicon Valley-based startup passionate about empowering IT teams to accelerate business.
Tyba — Tyba's unified project simulation and operating platform helps teams develop, operate, and optimize standalone and hybrid storage projects.
Grove — Grove is a leading AI company for clinical trial recruitment and engagement developing AI agents to automate enrollment & connect patients with the best studies. Try a free demo!

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
Japan, China, United States

Portfolio highlights

STRACT — STRACT is a web platform that provides online platform, dating app, knowledge sharing cloud platform, and casual entertainment services.
Tradom — Tradom is a company that offers the "Tradam Foreign Exchange Solution," an AI solution for managing foreign exchange risk.
iMotorbike — iMotorbike is the #1 motorbike online E-commerce website in South East Asia, providing a fast, secure, simple and trouble free online experience with a wide variety of product range, setting itself apart from what exists in the market. iMotorbike offers three main categories: motorbikes, parts and accessories. For a complete 360° experience,iMotorbike also enables users the access to services such as insurance and financing. At iMotorbike we always strive to offer our customers the best experience through a complete and efficient online ecosystem for motorbike users, lovers and professionals.

Wistron Corporation is a technology service provider supplying innovative.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series B, Seed, Series A
United States, Taiwan, Hong Kong

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.
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.
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.

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".

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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

MFast (DigiPay J.S.C.) — MFast operates as a fintech platform. MFAST is a brand under Digital Payment Solution Joint Stock Company - DigiPay JSC.
Pixso — Pixso is a cloud-based design tool that supports collaboration among people, one-click delivery, and easy management of design resources.
Savelots — Savelots is a membership-based discount chain brand that primarily operates in discount retail and department store related activities.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

EarnOS — EarnOS is the fully remote company that provides Global Ad & Payments Platform powered by Web3.
Hivello — Hivello is a Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network aggregator. Contribute resources, connect with Web3 protocols, and effortlessly generate passive income.
Pixion Games — Pixion Games is a studio focused on building competitive esports games for mobile device.

MediaTek is another name for incredible innovation that powers the brands you love. From smartphones to smart homes, we are always by your side.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Hardware
Series A, Series B, Series D
China, Taiwan, Israel

Portfolio highlights

UG Labs — UG Labs is developing an AI engine for voice-based digital engagement and conversation for young children. The company was founded in 2022.
Rivos — Rivos is a high-performance RISC-V system startup targeting integrated system solutions for enterprises.
Path Robotics — We create manufacturing robots that autonomously scan, position, and weld your parts without the need for skilled welders or robot programmers.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Edept — Career-Led Education for Global Career Outcomes - edept
UTOBO INC. — utobo is the one-stop platform for educators and coaching services to take live classes, create courses and test series, and sell them online in just 30 minutes.
The Leaf Protein Company — Unlocking Earth's most abundant source of proteins - green leaves.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
Ohmie Go — EV charging solutions, shared electric vehicles, shared e-bikes & e-scooters delivered to residents as a premium managed service and amenity - An intelligent way to get EV ready with one seamless experience.
Fleet Space Technologies — Fleet is an agile, next generation connectivity company. Our mission is to Connect Everything using cutting-edge communications and space technologies to maximise the resource efficiency of human civilisation and enable the next industrial revolution with our free, ubiquitous connectivity platform.

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.

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.

We help the daring build legendary companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

ElevenLabs — Create the most realistic speech with our AI audio tools in 1000s of voices and 32 languages. Easy to use API's and SDK's. Scalable, secure, and customizable voice solutions tailored for enterprise needs. Pioneering research in Text to Speech and AI Voice Generation.
Intryc — Sample tickets, evaluate human and AI agents, and unlock customer insights with the power of AI with Intryc.
Blind Insight — Unlock secure collaboration with compliance-ready privacy-enhancing technology. Real-time searchable encryption and fine-grained access control so you don't have to choose between data protection and innovation.

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.

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
Openrec — Openrec is a live-streaming platform that focuses on game commentary and online event business.
Thinkfree — Thinkfree Office is a private, secure online office suite. Discover an office with flexible deployment options and MS Office compatibility.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Pyka — We believe that electrification and automation will make aviation safer, more affordable, and more accessible than has ever been possible in human history.
OneSkin — It's time to redefine how we think about skin health. Explore how we use aging & longevity science principles for products that'll leave your skin feeling healthier.
Qminder — Set up Qminder queue management software in minutes. Real-time reports on customer service & employee performance. Cloud-based. Wireless. Free Support.

Founded in 1973, ITRI has played a vital role in transforming Taiwan's industries from labor-intensive into innovation-driven

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Hong Kong, Taiwan, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
BioMed Technology Holdings — BioMed offer a comprehensive service that includes a range of sophisticated tests performed by professionals, together with an interpretation and recommendations for how to live a healthy life.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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

At Axia8 Ventures, we back early-stage founders bold enough to innovate in emerging Web3 frontiers.

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.

Mynavi Corporation provides information services.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Reppo Labs — Blockchain Network that connect Data Owners with AI Developers and AI agents through Programmable IP Co-ownership
Lnfi Network — Lnfi Network is an all-in-one financialization layer for Taproot Assets, enabling builders to issue, fundraise, and bootstrap communities and users to mint, send/receive, and earn.
Fogo Digital — Fogo Digital builds smart connected outdoor gadgets to keep you connected and safe when your are on the road or trail. Their flagship product is the Fogo, a durable waterproof smart flashlight with GPS and a digital radio (among other goodies). It is perfect for hiking, biking, camping, hunting, climbing, fishing, and all thingsoutdoors/apocalyptic.

Weston Digital Technologies is a company that develops communication recording and analytics technology.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
Series A
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

OmniEyes — OmniEyes is an IT company that collects and digitizes live street videos and converts them using AI technologies.

Gumi Ventures helps the new entrepreneurs and businesses to cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. Gumi Ventures supports the new entrepreneurs and businesses that can resonate with gumi listed in the business mission, that cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. They will create a global company that represents the future ofJapan.

Investment focus

Video, Media and Entertainment, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Taiwan, Finland

Portfolio highlights

1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
Mech — Mech is an NFT-based metaverse game that is currently developing their first versions of a match-3 game in which players can earn the in-game currency ore.
Brave group — Brave group engages in IP development, marketing and support services.

CDIB Capital Group is a financial company that specializes in direct investment and corporate financing.

Investment focus

B2B, Internet, Software
Series A
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

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.

LINE FRIENDS Corporation

Investment focus

Information Technology, Art, Toys
Series A, Funding Round
Taiwan, South Korea, United States

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.
Shiftup — Shift up is a game design and development studio that engages in game production and promotional video and music production. Shiftup was established in 2013 by art director Kim Hyeong-tae.
Superplastic — Superplastic is a character-based product and entertainment company. It creates limited edition art toys, apparel, games, and animation based on characters created in collaboration with some of the greatest artists in the world. Superplastic is founded on the principle that effort and scarcity are intrinsic components of value. The companyappropriates the tools of mass media and mass production to create limited edition works of art for a limited audience. It was established in 2017 and is based in Burlington, Vermont.

Expara IDM Ventures (EIDMV) is a leading provider of incubation and mentorship to early-stage interactive and digital media (IDM) companies in Singapore. EIDMV was one of the first private companies to be appointed as an incubator in the Interactive Digital Media Office (IDMPO)’s iJAM Microfunding Scheme supported by the National ResearchFoundation (NRF) in October 2007. Since then, we’ve invested S$5,000 on top of the S$50,000 disbursement from IDMPO into 16 start-ups. EIDMV’s iJAM I program has been highly successful, exceeding each of its KPIs and generating several of Singapore’s most exciting early-stage IDM companies. The team has a proven track record of successful follow-on fundraising for our incubatees; three companies have raised more than S$1MM in follow-on funding. EIDMV was again reappointed as an incubator in IDMPO’s new iJAM Mircofunding Scheme in April 2012, also known as iJAM Reload. EIDMV II was established late 2012 for the purpose of investment and incubation of future portfolio start-ups. The new scheme allows EIDMV II to match IDMPO’s funding of S$50,000 with an additional S$5,000 in Tier 1(similar to the initial program), followed by S$100,000 to S$100,000 match of IDMPO’s funding in Tier 2. The new management team which includes Douglas Abrams adds to the incubation experience and network which will strongly benefit these portfolio companies. EIDMV has close ties with two entities: Expara Pte Ltd, a venture creation company that develops and teaches entrepreneurship and innovation experiential-exercise-based learning programs for entrepreneurs, start-ups, companies and public institutions in Asia; and Extream Ventures Pte Ltd, an early-stage venture fund supported by NRF under the Early Stage Venture Funding Scheme. Douglas has helped raise S$20 million for Extream Ventures, in which he is one of four GPs.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Singapore, United States, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

salutat — intelligent communications for financial institutions
Novocall — Novocall is THE business phone system for SMBs. Capture website leads, automate cold call campaigns & track inbound calls to their marketing source.
Advantir Innovations — Serve more than 100 flavours of Swirls with just 1 machine, without the need to clean the machine. The Swirl.GO soft serve ice cream machine is scalable, compact, and does not require water points, hence suitable for usage in F&Bs, lounges, offices and events.

Compare prescription drug prices on medications at more than 70,000 pharmacies and save instantly!

Investment focus

SaaS, Analytics, Machine Learning
Funding Round
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.

A trusted partner for entrepreneurs and investors, achieving a brighter future together through integrated partnership

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 — The WEKA data platform helps organizations store, process and manage data in the cloud and on-prem to fuel next-generation workloads.

Alibaba Group’s mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere. They enable businesses to transform the way they market, sell, operate, and improve their efficiencies. They provide the technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands, and other businesses to leverage the power of new technology to engage with theirusers and customers and operate in a more efficient way.Their businesses are comprised of core commerce, cloud computing, digital media and entertainment, and innovation initiatives. In addition, Ant Financial, a company in which they have agreed to acquire a 33% equity stake, provides payment and financial services to consumers and merchants on their platforms. An ecosystem has developed around their platforms and businesses that consists of consumers, merchants, brands, retailers, other businesses, third-party service providers, and strategic alliance partners.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
China, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Particle Network — Particle Network offers a full-stack Web3 infrastructure, allowing developers to execute their projects from concept to deployment in a unified workflow for high-performance dApps. Its mobile app data and development platform for Web 3.0 provides developers with scalable, decentralized backends and data infrastructure.
Baichuan Intelligence — Baichuan Intelligence objective is to make it simple and universal for people to access professional services and knowledge. It is also dedicated to developing China's finest large model base through advancements in language AI.
Moonshot AI — Dark Side of the Moon is an AI large-scale model company.

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.

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.

Summer Ventures is an institutional venture fund dedicated to promote and invest in “real world application” of blockchain technology and infrastructure.

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.

Delta Blockchain Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund lighting the path of blockchain innovation by supporting developers and visionaries building the world of decentralization.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Cayman Islands

Portfolio highlights

Soulbound — Saga is a decentralized gaming community that aims to improve and grow the metaverse by creating a chain-agnostic market infrastructure.
Pell Network — Pell Network is a precisely constructed multi-layered restaking network with a great user experience, clear role segregation, and a closed-loop business logic chain.
Schuman Financial — Schuman Financial develops technologies, infrastructure, and products that bring financial services on-chain.

Jiuyou Capital has strong background resources in the fields of private equity investment institutions, public funds, wealth companies, banks, trusts, investment banks and brokerages. Relying on the shared economy model of “Internet + Social + Finance”, Jiuyou Capital is committed to building a more optimized and efficient investment industryecosystem, and thus becomes China's most influential financial resource integration and service platform.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical, Pharmaceutical
Series A, Series B, Angel
China, Taiwan, United States

Portfolio highlights

OakMega — OakMega is a provider of cross-platform CRM solutions on messaging apps for marketing experts. Driven by honest values, and win-win mentality in their culture, OakMega is out to connect brands and people with human touch.
Jisi Yingda — Jisi Yingda is a small-molecule anti-cancer drug developer, in the field of small-molecule tumor immune drugs and tumor drug development.
ReLive — ReLive is a biotechnology company that develops orthopedic sports medicine and plastic and reconstructive surgery projects based on regenerative medicine and cell therapy science.

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.

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.

Macnica is a global leader in supplying semiconductor, electronic components, network equipment, software products, and various services. Its semiconductor equipment and electronic devices include integrated circuits, network equipment, programmable logic device, memory devices, and related accessories that enable electronics and enterprise ITmarkets to avail electronics equipment to manufacture commercial and consumer electronic products.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Fitness
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, Taiwan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Team T5 Inc. — TeamT5 is a professional cyber security solution provider. Compared with other cyber threat intelligence (CTI) vendors, TeamT5 has the deepest understanding of cyber espionage in the Asia-Pacific region. Our world-class research team has dedicated to malware research and security incident response for more than 10 years. With solid technicalbackground and frontline expertise, our portal ThreatVision delivers the best CTI, and ThreatSonar offers the most effective APT hunting solutions. With TeamT5, you are able to being ahead of your threats.
NEXTAGE — Nextage is an Agri-tech company that offers wasabi cultivation in a container.
Save Medical — Digital Therapeutic company for Japan market. First product is for Type 2 Diabetes patients.

3i is an investment company specialising in Private Equity and Infrastructure. We invest in mid-market companies headquartered in Europe and North America.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Konges Sløjd — Konges Sløjd is a creative brand that salutes the wild, varied, and perfectly imperfect life with children. Our aim is to make thoughtful and quality-conscious designs using our unique signature prints and color palette, whilst dropping in an imaginative humorous aesthetics. All clothing is soft to the touch keeping your little ones comfy and safecome rain, shine, good days, or rough nights.
Digital Barriers — Enable real-time video streaming over cellular and deepen business intelligence with our secure, edge-based VSaaS solutions. Access video from any device, any connection and any location.
Vakantie Discounter — Holiday Discounter (part of Elmar Reizen BV) was started in 2000 in Arnhem and has developed thanks to fully concentrate on cheap holidays. A team of staff called in the early every day the tour operators or airlines to get the best deals. And actually we still do, only now much more automated and we now operate from Amsterdam.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

LINE develops calling and messaging applications for mobile phones in Japan and internationally. It offers LINE, a smartphone application that allows users to make free calls and messaging with other users regardless of which mobile network provider they are using.The company also offers NAVER, a search communication service; NAVER Matome, auser-participatory curation platform; Livedoor, a portal site; livedoor Blog, a blogging service; and livedoor News that provides information gathered from various news sources, as well as a range of advertising products. In addition, it operates LINE GAME, a platform that lets LINE users to play games.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Corporate Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

LifeAt — Achieve more, feel better. Experience productivity and well-Being. Task management, To-do lists, Pomodoro timer, Virtual spaces, Co-working.
Sproot — Sproot engages in the media and entertainment business.
The Parentinc — Suntec Singapore Convention Center 71, Ayer Rajah Crescent, #01-04/05 Singapore 139951

Foxconn Technology Group, also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturing company headquartered in Tucheng, New Taipei, Taiwan. It is the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer,and the fourth-largest information technology company by revenue.The Companymanufactures connectors for use in PCs in Taiwan, and also manufactures connectors and cable assemblies worldwide. The Company also manufactures enclosures, primarily for desktop PCs and PC servers. Foxconn is the registered trade name for the Company. Connectors & Cable Assemblies Connectors have applications in various industries - computers, automobile, communications, consumer products, medical, and defense. Foxconn focuses on offering a range of connectors and cable assemblies for desktop and notebook PCs and PC peripherals. Approximately 500 types of connectors are produced and sold under the Company's own Foxconn brand name. Foxconn has branched into manufacturing connectors for communications and consumer products. PC Enclosures Foxconn manufactures PC enclosures for desktop computers. Depending on its client's specifications, the casings can be sold together with floppy disk drives, switching power supplies, connectors, cable assemblies, and riser cards. Foxconn provides integrated mechanical solutions for clients to deal with thermal, acoustic, environmental, mechanical, functional, and design problems.The Company primarilt serves in Taiwan. In addition it has distribution centers in various key cities in Asia, Europe, and America. Foxconn's principal manufacturing operations are based in Taiwan and mainland China. It has also set up production facilities in Europe and the United States. Foxconn is in the process of setting up new production facilities in Ireland, and is also considering Central America as a production center. Significant Events Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. has established a unit to enter the business of assembling liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions. The company and Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp. have formed a joint venture, Ampower Holding Ltd, that makes inverters meant for television sets fitted with TFT-LCD screens. The company has formed a strategic partnership with United Keys, Inc. As part of this partnership, Foxconn would build display-key input devices using United Keys technology. Display-keys are regular keyswitches with small OLED displays embedded in their tops. This allows interactive and image-based communication between software and users. On September 5, 2009, Sony Corporation announced that it has agreed to form a partnership with Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. for the production of LCD TVs for the Americas region.

Investment focus

Software, Hardware, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, China, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Astor — Astor provides R&D and manufacturing of automation equipment and carrier fixtures with supply of different hardware and welding products.
XRSpace — Explore beyond your dreams
Foxconn Hon Hai Technology India Mega Development — Foxconn Hon Hai Technology India Mega Development operates as an electronics maker.

Rookie Fund is where investors and entrepreneurs start their careers. We are a student-run venture fund, powered by Rookie Fund management team and mentors. We are proud to support the strongest community of student investors and entrepreneurs across the Asia region. Rookie Fund currently runs in three locations, Taiwan, Xiamen, and Hong Kong.

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Messaging
Pre-Seed
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

XO (former Rooit) — Rooit is an internet company that provides a gamified application that specializes in communication guided by chatbots to facilitate interaction between two users by providing fun games. The company is driven by its mission is to disrupt the way young people communicate and make friends.Rooit was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Taipei City,Taiwan.