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Top 50 Enterprise Startup Investors in Taiwan in November 2024

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 November 2024

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 4
Wistron Corporation 3
Animoca Brands 3
MediaTek 3
JAFCO Asia 3
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures) 3
Taiwania Capital Management Corporation 3
Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute 2
Metaplanet 2
CMS Holdings 2
Alameda Research 2
Pear VC 2
Artesian VC 2
Loyal VC 2
Steve Chen 2
Axia8 Ventures 2
China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB) 2
Sequoia Capital 2
Accord Ventures 2
HTC 2
Cornerstone Ventures 2
Jiuyou Capital 1
Hotung Venture Capital 1
MiraclePlus 1
IPX 1
Macnica 1
Particle Accelerator Limited (ParticleX) 1
GMO VenturePartners 1
3i Group 1
Chunghwa Telecom 1
ARM IoT Capital 1
Paul Wu 1
Infinity Ventures Crypto 1
FBG Capital 1
Su Jiayong 1
CID Group 1
Weston Digital Technologies 1
Jan Hung-Tze 1
Alibaba Group 1
Gumi Ventures 1
China-ASEAN etst Investment Cooperation Fund 1
SoftBank Capital 1
Line 1
Foxconn Technology Group 1
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National Development Fund of Taiwan Government VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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, China, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • ensage — ensage aggregates quality sports services to create picturesque tour experiences. Start your trips with our variety packages and professional support van drivers.
  • 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 VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan · 4 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, China
Portfolio highlights
  • PopChill — PopChill generates an online marketplace for second-hand trade, enabling users to share their fashion styles and sell idle items.
  • Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
  • Camlann — We're Camlann Games, an indie game publisher that performs. We back passionate developers, vibrant worlds, and the most unforgettable stories ever told.
WI Harper Group VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
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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 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
  • iKala — iKala's mission is to enable AI competencies of our enterprise customers, to increase their customer acquisition capability and customer lifetime value.
  • Bot Auto — Bot Auto develops and operates autonomous trucks for middle-mile freight.
  • Anzen — USDz - stablecoin backed by real world assets
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.
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
  • Taiwan, China, United States
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 — Even today, with a multitude of tests and technologies, the exact cause of infectious diseases can go undiagnosed. Understanding bacteria, viruses, fungi and
  • 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 VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • 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.
  • ECOCO circular economy — ECOCO circular economy offers smart recycling machine, bottle closing machine, battery machine, environmental protection, recycling resource regeneration technology and design, education, reduce waste of resources, establish correct habits and reduce environmental impact, and bottle collection machine.
Wistron Corporation VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Wistron Corporation, an original design manufacturer, provides a range of design, manufacturing, and after-sales service support functions for information and communication technology products worldwide. The company's product portfolio covers various technology products, including notebook personal computers (PCs), mobile communicationproducts, servers and storage systems, networking products, desktop PCs, LCD TVs, information appliances, game consoles, and other consumer electronics. Its after-sales services include product replacement, repair and support, and product support solutions, both for products it manufactures and for products produced by other manufacturers. The company sells its products to various vendors who distribute these products under their own brands. Wistron Corporation was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.
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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.
  • Aviz Networks — Aviz Networks is a leading provider of solutions for Open, Cloud, and AI-first networks. Aviz delivers switch platform agnostic, easy-to-use applications for network observability, orchestration, and assurance. Aviz also provides disaggregated support for multi-vendor SONiC deployments in data centers & edge networks. Aviz is on a mission to make SONiC a ubiquitous, accessible, and intelligent NOS for every stakeholder.
  • 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.
Animoca Brands VC Fund · Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 52 investments in the past 12 months
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, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • GEODNET — The Global Earth Observation Decentralized Network (GEODNET) is a decentralized network of Space Weather mining stations that report the real-time influence of the Sun’s solar winds on the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals. This data is commonly used to accurately correct GNSS (GPS and other navigation satellite) signals to providecentimeter level positioning accuracy and improve absolute time accuracy to nano-second level. Traditional applications for these data services include Automotive/Autonomous Navigation, Agriculture/Construction Vehicle Machine Control, Earthquake/Geohazard Monitoring, and traditional Land Survey. Blockchain applications include decentralized Mapping, Metaverse Digital Twins, Location-Aware Smart Contracts, and Proof-of-Location and Time. GEOD is the native utility token that is used for: Fees for providing GEODNET data streams and services. Rewards to Space Weather Miners. Used for governance votes to determine how network resources are allocated. Gas for future native GEODNET blockchain location/time proofs.
  • Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
  • Alliance Games — Next level Web3 Gaming Infrastructure, Now Fully Decentralized
MediaTek VC Fund · Hsinchu, T'ai-wan, Taiwan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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, 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.
JAFCO Asia VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
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, 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.
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures) VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 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, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Japan, China, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • At Forest — At Forest is an end-of-life service provider that organizes circular burial services for the deceased.
  • PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
  • RECOTECH — RECOTECH is a ClimateTech firm that collects and shares data to maximize resource value throughout its life cycle, offering circular solutions to organizations and municipalities in Japan and beyond.
Taiwania Capital Management Corporation VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Taiwan, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • ARRIS — ARRIS is an industrial engineering company that specializes in the fields of machinery manufacturing, automotive, and aerospace. It provides next-gen composites for mass-market applications including aerospace, automotive, sports, and consumer products. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berkeley, California.
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.
Metaplanet VC Fund · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia · 12 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, 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.
  • H3X Technologies — Ultra high power density integrated motor drives for electric aircraft.
  • Perceptive Space — Perceptive Space is developing an AI-powered space weather platform that delivers predictions and decision intelligence to ensure safe and reliable operations in challenging space environments. By providing hyperlocal space weather forecasts and asset-specific insights into space weather impacts, Perceptive Space aims to help satellite operatorsand launch providers extend mission lifetimes and reduce operational downtimes and service interruptions.
CMS Holdings VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 22 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
  • LOScoin — LOScoin is a web3 gaming and social application based on telegram bot. LOScoin is committed to profoundly combining Web3's novel interactive experience with the passion of LOScoin's MEME community, creating a highly engaging, entertaining, and economically active DAO community, and providing users with a completely new gaming and socialexperience.
  • Magma — Magma is a decentralized liquid staking protocol built on the Monad Network, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 blockchain.
  • Fluid Protocol — Fluid Protocol is a decentralized, over-collateralized lending mechanism designed especially for Fuel Network. In order to maximize capital efficiency, Fluid offers users a safe and effective method of releasing liquidity from their collateral without having to liquidate their underlying assets.
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.
Pear VC VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 28 investments in the past 12 months
Pear VC partners with entrepreneurs from day zero to build category-defining companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Brazil, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
  • Advex AI — Advex AI assists the world's largest manufacturers in cutting costs and increasing productivity by producing highly dependable computer vision models in hours.
  • SweatPals — SweatPals is a home for all your fitness, wellness and mindfulness events, communities and friends
  • Matter Intelligence — Matter Intelligence is creating the most detailed map of the world using first-of-a-kind sensors to understand our planet like never before
Artesian VC VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Bygen — Bygen delivers high-quality activated carbon products while also facilitating large-scale, long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.
  • 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.
  • Sova Health — Sova Health is a precision nutrition platform that guides users towards a healthier lifestyle with personalized nutrition advice based on accurate blood biomarker analysis. Understand what is stopping you from achieving your nutritional goal and get your personalized nutrition plan.
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
  • 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.
  • NIU NIU — NIU NIU is an e-Waste operating system that maximizes critical mineral extraction, while minimizing the environmental and social impact
  • The Leaf Protein Company — Unlocking Earth's most abundant source of proteins - green leaves.
Steve Chen Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Steve Chen was an internet entrepreneur and the co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15.After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley andJawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a website designed to simplify video sharing online.Chen was named one of the "The 50 people who matter now" by Business 2.0 magazine in 2006. That year, he and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.Chen most recently co-founded AVOS Systems with YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • Artue — Artue is pioneering the art industry's digital transformation.
  • E-Pal — E-Pal connects high-caliber gamers worldwide, offering you supportive gaming companions anytime, anywhere. You'll never battle alone!
  • Nest Wallet — A Wallet Engineered for Traders
Axia8 Ventures VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Axia8 Ventures is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in both digital asset and equity.
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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.
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.
Sequoia Capital VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 99 investments in the past 12 months
We help the daring build legendary companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, China, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Tola — Tola offers a simple and easy way for businesses to pay and get paid, however and whenever they want. Sign up today!
  • Stem Lingo — LINGO coding kits are designed to teach youth aged 13+ about the fundamentals of hardware and software design.
  • Decart — Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models.
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
  • Series A, Seed, 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 a private, secure online office suite. Discover an office with flexible deployment options and MS Office compatibility.
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
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.
  • GoFreight — GoFreight's award-winning Freight Forwarding Software empowers Freight Forwarders with an all-in-one cargo tracking solution that is easy to use and deploy.
  • 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
Jiuyou Capital VC Fund
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.
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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 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.
MiraclePlus VC Fund · Haidian, Beijing, China · 16 investments in the past 12 months
MiraclePlus invests in and accelerates early-stage startups. MiraclePlus assists startups in developing products that are good enough to succeed in the market. MiraclePlus' acceleration program works with the founders to get each team in top shape so that they can present to thousands of investors on Demo Day.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • China, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Noematrix — Noematrix is an embodied intelligence company that specializes in innovative general robotic intelligence solutions and services.
  • Excellent Vision — Excellent Vision is a spatial intelligence company focused to transforming video creation into a 4D world model, enabling AI big models to grasp, generate, and reason about 4D space.
  • Gongji Technology — Gongji Technology is an idle computing power sharing platform that combines distributed computing power with leading scheduling techniques to address elastic computing power requirements.
IPX VC Fund · Yongsan, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
LINE FRIENDS Corporation
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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 the world's top creator of vinyl figures, digital collectibles, and animated celebrities. Join us for a disturbingly awesome time.
Macnica VC Fund · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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.
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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 Corp. — Digital Therapeutic company for Japan market. First product is for Type 2 Diabetes patients.
Particle Accelerator Limited (ParticleX) VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Particle Accelerator Limited (ParticleX) was founded in late 2017 by Shine Works. ParticleX is a tech-based startup investor and accelerator based in Hong Kong. ParticleX combines network, capital and research resources, accelerating the pace of innovative technology and helping the early-stage startups to win cross-border opportunities acrossAsia.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Hong Kong, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Finquest — Finquest is the premier deal origination provider delivering personalized connections to its clients who seek M&A and direct investment opportunities in Europe, North America, and APAC.With a unique database, machine learning and a team of experts, Finquest provides targeted, curated and actionable connections, whilst maintaining completeconfidentiality throughout the process. With Finquest, clients can broaden their market access, creating a more efficient deal-making environment.Finquest is headquartered in Singapore and has offices in New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Bangalore, and Hong Kong.
  • MediConCen — MediConCen is a medical network that mobilize medical experts all over the world to serve the insured population without middleman. They revolutionize the current medical network with Blockchain technology. MediConCen liberalizes the existing heavily walled medical network with the use of Blockchain technology, allowing individual clinics to rejointhe insurance market with a one-stop solution. The next generation medical ecosystem starts right here.MediConCen aims to integrate all clinics, insured employees and business entities into a unified Blockchain ecosystem, making business truly efficient, transparent and trustworthy.
  • Crown Digital — Crown Digital harnesses the future-ready power of robotics and Artificial Intelligence to open doors with cutting-edge solutions for the not-so-distant future.
GMO VenturePartners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 5 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, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Niro — Niro is embedding personal credit products into leading consumer internet platforms. The fintech startup aims to disrupt the consumer lending ecosystem in the country by democratizing access to convenient and hassle-free embedded credit products for 624 million internet users in India.
  • OTO Capital — India's most trusted place to buy bikes, scooters and electric scooters of all brands on loan and in cash. Digital Process. Lowest EMIs. Fast Deliveries - OTO
  • Sharing Energy — Sharing Energy is providing energy supply and energy management services.
3i Group VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
3i is an investment company specialising in Private Equity and Infrastructure. We invest in mid-market companies headquartered in Europe and North America.
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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.
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
  • KKBOX — 90+ million songs at your fingertip. Tune in to podcasts for free!
  • Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
  • Aiello — Our AI Assistant, specially created for the hotel industry, uses voice and Machine learning base NLP technology to create new interactions with guests and provide enhanced services. With data-driven back-end services, our assistant provides valuable insights for hotels to better understand their guests and streamline their operations.
ARM IoT Capital VC Fund
Arm IoT Fund is an early-stage focusing venture capital sponsored by Arm Holdings, a semiconductor intellectual property (IP) supplier for digital electronic products. The fund is aiming at various opportunities in the current booming “Internet of Things”, ranging from autonomous driving, genomic innovation to smart manufacturing.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, PaaS
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Taiwan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MemryX — Our AI chips bring the power of server performance to edge devices.
  • NEXTDRIVE — integrated electricity data and energy equipment into a Cube Energy Gateway which visualizes electricity and analyzes it in cloud
  • eYs3D Microelectronics — eYs3D Microelectronics is A Silicon Centric A.I. Company Focusing Technology- 3D Sensing/Computer Vision Algorithm/ASICs/Heterogeneous Integrated Chiplet
Paul Wu Angel · Taiwan, Jiangsu, China
Paul founded GMobi in early 2011 when he saw the huge demand of mobile content and software services in emerging market. Before founding GMobi, Paul worked for a global internet platform and service development team at MediaTek, responsible for building up mobile service ecosystem with Google/Facebook/Yahoo/Tencent/Baidu forMediaTek chipset. Prior to MediaTek, Paul helped Foxconn to acquire a mobile internet company so it can enter into mobile software business. Before joining Foxconn group, Paul was PocketNet CEO , he successfully turn around the company in three years.During 2000 to 2005, Paul spent 6 years in Beijing working with Tom.com group, a company specialized in mobile content service with Nokia and China Mobile in China, Tom is owned by HK Tycoon Li Kashing Hutchison group.Paul received his MBA degree from Netherlands Rotterdam School of Management and a bachelor degree in Agri-Economics at National Taiwan University
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Investment focus
  • Geospatial, Mobile, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Convertible Note
  • United States, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • CITYDATA.ai — CITYDATA measures the presence, density, and movement of people to build digital replicas for smarter cities and real-world businesses.
  • LOTaDATA — LOTaDATA curates geospatial ground truth data sets on a global scale. We combine public and private data for discerning customers to help them make smarter decisions.
  • Kdan Mobile Software — KDAN is the best partner for businesses, offering E-signature, PDF editor, data analytics, and integrating KDAN AI to maximize your business value.
Infinity Ventures Crypto VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Who we are We are investors and entrepreneurs helping define the next generation of Blockchain startups. Our Focus Passionate founders. Disruptive models. Borderless markets. Exponential effects. Our Geography Starting from...
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
  • CARV — CARV is the largest modular data layer for gaming and AI, revolutionizing how data is used and shared, by ensuring privacy, ownership, and control are firmly in the hands of individuals, pioneering a future where data generates value for all.
  • Cathedral Studios — Welcome to Cathedral Studios, where we believe that the future of gaming lies in the integration of cutting-edge technologies.
  • Cumulus Encrypted Storage System (CESS) — CESS, a Blockchain Based Decentralized DistributedCloud Storage, a Blockchain Based Decentralized CloudDataNetwork Infrastructure, a Decentralized Cloud Storage Online Data SharingPlatform, a Blockchain Based CloudStorageSolution
FBG Capital VC Fund · Beijing, Beijing, China · 3 investments in the past 12 months
FBG Capital is a digital asset management firm in blockchain-based capital market.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Degame — Degame is an NFT gaming platform that provides token analytics, tracking, research, gaming strategy, and IGO.
  • Poglin — Poglin is a metaverse game IP developer and operator specializes in producing rich and engaging gaming environments.
  • RepubliK GG — Welcome to the future of how creators and communities can connect. REPUBLIK is a Web 3.0 virtual content platform that gives power back to creators & fans where all users can maximize value from their social activity.
Su Jiayong Angel
Su Jiayong is the chief technology officer and co-founder of Appier, and he also serves as the representative director of Appier Group, Inc.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Analytics, Machine Learning
  • Funding Round
  • Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • Appier — Comprehensive AI-Powered Solutions: Smoother Operaions. Elevated Customer Experience. Better Performance.
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 — The WEKA data platform helps organizations store, process and manage data in the cloud and on-prem to fuel next-generation workloads.
Weston Digital Technologies VC Fund · Ockley, Surrey, United Kingdom
Weston Digital Technologies is a company that develops communication recording and analytics technology.
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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.
Jan Hung-Tze Angel
A native of Nantou County born in the year 1956, Hung-Tze Jan graduated from the Department of Economics at National Taiwan University.Hung-Tze Jan is the chairman of PChome Online and also the founder of PChome Publication and Cite Publication.Hung-Tze Jan has over 30 years of experience in the media industry, having worked for United DailyNews, Commercial Times, China Times, Yuan-Liou Publishing, Rock Records, Chinese Television System, Business Weekly, and many more. During the time he served as editor-in-chief for numerous media companies, he planned and edited over thousands of books and periodicals and was the founder of over forty magazines, including PChome and Business Next.In Taiwan, Hung-Tze Jan is an acclaimed writer, opinion leader, filmmaker, editor, and publisher. He is highly respected for his insights on the issues between the socioeconomic environment and the trend towards the internet culture and creativity.Hung-Tze Jan is the chairman of the Taiwan Internet and E-Commerce Association (TiEA). He has also served as chairman, director, and supervisor for many other associations in the publishing and information industries. In 1997, the People Magazine of Taiwan awarded him the Diamond Award. In 2008, the Government Information Office awarded him the Special Award of the 2nd Golden Vessel Awards for Digital Publishers.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Apps, PaaS
  • Seed, Series A
  • Japan, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
  • 91APP — 91APP is a leading omnichannel commerce solution provider in Taiwan, providing brand-own shopping app and websites for retailers.
  • awoo Intelligence — Helps businesses connect with customer intentions across the marketing funnel from every possible touchpoint to drive actionable insights
Alibaba Group VC Fund · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China · 12 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
Gumi Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Line VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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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 VC Fund · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
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