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Top 50 Enterprise VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Taiwan in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Taiwan in January 2025

Investor	Enterprise Taiwan investments
National Development Fund of Taiwan Government	10
Darwin Venture Management	10
WI Harper Group	7
SOSV	6
Cherubic Ventures	6
AVA Angels	5
CDIB Capital	5
Wistron Corporation	3
Taiwania Capital Management Corporation	3
Animoca Brands	3
JAFCO Asia	3
MediaTek	3
AVA Angels	3
Cornerstone Ventures	3
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)	3
Pear VC	3
Artesian VC	2
Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund	2
Accord Ventures	2
Sequoia Capital	2
China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB)	2
Metaplanet	2
CMS Holdings	2
Alameda Research	2
Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute	2
Axia8 Ventures	2
Mynavi	2
HTC	2
Loyal VC	2
LD Capital	1
Weston Digital Technologies	1
China-ASEAN etst Investment Cooperation Fund	1
FBG Capital	1
Xchange Taiwan	1
ThreeD Capital	1
WuXi AppTec	1
KYMCO Capital	1
Gumi Ventures	1
Protégé Ventures	1
Fubon Financial Holdings	1
DCG Group	1
Rookie Fund	1
Commonwealth Capital Ventures	1
Furong Capital	1
TA STRATEGIC PTE	1
GMO VenturePartners	1
Divergence Ventures	1
Line	1
Hippo Technologies	1
Summer Ventures	1

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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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 — Using next-gen advanced manufacturing technologies, ARRIS Composites produces smarter, lighter, stronger, and more sustainable products at scale.

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

FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.
Bounty Bay — Bounty Bay is a social commerce company.
Lava Network — Lava Network aims to be a marketplace for blockchain data.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
Japan, China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
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.

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

Cardless — Cardless is a credit card company. They help brands launch custom cobrand credit card products. They handle the program creation, card underwriting, lending, issuance, and top-notch customer service, while brands focus on delivering rewards truly valuable to their superfan cardholders.Cardless was founded in February 2019 by Michael Spelfogel andScott Kazmierowicz (ex-Stanford CS / Data Science, ex-Lyft, ex-Visa, ex-Goldman) and is backed by top VCs including Accomplice, Greycroft, Clocktower Ventures, as well as founders of Plastiq, SeatGeek, Flatiron Health, and FiveStars
Grove — AI-accelerated Participant Relationship Management (PRM) for Clinical Research
Portal — Don't Transfect, Just Deliver!

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.

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 #1 Autonomous Workforce Provider in Hong Kong. Made and Designed in Hong Kong.
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.

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.

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

Safara — Book over 1M hotels that are carbon offset for free on Safara, plus get insider travel recommendations and enjoy an unbeatable loyalty program.
Decart — Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models.
Stainless — With Stainless, you can deliver idiomatic SDKs while you stay focused on building the API.

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.

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.

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

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.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 — Edept empowers students with global opportunities and academic excellence, bridging industry and academia to develop skilled citizens.
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.

LD Capital is one of Asia's earliest organizations focusing on value investing in blockchain field. Owing to industrial resource advantages and professional investment research teams, LD Capital has successively discovered and invested in projects such as Qtum, Vechain and Eos which all achieved over 100 times return.Their teams spread overChina, the United States, Europe, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, and have accumulated rich experience in areas of traditional internet, Fintech, and advanced blockchain technology. They are committed to the globalization of blockchain and quality investment in the entire industry.LD Capital focuses on blockchain innovation projects within finance, games, content publishing, Internet of Things and other circuits, and we have been propelling broad layout of blockchain technology and infrastructure construction to facilitate the comprehensive development of the global blockchain ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bored Slot — Bored Slot is a Play-to-Mine Web 3 online slot game platform. This endeavor empowers BAYC and MAYC owners not only to relish an unmatched gaming experience but also to actively participate in the minting process through seamless NFT integration. We are dedicated to fostering a community-driven ecosystem that reshapes the future of the gamefi industry, making it as dynamic and unique as the Bored Slot experience itself.
Gamic — Gamic is a decentralized community app designed for the crypto community. With Gamic, you can connect with like-minded individuals and stay up-to-date on the latest trends in blockchain, NFTs, AI and cryptocurrency. Gamic is powered by Web3 technology, ensuring a secure and decentralized experience for all users. Plus, with our Airdrop feature, you can easily reward members of your community with crypto tokens. Join the Gamic community today and be a part of the future of social networking!
BabylonChain — Babylon is a VC-backed blockchain project founded by Claude. E. Shannon Award recipient, Professor David Tse from Stanford University. The project’s mission is to bring Bitcoin’s unparalleled security to all PoS blockchains in the world. To this end, we are building, as the bridge between Bitcoin and the PoS world, a new public Cosmos-based PoSblockchain called Babylon with a native token.

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.

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.

FBG Capital is a digital asset management firm in blockchain-based capital market.

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.

Xchange Taiwan is the most active network industry worker community in Taiwan, with physical interactive lectures, social design, and industry-academia projects; high-quality knowledge-based content; and a condensed industry cross-border force of the Internet circle, domestic and overseas cross-border forces, and social influence.

Investment focus

SaaS, Social CRM, Lead Generation
Seed
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

GoSky AI Inc. — “A company about technology, innovation and human connection.” As a platform, GoSky believes CHATBOT IS THE NEXT APP. Provide the chatbot solution to empower more than 400 top-tier enterprises to build Messenger chatbot apps with the social CRM (SCRM) solutions GoSky Loyal. Trusted by the world's largest brands such as Mercedes-Benz, VOGUE,Lazada.

ThreeD Capital is a publicly-traded Toronto-based venture capital firm focused on investments in companies in the areas of junior resources, blockchain, psychedelics, artificial intelligence and electric vehicles, among other areas. ThreeD Capital is led by Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Sheldon Inwentash, who has financed hundredsof private and public start-up companies.ThreeD Capital provides small cap investors with significant exposure to ground floor opportunities involving early-stage, promising companies.ThreeD Capital follows a merchant banking model which has a high barrier for entry but can quickly become very lucrative. Through this model, ThreeD Capital adopts a fluid investment strategy. They are actively involved with their clients by providing advice and the powerful network that becomes available through working with ThreeD.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Bitcoin
Seed, Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity
Taiwan, South Africa, United States

Portfolio highlights

Turn.bio — Turn Biotechnologies is a Stanford spinout developing therapies to effectively return mature differentiated cells to a dramatically younger state leaving their differentiated identity unaltered.Turn Biotechnologies surpasses traditional approaches based on single gene/pathway manipulations and tackles the multifaceted manifestation ofcellular age at the organ, tissue, and organismal level to extend the healthspan of people. As a result, age is reset by epigenetically reprogramming cells.
XREX — XREX is a neo fintech leveling the playing field by partnering with banks, regulators, and verified users to redefine banking together. Our blockchain-driven solutions create a collective financial system that empowers all to participate and contribute to the global economy.
Wuhan General Group — We Develop Innovative Healthcare Solutions Through Cannabis & Mushroom Based Sciences About Psilosybin & Cannabinoids Psilocybin - The Active Compound found in

WuXi AppTec provides a broad portfolio of R&D and manufacturing services that enable companies in the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries worldwide to advance discoveries and deliver groundbreaking treatments to patients. As an innovation-driven and customer-focused company, WuXi AppTec helps our partners improve theproductivity of advancing healthcare products through cost-effective and efficient solutions,With industry-leading capabilities such as R&D and manufacturing for small molecule drugs, cell and gene therapies, and testing for medical devices, WuXi AppTec's open-access platform is enabling more than 3,900 collaborators from over 30 countries to improve the health of those in need – and to realize our vision that "every drug can be made and every disease can be treated".

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

D3 Bio — D3 Bio is a globally focused biotechnology company focusing on developing and registration of innovative medicines in oncology and immunology. At D3 Bio, our new medicine development approach is fundamentally differentiated. We do not just only start with science in the lab. First, we pinpoint the greatest unmet patient and market needs – whereexisting standard-of-care approaches yield unsatisfactory clinical outcomes. Then we take those insights into the lab to guide the identification of fit for purpose science and technology and define our drug development path.
ShouTi — ShouTi specializes in the discovery and development of drugs against a type of targets called GPCR. The company develops drugs focused on novel small molecules for multiple unmet medical needs. ShouTi is currently operating in Stealth mode.
Bioyond Tech — Bioyond Tech utilizes robotics and artificial intelligence technology to provide a new generation of modular products and automation solutions for the life sciences sector.

KYMCO Capital is a private equity investment firm focuses on global market. They currently manage six equity investment funds and four sun private funds respectively investing to the industries including Moving and Mobility, Internet of Things(IoT) and Consumption Upgrade as well as secondary markets; As an industry investment fund, their limitedpartners serving as contributors of multinational enterprises with over 50 years experience in relevant industries, which are internationally competitive in terms of brand, technology, management and channel. On this basis, they can practice the "Capital +" investment philosophy for the invested enterprises to enjoy greater value-added benefit than pure capital investment, so as to assist industry upgrading of such enterprises to grow stronger and bigger.

Investment focus

Electric Vehicle, Software, Automotive
Series A, Seed, Angel
China, United States, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

MoBagel — 8ndpoint boosts growth with AI-Powered Marketing Intelligence for agencies and e-commerce brands. Get a demo today.
Znnewtech — Znnewtech is a provider of lithium battery energy storage systems for CM-GTS production capacity modules. The company also provides global customers with energy storage products with excellent performance and leading technology.
Emotibot Technologies — Emotibot Technologies designs and develops emotional intelligence systems for robots.The company provides robots with multi-modal emotion recognition and machine learning platforms. The systems offer humanized conversations, vision understanding, and affective computing. The systems can be used in mobile devices, speakers, homes, automobiles,wearables, and headsets.Emotibot was founded in 2015 by Kenny Chien and is based in Shanghai.

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.

Southeast Asia's largest student-led fund

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet
Pre-Seed
Taiwan, Singapore

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.
Joni.AI — Joni.AI is an e-learning app.

Fubon Financial Holdings has built a strong lineup of financial service companies. Its major subsidiaries include Fubon Life, Taipei Fubon Bank, Fubon Bank (Hong Kong), Fubon Bank (China), Fubon Insurance, Fubon Securities, and Fubon Asset Management. Fubon Financial Holdings had total assets of US$283.9 billion as of the end of 2019, rankingsecond among Taiwan’s financial holding companies, and it has been the most profitable company in the industry in terms of earnings per share (EPS) for eleven consecutive years. The company was also named to the Fortune Global 500 for the second consecutive year in 2019.

Investment focus

AgTech, Gaming, Farming
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Taiwan, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

OmniEyes — OmniEyes is an IT company that collects and digitizes live street videos and converts them using AI technologies.
Wonder — Introducing a new kind of home dining experience. Currently available in areas of New Jersey.
EdenFarm Indonesia — EdenFarm Indonesia merupakan Start Up B2B, Pemasok bahan makanan mulai dari produk segar hingga sembako untuk restoran, warung nasi, hingga toko grosir.Menjual berbagai bahan pangan untuk usahamu mulai dari restoran hingga warung nasi

DCG Group accelerates the growth of a more efficient financial infrastructure.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, Taiwan, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Higlobe — Get paid without transaction fees through payment transfer service Higlobe. Serving international freelancers and contractors with business clients in the USA
NFTBank — Home - Make NFT portfolio management smart
Permian Labs — Earn yield in the Metaverse with leverage.

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.

Commonwealth Capital Ventures is a leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth stage technology companies. Their experienced professionals empower management teams to build outstanding growth companies that deliver superior returns to investors. As true partners, they work beside their entrepreneurs with the patience needed tobuild successful businesses.With more than $580 million of committed capital under management, the firmâ€™s partners have invested in roughly 140 high-growth companies, many of which are leaders in their respective industry categories. Their limited partners are highly sophisticated venture investors and include leading educational and financial institutions, pension funds, and family offices. They are aligned with their investors in providing patient capital with a view toward long-term success. Their current $250 million fund closed in early 2007 and is appropriately sized to focus on early stage opportunities and later stage venture growth enterprises.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
Crux — The ecosystem for developers, tax credit buyers, and financial institutions to transact & manage transferable tax credits.
Elixir — Elixir is a decentralized protocol that enables full composability for integrations by providing computationally secure, algorithmic market-making across CEXs and DEXs.

Furong Capital is an investment fund.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Series B, Series A, Seed
China, Canada, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

eCactus — WEIHENG ECACTUS is one of the leading battery energy storage solutions suppliers for C&I, utilities and residential applications.
Aurora Starcom — Aurora Starcom is a national high-tech company specialising in the research and development of space laser communication technology.
Qingchun Semiconductor — Sichain Semi is a high-tech chip firm focused on the R&D and industrialization of Silicon Carbide semiconductors and its power devices.

TA STRATEGIC PTE is a private investment company.

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, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Mundi — Mundi provides financial, trade development, strategy, freight and reinventing international trade services.
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.

Experiments in capital formation

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cubist — Cubist brings modern software engineering practices and first-class security to web3 builders. Cubist’s toolkit makes it safe and easy to build, test and deploy multi-chain and cross-chain dapps in automated pipelines that handle keys and sequencing.
Panoptic — Panoptic is a perpetual, oracle-free, instant-settlement options trading protocol on the Ethereum blockchain. Panoptic enables the permissionless trading of options on top of any asset pool in the Uniswap v3 ecosystem and seeks to develop a trustless, permissionless, and composable options product, i.e., do for decentralized options markets whatx*y=k automated market maker protocols did for spot trading.Read the whitepaper behind our product here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.14232
Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts

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

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.

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.

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