Top 5 Fashion Startup Investors in Taiwan in May 2026

We are the venture capital arm of the renowned R&D consortium – the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). Since our creation in 1979, we have invested over US$400 million across virtually all stages, sectors, and timezones. Companies we have nurtured have gone on to define entire industries, and boast a combined market cap of wellover US$200 billion. Since its inception, ITIC has been instrumental in leading Taiwan's initial ventures into technology-based businesses, such as integrated circuits, automation, opto-electronic display, etc. ITIC is an original shareholder of some industry leaders such as UMC, Taiwan Mask Corp., Acer Display Technologies, Inc.(renamed as AU Optronics Corp.).

Investment focus

Health Care, Hardware, Software
Series B, Seed, Series C
United States, Japan, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

PopChill — PopChill generates an online marketplace for second-hand trade, enabling users to share their fashion styles and sell idle items.
Agility — Agility develops humanoid robots and automation platforms for warehouse, manufacturing, and logistics operations. It provides robotic deployment solutions and software platforms that support industrial automation and the handling of repetitive tasks. The company also offers software platforms to manage and support robotic operations in industrialenvironments.
TXOne Networks — We offer cybersecurity solutions tailored to the protection of industrial control systems, ensuring reliability and safety from cyberattacks.

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AVA Angels is an angel group which focus on connecting angel stage to venture stage of startups. AVA Angels has brought together many outstanding angel investors to find and evaluate together high-quality investment targets, to quickly establish the startup ecosystem and the startup investors network.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
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.
Buy&Ship — Buyandship provides cross-border eCommerce solution focusing on Marketing and Logistics. At Buyandship, is redefining the experience of E-Commerce without changing the sites, disrupting the underlying infrastructure, we provide consolidate, aggregate and load-balance shipments across the world to the consumer's doorstep. Our technologyfocuses on connecting the fragmented existing logistics infrastructure to create a seamless experience for both merchants and consumers, and the benefit is that they get a solution that is 30-50% less than other carriers. We also work with merchants, marketplaces, and platforms to create a channel to reach an audience across our geographies (9 Countries currently) and reaching over 1.5M+ people per month whilst growing. We envision our members being able to purchase from any site around the world and have it seamlessly be shipped home. No more geographical restrictions, No more price monopolies, No more ambiguous shipping situations. We are building towards a transparent system, where both buyers and sellers just focus on the product.
AlleyPin — AlleyPin Interactive helps SMBs grow their businesses by elevating their online presence and bringing more customers to their doorsteps. These great results are achieved through our proprietary marketing solutions making it easy for customers of the SMBs to leave great online reviews.

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Acorn Pacific Ventures help entrepreneurs execute cross-border technology strategies.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, China, France

Portfolio highlights

PopChill — PopChill generates an online marketplace for second-hand trade, enabling users to share their fashion styles and sell idle items.
Rezilient Health — Reimagine primary care services with Rezilient Health. Every doctor available at every location & 24/7 virtual care with our tele-health techonology.
Earthshot Labs — We are an open-source community, public benefit technology company, and regenerative asset manager using data science for planetary-scale climate mitigation.

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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.
Instalimb — Instalimb is the world's first 3D printing prosthesis business.
Findy — Findy is a Japanese company once surprised the world by sending out products such as cars and home appliances one after another

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