Top 10 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Taiwan in January 2025
A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Food and beverage startups based in Taiwan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from Taiwan. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Taiwan in January 2025
Investor | Food and Beverage Taiwan investments |
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Ondine Capital | 2 |
BAI Capital | 2 |
National Development Fund of Taiwan Government | 2 |
Cornerstone Ventures | 2 |
HeyTea | 1 |
China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB) | 1 |
Rose Park Advisors | 1 |
CDIB Capital | 1 |
CTBC Financial Holding | 1 |
Yingke Capital | 1 |
Ondine Capital engages in venture capital type investment activities in Southeast Asia, focusing on startups with consumer technology, in the fields of retail, education, logistic, or general TMT.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Automotive, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- China, Indonesia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- MetaCRM Inc. — AI-Driven. Web3-Ready. 10X Growth Potential. Billions in Data Insights. MetaCRM offers the solutions needed to unleash the full potential of your project.
- Swap — Swap is city-based infrastructure of battery swapping stations for e-motorcycle riders. No more cords, no more hassle, battery is being swapped with a fully-charged battery within 9 seconds.
- iMotorbike — iMotorbike is the #1 motorbike online E-commerce website in South East Asia, providing a fast, secure, simple and trouble free online experience with a wide variety of product range, setting itself apart from what exists in the market. iMotorbike offers three main categories: motorbikes, parts and accessories. For a complete 360° experience,iMotorbike also enables users the access to services such as insurance and financing. At iMotorbike we always strive to offer our customers the best experience through a complete and efficient online ecosystem for motorbike users, lovers and professionals.
BAI Capital is an investment arm of German media mogul Bertelsmann. Its notable investments include electric vehicle upstart Nio, Southeast Asia’s popular live streaming app Bigo, and China’s shared bike pioneer Mobike, which was acquired by Meituan.
BAI Capital was founded in 2008 by German businessman Carl Bertelsmann.
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Investment focus
- Hardware, Semiconductor, Art
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- CYGNUSEMI — Cygnus Semi is a semiconductor chip technology company that focuses on 5G IoT applications.
- Speedfox — Speedfox is a home cleaning smart home company.
- CIX Technology — This Core Technology offers next-generation intelligent computing solutions, designing and developing spec intelligent computing systems.
The national development fund is the management unit of the non-business cycle budget fund, which is tasked with grouping. It aims to accelerate the industrial innovation value-added, promote economic transformation and national development, and help china's industrial innovation value-added, research and development and self-owned brands. Thefinancing method or assisting the competent authorities of the central government to handle the relevant plans to complete the purposes specified in article 30 of the "industry innovation ordinance".
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Taiwan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- FooSpace — FooSpace is an OMO smart retail solution provider enabling brands to start their offline and online business easily. With our technologies, much of the purchase, checkout, and payment steps associated with a retail transaction are completely automated. In the meantime, we focus on providing the right goods to the right people based on a variety ofdata collected by our innovative system.
- PopChill — PopChill generates an online marketplace for second-hand trade, enabling users to share their fashion styles and sell idle items.
- AnBogen Therapeutics — Harness the Power of Science to Cure Cancer.
Cornerstone Ventures is an early-stage VC firm with Internet, digitization, and AI as its main investment themes. It invests in startups in Taiwan with global vision, and also invests globally in startups that are interested in breaking into Taiwan market. With the main goal to help the founders grow in the journey of entrepreneurship, CornerstoneVentures is a long term investor and it actively provides its resource to support all founders.Cornerstone Ventures believes in its motto that "The Future is Unwritten".
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Investment focus
- Logistics, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Taiwan, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
- Log 9 Materials — The spirit of innovation remains the cornerstone of every mission here at Log9. We have failed numerous times in this mission of ours, only to learn from them
- AlleyPin — AlleyPin Interactive helps SMBs grow their businesses by elevating their online presence and bringing more customers to their doorsteps. These great results are achieved through our proprietary marketing solutions making it easy for customers of the SMBs to leave great online reviews.
HeyTea is a Chinese tea shop that specializes in cheese-topped tea and fruit tea.
In 2012, HEYTEA originated from an alley in the riverside. Originally known as ROYALTEA , the royal tea was completely upgraded to the registered brand HEYTEA.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Coffee, Retail
- Series A, Funding Round
- China, Taiwan
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- WAT — WAT is a cocktail and spirits brand that provides bottled cocktails packaged in a futuristic way.
- Heqi Taotao — Heqi Taotao is a restaurant chain that offers peach-flavored beverages and snacks.
- Seesaw Coffee — Seesaw Coffee provides unique coffee experiences to the communities.
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
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- 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.
Rose Park Advisors, LLC is a specialized investment firm that applies the theory of disruptive innovation.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Series C, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- BioLite — BioLite designs off-grid personal scale energy products for cooking, charging, and lighting. Perfect for camping, fishing, tailgating, power outages, and more.
- Fetch Package — Fetch is an off-site package management solution for multifamily apartment communities. Eliminate the time and space devoted to resident packages and bring your resident's a valuable new amenity - direct to door delivery.
- Inflection Points — Inflection Points provides training in bitcoin and crypto.
CCIC CDIB International Corp.
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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.
CTBC Financial Holding Co., Ltd. (hereinafter CTBC Holding) was established on May 17, 2002. What started out as a modest company with just 19 employees, grew into a powerhouse with locations around the world, over 10,000 employees, and assets in excess of NT$2 trillion. The key to CTBC Holding’s success has been our enduring adherence to thefounder Mr. Koo’s ideal: “They are family.” By treating customers like family, they can anticipate our customers’ requests, even before they voice their needs. Through our extensive and diverse financial products, they can provide customers with ever more convenient services.In order to provide customers with globalized and more convenient financial services, CTBC Holding and CTBC Life, a subsidiary of CTBC Holding, announced the acquisition of Manulife Taiwan at the end of July 2013 and completing the deal later on January 1, 2014, a strategic move which allows CTBC Life to offer customers a greatly expanded range of high quality services.The acquisition of The Tokyo Star Bank, Ltd. by CTBC Holding’s subsidiary, CTBC Bank, was approved on December 20, 2013 during CTBC Holding’s extraordinary shareholder meeting. The transfer of 100% shares was completed on June 5, 2014. CTBC Bank is officially the sole shareholder of The Tokyo Star Bank, Ltd.CTBC Holding will continue to stand by its brand spirit " They are family,” while they work to protect and build their clients’ wealth. They will also uphold their brand value by being caring, professional, and trustworthy, while providing their customers with a comprehensive variety of convenient financial services. CTBC Holding is set to become Taiwan Champion, Asia Leader and the best financial institute for Chinese around the world.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Software, Restaurants
- Series A
- Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- iCHEF — iCHEF build the best restaurant POS in the world, and keep making it better.Believing technology should help but handicap entrepreneurship, iCHEF works with hundreds of restaurants owners to design and deliver POS technology and service that helps every restaurant to prevail in their own way. Turning enterprise level technologies intoaffordable and understandable for small restaurants, iCHEF is making opening restaurant a better business.
Yingke Capital is a principal investment firm specializing in pre-IPO investments. It seeks to invest in 5G internet of things, biomedical, environmental and facilities services, new energy, consumer upgrade, smart manufacturing and materials sector. Yingke Capital prefers to invest in companies with high technology R&D and productioncapacity. Mingfei Qian founded it in 2010, with its headquarters in Fuzhou in China.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Series B, Funding Round, Seed
- China, United States, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- Huanzhi Technology — Huanzhi Technology offers integrated logistical solutions such as robots and unmanned control systems for industrial and dispatch vehicles.
- WestGene Biopharma — WestGene Biopharma is a high-tech enterprise that focuses on the research and development, manufacturing and sales of mRNA therapeutics and adjuvants.
- EnCureGen Pharmaceuticals — Huizhengqi Medicine is a pharmaceutical company that develops mRNA drugs for the treatment of tumor and immunity diseases.
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