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Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Taiwan

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Hardware startups based in Taiwan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Taiwan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Taiwan

Investor	Hardware Taiwan investments
WI Harper Group	6
Cherubic Ventures	4
Taiwania Capital Management Corporation	3
National Development Fund of Taiwan Government	2
BIGLOBE Capital	1
ARM IoT Capital	1
HTC	1
Delta Electronics Capital	1
CDIB Capital	1
iSeed Ventures	1
ITIC: Industrial Technology Investment Corporation	1
Global Brain Corporation	1
JD.com	1
Mosaic Venture Lab	1
Hazel Capital LLP	1
China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB)	1
B Dash Ventures	1
Vectr	1
Protégé Ventures	1
Younger Liang	1
Giant Rich Co., Ltd.	1
Jeremy Lu	1
Sino-American Express	1
Legend Star	1
Trend Micro	1
H&Q Asia Pacific	1
SOSV	1
Rookie Fund	1
Delta Blockchain Fund	1
Nogle	1
Animoca Brands KK	1
MediaTek	1
Global from Day One	1
Comet Labs	1
Translink Capital	1
Gumi Ventures	1
IT-Farm	1
SparkLabs Global Ventures	1
GD1	1
UPI Semiconductor	1
NTT Finance	1
DCG Group	1
ROHM Semiconductor	1
iStart	1
500 Startups	1
SBI Group	1
Marubun Corporation	1
Alibaba Group	1
Digital Currency Group	1
General Mobile Corporation	1

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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 supports emergent growth companies and innovators in accelerating their genetic medicines to the clinic. We support the manufacturing of Viral Vectors, mRNA and plasmid DNA.
Bitmark — Bitmark is building a new institution to champion a future in which art fosters vibrant communities spanning the internet.
Blackpanda — Asia's premier digital forensics and cyber incident response firm.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

iKala — iKala's mission is to enable AI competencies of our enterprise customers, to increase their customer acquisition capability and customer lifetime value.
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Inference.ai — Inference.ai is an IT company that provides artificial intelligence solutions and manufactures GPUs.

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Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Taiwan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Daytrip — Daytrip is a platform for traveling with local drivers. It allows independent travelers to get the most out of their vacation by connecting them to local drivers, who drive them from one city to another with their own cars, discovering local sights and culture on the way.It gives travelers an opportunity to see otherwise unreachable countrysidesights, meet real locals and get to know local history, culture and current affairs first-hand. Daytrip is an entirely new approach to traveling, combining the comfort of package holidays with the flexibility of independent planning and authenticity of backpacking.
SKY ENGINE AI — About Sky EngineSky Engine is an advanced data science technology and research company that develops innovative software solutions to improve computer vision. The company markets the Sky Engine deep learning platform, which is the next-generation of self-learning AI system for image and video analysis applications. The company was founded as aresearch and scientific spin-off in UK.About Sky Engine PlatformThe Sky Engine evolutionary AI platform for the deep learning in virtual reality is designed to overcome the complex object recognition challenges of modern machine/computer vision. It represents the future of self-learning in artificial intelligence technology, supporting efficient and cost effective workflows. Many image recognition tasks require acquisition of large amounts of data and manual data labelling. Sky Engine is designed to replace that. Sky Engine efficiently drives self-learning processes and offers advanced features for object discrimination, workflow automation and adaptive deep learning. Sky Engine is designed for tomorrow’s requirements in advanced analytics and decision support enabling AI business transformation.About Sky Engine client solutionsSky Engine creates flexible and innovative AI vision solutions tailored to customer needs and supports a wide range of industries, providing systems for a variety of data science needs, ensuring business partners get greater value from existing equipment.
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.

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, 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 — Dedicate to creating breakthrough science that changes the life of cancer patients.

BIGLOBE Capital was founded in 2007

Investment focus

Mobile, Content, Marketing
Seed
Japan, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Pal+ — Pal+ is a free mobile messaging app that allows users to create and share images, videos, and voice messages while chatting with others. It is available for iOS and Android. Pal+ is formerly known as Cubie. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.
HEROZ — HEROZ, Inc. was founded in 2009 and our engineer has developed the most cutting edge artificial intelligence, “Ponanza” programme to play Japanese chess 'Shogi', which defeated an active professional player in a public match for the first time ever, in March 2013. Shogi presents a higher degree of complexity than many other strategygames, and has been of interest to Artificial Intelligence researchers.

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.

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

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

Delta, founded in 1971, is a global leader in power and thermal management solutions. Its mission statement, “To provide innovative, clean and energy-efficient solutions for a better tomorrow,” focuses on addressing key environmental issues such as global climate change. As an energy-saving solutions provider with core competencies in powerelectronics and automation, Delta's business categories include Power Electronics, Automation, and Infrastructure.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Wireless
Series C, Series B, Seed
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.
WiTricity — WiTricity develops solutions to enable wireless power transfer over distance using its patented magnetic resonance technology. WiTricity works with top global carmakers and Tier 1 suppliers to deploy wireless power solutions, helping realize a future of transportation that is electrified, shared and autonomous. See how WiTricity makes EV chargingeasy. Get to know WiTricity.
Ancora Semiconductor — Ancora Semiconductor is a fabless design company focusing in GaN devices and its integration.

CCIC CDIB International Corp.

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.

iSeed is an early-stage investment company. They focus on consumer mobile technology with a keen interest in healthcare. iSeed is committed to partnering with the next generation of technology startups to grow a lasting and impactful company.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Philippines, Austria

Portfolio highlights

GroupUltra — GroupUltra is a platform that allows users to program their groups and design their communities.
Veera — Veera is an internet browser that gives you rewards every time you browse.
Humble Sustainability — Humble Sustainability provides products and accessories reuse and recycle services.

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, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Series B, Seed, Series C
United States, Japan, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

DAIZ — DAIZ produces and sells plant-based meat, 'Miracle Meat' which uses germinated soybeans by the proprietary 'Ochiai Germination Method.' Also, DAIZ engages in research & development of raw materials and drug discovery from germinated soybeans.
PopChill — PopChill generates an online marketplace for second-hand trade, enabling users to share their fashion styles and sell idle items.
TXOne Networks — We offer cybersecurity solutions tailored to the protection of industrial control systems, ensuring reliability and safety from cyberattacks.

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Groq — Groq radically simplifies compute to accelerate workloads in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing.
Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs

JD.com is an online direct sales company in China in terms of transaction volume, with a market share in China of 54.3% in the second quarter of 2014, according to iResearch, a third-party market research firm. JD.com believes they provide consumers an enjoyable online retail experience. Through their content-rich and user-friendly websitewww.JD.com and mobile applications, JD.com offers a wide selection of authentic products at competitive prices which are delivered in a speedy and reliable manner. JD.com also offer convenient online and in-person payment options and comprehensive customer services. In order to have better control over fulfillment and to ensure customer satisfaction, JD.com has built their own nationwide fulfillment infrastructure and last-mile delivery network, staffed by their own employees, which supports both their online direct sales and their online marketplace businesses. JD.com has established strong relationships with their suppliers as they develop their online direct sales business. Leveraging their strengths, they launched their online marketplace business in 2010, which has allowed us to significantly expand their selection of products and services.Timely and reliable fulfillment is critical to the success of an online retail business. JD.com believes that they have the largest fulfillment infrastructure of any e-commerce company in China. As of June 30, 2014, JD.com operated 97 warehouses with an aggregate gross floor area of approximately 1.8 million square meters and 1,808 delivery stations and 715 pickup stations. As of June 30, 2014, their self-operated delivery network covered 1,780 counties and districts and their 211 program and next-day delivery program covered 111 and 622 counties and districts, respectively, across China. JD.com has 62,061 full-time employees as of July 31, 2014. JD.com is a technology-driven company and has invested heavily in developing their own highly scalable proprietary technology platform that supports their rapid growth and enables us to provide value-added technology services.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Series A, Corporate Round, Series B
China, Hong Kong, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

China Mobile — China Mobile is an investment holdings company that provides mobile telecommunications and related services in Mainland China and Hong Kong.
OakDeer Robotics — OakDeer Robotics is a robotics company that specializes in the development of smart cooking machines to make food processing more efficient. It is a subsidiary of Oak Heron Technology.
Oak Heron Technology — Oak Heron Technology is a robotics company that specializes in the development of life-service robots.

Mosaic Venture Lab is an e-mobility innovation platform to co-build products and solutions with entrepreneurs and corporations, creating the new realities of urban mobility.

Investment focus

Semiconductor
Seed
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Jmem Tek — Due to the development of the Internet and the growth of the Internet of Everything, traditional software protection is no longer sufficient, and the global environment has entered the era of hardware protection. After four years of research, the team aimed at the shortcomings of the current one-time programming memory, such as insufficient security and large size, and took advantage of the advantages of easy stacking and low cost of polysilicon, High-K and different component structures, through fuses and reflectors. Fuse programming method to complete more bits and more configurations, increase component security and improve existing products are easy to be reverse engineered and consume too much power, etc., develop a new type of polymorphic memory, and unique One can be applied to the most advanced process GAA FET.

Hazel Capital LLP specializing in renewable energy infrastructure.

Investment focus

Energy, Wearables, Electric Vehicle
Angel, Funding Round
Taiwan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

JARVISH — JARVISH has teams consist of experts from optical design, product manufacturing and commercial marketing.
ChargePoint Services — ChargePoint Services Ltd (CPS) provides integrated electric vehicle charging solutions, bringing together best of breed hardware and our own endorsed proprietary software systems – the GeniePoint Platform, to provide end-to-end technology for public, workplace & private sector EV charging.

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 — Dedicate to creating breakthrough science that changes the life of cancer patients.
Elixiron Immunotherapeutics — Elixiron Immunotherapeutics is a company developing therapeutics for cancer, neurological diseases, and inflammatory disorders.

B Dash Ventures does seed to late stage tech investments in Japan, Asia Pacific, and the U.S. LPs include Japan's largest technology companies and financial institutions including NTT Docomo, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, GREE, NEC BIGLOBE, Fuji Television, and the Japanese government. B Dash Ventures also operates an incubation space inpartnership with Mori Building Co. and holds the invitation-based B Dash Camp conference.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Taiwan, India

Portfolio highlights

G.U. Group — G.U. Labs provides cloud tools and solutions, security technologies, and R&D capabilities to respond to the various social changes caused by blockchain. G.U.Labs provides cloud tools and solutions, security technologies, and research and development capabilities to respond to the various social changes caused by blockchain.
Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
Ascend — Ascend is a logistics company.

Vectr is a venture firm based in Hong Kong. They combine investment, creation and growth to deliver game-changing impact to teams ready to tackle global issues, transform industries and improve the lives of millions.That combines capital, creation and partnership to deliver game-changing impact. We strive to be the ideal partner for founders thatare building transformation products and looking to expand their businesses into asia.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Hong Kong, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Percent — Unlock private credit investments with Percent. Access alternative investments on the platform powering the future of private markets.
Micro Connect — Micro Connect provides market infrastructure, fintech, and platform development.
MasterExchange — Trading platform for music rights leveraging emerging technology to create friction free and compliant investment opportunities to everyone.

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.

Younger Liang is the CTO and founder at JARVISH.

Investment focus

Wearables, Augmented Reality, Internet of Things
Angel
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

JARVISH — JARVISH has teams consist of experts from optical design, product manufacturing and commercial marketing.

Giant Rich Co., Ltd.

Investment focus

Wearables, Augmented Reality, Internet of Things
Angel
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

JARVISH — JARVISH has teams consist of experts from optical design, product manufacturing and commercial marketing.

Jeremy Lu - President, Founder & CEO @ JARVISH

Investment focus

Wearables, Augmented Reality, Internet of Things
Angel
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

JARVISH — JARVISH has teams consist of experts from optical design, product manufacturing and commercial marketing.

Sino-American Express is an investment Firm.

Investment focus

Electronics, Semiconductor
Seed
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Ancora Semiconductor — Ancora Semiconductor is a fabless design company focusing in GaN devices and its integration.

Legend Star helps entrepreneurs create great businesses through investments, CEO training sessions and an entrepreneurs alliance.Since 2008, Legend Star has incubated and invested in nearly 600 companies and is deeply integrated in the Chinese entrepreneurial ecosystem.Legend Star is the independent early-stage investment arm of LegendHoldings. Legend Holdings is the parent company of Lenovo, Raycom Real Estate, Joyvio Agribusiness and a large range of fast-growing Chinese companies.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Healingovation — Healingovation is a med-tech company that specializes in the development and manufacturing of surgical robots, intelligent diagnosis and treatment equipment.
Arnatar Therapeutics — Arnatar Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that specializes in the development of novel nucleic acid medications.
Carbon Energy Technology — Carbon Energy Technology develops technology for carbon utilization and its commercialization.

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cyber security solutions, helps to make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Their innovative solutions for consumers, businesses, and governments provide layered security for data centers, cloud environments, networks, and endpoints.Optimized for leading environments, including AmazonWeb Services, Microsoft®, VMware®, and more, their solutions enable organizations to automate the protection of valuable information from today’s threats. All their products work together to seamlessly share threat intelligence and provide a connected threat defense with centralized visibility and control, enabling better, faster protection.Trend Micro customers include 45 of the top 50 Fortune® Global 500 companies, and 100% of the top 10 global automotive, banking, telecommunications, and petroleum companies.With over 5,000 employees in over 50 countries and the world’s most advanced global threat intelligence, Trend Micro enables organizations to secure their journey to the cloud.

Investment focus

Big Data, Internet, Advertising
Series A, Series C
China, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

SINA Corporation — SINA is an online media company and MVAS provider in the People’s Republic of China and for the global Chinese communities. With a branded network of localized websites targeting Greater China and overseas Chinese, the Company provides services mainly through SINA.com (online news and content), Weibo.com (microblog) and SINA Mobile (MVAS). Throughthese businesses and properties and other business lines, SINA offers an array of services including region-focused online portals, MVAS, microblog, blog, video, and music streaming, photo sharing, online games, email, search, classified listings, fee-based services, e-commerce and enterprise e-solutions. The Company generates the majority of its revenues from online advertising and MVAS offerings and, to a lesser extent, from fee-based services.SINA offers distinct and targeted content on each of its region-specific websites and a range of complementary offerings designed to broaden its user base and increase user traffic. The Company aims to become the media platform of choice for Internet users to research and retrieve information, share opinions and build social networks and for businesses to market and promote their products and services. SINA offers a range of complementary offerings, all centered on its core online media business, that are intended to enhance the attractiveness of its portal and microblogging properties and strengthen its reach in the Chinese online community.
VMFive — Founded in May 2014, VMFive is a Taiwanese startup company specializing in cloud technology with its world's largest cloud virtual mobile platform. With the integration of its leading core technologies: Cloud, Virtualization, Streaming, Ad Tech, and Big Data, VMFive creates AdPlay - Playable Ad Solution, which turns mobile apps into playablead unit, and enables users to instantly try apps before downloading. AdPlay becomes an effective advertising solution, which acquires higher quality game users while providing a better user experience than traditional ads.VMFive has won top prize at TechCrunch Beijing in 2014 and Slush Asia Tokyo in 2015, and it is moving on to the Asia-Pacific market, actively engaging potential collaborators to create a brand new mobile advertising model.Learn more about VMFive and AdPlay：http://vmfive.com

H&Q Asia Pacific (H&QAP) is a leading Asian private equity firm. Originally founded by Dr. Ta-lin Hsu as a division of U.S. investment banking firm Hambrecht & Quist, H&QAP is currently an independent organization that conducts both later-stage control investments and earlier-stage venture capital investments. It focuses on growthsectors including technology, technology manufacturing, consumer brands and financial services. The firm's offices are located in the principal markets of Asia as well as in the Silicon Valley, providing it with a unique combination of local market presence and global perspective. H&QAP is dedicated to identifying superior commercial potential in Asia and working closely with companies to unlock that untapped potential. Throughout its rich history, H&QAP has developed an extensive network specifically geared towards helping its portfolio companies emerge into global business leaders.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

FST NETWORK — Data Preparation Made Easy FST Network helps Associate, Curate & Oversee Data Process within Data Pipelines with Full Lineage & Audibility with a seamless integrated low code platform.
EOC Pharma Group — EOC Pharma is an integrated biopharmaceutical company that is focused on the manufacturing, development and commercialization of innovative global oncology products in China. They have adopted a licensing model in order to build EOC’s innovative pipeline by plugging their partner’s molecule into EOC’s “core engine” of local manufacturing,clinical development, regulatory filing, and commercialization. The company has a pipeline of seven novel products from global biopharmaceutical partners that are potentially first- and best-in-class. Until now, EOC has obtained four Class I innovative drug CTA approvals and initiated clinical studies of four lead products in China.,EOC has a team of entrepreneurs and consultants with overseas background that boasts of first-class pharmaceutical R&D expertise as well as rich industry experience. The company owns an 8,000 square meter cGMP manufacturing facility in Taizhou, China Medical City and has offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Los Angeles.EOC will leverage forward-looking licensing which will provide product opportunities to their integrated platform, generating a highly strategic portfolio. Ultimately, this will position EOC at the top of oncology innovation in China.
Hyphen Group — MoneyHero Group is a portfolio of digital finance companies that exists to bridge the gap between people and finance. We accelerate the digitisation and growth of the financial industry, and empower consumers to build healthier financial lives.

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

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.
NovoNutrients — NovoNutrients is working to turn waste CO2 into high-value, low-cost proteins and additives for food and feed by developing proprietary microbes and advanced gas fermentation systems.
Sodex Innovations — Sodex Innovations is a company which is specialized in developing assistance-systems and automating-kits for excavators

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.
NORTHSTAKE — Providing institutional investors with access to future economies through secure and trustworthy investment pathways for digital assets
Karma3 Labs — Building trust and reputation for the open web

Nogle is a platform to empower entrepreneurship through provision of technology, business consultation, funding, shared operational and human resources, in return for a vested interest in their companies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Fashion, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Hong Kong, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Style.me — Transforming digital fashion and virtual fitting. Our 3D technology brings new utility to fashion NFTs. You can now wear, share and use fashion across metaverses.
First Digital Trust — Experts in trust, custody, and asset servicing.
Legacy Trust Company — Naming a trustee to be responsible for managing your assets and legal affairs is one of the most important decisions you can make.

Animoca Brands KK supports the global strategy of Web3.0 for Japanese intellectual property and content (IP) holders such as major publishers, brands, education, sports organizations, athletes, artists, and game companies. rice field. Animoca Brands KK builds and provides a platform that utilizes blockchain technology and provides a mechanism forIP / IP holders to have their own ecosystem in Web3.0 and issue NFTs and tokens within it.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Apps, Animation
Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
India, Taiwan, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Cool Cats — Welcome to the official website for Cool Cats. Discover Blue Cat and his friends, shop for merch, watch fun animations, and learn more about Cool Cats today.
Redacted Coin — Redacted is a Web3 entertainment and gaming platform.
Rainshine Entertainment — Rainshine operates leading digital entertainment businesses in India and globally. They are committed to being the pioneers in digital entertainment, bringing new stories, formats and experiences for audiences worldwide, by investing in our existing brands and creating new ones.

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, Semiconductor
Series A, Series B, Series D
China, Taiwan, Israel

Portfolio highlights

SweGaN — SweGaN's vision is to be a world leading supplier of nitride based HEMT structures. By integrating SweGaN´s technology into every single epitaxial wafer they deliver, they believe that your devices will fulfill all demands required in next generation's high power and high frequency devices.SweGaN's founders all come fromLinköping University and have more than 50 man-years experience in growth and characterization of GaN and SiC materials.SweGaN is in a highly expansive phase and they are always looking for skilled and very focused individuals with large experience in the field. If you are interested in working in a challenging and dynamic atmosphere please send us an e-mail.
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.
Stathera — Stathera transforms the global timing market from Quartz-based to MEMS-based devices.

GD1 is a Venture Capital firm that invests with high conviction in exciting technology companies originating from New Zealand. Our team is passionate about creating and growing global businesses, and our goal is to transform NZ made into the next generation of globally disruptive tech solutions.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Medical Device
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
New Zealand, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

eVouch — eVouch is the most powerful marketing tool we've used to build an organic community. We've experienced elevated brand trust while reaching an audience we never thought possible. Using customers to market to their friends is simply genius.
Flowingly — Unlock Team Productivity. Streamline Approvals. Increase Compliance. Easy To Use, No-Code Process Mapping & Workflow Automation Platform.
Formus Labs — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.

We're the VC fund that invests in and support teams transforming industries with AI and robotics to unlock human potential.

Investment focus

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, China, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Preteckt — Preteckt's AI software predicts & prevents breakdowns in buses & coaches. Reduce costs, maximize uptime, & extend vehicle life
Arch Systems — Solve problems faster and drive operational improvements at every level of your organization with AI as your guide.
Esperanto Technologies — Esperanto delivers high-performance, energy-efficient computing solutions, the compelling choice for the most demanding AI / ML / DL applications. Their founding team, with many decades of processor design and architecture experience, is dedicated to delivering solutions to help drive future computing innovation. The changing,computationally intensive, workloads of the machine learning era mandate a new clean-sheet solution, without the baggage of existing legacy architectures. Esperanto leverages the simple, elegant, open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) to deliver flexibility, scalability, performance and energy-efficiency advantages.

Translink Capital is a trailblazing Silicon Valley VC with unmatched institutional connections to Asia's economic powerhouses.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Formic Technologies — At Formic, we want to increase the collective output of humanity by making automation deployments trivial and easy. Every factory should have access to unlimited 'labor' through robotics and automation rentals. We are building technology, financing, operations and services to make this vision possible.Formic is a fast-growingventure-backed startup focused on unlocking robotic automation in labor-starved industries such as food and beverage, advanced manufacturing, consumer packaged goods and other industrial settings. We combine financial innovation with a firm understanding of what robotics are capable of, to enable manufacturing customers to scale up their manufacturing capacity quickly and with minimal risk.
Uplimit — Unlock the potential of your organization with scalable, high-impact learning experiences.
Matter — Redefining the present, Reimagining the future.

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.

IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Ac-Planta — Ac-Planta provides research, development, manufacture, and sales of agrochemicals.
EV Motors Japan — EV Motors Japan provides sales and services for commercial vehicles in the automotive industry.
Honeycomb — Honeycomb (fka Agilius) is the only place where you can buy a condo/apartment building master policy online in less than 3 minutes at a fraction of the cost! Instant, free, no hassle quotes, online everything and up to 40% savings. With all that we're bringing simplicity and transparency to the real estate insurance space for condoassociations (HOAs), building owners, property managers, and developers everywhere. This is what we do. This is all we do.

SparkLabs Global Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed-stage investment services to firms in the SaaS, healthcare, education, IoT, fintech, mobile, commerce, HR, gaming, security, and VR industries. It was founded in Dec 2013 and is based in California.Exceptional entrepreneurs, that are building strong, category defining companiesat highly advantageous valuations – can be found anywhere. The company has a team that is highly experienced in finding such talent and helping our entrepreneurs to develop, grow, network, and scale into other markets throughout the world.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, South Korea, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Splab — Manage communities and events and enjoy them like never before. Umoh is a super-connector for participants and provides a powerful dashboard full of insights for event and community managers.
Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
Tella — Service

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
New Zealand, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
Caruso — We're helping fund managers break free from expensive, clunky, legacy systems and empowering them with modern tools to help them grow and thrive. With Caruso, you can manage all your fund operations effortlessly in one place - onboard investors, complete AML / KYC, raise capital, issue distributions, complete secondary sales, andeverything in between.
NextWork — Building the best online learning experience to switch careers and upskill. Join the waitlist today, we are waiting for you!

UPI Semiconductor designs and manufactures analog and mixed-signal power management solutions in electronic systems.

Investment focus

Electronics, Semiconductor
Seed
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Ancora Semiconductor — Ancora Semiconductor is a fabless design company focusing in GaN devices and its integration.

NTT Finance, a Tokyo-based international leasing and finance company, operates through leasing, loans, venture capital, and other segments.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United States, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Classiq Technologies — A software platform that helps users create scalable complex quantum computer algorithms, software, and circuits for any gate-based quantum computer
Ken Robotec — Ken Robotec is a construction company that provides labor-saving solutions.
WOVN Technologies — WOVN.io is a website localization service. In just a few simple steps, expand your reach, in any language.

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
MetaStreet — Earn yield in the Metaverse with leverage.

ROHM Semiconductor is the industry leader in system LSI, discrete components and module products, utilizing the latest in semiconductor technology.ROHM's proprietary production system, which includes some of the most advanced automation technology, is a major factor in keeping it at the forefront of the electronic component manufacturingindustry.In addition to its development of electronic components, ROHM has also developed its own production system so that it can focus on specific aspects of customized product development.ROHM employs highly skilled engineers with expertise in all aspects of design, development and production. This allows ROHM the flexibility to take on a wide range of applications and projects and the capability to serve valuable clients in the automotive, telecommunication and computer sectors as well as consumer OEMs.

Investment focus

Semiconductor, Sensor, Biometrics
Series A, Seed
United States, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Arieca — Arieca manufactures and distributes a thermally conductive rubber composite. Arieca's composite is a stretchable, thermally conductive rubber that combines elasticity of soft silicone with the thermal of metal to be used as circuit wiring, sensors, and passive heat exchangers, allowing manufacturers to deploy an alternative form of rubber thatimprove the performance electronics and help them to safely interact with humans.
SiLC Technologies — Empowering machines with LiDAR to see like humans. SiLC brings AI and Robotics together with Drone, Robotic and Long Range LiDAR solutions.
Ancora Semiconductor — Ancora Semiconductor is a fabless design company focusing in GaN devices and its integration.

iStartis is a customizable online platform for organizations running business competitions around the globe. It has become the go-to site for entering business competitions from around the world, browsing pages of idea summaries, and networking with hundreds of entrepreneurs.iStart is now the networking site for entrepreneurs, mentors, andadvisors to connect with each other and bring potential business ideas to market. It is conducted by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Investment focus

Video, Software, E-Commerce
Funding Round
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Viscovery — Viscovery offers an easier way to self-checkout for product items that are unlabeled (pastries, food) or labeled, using the latest vision AI.

500 Startups is a venture capital firm on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, help them create successful companies at scale, and build thriving global ecosystems. It is one of the most active venture capital firms in the world. It's headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

Mobile, Mobile Apps, Blockchain
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
Dinari — Discover Equity Boundless - Simplify everything from equity management and options grant to payroll so that you no longer have to worry about compliance, taxes, or vesting schedules no matter where your employees are.
Xujing Fanghua Pictures — Xujing Fanghua Pictures is a production company that focuses on the production and distribution of overseas online short dramas.

SBI Group aims to become a corporate entity that provides a variety of one-stop financial services over the Internet now that two major events, the Financial Big Bang resulting from deregulation, and the Internet Revolution resulting from IT innovation, have radically transformed the financial industry.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bluwhale — Unlock Web3 Wallet Potential with AI Insights. Supercharge Your Business Growth
BLOCKSMITH&Co — BLOCKSMITH&Co. is developing and distributing of Game&SocialFi services such as blockchain technology, crypto assets and virtual currency utilising NFTs on the Web3
DeepForest Technologies — DeepForest Technologies is an IT firm that offers drone photography, forest information analysis, DF Scanner, and data processing services.

This is the official website of Marubun Corporation, an electronics trading company. We handle cutting-edge electronics products from Japan and overseas, including semiconductors and system equipment, to help our customers solve their problems.

Investment focus

Electronics, Software, Wearables
Series A, Funding Round
Taiwan, United States

Portfolio highlights

MC10 — MC10 is focused on reshaping healthcare. Learn about our innovative wearable health technology that decodes and reveals the body's information.
eYs3D Microelectronics — eYs3D Microelectronics is A Silicon Centric A.I. Company Focusing Technology- 3D Sensing/Computer Vision Algorithm/ASICs/Heterogeneous Integrated Chiplet

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
TurnStay — We help hotels radically reduce payment fees.
aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.

General Mobile Corporation, a Cayman-based company that provides mobile internet service to emerging markets via its content management and application store hosting platform

Investment focus

Advertising, Mobile, Big Data
Series A, Convertible Note
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

VMFive — Founded in May 2014, VMFive is a Taiwanese startup company specializing in cloud technology with its world's largest cloud virtual mobile platform. With the integration of its leading core technologies: Cloud, Virtualization, Streaming, Ad Tech, and Big Data, VMFive creates AdPlay - Playable Ad Solution, which turns mobile apps into playablead unit, and enables users to instantly try apps before downloading. AdPlay becomes an effective advertising solution, which acquires higher quality game users while providing a better user experience than traditional ads.VMFive has won top prize at TechCrunch Beijing in 2014 and Slush Asia Tokyo in 2015, and it is moving on to the Asia-Pacific market, actively engaging potential collaborators to create a brand new mobile advertising model.Learn more about VMFive and AdPlay：http://vmfive.com
Bubbleye — Their team hails from Italy, Taiwan, USA, and the UK with tech backgrounds from NTU (臺大) and MIT (麻省理工)。 They are alumni of Silicon Valley backed MOX Accelerator and recently closed Series A venture funding from Taipei based Darwin Ventures. They're also backed by several notable angel investors and advisors, including Duncan Clark (Alibaba),Chris Reitermann (CEO Ogilvy Asia), Olivier Glauser (Steamboat Capital, Qualcomm Ventures). Their clients are world leading game publishers from across the Americas, Europe and Asia.Started by an international team of AI experts and mobile gaming fanatics, Bubbleye is a fast growing AI startup now with R&D headquarters in Taipei and biz dev teams working across the globe. They are solving mobile user acquisition inefficiencies through automation and inferential algorithms. And to achieve that, They pick the best of the best. A select team with an international DNA, a very open culture mix across nations and continents, driven by the same powerful driving force: a passion for innovation and growth, guts to disrupt, and skills to implement.They are ahead of the global race to solving mobile user acquisition, with unique tech and talent.

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