Top 10 Impact Startup Investors in Taiwan in February 2025
A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Impact startups based in Taiwan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Impact companies from Taiwan. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Impact Startup Investors in Taiwan in February 2025
Investor | Impact Taiwan investments |
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Samuel Yin | 1 |
Riyue Energy Technology | 1 |
Cher Wang | 1 |
Prototron | 1 |
AVA Angels | 1 |
HTC | 1 |
Darwin Venture Management | 1 |
HIM International Music | 1 |
WI Harper Group | 1 |
Accord Ventures | 1 |
Samuel Yin is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is best known for the establishment of the Tang Prize, and as chairman of the Ruentex Financial Group.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Automotive, Transportation
- Series A, Post-IPO Equity
- Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- Gogoro — Gogoro is an electric scooter maker. With a mission to deliver consumer innovations that will improve how the world’s most populated cities distribute and utilize energy, the company is enabling the transformation of megacities into smart cities. Gogoro is working toward a better future by putting power in the hands of everyone – to move us allforward, faster.Founded in 2011, Gogoro is based in Taipei, Taiwan.
Riyue Energy Technology is committed to promoting renewable energy.
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Investment focus
- Training, GreenTech, Recycling
- Seed
- Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- ECOCO circular economy — ECOCO circular economy offers smart recycling machine, bottle closing machine, battery machine, environmental protection, recycling resource regeneration technology and design, education, reduce waste of resources, establish correct habits and reduce environmental impact, and bottle collection machine.
Cher Wang is the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and President at HTC and VIA Technologies. Cher has established a number of successful IT-related businesses, including founding VIA Technologies, Inc. in 1987 and co-founding HTC Corporation in 1997. Cher is currently Chairwoman of both companies and holds leadershiproles in numerous other enterprises and organizations. Cher is active in the international business community, participating as an Industry Partner at the World Economic Forum and as a Member of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC). In 2010, Cher co-founded the ABAC Women’s Forum to identify capacity-building policy recommendations that enhance opportunities for women in business and to hold outreach activities within APEC economies. Cher’s business achievements have been widely acclaimed in major international media. In 2011, Cher received the 20th spot on both Forbes’ and Fortune’s annual ‘most powerful women’ lists. Cher graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and is a devout Christian. Cher is married and has two children.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Energy, Software
- Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- Gogoro — Gogoro is an electric scooter maker. With a mission to deliver consumer innovations that will improve how the world’s most populated cities distribute and utilize energy, the company is enabling the transformation of megacities into smart cities. Gogoro is working toward a better future by putting power in the hands of everyone – to move us allforward, faster.Founded in 2011, Gogoro is based in Taipei, Taiwan.
- XRHealth — XRHealth is a medical device company that develops XR (VR\AR) therapeutic platform. The XRHealth Platform combines medical applications with advanced data analytics and remote monitoring, providing a comprehensive solution for clinicians and patients and pharma companies. The XRHealth Platform collects and analyzes patient interactions withvirtual objects in virtual environments. AI cloud computing algorithms let us deliver an enhanced experience and real-time data analytics that can be used in clinics and in the home. With our technology, patients can analyze and quantify their own performance and track their own improvement over time.XRHealth is the first Certified Virtual Reality (VR) Medical Company to develop FDA/CE Registered Medical Applications. Our products focus on motor, cognitive, physical, psychological, postural ability and pain assessment and treatment.
- Splashtop — Splashtop delivers next-generation remote access and remote support software and services for enterprises, academic and research institutions, government agencies, small businesses, MSPs, IT departments, and individuals.Its cloud-based, secure, and easily managed remote access approach replaces legacy approaches such as virtual private networks(VPNs) while earning a stunning 93 Net Promoter Score (NPS), a standard for assessing customer satisfaction. Splashtop offers an enterprise-specific service that includes extra features, such as single-sign-on (SSO), with integrations for Microsoft Active Directory, JumpCloud, OKTA, OneLogin, and more. Moreover, companies can integrate Splashtop into enterprise services such as Salesforce, Jira, Zendesk, Freshdesk, and ServiceNow so support teams can help their end-users without having to switch from their help desk tool of choice. More than 30 million users, including those in 85% of Fortune 500 enterprises, enjoy Splashtop products globally.The San Jose, California-headquartered company was co-established by Mark Lee, Philip Sheu, Robert Ha, Thomas Deng, and Alex Lu in 2006.
Prototron is a start-up fund that gives money to teams for turning their great ideas into the first working prototype. Founded in 2012 by Swedbank, Tallinn Technical University and Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol. We finance teams with high growth potential in areas of Greentech, Electronics, Mechatronics and ICT. We run 3-4 rounds of financingevery year. During last 5 years we've funded 58 startups with over 470'000€ in cash + coaching/incubation services. Our protfolio has generated >4,5 M€ revenue and raised >17'000'000€ capital. These results make Prototron the most productive pre-seed fund in Estonia. Do you want to be part of the success? We seek for:
*) New start-up teams who need money for building a prototype. Apply for funding: www.prototron.ee
*) Additional partners who want to be part of Estonia's next success stories.
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Investment focus
- Software, Manufacturing, Energy
- Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed
- Estonia, Germany, Taiwan
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- 10Lines — 10Lines is developing autonomous parking lot marking robots and technological solutions to significantly increase productivity in the industry of pavement marking. Our solutions are helping striping businesses do their work much more productively with a smaller environmental footprint.
- KrattWorks — We build jamming-resistant and high performance drones for front line operators.
- RAIKU — RAIKU is a cleantech startup that produces 100% natural packaging material that has also great looks and shock absorption - most importantly, it gives 15-20 times more volume to its raw material making it one of the most resource efficient material uses in the world with high margins. Both the production is and products are clean making no harm tonature. RAIKU has raised over 1.2mln€ in the pre-seed stage, built a team of over 10 people, its own IP and clients are already using its packaging material. This material will up-end the 1 trillion € packaging sector.
AVA Angels is an angel group which focus on connecting angel stage to venture stage of startups. AVA Angels has brought together many outstanding angel investors to find and evaluate together high-quality investment targets, to quickly establish the startup ecosystem and the startup investors network.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, 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.
HTC Corp is engaged in the design, development, and manufacture of smartphones and tablets in Taiwan.The company offers PDA phones and smartphones for mobile operators and distributors in Europe, the United States, and Asia. These machines are available as HTC devices and as products individually customized for operators and device partners.The company provides its own HTC self-branded products as well as supports operator-branded products and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners. It owns Dopod as a subsidiary company and is a member of the Open Handset Alliance.The company’s products are sold under various brand names such as HTC, Dopod, and Qtek and are often rebranded by major telecommunication carriers. Its products also include pocket PC phones (PDA Phone), ultra mobile phones, HTC kovsky (Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1), and HTC dream (T-mobile G1).HTC Corp was founded by Cher Wang and Peter Chou in 1997. It is headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan.
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Investment focus
- Virtual Reality, Software, Augmented Reality
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Taiwan, China
Portfolio highlights
- Hexa — Elevate your eCommerce experience with a 3D tech-stack that lets you create, manage, analyze, and distribute your 3D commerce assets.
- Camsense — Camsense focuses on R&D and manufacturing of vision space positioning technology. It provides customers with highly precise sensors with its self-developed core algorithm and chips. Its products can be applied in consumer robots, industrial test, and surgeries.
- Inworld AI — AI for Metaverse
Darwin Venture Management is a venture capital firm headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with offices in Hsinchu and the United States. Since our founding in 2009, we have managed eight funds, investing primarily in Series A/B, late-stage, and secondary funds. In 2022, we also launched an evergreen angel fund to enable more nimble bets onpromising early-stage teams, and especially those coming from Taiwan’s superb academic and research institutions. This exposure across stages and borders, coupled with the strong technical background of our team, is the source of Darwin’s differentiation. We recently launched our 8th fund Darjune.
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Investment focus
- Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Taiwan, United States, 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.
HIM International Music is a company that specializes in music recording, distribution & artist management.
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Investment focus
- Training, GreenTech, Recycling
- Seed
- Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- ECOCO circular economy — ECOCO circular economy offers smart recycling machine, bottle closing machine, battery machine, environmental protection, recycling resource regeneration technology and design, education, reduce waste of resources, establish correct habits and reduce environmental impact, and bottle collection machine.
WI Harper Group is a venture capital firm that focuses on early and early expansion investments in Mainland China, Taiwan and Silicon Valley.It was founded in 1993. Made 300+ investments with 80+ exits. Manages 9 funds and over $1B in capital through 19 dedicated investment professionals located in Beijing, Taipei and San Francisco.Thefirm's focus is technology, clean technology and healthcare. Its track record includes
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Taiwan, China
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- 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.
Accord Ventures is a venture capital firm that believes in and supports the potential of Asian entrepreneurs. It has invested in more than 50 startups in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and new technologies that bring new value to society, such as IoT, AI, and fintech, with a focus on platform businesses that utilize ITtechnology. And new services are supported.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- 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.
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