Top 40 Marketplace VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Taiwan in December 2024
A list of 40 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Marketplace startups based in Taiwan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Marketplace companies from Taiwan. We update this investor list every month.Top 40 Marketplace VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Taiwan in December 2024
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.
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, China
Portfolio highlights
- PopChill — PopChill generates an online marketplace for second-hand trade, enabling users to share their fashion styles and sell idle items.
- Zehitomo — Zehitomo is an Japanese online platform that enables user to hire local service professionals, from photographers to personal trainers.
- Camlann — We're Camlann Games, an indie game publisher that performs. We back passionate developers, vibrant worlds, and the most unforgettable stories ever told.
Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Bygen — Bygen delivers high-quality activated carbon products while also facilitating large-scale, long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.
- Ohmie Go — EV charging solutions, shared electric vehicles, shared e-bikes & e-scooters delivered to residents as a premium managed service and amenity - An intelligent way to get EV ready with one seamless experience.
- Sova Health — Sova Health is a precision nutrition platform that guides users towards a healthier lifestyle with personalized nutrition advice based on accurate blood biomarker analysis. Understand what is stopping you from achieving your nutritional goal and get your personalized nutrition plan.
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
- E-Commerce, Software, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Taiwan, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
- PopChill — PopChill generates an online marketplace for second-hand trade, enabling users to share their fashion styles and sell idle items.
- Buyandship — Buyandship provides cross-border eCommerce solution focusing on Marketing and Logistics. At Buyandship, is redefining the experience of E-Commerce without changing the sites, disrupting the underlying infrastructure, we provide consolidate, aggregate and load-balance shipments across the world to the consumer's doorstep. Our technologyfocuses on connecting the fragmented existing logistics infrastructure to create a seamless experience for both merchants and consumers, and the benefit is that they get a solution that is 30-50% less than other carriers. We also work with merchants, marketplaces, and platforms to create a channel to reach an audience across our geographies (9 Countries currently) and reaching over 1.5M+ people per month whilst growing. We envision our members being able to purchase from any site around the world and have it seamlessly be shipped home. No more geographical restrictions, No more price monopolies, No more ambiguous shipping situations. We are building towards a transparent system, where both buyers and sellers just focus on the product.
- AlleyPin — AlleyPin Interactive helps SMBs grow their businesses by elevating their online presence and bringing more customers to their doorsteps. These great results are achieved through our proprietary marketing solutions making it easy for customers of the SMBs to leave great online reviews.
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, 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 — Harness the Power of Science to Cure Cancer.
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.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
Cherubic Ventures is an early stage focused venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley and Greater China.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, China, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
- Bot Auto — Bot Auto develops and operates autonomous trucks for middle-mile freight.
- Anzen — USDz is a stablecoin backed by a diversified RWA portfolio, allowing holders to mitigate volatility and earn rewards through all market cycles
Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- UTOBO INC. — utobo is the one-stop platform for educators and coaching services to take live classes, create courses and test series, and sell them online in just 30 minutes.
- NIU NIU — NIU NIU is an e-Waste operating system that maximizes critical mineral extraction, while minimizing the environmental and social impact
- The Leaf Protein Company — Unlocking Earth's most abundant source of proteins - green leaves.
Founded in 2006, Qiming Venture Partners is a leading China venture capital firm with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Hong Kong in China, and Singapore.Currently, Qiming Venture Partners manages eleven US Dollar funds and seven RMB funds with $9.5 billion in capital raised. Since our establishment, we have invested in outstanding companiesin the Technology and Consumer (T&C) and Healthcare industries at the early and growth stages.Since our debut, we have backed over 530 fast-growing and innovative companies. Over 200 of our portfolio companies have achieved exits through IPOs at the NYSE, NASDAQ, HKEX, Shanghai Stock Exchange, or Shenzhen Stock Exchange, or through M&A or other means. There are also over 70 portfolio companies that have achieved unicorn or super unicorn status.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- XellSmart — Xellsmart develops stem cell treatment solutions for a variety of degenerative diseases for which there are now no clinical treatments. Xellsmart is located in Minhang District, Shanghai, China.
- LongBio Pharma — LongBio Pharma is a biotech company that treats patients with an emphasis on complement and allergy diseases.
- Candid Therapeutics — Candid Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that focuses on the treatment of a range of immunological conditions.
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
Portfolio highlights
- GDMC — GDMC is a pharmaceutical company that engages in manufacturing and designing genetic medicines.
- Bitmark — Bitmark develops technology that secures the property rights of unique digital assets, without relying on trusted third parties.
- Blackpanda — Asia's premier digital forensics and cyber incident response firm.
CCIC CDIB International Corp.
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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 — A number exacerbated by the low sensitivity and yield of traditional diagnostic methods.
- 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.
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
Portfolio highlights
- Eden Biologics — Eden Biologics, formerly known as JHL Biotech ("JHL") , is a biopharmaceutical company that develops biosimilars and accelerates the development programs for clients & partners through the provision of contract development and manufacturing services. We are specialists in manufacturing biologics, from cell line development tocommercial manufacturing with both global and regional regulatory affairs expertise.
- AnBogen Therapeutics — Harness the Power of Science to Cure Cancer.
- Elixiron Immunotherapeutics — Elixiron Immunotherapeutics is a company developing therapeutics for cancer, neurological diseases, and inflammatory disorders.
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.).
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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.
Acorn Pacific Ventures help entrepreneurs execute cross-border technology strategies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
- 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.
- AVATAR MEDICAL — Solution Consultation Planning Education Clinical Applications Neurosurgery ENT and OMS Arthroplasty surgery Oncology Cardiovascular Surgery Vascular Surgery Breast Surgery Sarcoma Surgery Urology Neonatal Imaging About Company Publications and Case Reports News Jobs Contact Us X FREE TRIAL Avatar Medical Democratizes Access to 3D Medical Images Our Mission is to Elevate Patient Care through Intuitive Image
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.
An investment that restructures the value and quality.Supplying big capital is not an essential value of our firm.We have a strong attitude to input and drive critical thinking behind a new startup.After the problem is clarified and solution become established in the world,people could not imagine the society without that solution.An investment that innovates this world.We will become a real partner to execute the strategy together.INVENTION OF THE ESSENCE ----we will keep on doing it.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Tacoms — CAMEL is a service that allows you to easily manage orders from multiple food delivery / takeout services on a single tablet.
- Habitto — Habitto by SJ Mobile Labs is a new financial services venture focused on the Japanese market. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.
- Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.
MindWorks Capital invests in and empowers Asia’s brightest entrepreneurs to build transformational companies. MindWorks manages capital from university endowments, global asset managers, fund of funds, family offices as well as Asia's leading new economy entrepreneurs. The firm utilizes a Pan-Asia strategy to source direct investments intechnology companies across both Greater China and Southeast Asia. Founded in 2013, the firm is headquartered in Hong Kong with offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Jakarta.MindWorks has been recognized by Preqin as a top-performing ASEAN venture capital firm and is also a signatory of United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Investment.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Supply Chain Management
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, Hong Kong, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Finture — Finture is the first Neobanking fintech company to provide Credit card and Credit payment business in SEA
- Jumppoint — Founded in Hong Kong since 2020, Jumppoint developed in house its own multi-layer dynamic routing algorithm, jumppoint.ai, to offer highly efficient yet cost-saving logisitics services to B2B and B2C users, with real-time logisitcs data embeded. Beyond Hong Kong headquarters and R&D centre, Jumppoint also has extensive presence in Asia suchas Kuala Lumpur, Taipei and Southeast Asia headquarters, Singapore, providing localised logsitics services.
- Sending Network — A super-app that combines chat, socializing, and trade, giving you complete control over your social data, while you build communities and share ideas, seamlessly.
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.
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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 — 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.
Pinehurst Advisors is an early stage angel & seed fund management company with an investment focus in the digital media, mobile, and ecommerce space.
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Investment focus
- Apps, News, Events
- Funding Round, Seed
- Taiwan, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- e27 — e27 is Asia's largest Tech media platform. We cover the latest news on emerging and disruptive businesses across the region. e27 also organizes world-class events like Echelon.
- QLL — QLL (Quick Language Learning) Pte. Ltd. is a company specialized in developing language learning apps, they are based in Taiwan and registered in Singapore. 2007, they launched a break-through Chinese learning gadget, “Pocket Chinese Tutor”, it is an Mp4 player with Chinese speech assessment function, it can help learner correct their accent ofspeaking Chinese.
- HelloWings — "See" the cheapest fare, year-round and fees included. Customized combination tickets. HelloWings ensures you'll arrive to destination on budget & in style.
A star of private equity market grow up your companies and ascend your potential.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- Mepsgen — Mepsgen is a biotechnology research organization that focuses on pharmaceutical services and drug development.
- RideFlux — RideFlux is a self-driving software company for safe and reliable autonomous transporation service. Since our foundation in 2018, we hope for a better world where everyone can be safer and more comfortable while moving with our self-driving cars and software. We believe in the potential that self-driving technology embraces, how driving canbecome an innovative experience not a mere stress, which inspires us to build up its future with every step on our way.Our headquarter is located in Jeju island, one of the best test-beds in the world for developing reliable AD software technologies. It has a variety of road environments and various weather conditions across the island (1850 square kilometers), and significantly high demands for mobility service (16 million visitors a year without bring own vehicles). We are strategically located for technology enhancement for reliable urban autonomy. For the Safety, Beyond the Safety.
- Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
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.
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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+.
- NextWork — Building the best online learning experience to switch careers and upskill. Join the waitlist today, we are waiting for you!
- Type One Energy — At Type One Energy, we are mission-driven to provide sustainable, affordable fusion power to the world over the coming decade.
Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Haven1 — EVM multi-app blockchain
- Qooverse — Qooverse is a Web3 gaming studio that creates fast-paced, win-to-earn mobile card games with a compelling gameplay loop. This involves developing an ecosystem of mid-core and casual social games for Telegram and future social platforms.
- Igloo — Our mission is to create the largest onchain community, driving the consumer crypto revolution.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
China Creation Ventures (CCV) was founded by the former KPCB China Managing Partner, Wei Zhou, and his TMT investment team of many years in KPCB China. With the majority of members from KPCB China, CCV has developed deep domain expertise and insight in the TMT industry. The companies they invested at early stage include JD.com (NASDAQ:JD),CreditEase (NYSE:YRD), Rong360 (NYSE:JT), ID5.com, Himalaya FM, Tan Tan Mobile Social (acquired by Momo, NASDAQ: MOMO), VenusTech (SZ:002439), Manzuo.com (acquired by SuNing), Miaopai Mobile Video (Yixia.com), ULUCU (NEEQ:837110), Miaozhen Systems, Asia Innovation Group, Meican.com, Scinor Water (acquired by TRCE:300332), KJY Water (NEEQ:835159), Arrail Dental, etc. Many of the CCV’s portfolio have seen significant business growth and closed a new round of financing, including JD Digit, Wanka Online (HKSE:1762), Perfect Corp, Perfect, Ice Kredit, Zuzuche, Veer VR, Menya, Bizvane, Joyrun, Cowa Robot, Lomotif, Dingdong Class, Shukun Technology, Yunhu Health, etc.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Software
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- China, Taiwan, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Aventurier — Aventurier offers cleaning robots that relieve workers of repetitive cleaning jobs while drastically increasing the efficiency and intelligence of cleaning operations.
- Green Voltis — Green Voltis is an AI-powered virtual power plant aggregation operator. It offers intelligent, efficient, and flexible trading and operation solutions for power market participants such as energy storage and other new energy asset holders, industrial and commercial customers, and power sales agents using AI native technology for electricity spottrading and participation in grid ancillary services.
- WeZhi Airlines — WeZhi Aviation focuses on medium and large general unmanned transport aircraft , and the company aspires to be a global provider of intelligent aviation-related technological goods and services.
Cathay Venture
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Canada, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Mimetas — MIMETAS develops predictive Organ-on-a-Chip cell culture models for better, more reliable and tailored medicines. A significant gap exist between the predictive value of various in vitro and animal screening models and a patient. MIMETAS fills this gap with its OrganoPlates featuring organotypic screening models that have an improved predictabilityand can be screened at a high throughput.
- OneDegree — OneDegree is a technology company that aims to be the next-generation insurance industry leader in Asia. It is the first digital insurer candidate in Hong Kong with a fully digitised insurance process end-to-end. It also collaborates with global leaders in insurance and health sectors to deliver new technology and user experience.
- Rani Therapeutics — Rani is a clinical stage biotherapeutics company advancing technologies to enable the development of orally administered biologics, which we believe will have the potential to transform medicine and improve patient outcomes. We have developed the RaniPill capsule, which is our novel, proprietary and patented platform technology, intended to replacesubcutaneous or IV injection of biologics with oral dosing. The RaniPill capsule is an orally ingestible pill approximately the size of a “000” capsule (or similar to the size of a standard fish oil or calcium pill) that is designed to automatically administer a precise therapeutic dose of medication upon deployment in the small intestine. To date, we have successfully conducted several preclinical and clinical studies to evaluate safety, tolerability and bioavailability using the RaniPill capsule. Our development efforts have enabled us to construct an extensive intellectual property portfolio that we believe provides us a competitive advantage.
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.
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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.
91Capital is a venture capital company that offers investment services.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Leisure, Tourism
- Seed, Series A
- Taiwan
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.
- UrMart — Morning Shop was founded in 2015, is committed to provide consumers with carefully selected high-quality cereals from around the world, as well as nuts, dried fruit, honey, jam and other natural without the burden of snacks, light meals for busy modern people to build dynamic, healthy life style. . Core team members with excellent data analysiscapabilities, to develop the majority of accurate cereal market, in early 2016, monthly turnover has exceeded 10 million Taiwan dollars, monthly sold 2,000 kilograms, about 4 million boxes of cereal, the cumulative height equivalent to three 101 building, the future is expected to become the largest online via Taiwan cereal commodities.
Substance Capital
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Investment focus
- Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Travel
- Series A, Series B
- Taiwan, Singapore, United States
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.
- CloudMile — CloudMile is a leading AI and cloud service company that empowers enterprises by utilizing machine learning, big data, and Google Cloud services.
- Umbo Computer Vision — Umbo Computer Vision is a Silicon Valley backed start-up with a passion in developing beautifully engineered bleeding edge artificial intelligence systems for enterprise surveillance users.
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.
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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.
Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Nivoda — Nivoda provides jewellery businesses with a simple solution to strengthen profits, increase efficiency and accelerate growth with its B2B diamond marketplace. Designed to save you time and money whilst giving you access to the world’s diamond supply at the best prices with zero inventory risk, Nivoda is trusted by thousands of retailers all overthe globe.
- Deblock — Forget your bank account: Get an IBAN, a Debit Card and a Non-custodial Crypto wallet. Deposit any crypto on your current account. Exchange Euro and Crypto without any limit.
- Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Japan, China, United States
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- Newmo — newmo delivers sustainable local public transportation create a user experience (UX) that people may utilize with peace of mind and comfort.
- STRACT — STRACT is a web platform that provides online platform, dating app, knowledge sharing cloud platform, and casual entertainment services.
- Tradom — Tradom is a company that offers the "Tradam Foreign Exchange Solution," an AI solution for managing foreign exchange risk.
KK Fund is a venture capital fund to invest in seed stage internet and mobile startups across South East Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia
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- GIZTIX — GIZTIX is an integrated logistics platform, solving problems on speed & fragmented processes of truck sourcing and also managing their own fleets that cause unscalable deliveries. GIZTIX enables businesses to outsource trucks in seconds to they can fulfil deliveries in time and also helping fleet owners to increase efficiency by providing TMSsoftware. Ultimately, GIZTIX will be the winner of trucking market by expanding fleets & customers networks and having largest & most active TRUCKING BIG DATA.
- Med247 — Med247 is an offline-to-online (O2O) healthcare startup. A platform where customers can book an appointment and consult online with Pro doctors.Med247 is a family of clinics for families. Med247 plans to optimise the technology so that it could become the standardised platform to connect with other healthcare services providers in the future.
- FishLog — FishLog is fisheries supply chains ecosystem. Our vision is to transform fragmented fisheries supply chains into an integrated and efficient ecosystem with reliable solutions that create value along fisheries network. Our mission is to be the largest fisheries network in Indonesia. Offer complete fisheries post-harvest management services. Creatinga transparant, fair-trade and sustainable transaction along fisheries ecosystem with all stakeholders in our network.
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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- Apps, Software, Restaurants
- Series A
- Taiwan
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- 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.
Sora Ventures is Asia's leading investment firm dedicated to blockchain technology and digital asset. The firm has several businesses including early-stage investments, incubation, advisory, secondary trading, and blockchain conferences.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Australia, Hong Kong
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- Ordzaar — Ordzaar is the operator of a decentralized Bitcoin marketplace where crypto traders can buy, sell, and exchange ordinals.
- Satflow — Satflow aims to improve Bitcoin DEXs, enhance decentralization, and address issues like lack of advanced order types, high-speed data, and liquidity pools.
- StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.
We believe in great founders who will change millions of lives through technology.
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- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam
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- UTS Network — The Universal Travel System (UTS) is a next-generation online platform that provides a comprehensive solution for businesses to effectively and efficiently manage travel expenses and business trips while offering employees a convenient and fast experience through the use of intelligent services. With UTS, businesses can easily manage expensesaccording to budgets and appropriate targets, with access to a flexible reporting system that provides accurate transaction-based reports at any given time. Additionally, businesses which choose UTS services, they prioritize cost savings and increase added values through the most competitive discount policies. UTS places user experience as a top priority, designed to function as a personal assistant for every individual during their business trips. Users can book services at the best prices, and particularly, when using the platform, they can enjoy additional benefits tailored to their personal preferences, making each business trip a fantastic Bleisure experience.
- Radiant1 Pte Ltd — Discover Radiant1, a leading provider of innovative hotel management solutions, empowering hoteliers with cutting-edge technologies, including revenue management, channel management, AI-driven insights, and customer data platforms to optimize performance and deliver exceptional guest experiences. Transform your hotel's operations and drive growth with Radiant1.
- Pallav Technologies — Pallav leverages AI to analyze customer applications, enhancing approval rates and improving loan repayments. Our cutting-edge machine learning models and deep technology integration provide real-time creditworthiness insights to banks.
KYMCO Capital is a private equity investment firm focuses on global market. They currently manage six equity investment funds and four sun private funds respectively investing to the industries including Moving and Mobility, Internet of Things(IoT) and Consumption Upgrade as well as secondary markets; As an industry investment fund, their limitedpartners serving as contributors of multinational enterprises with over 50 years experience in relevant industries, which are internationally competitive in terms of brand, technology, management and channel. On this basis, they can practice the "Capital +" investment philosophy for the invested enterprises to enjoy greater value-added benefit than pure capital investment, so as to assist industry upgrading of such enterprises to grow stronger and bigger.
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- Electric Vehicle, Software, Automotive
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- China, United States, Taiwan
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- MoBagel — MoBagel’s vision is to bring AI-driven decision making to enterprises through software and services. MoBagel has empowered global enterprises to extract business insights and create value from their data across industries including retail, telecom, manufacturing, banking, and more.
- Znnewtech — Znnewtech is a provider of lithium battery energy storage systems for CM-GTS production capacity modules. The company also provides global customers with energy storage products with excellent performance and leading technology.
- Emotibot Technologies — Emotibot Technologies designs and develops emotional intelligence systems for robots.The company provides robots with multi-modal emotion recognition and machine learning platforms. The systems offer humanized conversations, vision understanding, and affective computing. The systems can be used in mobile devices, speakers, homes, automobiles,wearables, and headsets.Emotibot was founded in 2015 by Kenny Chien and is based in Shanghai.
TopTaiwan operates as a venture capital management firm. It seeks to invest in industries such as technology, biotechnology, renewable energy, consumer retail, food and beverages, healthcare, and auto parts.
The firm was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Taipei City, Taiwan.
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- Medical, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
- Series D
- Singapore
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- PopChill — PopChill generates an online marketplace for second-hand trade, enabling users to share their fashion styles and sell idle items.
- ASLAN Pharmaceuticals — ASLAN Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage immunology focused biopharmaceutical company developing innovative treatments to transform the lives of patients
- Heroic-Faith Medical Science — Elaborate the cutting edge electronic technology and the most advanced medical science to equip the clinicians
We help the daring build legendary companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, India
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- Roon — Your Trusted Guide for Health Conditions. Today we are focused on GBM, ALS, Dementia, and Fertility and Family Building.
- Eon — Meet Eon, the next-generation cloud backup solution with the first-ever backup autopilot for cloud infrastructure. We empower organizations with cloud backup posture management (CBPM), making complex backups simple and turning them into valuable, easily accessible assets.
- AMP — AMP Robotics creates a scalable robotic system that reduces the cost of recycling and enables smart recycling facilities. AMP Robotics' solution is a combination of computer vision and machine learning with robots that can identify and rapidly pick recyclable materials off a conveyor belt for market and recovery.AMP Robotics automates theidentification, sorting, and processing of material streams to extract value for material recovery facilities (MRFs) that process municipal solid waste, construction and demolition, e-waste, and auto-shredding. The company's engineering design reduces the cost of capital investment with modular implementation easily dropping into existing facility infrastructure without costly retrofits or interruption to operations.AMP Robotics was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Louisville, Colorado.
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.
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- Financial Services, Fashion, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Hong Kong, Taiwan
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- 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.
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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- Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, Malaysia
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- Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
- Opt Fit — Opt Fit is a fitness industry that provides fitness, wellness and health-care services.
- 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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