Top 50 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in Taiwan in April 2025

Investor	Media (entertainment) Taiwan investments
Cherubic Ventures	3
Cherubic Ventures	3
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)	3
Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures)	3
Steve Chen	2
National Development Fund of Taiwan Government	2
National Development Fund of Taiwan Government	2
MediaTek	2
MediaTek	2
Steve Zhao	2
WI Harper Group	1
Infinity Ventures Crypto	1
SeaX Ventures	1
China Creation Ventures (CCV)	1
China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB)	1
Trend Micro	1
Marcus Brauchli	1
Polygon US	1
OKX Ventures	1
Global from Day One	1
iStart	1
SevenX Ventures	1
H&Q Asia Pacific	1
Dialectic	1
Evernew Capital	1
Yuanta Investment	1
AU Optronics	1
Bukalapak	1
Yield Guild Games	1
Yuanta Investment	1
Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund	1
Chris Wang	1
Jump Capital	1
DWeb3 Capital	1
Darwin Venture Management	1
Solana Ventures	1
Global from Day One	1
GD1	1
Hashed	1
SevenX Ventures	1
CDIB Capital	1
OKX Ventures	1
YOLO Ventures	1
North Base Media	1
Digital Currency Group	1
Hashkey Exchange	1
Chris Wang	1
Circle Ventures	1
Jump Capital	1
AU Optronics	1

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

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

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.
Bot Auto — Bot Auto develops and operates autonomous trucks for middle-mile freight.
Anzen — USDz - stablecoin backed by real world assets

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
Japan, China, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ryulog — Ryulog is a recruiting company that helps job seekers find international work opportunities and migrate abroad.
iMotorbike — iMotorbike is the #1 motorbike online E-commerce website in South East Asia, providing a fast, secure, simple and trouble free online experience with a wide variety of product range, setting itself apart from what exists in the market. iMotorbike offers three main categories: motorbikes, parts and accessories. For a complete 360° experience,iMotorbike also enables users the access to services such as insurance and financing. At iMotorbike we always strive to offer our customers the best experience through a complete and efficient online ecosystem for motorbike users, lovers and professionals.
Driver Technologies — Driver Technologies is a cloud logistics platform provider. It provides a solution for driver matching and cargo vehicle demands.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Japan, China, United States

Portfolio highlights

At Forest — At Forest is an end-of-life service provider that organizes circular burial services for the deceased.
PICK — PICK is a startup that provides a digital transformation platform for the real estate and construction industries.
RECOTECH — RECOTECH is a ClimateTech firm that collects and shares data to maximize resource value throughout its life cycle, offering circular solutions to organizations and municipalities in Japan and beyond.

Steve Chen was an internet entrepreneur and the co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15.After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley andJawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a website designed to simplify video sharing online.Chen was named one of the "The 50 people who matter now" by Business 2.0 magazine in 2006. That year, he and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.Chen most recently co-founded AVOS Systems with YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Artue — Artue is pioneering the art industry's digital transformation.
E-Pal — E-Pal connects high-caliber gamers worldwide, offering you supportive gaming companions anytime, anywhere. You'll never battle alone!
Nest Wallet — A Wallet Engineered for Traders

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, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

FooSpace — FooSpace is an OMO smart retail solution provider enabling brands to start their offline and online business easily. With our technologies, much of the purchase, checkout, and payment steps associated with a retail transaction are completely automated. In the meantime, we focus on providing the right goods to the right people based on a variety ofdata collected by our innovative system.
PopChill — PopChill generates an online marketplace for second-hand trade, enabling users to share their fashion styles and sell idle items.
AnBogen Therapeutics — Harness the Power of Science to Cure Cancer.

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 — Harness the Power of Science to Cure Cancer.

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Rivos — Rivos is a high-performance RISC-V system startup targeting integrated system solutions for enterprises.

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Rivos — Rivos is a high-performance RISC-V system startup targeting integrated system solutions for enterprises.
Path Robotics — We create manufacturing robots that autonomously scan, position, and weld your parts without the need for skilled welders or robot programmers.

Steve Chen was an internet entrepreneur and the co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15.After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley andJawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a website designed to simplify video sharing online.Chen was named one of the "The 50 people who matter now" by Business 2.0 magazine in 2006. That year, he and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.Chen most recently co-founded AVOS Systems with YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Artue — Artue is pioneering the art industry's digital transformation.
E-Pal — E-Pal connects high-caliber gamers worldwide, offering you supportive gaming companions anytime, anywhere. You'll never battle alone!
Nest Wallet — A Wallet Built for Traders

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 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.

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Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

CARV — CARV is the largest modular data layer for gaming and AI, revolutionizing how data is used and shared, by ensuring privacy, ownership, and control are firmly in the hands of individuals, pioneering a future where data generates value for all.
Anzen — USDz - stablecoin backed by real world assets
The Seeds Labs — Seeds Labs is the developer of the Web3 game Bladerite, which emphasizes high-quality games and game infrastructure.

SeaX - Southeast Asia Exponential Ventures is a venture capital firm investing globally in early-stage companies with game-changing “exponential” technologies. We deliver a unique access to a highly selective group of innovative companies from around the globe. We combine our strong entrepreneurial, investing, and scientific background withextensive professional networks across Asia and the US to identify the best investment opportunities. Most importantly, we aim to achieve both financial returns and strategic advantages for our investors.Some of the key highlights - Access: We provides our investors access to deal flows globally with a primary focus in the U.S. and Southeast Asia. - Accelerate: Our fund leverages RISE's platforms and networks which has over 1000+ startups alumni across Asia and several hundred corporate partners to help startups scale quickly. - Advantage: Our investors are top multinational corporations and family offices, collectively we can become the network of entrepreneurs, business partners, and co-investors.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Thailand, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

AiFi — AiFi offers fully customized, AI powered retail solutions to help retailers of all sizes become fully autonomous. Discover our flexible solutions.
Globaleur — Thousands of travelers from around the world rely on Globaleur for travel. Leverage Globaleur's software and APIs that include dynamic destination data and AI-powered developer tools to change the way we travel the world.
Verdant Robotics, Inc. — Verdant Robotics manufactures robotics machinery and components. The company's technology transforms grower profits by digitally mapping the entire farm across time and space, automatically tracking and treating every part of every plant.

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.

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.
U Power — U Power is an intelligent electric vehicle company that builds cars for scenarios. It aims to enable scenario owners to define cars through standardized UP super chassis and to achieve Car as a Service. The company is headquartered in Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.
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.

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 — Harness the Power of Science to Cure Cancer.
Elixiron Immunotherapeutics — Elixiron Immunotherapeutics is a company developing therapeutics for cancer, neurological diseases, and inflammatory disorders.

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

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Investment focus

Social Media, News, Publishing
Seed, Angel, Series A
Mexico, Taiwan, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Majarra — Majarra is an Arabic online content provider in the region.
PENTA Football — PENTA Football distributes football highlights.
The News Lens — The News Lens is an independent media for Chinese readers. The company aims to be a platform where a wide range of Chinese readers can engage in informed debates about important news, social, and political issues. The News Lens was established in August 2013.

Polygon provides informed engineered solutions for temporary climate control, Document Recovery, and emergency drying commercial industries in the United States. Contact us today for a quote!

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Energy
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Taiwan, Lithuania, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Ertha — Build The World You Want To Live In
Overnight — Overnight is a DeFi protocol behind USD+, a yield generating stablecoin with daily profit payout
Router Protocol — Router Protocol is a Cross Chain Bridge. Currently live on Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Building an interoperable cross chain future of the blockchain ecosystem.

OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality blockchain projects with great potential.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Castile — Castile is a Web3 gaming platform that promotes a revolutionary game model that enables users to earn more sustainably.
Nodepay — Nodepay is a network infrastructure that offers decentralized bandwidth for AI training.
Amnis Finance — Amnis Finance is a staking technology built on the Aptos blockchain. It is the game-changing liquid staking solution that offers a simple way to earn rewards on your APT tokens. By staking with Amnis, your tokens remain liquid and may be utilized in a variety of DeFi applications, earning additional incentives.

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 — 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.

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.

SevenX Ventures is a Research-driven Crypto Venture Capital founded in 2020.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Perena — Perena is a startup developing the basic infrastructure to address significant difficulties in the stablecoin sector.
PumpBTC — PumpBTC is a liquid staking protocol that aims to help Bitcoin holders to stake their bitcoins and earn yield while bolstering the security.
StakeStone — StakeStone is the best yield-bearing ETH with a decentralized yield optimizing service ready for mass adoption on layer2s.

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.

Dialectic is a machine that solves cyphers to unlock exceptional value for our members.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Anoma — An intent-centric architecture for decentralized counterparty discovery, solving, information flow control, & multi-chain atomic settlement
nftperp — First perpetual futures dex for NFTs
Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.

Evernew Capital is a web3 investment fund backing seed to growth stage crypto companies and protocols. We are developer focused and on a mission to build the blockchain multiverse.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series B, Initial Coin Offering
Taiwan, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lootex — Lootex is a blockchain-based trading platform that offers services ranging from software integration to channel sales to its corporate clients. Lootex is located in Taipei City, Taipei.
Chain Crisis — Chain Crisis is a Cyberpunk MMORPG on the Solana blockchain
Exotic Markets — Exotic Markets bring wealth management and structured products out of the bank and in the decentralized finance world. Exotic Markets Maximise the investments with simple and sustainable products.

A star of private equity market grow up your companies and ascend your potential.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series B, Series C, Series A
South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

FASSTO — FASSTO is a consulting company that provides packaging, delivery, logistic, and shipping services.
Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
NeoNesia — Fintech solution and platform provider for prepaid top-ups targeting Indonesia

AU Optronics Corp. engages in the design, development, manufacture, assembly, and marketing of thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels and other flat panel displays. The company's TFT-LCD panels are used in computer products, such as notebook computers and desktop monitors; consumer electronics products comprising mobilephones, digital photo frames, digital still cameras, portable navigation display, portable digital versatile disk players, digital camcorders, automobile display, and amusement and printer displays; and LCD televisions and industrial displays. It sells its panels principally to original equipment manufacturing service providers in Taiwan, the People's Republic of China, and internationally. The company was formerly known as Acer Display Technology, Inc. and changed its name to AU Optronics Corp. in May 2001. AU Optronics Corp. was founded in 1996 and is based in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Investment focus

Video, Security, Software
Series A
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

SkyREC — SkyREC highlights objects via AI video analytics within milliseconds. It learns, thinks, and optimizes itself to reduce human efforts to the max in security management.

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Investment focus

Gaming, Ethereum, Logistics
Seed, Series A
Taiwan, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Crewdible — Crewdible partners with office or homeowners who have free space to make fulfillment warehouses. By using existing homes and offices, Crewdible can reduce large operational costs, so as to provide a very affordable price and suitable for SMEs.
Yield Guild Games Southeast Asia — YGG SEA is a sub-decentralized autonomous organization (subDAO) of the play-to-earn blockchain game YGG. The YGG SEA will be based on smart contracts built on the Etherum blockchain.

Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

LOScoin — LOScoin is a web3 gaming and social application based on telegram bot. LOScoin is committed to profoundly combining Web3's novel interactive experience with the passion of LOScoin's MEME community, creating a highly engaging, entertaining, and economically active DAO community, and providing users with a completely new gaming and socialexperience.
Sapien — Sapien offers Data Labelling Services with RLHF to fine-tune your LLMs potential. Improve model performance with better data to improve outcomes. Consult us now!
Pixion Games — Pixion Games is a studio focused on building competitive esports games for mobile device.

A star of private equity market grow up your companies and ascend your potential.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series B, Series C, Series A
South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
Selta Square — Selta Square is an AI-based drug monitoring company that provides full-cycle drug monitoring solutions using artificial intelligence technology.
Pin Therapeutics — Pin Therapeutics is founded in Feb 2017, fast growing stage with member composition of 25% in USA and 75% in Korea. Drug discovery leaderships are from global pharma and biotech companies along with talented scientists both in Korea and USA.* Active Focus - PinE3: E3 ligase screening cascade for identifying novel warheads - PinGLUE: Assaycascade for molecular glue degrader screening* Programs - Selective Molecular Glue Degrader (CK1α) - Molecular Glue Degrader Programs (5-6 Undisclosed) - PROTAC Program (1 Undisclosed)

The Entrepreneurs Fund is a not-for-profit initiative launched by Alibaba Group in 2015 to help entrepreneurs and young graduates realize their dreams and vision. Two separate funds have been set up in Hong Kong and Taiwan respectively to support specific programs in each place.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Hong Kong, Taiwan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ziwu Technology — Ziwu Technology offers the conversion of bio-based waste into sustainable new materials and provides environmentally friendly solutions.
Rice Robotics Limited — The friendliest robot at your service.
BioMed Technology Holdings — BioMed offer a comprehensive service that includes a range of sophisticated tests performed by professionals, together with an interpretation and recommendations for how to live a healthy life.

Chris spent two years as a Google engineer before founding Playdom. Before officially joining Google, Chris received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellonâ€”completed in a record-breaking two years and ten monthsâ€”and interned at, you guessed it, Google. Chris also holds a BA in computer science from Berkeley. However, his knack forprogramming and obsession with gaming goes much further back: As a high schooler, Chris took 14th place in the USA Computing Olympiad and spent countless days trying to program his first 3D RPG.

Investment focus

Software, IaaS, SaaS
Seed, Private Equity
United States, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Virtkick — Virtkick lets independent hosting companies increase conversion rates, simplify server management and take on the biggest players. Virtkick is a SaaS cloud management panel that offers simplicity and great user experience for our customers - hosting companies - and their end customers - software developers, software houses, designers etc.
CryptoSlam — An NFT industry data aggregator backed by Mark Cuban. Features project analytics, NFT values, rarity, scarcity, most popular collections, activity history & more.
Numbers Protocol — Explore Numbers Protocol, a leader in blockchain-driven digital media authenticity aligned with C2PA standards. Join our robust platform to secure and verify digital content through advanced blockchain technology.

Jump Capital is a thesis-led venture investor specializing in scalable software opportunities in fintech, crypto, IT and data infrastructure, the future of commerce, digital media, and vertical SaaS solutions. In addition to capital, Jump provides advocacy and support for entrepreneurs, complemented with institutional-level resources.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mobly — Mobile lead scanner engagement platform for sales reps. Integrates with your CRM and creates a fully enriched lead for your team within seconds. No badge needed
TrueFoundry — TrueFoundry provides Data Scientists and ML Engineers with the fastest framework for Post Model Pipeline. Using best DevOps practices, we enable instant monitored endpoints for models in 15 minutes!
Prompt Security — Prompt Security protects organizations from all risks associated with Generative AI such as Prompt Injection, Data Leaks, Shadow AI, etc. Secure all uses of Generative AI in the organization: from GenAI tools used by employees to GenAI integrations in customer-facing products.

Digital fund focused on crypto & digital assets investments related to blockchain technology, Decentralized Finance DeFi, web 3, NFT, metaverse, Bitcoin, & more

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
Singapore, United States, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Releap Protocol — Releap Protocol is a decentralized social graph on Sui and zkSync Era
Rivalz Network — Rivalz is creating the World Abstraction Layer for AI and AI Agents.
Martial Arts Awakening — Martial Arts Awakening is a blockchain game developer focused on the long-term development of blockchain, Web3.0, Metaverse, and NFT ecosystems.

Darwin Venture Management is a venture capital firm headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with offices in Hsinchu and the United States. Since our founding in 2009, we have managed eight funds, investing primarily in Series A/B, late-stage, and secondary funds. In 2022, we also launched an evergreen angel fund to enable more nimble bets onpromising early-stage teams, and especially those coming from Taiwan’s superb academic and research institutions. This exposure across stages and borders, coupled with the strong technical background of our team, is the source of Darwin’s differentiation. We recently launched our 8th fund Darjune.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Taiwan, United States, 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.

Solana Ventures' mission is to accelerate the growth of the Solana blockchain and adjacent ecosystems by providing capital to the most promising teams building in the crypto ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
Regolith Labs — Regolith Labs is the operator of a software company dedicated to assisting token airdrops in defending against sybil assaults and spam.
Permissionless Labs — Permissionless Labs is redefining digital content distribution by pioneering the free and safe movement of content around the world.

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 — 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.

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, 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.

Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, South Korea, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
IDA — IDA is the leading provider of digital asset solutions, allowing trust, transparency, and speed in payments and commerce. By leveraging blockchain technology, IDA opens up a more connected and inclusive global economy.
Infinit — Infinit is the DeFi Abstraction Layer that removes the enormous friction associated with creating and scaling DeFi ecosystems.

SevenX Ventures is a Research-driven Crypto Venture Capital founded in 2020.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Castile — Castile is a Web3 gaming platform that promotes a revolutionary game model that enables users to earn more sustainably.
Ion Protocol — Ion is an Open Source Protocol built to support Ethereum stakers and restakers, to unlock a world of new applications for their assets.
Curio Research — Creative studio building crypto powered games.

CCIC CDIB International Corp.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
Taiwan, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

QT Medical — World's leading medical ECG/EKG machine company that aims to make hospital-grade 12-lead ecg machines available for everyone. Best portable ecg device during the pandemic. Focusing on innovations in the field of telemedicine and home care, we continue to invest in research and development of products that will bring better cardiac care to patients.
Micronbrane Medical — Micronbrane Medical offers biotechnology services. That provides detect Pathogen Directly from whole blood within a limited time. Sample processing library prep sequencing, data analysing and reporting services.
Beijing Ansong Technology — Beijing Ansong Technology Co., Ltd. is an enterprise focusing on the research and development, production, and sales of orthopedic medical devices. The company cooperates with domestic and foreign universities, research institutes, and doctors in hospitals, and is committed to creating original orthopedic products with independent knowledgeproducts.Beijing Ansong Technology was founded on June 27, 2011 by Liang Tao in Fengtai, Beijing.

OKX Ventures focus on the discoveries and investments in various aspects, including blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, WEB3.0, NFT and Metaverse.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

PlaysOut — PlaysOut is a mini-game platform that helps developers publish mini-games on superAPP platforms
Memes Lab — Memes Lab is a multi-level meme infrastructure on TON, integrated with Telegram Stars, which allows users to purchase meme coins without a wallet.
Cygnus Finance — Cygnus is a tool that helps different blockchains work together by allowing to share security and keep their networks safe.

YOLO stands for You Only Live Once. Established in 2012, YOLO Ventures is a private venture capital firm based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded with one goal in mind: Enable people to focus on the things they WANT to do, and not on what they HAVE to do.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Ethereum
Funding Round, Seed
United States, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

VELVET — Velvt is an investment platform that engages in liquidity of asset.
Ex Populus — Our vision is to bring joy to people around the globe with the world's most compelling games and entertainment at the highest level possible.
Roolz — Roolz is a crypto based community driven web3 gaming & entertainment studio.

NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.

Investment focus

Digital Media, Advertising, Publishing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
Vietcetera Media — Vietcetera Media - Understanding Vietnam
Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!

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

Axoni — Axoni is a New York-based capital markets technology firm that specializes in distributed ledger infrastructure. Product offerings include blockchain deployments, large-scale data management, bespoke smart contract development, analytics services, and connectivity tools.
AlloyX — AlloyX makes it simple and accessible for protocols, DAOs, and institutional investors to create diversified RWA investment strategies. We provide lenders with a flexible and efficient platform for managing all of their RWA assets based on their yield, risk, and liquidity preferences.
Coinflow Labs — Coinflow is a payment solution that allows Web3 companies to accept traditional payment methods and payout their customers by converting cryptocurrency to USD in their traditional bank account.

Hashkey they offers investment opportunities and solutions to institutions, family offices, funds, and professional accredited investors across the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
Supra — Supra is the world's highest-performing, fully vertically integrated L1 blockchain, and it's about to change everything.
Panoptic — Panoptic is a perpetual, oracle-free, instant-settlement options trading protocol on the Ethereum blockchain. Panoptic enables the permissionless trading of options on top of any asset pool in the Uniswap v3 ecosystem and seeks to develop a trustless, permissionless, and composable options product, i.e., do for decentralized options markets whatx*y=k automated market maker protocols did for spot trading.Read the whitepaper behind our product here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.14232

Chris spent two years as a Google engineer before founding Playdom. Before officially joining Google, Chris received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellonâ€”completed in a record-breaking two years and ten monthsâ€”and interned at, you guessed it, Google. Chris also holds a BA in computer science from Berkeley. However, his knack forprogramming and obsession with gaming goes much further back: As a high schooler, Chris took 14th place in the USA Computing Olympiad and spent countless days trying to program his first 3D RPG.

Investment focus

Software, IaaS, SaaS
Seed, Private Equity
United States, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Virtkick — Virtkick lets independent hosting companies increase conversion rates, simplify server management and take on the biggest players. Virtkick is a SaaS cloud management panel that offers simplicity and great user experience for our customers - hosting companies - and their end customers - software developers, software houses, designers etc.
CryptoSlam — An NFT industry data aggregator backed by Mark Cuban. Features project analytics, NFT values, rarity, scarcity, most popular collections, activity history & more.
Numbers Protocol — Explore Numbers Protocol, a leader in blockchain-driven digital media authenticity aligned with C2PA standards. Join our robust platform to secure and verify digital content through advanced blockchain technology.

Circle Ventures invests in projects that accelerate global crypto innovation and adoption in service. They foster crypto innovation by assisting founders and teams that are committed to open access, financial inclusivity, and programmable commerce, all of which may contribute to global economic success.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Playtron — The Operating System for Gaming
Anzen — USDz - stablecoin backed by real world assets
Centrifuge — Centrifuge is an open, decentralized operating system to connect the global financial supply chain. It allows participants to transact on a global network while maintaining ownership of their data, including their validated company details, their reputation, business relationships, and subsequent transactions. The company's team built multiplecompanies together over the last 18 years and they still enjoy working as a group. Together, they created software that transacts billions of dollars each day and is used by 97 out of the Fortune 100. With the help of their world-class investors, advisors, partners, and team they started Centrifuge to go on building real software, solving real business problems.

Jump Capital is a thesis-led venture investor specializing in scalable software opportunities in fintech, crypto, IT and data infrastructure, the future of commerce, digital media, and vertical SaaS solutions. In addition to capital, Jump provides advocacy and support for entrepreneurs, complemented with institutional-level resources.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Raiinmaker — Multi - Chain Layer 2 Network. Powered by AI, Secured by Bitcoin.
Sanctum — Sanctum offers the ability to launch millions of new LSTs utilizing solana.
Indico Data — Learn how the Indico intelligent intake solution allows you to drive better outcomes with better intake.

AU Optronics Corp. engages in the design, development, manufacture, assembly, and marketing of thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels and other flat panel displays. The company's TFT-LCD panels are used in computer products, such as notebook computers and desktop monitors; consumer electronics products comprising mobilephones, digital photo frames, digital still cameras, portable navigation display, portable digital versatile disk players, digital camcorders, automobile display, and amusement and printer displays; and LCD televisions and industrial displays. It sells its panels principally to original equipment manufacturing service providers in Taiwan, the People's Republic of China, and internationally. The company was formerly known as Acer Display Technology, Inc. and changed its name to AU Optronics Corp. in May 2001. AU Optronics Corp. was founded in 1996 and is based in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Investment focus

Video, Security, Software
Series A
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

SkyREC — SkyREC highlights objects via AI video analytics within milliseconds. It learns, thinks, and optimizes itself to reduce human efforts to the max in security management.