Top 5 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Taiwan in October 2024
A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Media (entertainment) startups based in Taiwan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Media (entertainment) companies from Taiwan. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Taiwan in October 2024
Investor | Media (entertainment) Taiwan investments |
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Steve Chen | 2 |
Hari Kumar | 1 |
Chris Wang | 1 |
Marcus Brauchli | 1 |
Jamie Lin | 1 |
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.
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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
Hari Kumar - Partner @ LionRock Capital
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Investment focus
- Digital Media, B2B, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, Taiwan, Singapore
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- MagicX — MagicX, has racked up 100,000 downloads since it was launched on Feb 24th 2016 and has also been the No. 1 new shopping app in Android.The app enables users to carry out day-to-day tasks like grocery shopping, bill payments, recharge, order food, book flight tickets and other utility services via a chat enabled, artificial intelligence platform andis currently available for free download in the Android store. MagicX has tied up with about 20 partners across e-commerce, bill payments, recharges, groceries, travel etc. In this short time, MagicX has successfully driven huge traffic to some of these partners – in some cases emerging among their top 10 transaction sources.
- Pipa.Bella — Pipa.Bella currently offers custom-made and ready-made fashion jewelry at affordable prices to over 40,000 customers across India through an innovative online platform and aims to reach to 1.5 lakh customers over the next twelve months. With few branded players in the fashion jewelry segment, Pipa.Bella aims to solve a pain point that many womenface while shopping for jewelry - branded jewelry is either overpriced with high mark-ups, or unbranded jewelry is cluttered and lacks any proper curation or style guidance. Pipa.Bella launches approximately 100 new styles every week that are all priced well between INR 500 - 3000. The demand for fashion jewellery has grown significantly in the last few years due to high prices of gold and silver and is estimated to be a $6 billion market. The brand has hit operational profitability in FY 17-18 and is aiming to be cash flow positive in the next twelve months. Pipa.Bella targets the 22-35-year-old urban woman who is fashion-conscious, social media savvy and is quick to adapt to latest trends. Pipa.Bella derives its name from two European words that describe the company's range of products and customers. A typical "Pipa" woman is bold, edgy and always ready to experiment and a typical "Bella" woman is a classicist, graceful, more conservative. The brand celebrates the different styles that exemplify these two aesthetics through its product range, which consist of earrings, necklaces, bracelets and rings, sterling silver jewelry, charms, personalized jewelry, wedding jewelry Pipa.Bella is a recipient of the Google SMB Heroes 2017 Award, Top 25 Startups by Singapore's Javelin Startup-O Victory Fund, and Digital Women in E-Commerce 2017 Award by Shethepeople.tv. The brand has been worn on top Bollywood celebrities and has been featured in International fashion and business publications such as Vogue, Harpers, Femina, Grazia, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Economic Times, and Wall Street Journal.
- 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.
Chris spent two years as a Google engineer before founding Playdom. Before officially joining Google, Chris received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon—completed in a record-breaking two years and ten months—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.
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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.
Marcus Brauchli - Co-Founder, Managing Partner @ North Base Media
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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.
1999 year old bones Internet entrepreneur, he has co-founded four Internet companies, successfully raised venture capital 300 million yuan. Middle also join the venture capital fund of experience in the All Asia Partners and HSS Ventures and so on. Proton Business School Master of Business History at New York University, NTU Chemical /Bachelor of Economics
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Investment focus
- iOS, Software, Natural Language Processing
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Taiwan, United States, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- WritePath — WritePath is a global online solution provider for multi-lingual translation, document editing, proofreading and copy writing. Our mission is to provide B2B clients timely translation services via the T-Booster Internet platform in various languages and in high quality. WP targets clients that are Internet savvy, self-serve and with limited projectmanagement requirements and recurring demand, unlike traditional translation agencies. Our platform business model helps clients worldwide to go local in no time.
- Splitforce — Splitforce is a developer of mobile testing applications that provides easy A/B testing for iOS, Android, and Unity apps. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York.
- Nest Wallet — A Wallet Engineered for Traders
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