Top 5 Mobile Angel Investors in Taiwan (August 2026)

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

Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Canada, Taiwan

Investor stats

Total investments: 69
Round size: Seed $350k–$12M; Series A $3M–$20M; Series B $6M–$40M
Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

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!
Moonlake AI — Vibe code games and worlds into existence.

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Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Industry: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 132
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Pre-Seed $228k–$4.7M; Series A $6M–$25M
Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

Origin Lab — Origin Lab licenses premium content from game studios and 3D universes - delivering structured, multimodal data for AI training.
Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
Asterix — Hybrid is the future

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Paul founded GMobi in early 2011 when he saw the huge demand of mobile content and software services in emerging market. Before founding GMobi, Paul worked for a global internet platform and service development team at MediaTek, responsible for building up mobile service ecosystem with Google/Facebook/Yahoo/Tencent/Baidu forMediaTek chipset. Prior to MediaTek, Paul helped Foxconn to acquire a mobile internet company so it can enter into mobile software business. Before joining Foxconn group, Paul was PocketNet CEO , he successfully turn around the company in three years.During 2000 to 2005, Paul spent 6 years in Beijing working with Tom.com group, a company specialized in mobile content service with Nokia and China Mobile in China, Tom is owned by HK Tycoon Li Kashing Hutchison group.Paul received his MBA degree from Netherlands Rotterdam School of Management and a bachelor degree in Agri-Economics at National Taiwan University

Investment focus

Industry: Mobile, Geospatial, Machine Learning
Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
Geography: United States, Taiwan

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Round size: Seed $1.2M–$2.2M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

CITYDATA.ai — CITYDATA measures the presence, density, and movement of people to build digital replicas for smarter cities and real-world businesses.
LOTaDATA — LOTaDATA curates geospatial ground truth data sets on a global scale. We combine public and private data for discerning customers to help them make smarter decisions.
KDAN — KDAN provides AI document and data infrastructure that empowers enterprises to adopt AI at scale by transforming unstructured documents into actionable intelligence while maintaining data sovereignty.

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Yan Jin has 15-year venture capital, investment banking, and corporate management experience covers more than 20 investment projects, involving consumer electronics, new materials, the Internet, and innovative services industries. Ms. Jin also serves as a leader of China’s Democratic National Construction Party, a political party separate from theCommunist Party of China. She is currently a legislative member of the Shenzhen Municipal Government. Ms. Jin is also a cofounder of Shenzhen Capital Group.

Investment focus

Industry: Fitness, mHealth, Wellness
Stage:Series A
Geography: Taiwan

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

iFit — iFit (爱瘦身) is a website and mobile community that focuses on health and slimming services.iFit currently emphasizes on content, communities, and electronic commerce services. It plans on expanding its services into wearable equipment, application software, hardware services, and more. In March 2013, iFit gathered pictures and articles andpublished a book named Get Food not Fat, which was on the best-selling list once released. At the same time, IFit entered the group buying market.iFit was founded by Chen Yunru in June 2012. She started her business through a fan club by sharing her own experiences of losing weight. In less than a year her fan base reached more than 400,000. The official iFit website was set up in December 2012.

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