Top 5 Mobile Angel Investors in Taiwan in January 2026
A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Mobile startups based in Taiwan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Mobile companies from Taiwan. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Mobile Angel Investors in Taiwan in January 2026
| Investor | Mobile Taiwan investments |
|---|---|
| Steve Chen | 2 |
| Kevin Lin | 1 |
| Paul Wu | 1 |
| Yan Jin | 1 |
| Chris Wang | 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
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
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.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- 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 — Asterix offers digital ownership and unlocks new possibilities.
- Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
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
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- Geospatial, Mobile, Machine Learning
- Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Taiwan
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- 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 is the best partner for businesses, offering eSignature, PDF editor, data analytics, and integrating KDAN AI to maximize your business value.
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.
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Investment focus
- Fitness, mHealth, Wellness
- Series A
- Taiwan
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.
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.
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