Top 15 Mobile Apps Startup Investors in Taiwan in September 2025
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Mobile apps startups based in Taiwan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Mobile apps companies from Taiwan. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Mobile Apps Startup Investors in Taiwan in September 2025
Investor | Mobile Apps Taiwan investments |
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Darwin Venture Management | 3 |
CDIB Capital | 2 |
National Development Fund of Taiwan Government | 2 |
Steve Chen | 2 |
Kevin Lin | 1 |
Accuvest Global Advisors | 1 |
DWeb3 Capital | 1 |
BIGLOBE Capital | 1 |
Yuanta Investment | 1 |
Protocol Labs | 1 |
Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund | 1 |
Chris Wang | 1 |
Gumi Ventures | 1 |
Cornerstone Ventures | 1 |
Yan Jin | 1 |
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, Japan
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.
- Instalimb — Instalimb is the world's first 3D printing prosthesis business.
- Findy — Findy is a Japanese company once surprised the world by sending out products such as cars and home appliances one after another
CCIC CDIB International Corp.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, Taiwan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Redcliff — Redcliff is a drone management company that organizes aerial shows and events for private and public organizations.
- 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.
- 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.
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, 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.
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
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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.
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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
Accuvest Global Advisors helps a U.S. and International client base of institutions, financial advisors, and high net worth in carefully navigating complex global capital markets. Our investment focus utilizes our global expertise to distribute country specific ETF investment strategies as well as a
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Investment focus
- Travel, Lifestyle, Mobile Apps
- Series A, Series B
- Taiwan
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- FunNow — Life is about having fun in time. FunNow allows you to discover your next lifestyle experience, book now and secure your seat instantly
Digital fund focused on crypto & digital assets investments related to blockchain technology, Decentralized Finance DeFi, web 3, NFT, metaverse, Bitcoin, & more
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, United States, Taiwan
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- Releap Protocol — Releap Protocol is a decentralized social graph on Sui
- 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.
BIGLOBE Capital was founded in 2007
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Content, Marketing
- Seed
- Japan, Taiwan
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- Pal+ — Pal+ is a free mobile messaging app that allows users to create and share images, videos, and voice messages while chatting with others. It is available for iOS and Android. Pal+ is formerly known as Cubie. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.
- HEROZ — HEROZ, Inc. was founded in 2009 and our engineer has developed the most cutting edge artificial intelligence, “Ponanza” programme to play Japanese chess 'Shogi', which defeated an active professional player in a public match for the first time ever, in March 2013. Shogi presents a higher degree of complexity than many other strategygames, and has been of interest to Artificial Intelligence researchers.
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
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- Panmnesia — Innovate AI Infrastructure with Panmnesia's Link Solution. Empowering true composability in modern AI infrastructure.
- 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)
Protocol Labs is building the next generation of the internet.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Akave — Akave is a decentralized data management network that supports the next generation of data-driven apps and marketplaces.
- Randamu — making previously impossible distributed applications DePINdable!
- Glow Labs — Solar farms on the Glow network are paid with GLW tokens for electricity output and stablecoins for carbon credits. According to the business, their incentive model prioritizes incentives for solar farms with the greatest environmental benefit, focusing on places where clean energy can best balance high carbon emissions.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Hong Kong, Taiwan, United States
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- Vpon Holdings — Vpon Holdings is an AI big data analysis and advertising company.
- 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.
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
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- 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.
Gumi Ventures helps the new entrepreneurs and businesses to cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. Gumi Ventures supports the new entrepreneurs and businesses that can resonate with gumi listed in the business mission, that cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. They will create a global company that represents the future ofJapan.
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Investment focus
- Video, Media and Entertainment, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Taiwan, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- 1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
- Mech — Mech is an NFT-based metaverse game that is currently developing their first versions of a match-3 game in which players can earn the in-game currency ore.
- Brave group — Brave group engages in IP development, marketing and support services.
Cornerstone Ventures is an early-stage VC firm with Internet, digitization, and AI as its main investment themes. It invests in startups in Taiwan with global vision, and also invests globally in startups that are interested in breaking into Taiwan market. With the main goal to help the founders grow in the journey of entrepreneurship, CornerstoneVentures is a long term investor and it actively provides its resource to support all founders.Cornerstone Ventures believes in its motto that "The Future is Unwritten".
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Investment focus
- Logistics, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Taiwan, United States, Hong Kong
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- Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
- Log 9 Materials — The spirit of innovation remains the cornerstone of every mission here at Log9. We have failed numerous times in this mission of ours, only to learn from them
- 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.
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.
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