Cheng Wu
General Partner @ Taiwania Capital Management Corporation
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Cheng Wu is a seed investor at Taiwania Capital Management Corporation in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Information Technology and Software. Cheng Wu is CEO and co-founder at Azuki, responsible for the company’s vision, corporate strategy and setting the overall direction in the marketplace.Most recently, Cheng served as Chairman of Acopia Networks, a leader in high-performance, intelligent file virtualization solutions, which was acquired by F5 Networks for $210M in September,2007.Prior to joining Cisco, Cheng founded ArrowPoint Communications, where he served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer leading the company to a successful IPO in April of 2000 with annualized revenues of $250M. Founded in 1997, ArrowPoint provided Web switches and Web network services (WebNS) software that allowed customers to optimize the use of the Web for e-commerce and content delivery.Preceding Cheng’s time with ArrowPoint, he founded Arris Networks, a Massachusetts based startup that developed high-density Internet access products that was acquired by Cascade Communications for $217M in May, 1996. He later served as Cascade (now Lucent Technologies) Communications’ Vice President for remote access engineering.In addition to functioning as CEO of Azuki, Cheng also serves on the board of eIQNetworks.Cheng has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from ChiaoTung University, Taiwan and a master’s degree in computer science from Indiana University.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
Last updated:
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Industries Cheng Wu invests in
Stages Cheng Wu invests in
Countries Cheng Wu invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Information Technology 5 (42%)
- Software 3 (25%)
- Mobile 2 (17%)
- Internet 2 (17%)
- Wireless 2 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (33%)
- Series A 3 (25%)
- Funding Round 2 (17%)
- Angel 1 (8%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 8 (67%)
- Taiwan 2 (17%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| DataPelago provides big data analytics solutions. They also provide a data analytics platform that offers hardware and software based products. The platform also provides solutions for extracting insights from data of, speed, or structure at performance and cost levels unsurpassed in the industry. | $47M / Series A / Oct 01, 2024 | ||
| Verana Networks develops an innovative 5G Radio Access Network solution for service providers that have licensed millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum.The company focuses on enabling 5G in mmWave spectrum because that is where the largest amount of new spectrum is. For 5G to succeed, it must deliver a 10X-50X increase in speed and capacity. Blazingfast speed and an increase in capacity enable new applications, these new applications create incremental revenue, and incremental revenue is essential to support the business case for 5G. | $28M / Series B / Apr 26, 2022 | ||
| Canner is a provider of data management solutions that helps businesses handle the complexities of data and business context. The company has created a universal semantic layer powered by AI, which harmonizes the schema, structure, relationship, and metadata between data and semantic context through an open standard semantic definition andarchitecture. This innovative approach fundamentally changes how businesses interact with their data using advanced AI technologies. Canner currently offers flagship products such as Canner Enterprise, an enterprise-grade semantic layer, and WrenAI, an open-source AI agent and semantic framework. | $3.5M / Seed / Mar 08, 2022 | ||
| Ubiik, an emerging leader in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and private LTE (pLTE) solutions, employs its Weightless™ and cellular IoT LPWAN technologies.Founded in 2016, Ubiik started its IoT business by providing Weightless™ LPWAN, a high performance open standard communication protocol successful with Advanced Metering Infrastructureprivate deployments. Since its successful AMI project in 2018 which has expanded its product portfolio to a PaaS platform, Ubiik has become a vertical IoT solutions provider. It has since grown its connectivity offerings to include LTE technologies to cover the multi-modality of the IoT market, especially for applications with strong security requirements that can be met with 3GPP standards. | $5M / Series A / Apr 28, 2021 | ||
| Ubiik, an emerging leader in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and private LTE (pLTE) solutions, employs its Weightless™ and cellular IoT LPWAN technologies.Founded in 2016, Ubiik started its IoT business by providing Weightless™ LPWAN, a high performance open standard communication protocol successful with Advanced Metering Infrastructureprivate deployments. Since its successful AMI project in 2018 which has expanded its product portfolio to a PaaS platform, Ubiik has become a vertical IoT solutions provider. It has since grown its connectivity offerings to include LTE technologies to cover the multi-modality of the IoT market, especially for applications with strong security requirements that can be met with 3GPP standards. | $5M / Series A / Mar 30, 2021 | ||
| Avesha is a technology platform that enables application workloads to disaggregate across cloud, multi-cloud, and edge locations. Enterprises can improve business outcomes by enabling more automation, real-time use cases, and high performance/low latency applications by distributing data and application logic closer to the end-users. TheAvesha SNAP (Smart Network Application Platform) creates a virtual overlay on any network underlay. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. | $6M / Seed / Jan 21, 2021 | ||
| Merchant's Garden AgroTech provides revolutionary and sustainable ways to feed communities with local produce and right now, we are feeding Tucson, Arizona.The Merchant’s Garden’s execution of urban aquaponics makes low cost and high volume production possible rendering direct and indirect competitors frail in the open markets. Bringingaquaponics into the capital markets will change the way people acquire their food. Also, aquaponics technology yields a superior product to any other source of food production. There is virtually no one other way to provide fresher produce to consumers at a low cost. | $350K / Seed / Jan 01, 2016 | ||
| Founded by Cheng Wu and Lawrence Ho, Acetti Software (formerly APL software) is exploiting technologies used in parallel computing to scale out the next generation of cloud-native applications without making any changes to the application, Linux, existing hardware or data center infrastructure. Acetti Software boosts cloud-native applicationperformance up to 3x while providing unprecedented deep, real-time insight into an application's execution to further optimize performance/scale-out. | Oct 27, 2015 | ||
| Appcito, a cloud application infrastructure company, delivers on the promise of the cloud by transforming how cloud applications are deployed and operated. Appcito’s cloud-native, subscription-based, easy-to-deploy Cloud Application Front-End (CAFE) service empowers application teams to deliver high-performance, available, secure applications withcontinuous deployment. By providing end users with more rewarding application experiences, CAFE enables application owners to attain greater business agility, cost savings and competitive advantage. | Series A / Dec 09, 2014 | ||
| Menguin is a company offering online stylish tuxedo and suit rentals. It allows the bride and groom to design the tuxedos together, on their couch, while helping to organize the wedding party. The company's solution saves an average of three hours per customer by cutting out multiple trips to the store. This allows clients to spend their timeaway from high-pressure suit sales and focus their time on the things that matter. | $100K / Angel / Jan 01, 2014 | ||
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Co-Investors
Taiwania Capital is a venture capital firm that establishes partnership with worldwide companies and to boost Taiwan’s economic growth.
Taiwania Capital Management Corporation Contacts
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General Partner
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David Weng
CEO
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Michael Huang
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Michael Shieh
Entrepreneur In Residence
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What does Cheng Wu invest in?
Cheng Wu invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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