# Edward Chyau

> Edward Chyau is a Series B investor at MESH (Taipei) backing Electronics and Manufacturing. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [MESH](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mesh-ventures)
- Location: Taipei, Taiwan
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-chyau-58a8b916/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/edchyau
- Website: https://x.com/edchyau
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/edchyau

Edward Chyau is a Series B investor at MESH in Taipei focused on Electronics and Manufacturing. Edward Chyau is the Managing Partner at MESH

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Electronics | 5 | 63% |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 50% |
| Semiconductor | 4 | 50% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 25% |
| Solar | 1 | 13% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 75% |
| Canada | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AheadComputing | AheadComputing is a company that specializes in designing, licensing, and providing support for high-performance microprocessor cores and related technologies. | $30M | Seed | Jan 21, 2026 |  |
| Eliyan | Eliyan manufactures semiconductor interconnects to accelerate chiplet-based systems. | $60M | Series B | Mar 25, 2024 |  |
| Tenstorrent | Tenstorrent is enabling a new era in AI and deep learning with its breakthrough processor architecture and software. The company’s mission is to deliver orders of performance and efficiency for AI workloads from the data center to the edge of the Cloud by co-designing hardware, software, and AI algorithms with their technology.Tenstorrent’sarchitecture scales from datacenter servers to IoT devices with improved efficiency, flexibility, programmability compared to legacy accelerators including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and TPU-type processors. It is developed by their team with expertise in computer architecture, hardware design and verification, systems engineering, compilers, software development, and machine learning algorithms.Tenstorrent is backed by Venture Capital firms including Real Ventures and Eclipse Venture Capital, as well as prominent industry luminaries. | $100M |  | Aug 02, 2023 |  |
| Movellus | Movellus develops process portable and ultra-low power analog IPs. Its roducts include PLLs, DLLs, and LDOs, that are optimized per design. | $23M | Series B | Sep 20, 2022 |  |
| Empower Semiconductor | Empower Semiconductor is dedicated to enabling the design of high-efficiency, integrated voltage regulators (VR) in SoCs. Their world-class team has developed a patent-pending breakthrough power management architecture that is redefining the cost, size, and energy efficiency of voltage regulators for applications ranging from low-power mobiledevices to the higher-powered servers and communications systems. | $45M | Series C | Oct 26, 2021 |  |
| DeepMap | DeepMap is accelerating safe autonomy by providing the world's best autonomous mapping and localization solutions. DeepMap delivers the technology necessary for self-driving vehicles to navigate in a complex and unpredictable environment. The company addresses three important elements: precise high-definition (HD) mapping, ultra-accuratereal-time localization, and the serving infrastructure to support massive global scaling. DeepMap was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., with offices in Beijing and Guangzhou, China. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, GSR Ventures, Generation, Goldman Sachs, NVIDIA, and Robert Bosch Venture Capital. |  | Series B | Feb 07, 2020 |  |
| Navitas Semiconductor | Navitas Semiconductor develops a range of GaN power ICs for the power supply markets. The GaNFast Power ICs enable power systems to run up to 100x faster than traditional silicon while delivering 4x higher power density, 40% less loss. The company’s products support mobile phones, wireless charging, LED lighting, TV and monitor, solar, anddatacenters. Navitas Semiconductor was formed in 2014 and is based in El Segundo, California. |  | Series B | Jan 02, 2020 |  |
| Navitas Semiconductor | Navitas Semiconductor develops a range of GaN power ICs for the power supply markets. The GaNFast Power ICs enable power systems to run up to 100x faster than traditional silicon while delivering 4x higher power density, 40% less loss. The company’s products support mobile phones, wireless charging, LED lighting, TV and monitor, solar, anddatacenters. Navitas Semiconductor was formed in 2014 and is based in El Segundo, California. |  | Series B |  |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Samsung Catalyst Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samsung-catalyst-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Eclipse](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eclipse-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SK Hynix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sk-hynix) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accelerate Blue Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accelerate-blue-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Archerman Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archerman-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About MESH

VC Fund · Taipei, Taiwan

MESH is an electronics-focused fund. -- Electronics underpin the momentum of global advancement, acting as the catalyst that ignites transformative progress across diverse sectors. Our unique relationship with the leading companies in the electronics industry, ranging from foundries to ODMs, enable us to help our portfolio companies captureopportunities and address challenges.

2 contacts available at MESH.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Edward Chyau | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edward-chyau |
| Sam Lam | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-lam-bd3d |

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## FAQ

### What does Edward Chyau invest in?

Edward Chyau invests primarily in Electronics, Manufacturing and Semiconductor startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Edward Chyau last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Edward Chyau closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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