# Lite-On Technology

> Lite-On Technology is a VC fund in Taipei backing Energy and Hardware. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Taipei, Taiwan
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/liteon
- Website: http://www.liteon.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LITE-ON-Global-255877581560574

Lite-On Technology is a VC fund in Taipei focused on Energy and Hardware. Lite-On Technology Corporation manufactures imaging products, enclosures, power supplies, and LEDs in Taiwan and internationally. Its optoelectronic product line includes white LEDs, SMD LED lamps, LED displays, photo couplers, and infrared components. The company also produces power supply products, including notebook computer adapters, powerconverters, adapters for networking devices, and other energy efficient products. In addition, it offers phone camera modules, modem and wireless technologies, DT casings, LCD displays, portable multimedia devices, key components for inkjet and laser printers, wired PC keyboards, multimedia wired PC keyboards, multi-functional gaming keyboards, wired optical/laser mice, wireless keyboard/mouse kits, wireless remote controls and presenters, and network switches. Further, the company provides DVD recorders and players, mobile phone accessories, diode rectifiers, power supplies and transformers, and inverters for various applications. Additionally, it offers design and manufacturing services for electronic manufactures, including personal digital assistant and portable navigation device product manufacturers. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 1 | 13% |
| Hardware | 1 | 13% |
| Internet | 1 | 13% |
| Security | 1 | 13% |
| Software | 1 | 13% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 2 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 25% |
| China | 1 | 13% |
| Taiwan | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Guangzhong Chen | CEO | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Huazhi Energy | Huazhi Energy is a new energy innovation company that specializes in the development and production of energy storage core equipment. | $14.6M | Series B | Apr 30, 2026 |  |
| Kneron | Kneron specializes in designing and developing integrated software and hardware solutions that enable artificial intelligence to function on devices at the edge. Their products serve a variety of applications, including smart homes, smart surveillance, smartphones, robots, drones, and IoT devices. Kneron offers AI System-on-Chips, visualrecognition software development kits, and intellectual property for neural processing units. | $49M | Series B | Sep 26, 2023 |  |
| Kneron | Kneron specializes in designing and developing integrated software and hardware solutions that enable artificial intelligence to function on devices at the edge. Their products serve a variety of applications, including smart homes, smart surveillance, smartphones, robots, drones, and IoT devices. Kneron offers AI System-on-Chips, visualrecognition software development kits, and intellectual property for neural processing units. | $48M | Series B | Oct 05, 2022 |  |
| Kneron | Kneron specializes in designing and developing integrated software and hardware solutions that enable artificial intelligence to function on devices at the edge. Their products serve a variety of applications, including smart homes, smart surveillance, smartphones, robots, drones, and IoT devices. Kneron offers AI System-on-Chips, visualrecognition software development kits, and intellectual property for neural processing units. | $25M | Series B | Dec 20, 2021 |  |
| Kneron | Kneron specializes in designing and developing integrated software and hardware solutions that enable artificial intelligence to function on devices at the edge. Their products serve a variety of applications, including smart homes, smart surveillance, smartphones, robots, drones, and IoT devices. Kneron offers AI System-on-Chips, visualrecognition software development kits, and intellectual property for neural processing units. | $25M | Series B | Nov 02, 2021 |  |
| Kneron | Kneron specializes in designing and developing integrated software and hardware solutions that enable artificial intelligence to function on devices at the edge. Their products serve a variety of applications, including smart homes, smart surveillance, smartphones, robots, drones, and IoT devices. Kneron offers AI System-on-Chips, visualrecognition software development kits, and intellectual property for neural processing units. | $25M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 02, 2021 |  |
| Playnitride | PlayNitride group is a MicroLED products and solutions provider, with its proprietary PixeLED display technology. In addition to traditional display applications, the PixeLED display technology, which can be applied for high-performance displays with very high resolution, high contrast ratio, high aperture ratio, fast response, and very low powerconsumption. They developing key technologies, providing different products or solutions of MicroLED displays.Playnitride was founded in 2014 and is based in Miaoli, T'ai-wan, Taiwan. |  | Corporate Round | Jan 11, 2021 |  |
| Lynx | For over 30 years, Lynx Software Technologies has enabled designs in security and safety critical markets including aviation/avionics, transportation, medical and defense systems. The LynxOS-178 RTOS is the first and only COTS operating system to receive acceptance for reusability from the FAA for DO-178B/C certification. LYNX MOSA.ic(TM) enables developers to architect and design modular embedded systems to leverage the reuse of existing code, third-party commercial solutions and open-source applications seamlessly, across various platforms. Lynx Software Technologies is active in many of the industry committees and groups that shape and maintain standards—such as OMG (Object Management Group), Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Consortium, power.org, and eclipse.org. This ensures that their customers’ needs are met by the standards they support, keeping their open systems current as standards evolve. For their avionics customers, they adhere to the ARINC 653 standard, and they offer a MILS-based separation kernel for their customers demanding the highest levels of security. They utilize the industry-standard Eclipse framework and the open-source projects such as CDT to provide an enterprise-strength open development environment. This commitment to openness extends to their customer relationships as well. They provide customers with access to source code and engineering resources, as well as the opportunity to participate in discussions of their product direction through their Customer Advisory Board. | $35M |  | Jun 19, 2000 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Lite-On Technology invest in?

Lite-On Technology invests primarily in Energy, Hardware and Internet startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round 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.

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### Who are the partners at Lite-On Technology?

The team at Lite-On Technology includes Guangzhong Chen (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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