Startup Island TAIWAN
VC Fund
Taipei, Taiwan
Startup Island TAIWAN is a VC fund in Taipei focused on Software and Information Technology. Taiwan Startup Stadium is a leading startup ecosystem builder in Taiwan. With our comprehensive global resources, we aim to build a “one alliance, one platform, and one academy” mindset to serve startups, investors, and corporations throughout Asia. Aside from leveraging a broad network of ecosystem players, we also provide solid coaching programsthrough extensive bootcamps and workshops designed to empower entrepreneurs to grow and succeed in their startup journey. We currently serve 200+ startup members, ranging from bootstrapping to Series B, from AR/VR, SaaS, AI, to Fintech, IoT and more. We work with 120+ mentors and 500+ investors globally, as well as 20+ accelerators such as MOX, SparkLabs Taipei and AppWorks and 30+ corporates including Google, KPMG and the like.
- Total investments:
- 260
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 86%
Last updated:
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Industries Startup Island TAIWAN invests in
Stages Startup Island TAIWAN invests in
Countries Startup Island TAIWAN invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 74 (28%)
- Information Technology 61 (23%)
- Artificial Intelligence 53 (20%)
- Internet 42 (16%)
- Apps 30 (12%)
Stage
- Non-equity Assistance 248 (95%)
- Funding Round 10 (4%)
- Seed 1 (0%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (0%)
Country
- Taiwan 173 (67%)
- United States 26 (10%)
- Hong Kong 16 (6%)
- Singapore 10 (4%)
- China 5 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Abbey Tiu
Associate, Startup Development
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Associate, Startup Development | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Allen John Ku
Director, Operations
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Director, Operations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Anita Huang
Captain
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Captain | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Gary Nieh
Investor relations
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Investor relations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Leroy Yau
Co-Founder & CEO
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Co-Founder & CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inline is a CRM service designed to help restaurant owners increase operating margins. In the context of restaurants, CRM includes the dining lifecycle for new and repeat patrons of booking or queuing, engaging with questions and feedback before dining in, ordering meals, providing feedback. The inline services include one of the most highly ratedTable Management Systems (TMS) in the industry, 100+ integrations with leading consumer apps and POS systems, engagement data on over 250M unique diners, and a world class customer support with resolution times under 10 minutes. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 19, 2023 | ||
| hunger is a SaaS focuses on the beauty industry, including nail, eyelash, face and body care industries, helping business users to upgrade their digital operations and business operations.hunger is the most powerful customer relationship management system. It integrates customer data analysis, reservation and re-marketing tools to make yourbusiness smarter. | $100K / Seed / Jun 14, 2022 | ||
| Indochat is an internet company located in Jakarta. | Non-equity Assistance / Jan 18, 2022 | ||
| Team8 is a connectable watch for kids (5-12 years), they can create their own super-hero (name, costume, super-powers etc.) and use it in many games, also connecting two watches together to oppose their hero against their friend's. BUT to do all those activities, heroes will need to feed from kid's energy ! More than just motivate kids todo exercise, they can check products if they are allergic, get reminders adherence to medication, localise them, send them text, etc. | Non-equity Assistance / Jan 17, 2022 | ||
| Tasteme is a social impact company that focuses on fighting global food waste. The company's engaging in planning that maximizes the use of food reduces the ecological carbon footprint of the diet and saves the depleted earth's resources. | Non-equity Assistance / Jan 07, 2022 | ||
| Trainge is a sports venue management SaaS platform based in Taiwan, serving over 200 venues, 2,000 trainers, and 4,000 classes. The platform combines a consumer marketplace for discovering courses, venue rentals, and sports merchandise with a B2B operating system that powers marketing, sales, bookings, payments, and daily operations for gyms,studios, and sports facilities. Trainge also develops IoT solutions for unmanned venue management, including smart access control and environment automation, serving yoga studios, badminton courts, pickleball courts, climbing gyms, and multi-sport facilities across Taiwan with expansion into Southeast Asia. | Non-equity Assistance / Jan 01, 2022 | ||
| Chelpis focuses on providing zero-trust information security solutions for major cybersecurity risks in Post-Quantum Era. With an aim to protect the digital environment, Chelpis created “AORTA Decentralized Transfer Authentication and Encryption Solution,” a protection mechanism based on “software define perimeter.” AORTA’s end-to-end secure tunnelprovides better transmission performance than VPN, prevents network lateral movement of viruses, and solves network traffic limitationsChelpis’ team members are from the most significant cryptography lab at NTU which has won multiple Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards.Chelpis is the only Taiwanese cryptography team that is capable of conducting independent development on blockchain, cryptocurrency wallet, secure coprocessor application, trust computing, encrypted transmission, and zero-trust cybersecurity system.Chelpis developed cryptography technology for the well-known cold wallet “CoolBitX," participated in NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process, and provided cybersecurity technology for national level startup hub. | Non-equity Assistance / Jan 01, 2022 | ||
| hunger is a SaaS focuses on the beauty industry, including nail, eyelash, face and body care industries, helping business users to upgrade their digital operations and business operations.hunger is the most powerful customer relationship management system. It integrates customer data analysis, reservation and re-marketing tools to make yourbusiness smarter. | Jan 01, 2022 | ||
| BITSUN provides cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence services. | Non-equity Assistance / Dec 12, 2021 | ||
| MyProGuide presents a new traveling style in the tourism industry. Our main users are licensed professionals and independent travelers.More and more tourists are getting tired of the traditional traveling style, and therefore plan out tour itineraries themselves, enjoying the freedom and getting rid of old-fashioned touring methods. But at someattractions, you'll still need a tour guide to lead you, tell stories or point out the right trail on the mountain. Where to find these spot-based or hour-based tour guides? MyProGuide answers to your need!MyProGuide focuses on providing professional, attraction-based guidance service for travelers by licensed tour guides. We fit few hours of tour into your schedule no matter how tight it is, and you can still acquire profound knowledge and professional service from MyProGuide.MyProGuide is also a platform for professional tour guides to promote themselves. Tour guides have their own blog posts, biographies and social networks. Tour guides can share anything on MyProGuide.com to make tourist interested in his/her guiding style.MyProGuide knows what travelers needs and how to assist tour guides on promoting themselves. All tour guides are 100% guaranteed to be professional and fluent in their language. Our fee also covers insurance, no matter how long the service is.MyProGuide is becoming your best choice for the new traveling style, and MyProGuide is coming to your country soon. | Non-equity Assistance / Dec 10, 2021 | ||
| See all 260 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Startup Island TAIWAN invest in?
Startup Island TAIWAN invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Non-equity Assistance and Funding Round stage. Most of the 260 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Taiwan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Startup Island TAIWAN?
The team at Startup Island TAIWAN includes Abbey Tiu (Associate, Startup Development), Allen John Ku (Director, Operations) and Anita Huang (Captain), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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