Trend Micro
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
Trend Micro is a global technology leader, helping to make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fueled by decades of global security expertise, threat research, and continuous innovation, its unified cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of individuals from risks across their attack surfaces. As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, its platform delivers a powerful range of advanced threat protection optimized for environments like AWS, Microsoft, and Google, and central visibility for better, faster detection and response. Trend Micro’s global threat research team delivers unparalleled intelligence and insights that power its cybersecurity platform and help protect organizations around the world from hundreds of millions of threats daily. Trend Micro has over 7,000 employees across 65 countries, singularly focused on security innovation and passionate about making the world a safer and better place, enabling organizations to simplify and secure their connected world.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Trend Micro invests in
Stages Trend Micro invests in
Countries Trend Micro invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Big Data 1 (25%)
- Internet 1 (25%)
- Advertising 1 (25%)
- Data Center 1 (25%)
- Social Media 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (25%)
- Series A 1 (25%)
- Series B 1 (25%)
- Series C 1 (25%)
Country
- Taiwan 2 (50%)
- China 1 (25%)
- United States 1 (25%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Eva Chen
Co-Founder & CEO
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Co-Founder & CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Felix Sterling
SVP of General Counsel & Global Legal Team
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SVP of General Counsel & Global Legal Team | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Leah MacMillan
Sr. Vice President, Global Marketing
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Sr. Vice President, Global Marketing | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Mahendra Negi
Chief Financial Officer
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Chief Financial Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Max Cheng
CIO & EVP of Core Technology
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CIO & EVP of Core Technology | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| GMI Cloud is a business of empowering the world's best ideas. Which provide businesses all over the globe with unmatched cloud access to top-tier GPUs like the NVIDIA H100 and streamlined software platform for integration, virtualization, and deployment. | $223M / Series B / Sep 30, 2026 | ||
| TXOne Networks offers cybersecurity solutions to protect industrial control systems from cyberattacks. It also develops industrial control systems (ICS) for the industrial IoT environments, including smart manufacturing, smart city, and smart energy, to help industries protect their systems from cyber threats. In addition, the company offersnetwork-based and endpoint-based products to secure the OT network and mission-critical devices in a real-time defense-in-depth manner. Both IT and OT can have comprehensive visibility regarding the ICS assets, protocols, control commands, risks, and threats. | $11M / Seed / Apr 01, 2019 | ||
| Founded in May 2014, VMFive is a Taiwanese startup company specializing in cloud technology with its world's largest cloud virtual mobile platform. With the integration of its leading core technologies: Cloud, Virtualization, Streaming, Ad Tech, and Big Data, VMFive creates AdPlay - Playable Ad Solution, which turns mobile apps into playablead unit, and enables users to instantly try apps before downloading. AdPlay becomes an effective advertising solution, which acquires higher quality game users while providing a better user experience than traditional ads.VMFive has won top prize at TechCrunch Beijing in 2014 and Slush Asia Tokyo in 2015, and it is moving on to the Asia-Pacific market, actively engaging potential collaborators to create a brand new mobile advertising model.Learn more about VMFive and AdPlay：http://vmfive.com | $6M / Series A / Dec 21, 2015 | ||
| SINA is an online media company and MVAS provider in the People’s Republic of China and for the global Chinese communities. With a branded network of localized websites targeting Greater China and overseas Chinese, the Company provides services mainly through SINA.com (online news and content), Weibo.com (microblog), and SINA Mobile (MVAS). Through these businesses and properties and other business lines, SINA offers an array of services including region-focused online portals, MVAS, microblog, blog, video, and music streaming, photo sharing, online games, email, search, classified listings, fee-based services, e-commerce, and enterprise e-solutions. The Company generates the majority of its revenues from online advertising and MVAS offerings and, to a lesser extent, from fee-based services. SINA offers distinct and targeted content on each of its region-specific websites and a range of complementary offerings designed to broaden its user base and increase user traffic. The Company aims to become the media platform of choice for Internet users to research and retrieve information, share opinions and build social networks and for businesses to market and promote their products and services. SINA offers a range of complementary offerings, all centered on its core online media business, that is intended to enhance the attractiveness of its portal and microblogging properties and strengthen its reach in the Chinese online community. | $60M / Series C / Nov 08, 1999 |
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FAQ
What does Trend Micro invest in?
Trend Micro invests primarily in Big Data, Internet and Advertising startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 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 Trend Micro?
The team at Trend Micro includes Eva Chen (Co-Founder & CEO), Felix Sterling (SVP of General Counsel & Global Legal Team) and Leah MacMillan (Sr. Vice President, Global Marketing), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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