Top 5 Social Media VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Taiwan in January 2026
A list of 5 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social media startups based in Taiwan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social media companies from Taiwan. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Social Media VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Taiwan in January 2026
| Investor | Social Media Taiwan investments |
|---|---|
| North Base Media | 1 |
| Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures) | 1 |
| Expara IDM Ventures | 1 |
| Rookie Fund | 1 |
| Prometheus Capital | 1 |
NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.
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Investment focus
- Digital Media, Advertising, Publishing
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
- Vietcetera Media — Vietcetera Media - Understanding Vietnam
- Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!
Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Japan, China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- BACKSEAT — BACKSEAT provides embedded crypto exchange and Web3 Services.
- Forest — Forest Co., Ltd. operates as an e-commerce aggregator, seeks to identify sustainable, high-quality products and brands that embrace the spirit of Japan and help them grow and enter the global market by using the power of technology.
- Super Galaxy Records — Super Galaxy Records is a company that plans and produces IP that creates new works, and is also a record company that produces and manages voice actors and artists.
Expara IDM Ventures (EIDMV) is a leading provider of incubation and mentorship to early-stage interactive and digital media (IDM) companies in Singapore. EIDMV was one of the first private companies to be appointed as an incubator in the Interactive Digital Media Office (IDMPO)’s iJAM Microfunding Scheme supported by the National ResearchFoundation (NRF) in October 2007. Since then, we’ve invested S$5,000 on top of the S$50,000 disbursement from IDMPO into 16 start-ups. EIDMV’s iJAM I program has been highly successful, exceeding each of its KPIs and generating several of Singapore’s most exciting early-stage IDM companies. The team has a proven track record of successful follow-on fundraising for our incubatees; three companies have raised more than S$1MM in follow-on funding. EIDMV was again reappointed as an incubator in IDMPO’s new iJAM Mircofunding Scheme in April 2012, also known as iJAM Reload. EIDMV II was established late 2012 for the purpose of investment and incubation of future portfolio start-ups. The new scheme allows EIDMV II to match IDMPO’s funding of S$50,000 with an additional S$5,000 in Tier 1(similar to the initial program), followed by S$100,000 to S$100,000 match of IDMPO’s funding in Tier 2. The new management team which includes Douglas Abrams adds to the incubation experience and network which will strongly benefit these portfolio companies. EIDMV has close ties with two entities: Expara Pte Ltd, a venture creation company that develops and teaches entrepreneurship and innovation experiential-exercise-based learning programs for entrepreneurs, start-ups, companies and public institutions in Asia; and Extream Ventures Pte Ltd, an early-stage venture fund supported by NRF under the Early Stage Venture Funding Scheme. Douglas has helped raise S$20 million for Extream Ventures, in which he is one of four GPs.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Singapore, United States, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- salutat — intelligent communications for financial institutions
- Novocall — Novocall is THE business phone system for SMBs. Capture website leads, automate cold call campaigns & track inbound calls to their marketing source.
- Advantir Innovations — Serve more than 100 flavours of Swirls with just 1 machine, without the need to clean the machine. The Swirl.GO soft serve ice cream machine is scalable, compact, and does not require water points, hence suitable for usage in F&Bs, lounges, offices and events.
Rookie Fund is where investors and entrepreneurs start their careers. We are a student-run venture fund, powered by Rookie Fund management team and mentors. We are proud to support the strongest community of student investors and entrepreneurs across the Asia region. Rookie Fund currently runs in three locations, Taiwan, Xiamen, and Hong Kong.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Internet, Messaging
- Pre-Seed
- Taiwan
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- XO (former Rooit) — Rooit is an internet company that provides a gamified application that specializes in communication guided by chatbots to facilitate interaction between two users by providing fun games. The company is driven by its mission is to disrupt the way young people communicate and make friends.Rooit was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Taipei City,Taiwan.
Prometheus Capital is an investment firm that focuses on healthcare, technology, education, and consumer sectors. The investment firm currently manages over 1 billion USD in assets from institutions and individual investors’ funds. Prometheus Capital was founded in 2012 as a family fund of Mr. Wang Jianlin and Mr. Wang Sicong and is based inBeijing, China.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Video, Big Data
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, Taiwan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Freemud — Freemud is a smart retail support system and solutions provider.
- Rescale — Rescale is a high performance computing cloud simulation platform that helps engineers and scientists build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations with high performance computing and automations.
- Golden Technology — Golden Technology is a big data service company offering electronic invoice solutions using blockchain technology.
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