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Top 20 Software Angel Investors in Taiwan

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Software startups based in Taiwan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Software companies from Taiwan. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Software Angel Investors in Taiwan

Investor	Software Taiwan investments
Holly Liu	2
Kevin Lin	2
Kun Gao	2
Patrick Lee	2
Steve Chen	2
Sebastien Borget	1
Jamie Lin	1
Shannon Lee Chaluangco	1
Scott Chen	1
Chris Wang	1
Rushabh Doshi	1
Bill Chang	1
Mason Ng	1
Jeremy Lu	1
Michael van Paesschen	1
Pehong Chen	1
Toivo Annus	1
Yan Jin	1
Jan Hung-Tze	1
Paul Wu	1

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Holly Liu is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of PKO Investments. She attended the University of California Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Taiwan, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
Blaze — Blaze is the smarter no-code platform for teams to build internal tools. Create beautiful client portals, admin panels, inventory management systems, and automated workflows without needing to write any code. Trusted by enterprise companies for security and scale. Loved by startup entrepreneurs for being so easy to use and build applications.
Chaos Genius — Chaos Genius is a DataOps Observability tool for reducing Snowflake costs & Snowflake query optimization. Get started on Snowflake Observability for free.

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
Nest Wallet — Nest Wallet is a wallet created exclusively for traders, and all wallets are linked across mobile and extension.
Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps

Kun Gao joined GGWP as Co-Founder, President & COO.

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Online Games
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Taiwan, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.

Patrick Lee is an entrepreneur focused on the intersection of tech+entertainment best known for being a co-founder & the founding CEO of Rotten Tomatoes (rottentomatoes.com), a leading entertainment website focused on movie reviews and news. He is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner of PKO Investments, a syndicate of notable founders andinvestors investing in the next generation of tech founders. He is part of the Founding Team and a Board Member of the Gold House Collective and is an active advisor to a number of startups. He has also mentored and/or supported programs at 500 Startups, SOSV, Berkeley SkyDeck, Blue Startups, Founder Institute, and more. Patrick holds a BA in Cognitive Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Media and Entertainment, Comics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Taiwan, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Voyceme — Read action-packed and diverse English-originated webcomics, comics, webnovels, manga, and manhwa/manhua for FREE. Download the VoyceMe app now and connect with your favorite creators or monetize your stories while building a dedicated fanbase.
Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.

Steve Chen was an internet entrepreneur and the co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15.After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley andJawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a website designed to simplify video sharing online.Chen was named one of the "The 50 people who matter now" by Business 2.0 magazine in 2006. That year, he and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.Chen most recently co-founded AVOS Systems with YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

AppFlowy — AppFlowy is an AI-powered secure workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data
Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
Nest Wallet — Nest Wallet is a wallet created exclusively for traders, and all wallets are linked across mobile and extension.

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

BlockGames — BlockGames delivers a cross-game and decentralized player network driven by Universal Player Profiles.
Bolero — Invest in the music rights of your favourite songs and get royalties on Bolero, the all-in-one marketplace to invest in Song Shares. Invest in music today!
PlayMakers — Capture, audit, and monetize user-generated content (UGC) in your game. Drive higher engagement, game longevity, and unlock monetization opportunities.

1999 year old bones Internet entrepreneur, he has co-founded four Internet companies, successfully raised venture capital 300 million yuan. Middle also join the venture capital fund of experience in the All Asia Partners and HSS Ventures and so on. Proton Business School Master of Business History at New York University, NTU Chemical /Bachelor of Economics

Investment focus

iOS, Software, Natural Language Processing
Series A, Seed, Series B
Taiwan, Indonesia, United States

Portfolio highlights

WritePath — WritePath is a global online solution provider for multi-lingual translation, document editing, proofreading and copy writing. Our mission is to provide B2B clients timely translation services via the T-Booster Internet platform in various languages and in high quality. WP targets clients that are Internet savvy, self-serve and with limited projectmanagement requirements and recurring demand, unlike traditional translation agencies. Our platform business model helps clients worldwide to go local in no time.
Splitforce — Splitforce is a developer of mobile testing applications that provides easy A/B testing for iOS, Android, and Unity apps. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York.
WeMo Scooter — WeMo Scooter is provides a smarter travel option with an easy to use vehicle sharing service. With the freedom to ride anywhere, anytime, WeMo Scooter’s smart vehicle rental service is the largest and most established in Taiwan. Open around the clock, WeMo’s services can be accessed through the app and rented at multiple public and cooperatingparking lots. With live tracking features, 24/7 customer service, and insurance for all users, WeMo takes care of the small things to provide a safe and hassle-free experience for riders.

Shannon Lee Chaluangco

Investment focus

Hotel, Retail, Travel
Seed, Series A
Taiwan, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

WEBUY — WEBUY offers affordable local food and beverage (F&B) products through its platform that runs on a group buying model. WEBUY said it designed its platform to mimic social media influencer-driven interactions to increase the visibility of small merchants.
TravelSkope — All-in-One OTA (Online Travel Agency) Solution

Scott Chen is President and Board Member at Grindr.

Investment focus

CRM, Software
Pre-Seed
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Cooby — Supercharge your WhatsApp and integrate it with your CRM to reduce administrative work and lost customer data.

Chris spent two years as a Google engineer before founding Playdom. Before officially joining Google, Chris received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellonâ€”completed in a record-breaking two years and ten monthsâ€”and interned at, you guessed it, Google. Chris also holds a BA in computer science from Berkeley. However, his knack forprogramming and obsession with gaming goes much further back: As a high schooler, Chris took 14th place in the USA Computing Olympiad and spent countless days trying to program his first 3D RPG.

Investment focus

Software, IaaS, SaaS
Seed, Private Equity
United States, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Virtkick — Virtkick lets independent hosting companies increase conversion rates, simplify server management and take on the biggest players. Virtkick is a SaaS cloud management panel that offers simplicity and great user experience for our customers - hosting companies - and their end customers - software developers, software houses, designers etc.
CryptoSlam — An NFT industry data aggregator backed by Mark Cuban. Features project analytics, NFT values, rarity, scarcity, most popular collections, activity history & more.
Numbers Protocol — With trust in digital media at an all-time low, Numbers Protocol aims to bring integrity and authenticity to the digital content space by creating a decentralized photo network where assets are both traceable and verifiable through its innovative Capture, Seal, Trace process.With Capture, birth information of media content is recorded at thepoint of creation. This means that contextual information such as creator, time, and location is recorded and digitally signed. In doing so, uniqueness is captured as no two pieces of digital content can replicate the exact circumstances of their creation.With Seal, the records are made immutable and traceable by creating an integrity record on the blockchain.With Trace, a certificate of authenticity is generated and the media assets themselves are made into traceable multilayered information containers containing embedded context. The identifying quality of these assets is that they can speak for themselves.From valueless, trustless, and oversaturated to unique, valuable, accessible, and having a voice, Numbers Protocol decentralized photo network ushers digital media into the Web3.0 space and changes the way digital content is viewed.

Engineering and Product leader, seed investor, ex-Facebook, ex-YouTube

Investment focus

CRM, Software
Pre-Seed
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Cooby — Supercharge your WhatsApp and integrate it with your CRM to reduce administrative work and lost customer data.

Bill Chang

Investment focus

Genetics, Software, Health Care
Series A
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

ATGENOMIX — ATGENOMIX is a specialist next generation sequencing and enterprise-grade complete Bio-IT platform for accelerating genomic data processing with accuracy, scalability and reliability.

Mason Ng - Technology and Product Leader @ Verizon Media

Investment focus

Venture Capital, Mobile, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

NGINX — NGINX accelerates content and application delivery, improves security, and facilitates availability and scalability for the busiest websites on the Internet.
Carta — Carta (formerly eShares) is an ownership and equity management platform trusted by thousands of founders, investors, and employees.
Eridan — Eridan builds software defined radios for 5G and beyond, based on a revolutionary gallium nitride architecture.

Jeremy Lu - President, Founder & CEO @ JARVISH

Investment focus

Wearables, Augmented Reality, Internet of Things
Angel
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

JARVISH — JARVISH has teams consist of experts from optical design, product manufacturing and commercial marketing.

Michael van Paesschen

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A
Taiwan, Bahamas

Portfolio highlights

WOO Network — WOO X is the ultimate crypto trading platform featuring deep liquidity for superior order execution, and fully customizable trading workspaces.
Orderly Network — Orderly Network is the omnichain liquidity layer with robust SDK for Web3 DeFi builders, while enhancing spot & derivatives trading in DeFi.

Pehong Chen is the Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors, President & Chief Executive Officer of BroadVision.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series B, Angel
United States, Taiwan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Tresl — Segments by Tresl is a self-guided data analytics platform that helps you build long-lasting customer relationships.
Rosetta.ai — Rosetta.ai helps e-commerce increase conversion and enlarge order value with deep learning-based technology to analyze the individual consumer's hidden preferences and behaviors, predict future sales, and provide personalized recommendations for online and offline during the consumer's shopping journey.Different vertical e-commerce hasdifferent shopping behaviors and preferences. Rosetta.ai focuses on the vertical e-commerce industry, the fashion industry, and dives more into fashion, e.g. apparel, cosmetics, and accessory, etc., to build the dedicated deep learning models and algorithms for it and automatically arrange suitable models and algorithms for e-commerce.
FreeDecision — FreeDecision offers instant credit solutions to financial institutions and merchants.

Active individual investor in flying drones, also looking at payments and ecommerce.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Singapore, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
Enview — Enview offers the next generation of Geospatial Analytics Software and GEOINT technology for energy companies and governments to protect their critical infrastructure.
GOSU Data Lab — Try the World`s first game voice assistant to master the game effortlessly. Learn more - how it works and how can it help you.

Yan Jin has 15-year venture capital, investment banking, and corporate management experience covers more than 20 investment projects, involving consumer electronics, new materials, the Internet, and innovative services industries. Ms. Jin also serves as a leader of China’s Democratic National Construction Party, a political party separate from theCommunist Party of China. She is currently a legislative member of the Shenzhen Municipal Government. Ms. Jin is also a cofounder of Shenzhen Capital Group.

Investment focus

Fitness, mHealth, Wellness
Series A
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

iFit — iFit (爱瘦身) is a website and mobile community that focuses on health and slimming services.iFit currently emphasizes on content, communities, and electronic commerce services. It plans on expanding its services into wearable equipment, application software, hardware services, and more. In March 2013, iFit gathered pictures and articles andpublished a book named Get Food not Fat, which was on the best-selling list once released. At the same time, IFit entered the group buying market.iFit was founded by Chen Yunru in June 2012. She started her business through a fan club by sharing her own experiences of losing weight. In less than a year her fan base reached more than 400,000. The official iFit website was set up in December 2012.

A native of Nantou County born in the year 1956, Hung-Tze Jan graduated from the Department of Economics at National Taiwan University.Hung-Tze Jan is the chairman of PChome Online and also the founder of PChome Publication and Cite Publication.Hung-Tze Jan has over 30 years of experience in the media industry, having worked for United DailyNews, Commercial Times, China Times, Yuan-Liou Publishing, Rock Records, Chinese Television System, Business Weekly, and many more. During the time he served as editor-in-chief for numerous media companies, he planned and edited over thousands of books and periodicals and was the founder of over forty magazines, including PChome and Business Next.In Taiwan, Hung-Tze Jan is an acclaimed writer, opinion leader, filmmaker, editor, and publisher. He is highly respected for his insights on the issues between the socioeconomic environment and the trend towards the internet culture and creativity.Hung-Tze Jan is the chairman of the Taiwan Internet and E-Commerce Association (TiEA). He has also served as chairman, director, and supervisor for many other associations in the publishing and information industries. In 1997, the People Magazine of Taiwan awarded him the Diamond Award. In 2008, the Government Information Office awarded him the Special Award of the 2nd Golden Vessel Awards for Digital Publishers.

Investment focus

SaaS, Apps, PaaS
Seed, Series A
Japan, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

91APP — 91APP is a leading omnichannel commerce solution provider in Taiwan, providing brand-own shopping app and websites for retailers.
awoo Intelligence — Helps businesses connect with customer intentions across the marketing funnel from every possible touchpoint to drive actionable insights

Paul founded GMobi in early 2011 when he saw the huge demand of mobile content and software services in emerging market. Before founding GMobi, Paul worked for a global internet platform and service development team at MediaTek, responsible for building up mobile service ecosystem with Google/Facebook/Yahoo/Tencent/Baidu forMediaTek chipset. Prior to MediaTek, Paul helped Foxconn to acquire a mobile internet company so it can enter into mobile software business. Before joining Foxconn group, Paul was PocketNet CEO , he successfully turn around the company in three years.During 2000 to 2005, Paul spent 6 years in Beijing working with Tom.com group, a company specialized in mobile content service with Nokia and China Mobile in China, Tom is owned by HK Tycoon Li Kashing Hutchison group.Paul received his MBA degree from Netherlands Rotterdam School of Management and a bachelor degree in Agri-Economics at National Taiwan University

Investment focus

Geospatial, Mobile, Machine Learning
Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

CITYDATA.ai — CITYDATA measures the presence, density, and movement of people to build digital replicas for smarter cities and real-world businesses.
LOTaDATA — LOTaDATA curates geospatial ground truth data sets on a global scale. We combine public and private data for discerning customers to help them make smarter decisions.
Kdan Mobile Software — KDAN is the best partner for businesses, offering E-signature, PDF editor, data analytics, and integrating KDAN AI to maximize your business value.

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