Top 5 Automotive Startup Investors in Taiwan in October 2023

Cher Wang is the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and President at HTC and VIA Technologies. Cher has established a number of successful IT-related businesses, including founding VIA Technologies, Inc. in 1987 and co-founding HTC Corporation in 1997. Cher is currently Chairwoman of both companies and holds leadershiproles in numerous other enterprises and organizations. Cher is active in the international business community, participating as an Industry Partner at the World Economic Forum and as a Member of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC). In 2010, Cher co-founded the ABAC Women’s Forum to identify capacity-building policy recommendations that enhance opportunities for women in business and to hold outreach activities within APEC economies. Cher’s business achievements have been widely acclaimed in major international media. In 2011, Cher received the 20th spot on both Forbes’ and Fortune’s annual ‘most powerful women’ lists. Cher graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and is a devout Christian. Cher is married and has two children.

Investment focus

SaaS, Energy, Software
Series A, Funding Round
United States, Taiwan

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Gogoro — Gogoro is an electric scooter maker. With a mission to deliver consumer innovations that will improve how the world’s most populated cities distribute and utilize energy, the company is enabling the transformation of megacities into smart cities. Gogoro is working toward a better future by putting power in the hands of everyone – to move us allforward, faster.Founded in 2011, Gogoro is based in Taipei, Taiwan.
XRHealth — XRHealth is a virtual clinic where caring clinicians and advanced technology come together to help you feel your best. Try Virtual Reality therapy at home.
Splashtop — Splashtop delivers next-generation remote access and remote support software and services for enterprises, academic and research institutions, government agencies, small businesses, MSPs, IT departments, and individuals.Its cloud-based, secure, and easily managed remote access approach replaces legacy approaches such as virtual private networks(VPNs) while earning a stunning 93 Net Promoter Score (NPS), a standard for assessing customer satisfaction. Splashtop offers an enterprise-specific service that includes extra features, such as single-sign-on (SSO), with integrations for Microsoft Active Directory, JumpCloud, OKTA, OneLogin, and more. Moreover, companies can integrate Splashtop into enterprise services such as Salesforce, Jira, Zendesk, Freshdesk, and ServiceNow so support teams can help their end-users without having to switch from their help desk tool of choice. More than 30 million users, including those in 85% of Fortune 500 enterprises, enjoy Splashtop products globally.The San Jose, California-headquartered company was co-established by Mark Lee, Philip Sheu, Robert Ha, Thomas Deng, and Alex Lu in 2006.

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HTC Corp is engaged in the design, development, and manufacture of smartphones and tablets in Taiwan.The company offers PDA phones and smartphones for mobile operators and distributors in Europe, the United States, and Asia. These machines are available as HTC devices and as products individually customized for operators and device partners.The company provides its own HTC self-branded products as well as supports operator-branded products and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners. It owns Dopod as a subsidiary company and is a member of the Open Handset Alliance.The company’s products are sold under various brand names such as HTC, Dopod, and Qtek and are often rebranded by major telecommunication carriers. Its products also include pocket PC phones (PDA Phone), ultra mobile phones, HTC kovsky (Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1), and HTC dream (T-mobile G1).HTC Corp was founded by Cher Wang and Peter Chou in 1997. It is headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Investment focus

Virtual Reality, Software, Augmented Reality
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United States, Taiwan, China

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Hexa — Elevate your eCommerce experience with a 3D tech-stack that lets you create, manage, analyze, and distribute your 3D commerce assets.
Camsense — Camsense focuses on R&D and manufacturing of vision space positioning technology. It provides customers with highly precise sensors with its self-developed core algorithm and chips. Its products can be applied in consumer robots, industrial test, and surgeries.
Inworld AI — AI for Metaverse

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Particle Accelerator Limited (ParticleX) was founded in late 2017 by Shine Works. ParticleX is a tech-based startup investor and accelerator based in Hong Kong. ParticleX combines network, capital and research resources, accelerating the pace of innovative technology and helping the early-stage startups to win cross-border opportunities acrossAsia.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Hong Kong, United States, Singapore

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Homeppl — Homeppl reveals consumer's real transactional ability. We leverage open banking, risk and financial algorithms, and unique fraud detection tests to allow consumers inclusive financial access to all financial or risk products in the world.Clients use Homeppl to increase revenue, prevent fraud, and eliminate transactional friction. Homepplhas reviewed hundreds of thousands of transactions and approved millions of pounds of revenue for clients in the UK.We are a Techstars company. Our team is comprised of ambitious, international, and passionate individuals. We are from 24 nationalities and speak over 17 languages!
Finquest — Finquest is the premier deal origination provider delivering personalized connections to its clients who seek M&A and direct investment opportunities in Europe, North America, and APAC.With a unique database, machine learning and a team of experts, Finquest provides targeted, curated and actionable connections, whilst maintaining completeconfidentiality throughout the process. With Finquest, clients can broaden their market access, creating a more efficient deal-making environment.Finquest is headquartered in Singapore and has offices in New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Bangalore, and Hong Kong.
Crown Digital — Crown Digital harnesses the future-ready power of robotics and Artificial Intelligence to open doors with cutting-edge solutions for the not-so-distant future.

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Samuel Yin is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is best known for the establishment of the Tang Prize, and as chairman of the Ruentex Financial Group.

Investment focus

Energy, Automotive, Transportation
Series A, Post-IPO Equity
Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Gogoro — Gogoro is an electric scooter maker. With a mission to deliver consumer innovations that will improve how the world’s most populated cities distribute and utilize energy, the company is enabling the transformation of megacities into smart cities. Gogoro is working toward a better future by putting power in the hands of everyone – to move us allforward, faster.Founded in 2011, Gogoro is based in Taipei, Taiwan.

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