Top 45 Hardware VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Taiwan in October 2023

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• Bitmark — Bitmark restores trust in data. Our end-to-end Internet protocol secures the provenance of data. This makes it possible to have verifiable information, digital property rights, and safe sharing of personal data—without the need for trusted third parties. UC Berkeley, Pfizer, and KKBOX use Bitmark in healthcare, music, art, and more. #digitalrights
• Blackpanda — Asia's premier digital forensics and cyber incident response firm.
• FlexCompute — Our aerodynamics & electromagnetic simulation solutions reduce solve times, time to market, overall cost, and ensure a more robust product.

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• Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
• Atinary — Atinary is an end-to-end AI, machine learning, robotics, and cloud computing technology platform for digitizing R&D operations.
• Magic — Onboard users to your dApp with just an email, phone number, or social login. Multi-chain, highly scalable, and battle-tested.

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• Ethernovia — Embrace the future of vehicle networks with Ethernovia's new Ethernet approach. Explore our cutting-edge technology today.
• QT Medical — World's leading medical ECG/EKG machine company that aims to make hospital-grade 12-lead ecg machines available for everyone. Best portable ecg device during the pandemic. Focusing on innovations in the field of telemedicine and home care, we continue to invest in research and development of products that will bring better cardiac care to patients.
• Artilux Inc. — Artilux, renowned for being the world leader of GeSi photonic technology, has been at the forefront of wide-spectrum 3D sensing and consumer optical c

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• Hahow — Hahow is an educational marketplace that allows experts to share their knowledge and earn money through crowdfunded video course.At Hahow, talent and knowledge are not only valued but also valuated. More importantly, Hahow allows for such skills to be more effectively passed on by lowering the barriers for cross-domain learning.We believe thateducation is a way of life. Through proper utilization of technology and creativity, we hope to serve as the catalyst for the transfer and circulation of knowledge and skills, thereby spreading the joy of learning worldwide.
• pakku — Personalized Nutrition Using AI System
• OmniEyes — OmniEyes is an IT company that collects and digitizes live street videos and converts them using AI technologies.

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• Ancora Semiconductor — Ancora Semiconductor is a fabless design company focusing in GaN devices and its integration.

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• Eximpe — EximPe digitises workflows for exporters and importers to do cross border payments, compliances and access finance
• Playdex — Playdex is an NFT gaming rental marketplace that seamlessly connects gamers, guilds, and NFT owners.
• Humble Sustainability — Humble Sustainability provides products and accessories reuse and recycle services.

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• BoxGreen — Boxgreen keeps snacking fun, easy, and nutritious with thoughtfully created varieties that range from the tasty to the quirky. There's something for everyone!
• 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.

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• Viscovery — Viscovery offers an easier way to self-checkout for product items that are unlabeled (pastries, food) or labeled, using the latest vision AI.

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

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• 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.

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• Tané — Crypto builders incubator. Nurture the soil for Web3.
• Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
• microverse — Microverse offers NFT-related services such as content creation, distribution, and customer service.

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• Ancora Semiconductor — Ancora Semiconductor is a fabless design company focusing in GaN devices and its integration.

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• Eden Biologics — Eden Biologics, formerly known as JHL Biotech ("JHL") , is a biopharmaceutical company that develops biosimilars and accelerates the development programs for clients & partners through the provision of contract development and manufacturing services. We are specialists in manufacturing biologics, from cell line development tocommercial manufacturing with both global and regional regulatory affairs expertise.
• Viscovery — Viscovery offers an easier way to self-checkout for product items that are unlabeled (pastries, food) or labeled, using the latest vision AI.
• Elixiron Immunotherapeutics — Elixiron Immunotherapeutics is a company developing therapeutics for cancer, neurological diseases, and inflammatory disorders.

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• Splab — Splab creates and operates a calendar-based scheduling automation tool. Splab is located in Seoul, South Korea.
• Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
• Tella — Service

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• MemryX — Our AI chips bring the power of server performance to edge devices.
• NEXTDRIVE — integrated electricity data and energy equipment into a Cube Energy Gateway which visualizes electricity and analyzes it in cloud
• eYs3D Microelectronics — eYs3D Microelectronics is A Silicon Centric A.I. Company Focusing Technology- 3D Sensing/Computer Vision Algorithm/ASICs/Heterogeneous Integrated Chiplet

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• Percent — Unlock private credit investments with Percent. Access alternative investments on the platform powering the future of private markets.
• Micro Connect — Micro Connect provides market infrastructure, fintech, and platform development.
• MasterExchange — Trading platform for music rights leveraging emerging technology to create friction free and compliant investment opportunities to everyone.

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• Aidoc — Powered by an exclusive aiOS, Aidoc is trusted by 1,000+ hospitals to support physician decision-making at all points of care. See how our connected system of intelligence works.
• QT Medical — World's leading medical ECG/EKG machine company that aims to make hospital-grade 12-lead ecg machines available for everyone. Best portable ecg device during the pandemic. Focusing on innovations in the field of telemedicine and home care, we continue to invest in research and development of products that will bring better cardiac care to patients.
• Micronbrane Medical — Micronbrane provides affordable, rapid, and accurate pathogen detection solutions for human bloodstream infections with patented product and sequencing methods.

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• JARVISH — JARVISH has teams consist of experts from optical design, product manufacturing and commercial marketing.
• ChargePoint Services — ChargePoint Services Ltd (CPS) provides integrated electric vehicle charging solutions, bringing together best of breed hardware and our own endorsed proprietary software systems – the GeniePoint Platform, to provide end-to-end technology for public, workplace & private sector EV charging.

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• SINA Corporation — 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). Throughthese 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 are intended to enhance the attractiveness of its portal and microblogging properties and strengthen its reach in the Chinese online community.
• VMFive — 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

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• Josys — Josys is an IT device and SaaS integrated management service that automates analog operations in corporate IT, reduces operational costs, and improves security levels.
• Spiral.AI — Spiral.AI offers services for large language models, AI language model platform, and customization features for ChatGPT for businesses.
• Pathos Logos — Pathos Logos is an HR co-creation platform that specializes in sales of SaaS and supply of human resources for corporations.

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• Higlobe — Get paid without transaction fees through payment transfer service Higlobe. Serving international freelancers and contractors with business clients in the USA
• NFTBank — Home - Make NFT portfolio management smart
• MetaStreet — Earn yield in the Metaverse with leverage.

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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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• Preteckt — Preteckt offers cloud-based vehicle prognostics powered by AI to support all fleet vehicle types while delivering the world's highest precision repair plans. Get to the root cause 40% faster.
• Arch Systems — Analyze your data and increase current workflow with our artificial intelligence and machine learning predictive data analytics tools.
• Esperanto Technologies — Esperanto delivers high-performance, energy-efficient computing solutions, the compelling choice for the most demanding AI / ML / DL applications. Their founding team, with many decades of processor design and architecture experience, is dedicated to delivering solutions to help drive future computing innovation. The changing,computationally intensive, workloads of the machine learning era mandate a new clean-sheet solution, without the baggage of existing legacy architectures. Esperanto leverages the simple, elegant, open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) to deliver flexibility, scalability, performance and energy-efficiency advantages.

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• 1SEC — 1sec is a virtual influencers in Japan,develop in-house and management. IMPACT to CEKAI in 1 second. Based on the concept of making CEKAI happy in one second, US based in Los Angeles and Japan, based in Tokyo, virtual influencers × AI, fashion & music & The company will develop a number of CEKAI's first and first projects in Japan inthe field of enter teignment.
• Mech — Mech is an NFT-based metaverse game that is currently developing their first versions of a match-3 game in which players can earn the in-game currency ore.
• Brave group — Brave group engages in IP development, marketing and support services.

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• Classiq Technologies — A software platform that helps users create scalable complex quantum computer algorithms, software, and circuits for any gate-based quantum computer
• Lastline — Lastline provides industry leading AI-powered network security solutions. Get complete data breach protection with the most sophisticated AI in cybersecurity
• WOVN Technologies — WOVN.io is a website localization service. In just a few simple steps, expand your reach, in any language.

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• CoJourney — CoJourney is a CDMO platform for gene therapy that combines plasmid, viral vector, and mRNA generation, analysis, and detection.
• Carbon Energy Technology — Carbon Energy Technology develops technology for carbon utilization and its commercialization.
• China Reserve National Energy — China Reserve National Energy is a developer of air energy storage technology. This technology has the advantages of large scale, low cost, long life, clean and pollution-free, unlimited energy storage period, independent of fossil fuels and geographical conditions, etc.

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• Carota — Our commitment is to provide safe, stable, reliable, and scalable OTA upgrade solutions to OEMs and IoT smart devices manufacturers. CAROTA is a significant player in the China market, with over 320 million smart devices installed and upgraded.
• WiTricity — WiTricity develops solutions to enable wireless power transfer over distance using its patented magnetic resonance technology. WiTricity works with top global carmakers and Tier 1 suppliers to deploy wireless power solutions, helping realize a future of transportation that is electrified, shared and autonomous. See how WiTricity makes EV chargingeasy. Get to know WiTricity.
• Ancora Semiconductor — Ancora Semiconductor is a fabless design company focusing in GaN devices and its integration.

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• Vesper — Vesper is an electrical and electronic manufacturing company that specializes in microphones, piezoelectric, and audio. The company is driven by a mission is to deliver voice-powered products to every market, around the world. Vesper was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Neurobit — Neurobit creates and manufactures a complete neuro-otological diagnostic system. It offers video-oculography services for neurological disorders in the emergency department and day-care center. It is founded in 2016 and is based in Taipei City, Taiwan.
• Agility Robotics — Agility Robotics is one of the world's leading robotics companies. We're here to build robots for good. Robots that help businesses and people thrive.

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• Mirauge3D — Mirauge3D is a fully automatic, efficient, 2D and 3D integrated image intelligent modeling system. They offer software that supports multi-core parallel processing architectures and GPU cluster computing.
• Lazada Group — Lazada is the number one online shopping and selling destination in Southeast Asia – present in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Lazada helps more than 100,000 local and international sellers, as well as 2,500 brands, serve the 560 million consumers in the region through its marketplace platform, supportedby a wide range of tailored marketing, data, and service solutions. Lazada offers an excellent customer experience through a wide network of logistics partners and it's own first- and last-mile
• Hengyu Medical — Hengyu Medical is a medical device firm focused on R&D and production of IVUS and optical coherence tomography, and catheter equipment.

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• Style.me — Transforming digital fashion and virtual fitting. Our 3D technology brings new utility to fashion NFTs. You can now wear, share and use fashion across metaverses.
• First Digital Trust — Experts in trust, custody, and asset servicing.
• Legacy Trust Company — Naming a trustee to be responsible for managing your assets and legal affairs is one of the most important decisions you can make.

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• FST NETWORK — Data Preparation Made Easy FST Network helps Associate, Curate & Oversee Data Process within Data Pipelines with Full Lineage & Audibility with a seamless integrated low code platform.
• EOC Pharma Group — EOC Pharma is an integrated biopharmaceutical company that is focused on the manufacturing, development and commercialization of innovative global oncology products in China. They have adopted a licensing model in order to build EOC’s innovative pipeline by plugging their partner’s molecule into EOC’s “core engine” of local manufacturing,clinical development, regulatory filing, and commercialization. The company has a pipeline of seven novel products from global biopharmaceutical partners that are potentially first- and best-in-class. Until now, EOC has obtained four Class I innovative drug CTA approvals and initiated clinical studies of four lead products in China.,EOC has a team of entrepreneurs and consultants with overseas background that boasts of first-class pharmaceutical R&D expertise as well as rich industry experience. The company owns an 8,000 square meter cGMP manufacturing facility in Taizhou, China Medical City and has offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Los Angeles.EOC will leverage forward-looking licensing which will provide product opportunities to their integrated platform, generating a highly strategic portfolio. Ultimately, this will position EOC at the top of oncology innovation in China.
• Hyphen Group — MoneyHero Group is a portfolio of digital finance companies that exists to bridge the gap between people and finance. We accelerate the digitisation and growth of the financial industry, and empower consumers to build healthier financial lives.

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• eVouch — eVouch is the most powerful marketing tool we've used to build an organic community. We've experienced elevated brand trust while reaching an audience we never thought possible. Using customers to market to their friends is simply genius.
• Flowingly — Unlock Team Productivity. Streamline Approvals. Increase Compliance. Easy To Use, No-Code Process Mapping & Workflow Automation Platform.
• Formus Labs — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.

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• Passion — Passion is an online engagement platform that enables data sharing infrastructure between brands and other internet users.
• Virtual Arts — Virtual Arts is the creator of DanceFight- the home for talent and the leading competition platform for skill-based ,head-to-head video competition. The company is initially on dance but rapidly expanded to support all forms of competition content, including singing, rap, skateboarding, and other action sports.
• Rainshine Entertainment — Rainshine operates leading digital entertainment businesses in India and globally. They are committed to being the pioneers in digital entertainment, bringing new stories, formats and experiences for audiences worldwide, by investing in our existing brands and creating new ones.

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• 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.
• Joni.AI — Joni.AI is an e-learning app.

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• banco — BANCO offers fintech, digital banking, supply chain finance, and corporate financing services.
• Zodia Custody — Zodia is an institutional crypto custodian enabling global institutions, corporations, and investors to realize the potential of the digital asset future.
• My Zoi Financial Inclusion Technologies — My Zoi Financial Inclusion Technologies is a financial company that offers financial inclusion for banked and unbanked firms.

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• Finviet — Finviet operates a fintech platform with the goal of becoming a trustworthy and efficient financial technology company. The platform of the company specializes in financial services, telecommunication services, e-wallets and payment gateways, banking services, and agent banking.
• Cogsmart — Cogsmart provides services for brain function research and development. In hopes of helping prevent dementia and maintain and improve other cognitive functions, they manufacture and sell software for medical and healthcare devices.
• ImageBiopsy Lab — AI-driven software applications that enable orthopedists and radiologists to assess and predict bone health. A new dimension of MSK imaging diagnostics.

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• SweGaN — SweGaN's vision is to be a world leading supplier of nitride based HEMT structures. By integrating SweGaN´s technology into every single epitaxial wafer they deliver, they believe that your devices will fulfill all demands required in next generation's high power and high frequency devices.SweGaN's founders all come fromLinköping University and have more than 50 man-years experience in growth and characterization of GaN and SiC materials.SweGaN is in a highly expansive phase and they are always looking for skilled and very focused individuals with large experience in the field. If you are interested in working in a challenging and dynamic atmosphere please send us an e-mail.
• Stathera — Stathera transforms the global timing market from Quartz-based to MEMS-based devices.
• TXOne Networks — We offer cybersecurity solutions tailored to the protection of industrial control systems, ensuring reliability and safety from cyberattacks.

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• VMFive — 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
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• Axoni — Axoni is a New York-based capital markets technology firm that specializes in distributed ledger infrastructure. Product offerings include blockchain deployments, large-scale data management, bespoke smart contract development, analytics services, and connectivity tools.
• AlloyX — AlloyX makes it simple and accessible for protocols, DAOs, and institutional investors to create diversified RWA investment strategies. We provide lenders with a flexible and efficient platform for managing all of their RWA assets based on their yield, risk, and liquidity preferences.
• Coinflow Labs — Coinflow is a payment solution that allows Web3 companies to accept traditional payment methods and payout their customers by converting cryptocurrency to USD in their traditional bank account.

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• Jmem Tek — Due to the development of the Internet and the growth of the Internet of Everything, traditional software protection is no longer sufficient, and the global environment has entered the era of hardware protection. After four years of research, the team aimed at the shortcomings of the current one-time programming memory, such as insufficient security and large size, and took advantage of the advantages of easy stacking and low cost of polysilicon, High-K and different component structures, through fuses and reflectors. Fuse programming method to complete more bits and more configurations, increase component security and improve existing products are easy to be reverse engineered and consume too much power, etc., develop a new type of polymorphic memory, and unique One can be applied to the most advanced process GAA FET.

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• KK Group — KK Group provides an online-to-offline imported products marketplace. It provides an O2O platform that enables shoppers to purchase items from physical stores anywhere in the world through their mobile phone.
• China Mobile — China Mobile is an investment holdings company that provides mobile telecommunications and related services in Mainland China and Hong Kong.
• Lagardere Travel Retail — Lagardere Travel Retail is an international group based on its expertise in Travel Retail and Distribution. The company offers giftware, apparel, decorative and confection items, magazines, daily and specialty newspapers, books, beverages, tobacco, souvenirs and specialty goods, and convenience items to travelers.

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• Lionsbot — LionsBot's objective is to empower cleaners with easy-to-use, powerful and smart cleaning robots which help perform and fulfil key cleaning roles - Vacuum, Clean, Scrub, Mop and yes, even Pull.
• Opsys Tech — Automotive LiDAR is at its 3rd revolution, led by Opsys Technologies. Our team developed a new ToF True Solid State Scanning LiDAR technology that enables LiDAR with absolutely no moving parts!
• Plus One Robotics — The fastest and most reliable parcel handing robotics solutions in your warehouse.

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• Pal+ — Pal+ is a free mobile messaging app that allows users to create and share images, videos, and voice messages while chatting with others. It is available for iOS and Android. Pal+ is formerly known as Cubie. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.
• HEROZ — HEROZ, Inc. was founded in 2009 and our engineer has developed the most cutting edge artificial intelligence, “Ponanza” programme to play Japanese chess 'Shogi', which defeated an active professional player in a public match for the first time ever, in March 2013. Shogi presents a higher degree of complexity than many other strategygames, and has been of interest to Artificial Intelligence researchers.

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• Arieca — Arieca manufactures and distributes a thermally conductive rubber composite. Arieca's composite is a stretchable, thermally conductive rubber that combines elasticity of soft silicone with the thermal of metal to be used as circuit wiring, sensors, and passive heat exchangers, allowing manufacturers to deploy an alternative form of rubber thatimprove the performance electronics and help them to safely interact with humans.
• Ancora Semiconductor — Ancora Semiconductor is a fabless design company focusing in GaN devices and its integration.

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• MC10 — MC10 is focused on reshaping healthcare. Learn about our innovative wearable health technology that decodes and reveals the body's information.
• eYs3D Microelectronics — eYs3D Microelectronics is A Silicon Centric A.I. Company Focusing Technology- 3D Sensing/Computer Vision Algorithm/ASICs/Heterogeneous Integrated Chiplet