Top 15 Mobile Apps Startup Investors in Taiwan in October 2023
Top 15 Mobile Apps Startup Investors in Taiwan in October 2023
| Investor | Mobile Apps Taiwan investments |
|---|---|
| Darwin Venture Management | 3 |
| Steve Chen | 2 |
| National Development Fund of Taiwan Government | 2 |
| CDIB Capital | 2 |
| Yan Jin | 1 |
| BIGLOBE Capital | 1 |
| Cornerstone Ventures | 1 |
| Kevin Lin | 1 |
| Accuvest Global Advisors | 1 |
| Yuanta Investment | 1 |
| Protocol Labs | 1 |
| Chris Wang | 1 |
| China Creation Ventures (CCV) | 1 |
| Gumi Ventures | 1 |
| DWeb3 Capital | 1 |
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Darwin Venture Management is a venture capital firm headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with offices in Hsinchu and the United States. Since our founding in 2009, we have managed seven funds, investing primarily in Series A/B, late-stage, and secondary funds. In 2022, we also launched an evergreen angel fund to enable more nimble bets onpromising early-stage teams, and especially those coming from Taiwan’s superb academic and research institutions. This exposure across stages and borders, coupled with the strong technical background of our team, is the source of Darwin’s differentiation.
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- Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Taiwan, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Protico — Protico is the market leader in the Web3 Chat space, we aim to make a universal chatting interface across Web2/Web3 Apps.
- Profet AI — Profet AI is a software solution company that offers AI and machine learning automation solutions designed for manufacturing companies.
- JGB Smart Property — The platform for rental managers & landlords - JGB system is different from traditional renting. The only thing you need is a mobile phone or tablet, and you are able to manage leases, rents, and check all kinds of things easily, which greatly improving management capabilities. In addition to systematic rental information, you can keep track of the status of tenants, lease period, and rents at any time.
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.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Taiwan
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.
- Cityfurnish — Cityfurnish is an internet company that specializes in the fields of e-commerce and online rental. It features an online renting zone where contemporary and modern styles amalgamate to establish a new genre of wooden furniture and furnishings. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana.
- Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.
The national development fund is the management unit of the non-business cycle budget fund, which is tasked with grouping. It aims to accelerate the industrial innovation value-added, promote economic transformation and national development, and help china's industrial innovation value-added, research and development and self-owned brands. Thefinancing method or assisting the competent authorities of the central government to handle the relevant plans to complete the purposes specified in article 30 of the "industry innovation ordinance".
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- Taiwan, China, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
CCIC CDIB International Corp.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- Taiwan, United States, China
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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.
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.
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- Fitness, mHealth, Wellness
- Series A
- Taiwan
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- 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.
BIGLOBE Capital was founded in 2007
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- Mobile, Content, Marketing
- Seed
- Japan, Taiwan
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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.
Cornerstone Ventures is an early-stage VC firm with Internet, digitization, and AI as its main investment themes. It invests in startups in Taiwan with global vision, and also invests globally in startups that are interested in breaking into Taiwan market. With the main goal to help the founders grow in the journey of entrepreneurship, CornerstoneVentures is a long term investor and it actively provides its resource to support all founders.Cornerstone Ventures believes in its motto that "The Future is Unwritten".
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- Logistics, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Taiwan, Hong Kong, United States
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- Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
- GoFreight — GoFreight's award-winning Freight Forwarding Software empowers Freight Forwarders with an all-in-one cargo tracking solution that is easy to use and deploy.
- Log 9 Materials — Log 9 Materials Scientific Private Limited is a graphene research and development company. At Log 9 Materials we are determined to accelerate the commercialization of graphene nanotechnology. We have just developed the first commercial product on graphene- 'Smoke-safe'. This innovative graphene based cigarette filter reduces the risk ofgetting cancer by 90%. We offer a wide range of graphene (CVD graphene, rGO) and its derivatives. We bring to you graphene as researchers and not just manufactures, so we understand the triviality of the grade of our products.
Lin is the COO of Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. He was instrumental in the 2011 launch of the platform when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. His role included attracting the site’s largest broadcasters and building out the partnership team among other activities which have helped grow the Twitch brand.Currently more than 100 million gamers gather every month on Twitch to broadcast live video, watch and chat about gaming, making the platform an industry leader.
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- Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
- Blacktop Hoops — Blacktop Hoops is a streetball-inspired multiplayer VR basketball game. Chain together flashy dribble tricks, shots, and high-flying dunks to finish off AI opponents or players across the globe in epic streetball matches.
- Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.
Accuvest Global Advisors helps a U.S. and International client base of institutions, financial advisors, and high net worth in carefully navigating complex global capital markets. Our investment focus utilizes our global expertise to distribute country specific ETF investment strategies as well as a
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- Travel, Lifestyle, Mobile Apps
- Series A, Series B
- Taiwan
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- FunNow — Life is about having fun in time. FunNow allows you to discover your next lifestyle experience, book now and secure your seat instantly
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- Information Technology, Health Care, Beauty
- Series B, Series C, Funding Round
- South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam
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- FASSTO — FASSTO is a consulting company that provides packaging, delivery, logistic, and shipping services.
- Panmnesia — True composable resource disaggregation, CXL hardware/software infrastructure from the beginning to the end.
- NeoNesia — Fintech solution and platform provider for prepaid top-ups targeting Indonesia
Protocol Labs is building the next generation of the internet.
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- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Gensyn — The Gensyn protocol provides hyperscale, cost efficient, compute capacity for all deep learning workloads.
- Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
- Bluesky — See what's next.
Chris spent two years as a Google engineer before founding Playdom. Before officially joining Google, Chris received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon—completed in a record-breaking two years and ten months—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.
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- Software, IaaS, SaaS
- Seed, Private Equity
- United States, Taiwan
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- 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.
China Creation Ventures (CCV) was founded by the former KPCB China Managing Partner, Wei Zhou, and his TMT investment team of many years in KPCB China. With the majority of members from KPCB China, CCV has developed deep domain expertise and insight in the TMT industry. The companies they invested at early stage include JD.com (NASDAQ:JD),CreditEase (NYSE:YRD), Rong360 (NYSE:JT), ID5.com, Himalaya FM, Tan Tan Mobile Social (acquired by Momo, NASDAQ: MOMO), VenusTech (SZ:002439), Manzuo.com (acquired by SuNing), Miaopai Mobile Video (Yixia.com), ULUCU (NEEQ:837110), Miaozhen Systems, Asia Innovation Group, Meican.com, Scinor Water (acquired by TRCE:300332), KJY Water (NEEQ:835159), Arrail Dental, etc. Many of the CCV’s portfolio have seen significant business growth and closed a new round of financing, including JD Digit, Wanka Online (HKSE:1762), Perfect Corp, Perfect, Ice Kredit, Zuzuche, Veer VR, Menya, Bizvane, Joyrun, Cowa Robot, Lomotif, Dingdong Class, Shukun Technology, Yunhu Health, etc.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services, Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, Taiwan, Nigeria
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- Aventurier — Aventurier offers cleaning robots that relieve workers of repetitive cleaning jobs while drastically increasing the efficiency and intelligence of cleaning operations.
- CMind-SEMI — CMind is committed to becoming the new global leader in smartphone communication chips by concentrating on 4G and 5G advanced wireless communication chips and complete solutions.
- U Power — U Power is an intelligent electric vehicle company that builds cars for scenarios. It aims to enable scenario owners to define cars through standardized UP super chassis and to achieve Car as a Service. The company is headquartered in Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.
Gumi Ventures helps the new entrepreneurs and businesses to cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. Gumi Ventures supports the new entrepreneurs and businesses that can resonate with gumi listed in the business mission, that cause a new innovation in the smartphone field. They will create a global company that represents the future ofJapan.
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- Video, Media and Entertainment, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Japan, Taiwan, Finland
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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.
Digital fund focused on crypto & digital assets investments related to blockchain technology, Decentralized Finance DeFi, web 3, NFT, metaverse, Bitcoin, & more
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- Blockchain, Gaming, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, United States, Canada
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- MetaJuice — MetaJuice is part of Together Labs, creator of IMVU and other metaverses. Its goal is to improve the metaverse through blockchain technology.
- Metagame Industries — We are building an interconnected ecosystem of top quality games, providing gamers a play-for-fun and skill-to-earn experience and creating a low-threshold portal to the Metaverse
- Revolving Games — Building new gaming experiences for Web3 and beyond. We create worlds without borders or limitations.
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