Fonontech B.V. is a device solution provider and startup company based on Impulse Printing technology. Impulse printing technology can be described as a novel additive manufacturing technology that allows for parallel transfers high-resolution conductive patterns to enable the rapid and precise printing of micrometer scale interconnections. This technology offers high-speed low-cost manufacturing, is well suited for process equipment to create complex 3D structures and achieve further miniaturization of electronic devices. The rapidly growing opportunities in AI-driven electronics push the technology forward. These unique solutions have considerable potential, and on May 16, 2025, Fonontech received the good news of a $9.5 million seed round investment.Currently, Fonontech equipment is being used to address wire bonding speed issues in chip packaging. Wire bonding is a viable solution for connecting chips to external pins or for silicon interlayer structures in advanced packaging. This process is typically used in back-end chip manufacturing, particularly flip-chip bonding. Fonontech equipment offers higher pin density, optimized electrical performance, and smaller package sizes.While conventional wire bonders can only print one line at a time, Fonontech Impulse Printing technology is much faster. Because its parallel printing solution can transfer contacts covering an entire area at a time, the speed increase is astonishing. According to on-site testing and monitoring, Fonontech Impulse Printing technology can achieve speeds up to 100 times faster than wire bonders.Currently, Fonontech equipment can successfully bonding with a minimum size of 20 micrometers, and in the future it will further achieve a dimensional accuracy down to a few micrometers. In the booth of Fonontech showcased the Impulse Printing demo kit, a scaled down version of the industrial equipment. In addition to selling the equipment itself, the company also integrates Impulse Printing print head modules into customers' production lines for special tailored applications.The equipment can be used for transfer printing onto wafers, PCBs, or other manufacturing processes, such as connecting signal pins on the side of a display chip to the signal contacts on the back side of the display panel. The bestselling point of this equipment is speed and cost effectiveness to reduce material waste and carbon emissions. The company's product is marketed as a replacement for wire bonding machines. Furthermore, the company currently is developing Taiwan market and running ongoing collaborative projects through testing and verification with potential clients.

Fastmicro B.V. is a manufacturer of surface particle defect detection systems and equipment established over 15 years ago. The main product lines include sample surface particle defect scanning, particle deposition measurement instruments, and particle defect detection systems for applications such as compound semiconductor wafers, glass wafers, masks, and EUV/DUV mask pellicles.The ranging product offerings of Fastmicro include analytics software to cover a wide variety of applications and processes, in-line defect inspection systems, transportable scanners and scanning module for system integration. The company's technology can detect particles down to 100 nanometers in size. It offers various operation modes, with inspection speeds up to 400 wafers per hour, and can provide inspection reports in ISO standards or PDF format.Fastmicro was initially established through a collaboration with the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) to develop and research surface particle detection technology. Because the cleanliness level within semiconductor front-end processing plants and cleanrooms is crucial to the stability and yield of advanced semiconductor manufacturing, detecting tiny particles significantly impacts their operational needs. Today, tiny particles have a wide variety of composition, Fastmicro equipment plays a proactive role.Because the company's equipment has the advantage of fast detection speed, it usually only takes about ten seconds to complete surface particle defect detection, which has been well recognized by customers. The standard equipment is roughly the size of a household microwave oven. The operative procedures start to use swab or sampling tool to collect a sample from the surface of an object, which is then placed into the detector to read the particle count. Fastmicro adheres to NIST standards and uses PSL (Polystyrene latex) material for calibration and particle measurement. They also provide an OEM design model, providing flexible integration scanning modules to precision semiconductor equipment customers, covering wide-area scanning and diverse testing needs.The company began expanding its international business in 2022. At Semicon Taiwan 2025, in addition to engaging with Taiwan major foundry clients, the company is also entering the semiconductor equipment manufacturing supply chains. During equipment assembly, it is necessary to first confirm that the parts and components meet the product cleanliness level requirements before entering assembly. Each manufacturing link of supply chain requires confirmation that particle defect detection meets standard requirements, so Fastmicro equipment present strong business opportunities. This is currently the company's main market opportunity for expansion in Taiwan.

Brainport Industries Campus (BIC) is a development project for an industrial park in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Phase one (BIC 1) has been completed, encompassing 105,000 square meters of existing buildings, surrounding public space, and parking. The site is home to several high-tech manufacturing companies and educational institutions. Expansion plans are currently underway, with the newly expanded BIC 2 campus expected to double the size of BIC 1, reaching 300,000 square meters. More than 40 pioneering companies are already established on the campus. BIC is the largest campus expansion in the Netherlands for years to come. Notably, ASML, the Dutch EUV lithography equipment giant, is considering expanding to the northern part of the BIC 2 campus. In 2024, ASML announced plans to establish a subsidiary in the BIC Industrial Park by 2030, accommodating thousands of employees. The Brainport Industries Campus development company stated that it aims to provide startup facilities, co-innovation spaces and built to suit manufacturing space for high-tech companies.In partnership with Invest Holland and the Brabant Development Agency (BOM), the park will offer Taiwanese companies the option of establishing regional business units or research centers in the Netherlands through support services provided by the industrial park.The campus aims to attract leading companies in cutting-edge technology fields, including semiconductor related technologies, photonics, quantum and additive manufacturing. BIC and Invest Holland jointly unveiled this plan at Semicon Taiwan 2025, offering the access to advanced facilities, a strong open innovation ecosystems and encouraging Taiwan's high-tech industries participating in this collaboration opportunity.

As businesses face dramatic changes in the global market environment, companies worldwide are accelerating their digital transformation efforts, seeking competitive advantages through innovative technologies. Yet, while many departments have embraced automation, legal teams often remain the slowest to digitalize. Manual contract review still dominates daily operations, with a single document taking one to two weeks to pass from sales to legal approval.Such delays not only disrupt decision-making but also affect overall business performance. Addressing this long-standing challenge, LegalSign.ai has launched an end-to-end generative AI legal workflow management platform that accelerates contract and document review with precision and transparency, fundamentally redefining corporate legal operations.According to Chih-Tung Chen, CEO of LegalSign.ai, lengthy manual reviews often force companies to ship products before contracts are finalized - taking on significant legal risk just to maintain business momentum. To tackle these inefficiencies, LegalSign.ai's cross-disciplinary team of legal and AI experts has created a one-stop generative AI legal workflow platform that resolves these long-ignored bottlenecks. The solution is already trusted by leading enterprises such as Acer, CTBC Bank, Cathay Financial Holdings, and ezTravel, proving its value across industries.Integrating legal expertise and generative AI to address three core challengesFounded in 2019 by experienced lawyers and patent attorneys with over 25 years of combined practice, LegalSign.ai operates across Taiwan, the United States, and China. The company's founding mission is to ensure that "legal work is no longer an island buried in paperwork." By combining deep legal expertise with generative AI, LegalSign.ai transforms legal operations into a streamlined, digital, and automated process, helping enterprises manage contracts and risks more efficiently and intelligently.LegalSign.ai's all-in-one platform addresses three major pain points for legal departments - workflow management, compliance auditing, and risk control. Through generative AI, the platform digitalizes the entire contract lifecycle, covering drafting, review, negotiation, signing, execution, archiving, retrieval, and risk management. This comprehensive approach enables enterprises to significantly improve productivity while cutting costs and mitigating legal exposure.Chen explained that the platform integrates three core capabilities: generative AI-powered compliance management, legal workflow lifecycle management, and electronic signature services. For instance, the AI assistant draws on a library of over 400 contract templates to generate legally sound drafts, minimizing hallucinations or logic errors. It can also translate and compare documents, automatically highlighting high-risk clauses to assist in compliance monitoring.Building trustworthy legal AI services on AWSFollowing its recognition with the AWS Generative AI Rising Star Award in 2024, LegalSign.ai joined the Startup Terrace Kaohsiung AWS Joint Innovation Center (JIC) program in 2025 to further expand its visibility and pursue new business collaborations. The company is implementing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to leverage cloud GPUs for enhanced AI computation and inference efficiency, aiming to deliver trusted, enterprise-grade legal AI cloud services globally through AWS cloud infrastructure.Chen emphasized that legal AI differs from typical generative AI applications due to its high data sensitivity and territorial restrictions. Given ongoing data security and regulatory concerns in China, Taiwan has emerged as a trusted hub for legal AI solutions serving international enterprises. Leveraging AWS's global cloud infrastructure, LegalSign.ai is executing a "Chinese-language legal AI + AWS Cloud" strategy to bring Taiwan's legal technology to the world. The company's initial overseas expansion targets Japan and the United States, with current collaboration focused on a bilingual legal AI platform serving multinational corporations.

HQ Pack is a global leader in high-tech packaging solutions. The company is expert at designing, producing, (precision) cleaning, and making packaging solutions reusable again after use, as well as manage the packaging logistics of high-quality industrial products. They do so for clients in the semiconductor and other high-tech industries.The process procedures and packaging solutions ensure the parts, modules or components of highly sophisticated equipment are fully protected during transportation and logistical arrangements. And at the same time, the system will meet the customer demand for protection of valuable products during transit while adhering to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles. The packaging design incorporates features like sustainable materials, waste reduction strategies, and carbon footprint minimization, alongside ensuring the integrity of high-value goods through robust physical protection.The company provides complete packaging solutions, starting with the development and sourcing of customized packaging materials. HQ Pack's regional Service Centers ensure that reusable packaging materials are ready to use again by cleaning and repairing them to like-new condition. They can also support reuse of parts by harvesting them before scrapping for new build packaging. If there is material destined for waste management, HQ Pack supports this at the same time. Because most of its high-tech clients operate on a global scale, HQ Pack operates not only at its headquarters in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, but also in Johor and Penang in Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, Germany, and in the United States (locations in Brookfield (CT), Newark (CA), and San Diego (CA)) providing the same quality and service at each location. With their Service Centers they support both their customers' sustainability goals as well as their own.Their slogan "We Create to Protect" is exactly what they do. The high-quality packaging solutions ensure that valuable and fragile products, modules, components and/or parts can be safely transported worldwide. With over 40 years of experience and global presence, no compromission on quality, flexibility at the heart of our organization, they are a full-service provider with fast, reliable and sustainable packaging solutions.

Trymax Semiconductor B.V. provides plasma-based etching, stripping, and curing process equipment for advanced semiconductor packaging, targeting applications in dry descum, ashing, surface preparation, light etching and processing, as well as UV photoresist curing and charge erase. It also manufactures UV curing equipment, focusing on equipment used in compound semiconductor processes. These equipment are used in the production of wide-bandgap semiconductor power devices such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN), as well as other important processes such as communication power amplifiers (PAs).Trymax has been established for over 25 years and has a considerable customer base and brand recognition in the Taiwanese market. At Semicon Taiwan 2025, the company primarily serves to promote its products and connect with key clients. With a product portfolio ranging from 100mm to 300mm wafer size, Trymax's clients are on both sides of the Taiwan Strait becoming major suppliers to the manufacturers of power amplifiers and RF components. In the global presence, Trymax has significant market shares at foundries, IDMs and wafer level packaging houses for end applications in Power semiconductor, automotive, MEMS, LED and CMOS.Trymax's NEO series plasma dry descum systems are suitable for cleaning and activation processes in the semiconductor industry, offering high efficiency, uniformity, and repeatability. These systems utilize RF/microwave power to generate high-energy, disordered plasma under vacuum conditions. They can process a wide range of substrate sizes and offer a variety of processing technologies for flexible customer selection, meeting the needs of diverse semiconductor process technologies.Trymax continuously innovates to support its customers’ needs. In addition to the compound semiconductor processes, it is also widely used in application fields such as MEMS microelectromechanical systems, microfluidic devices, SOI substrate manufacturing, advanced packaging and optoelectronic displays. Among them, the global installed capacity of NEO system equipment has exceeded 300 sets.

Invest in Holland /Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA) is the national investment promotion service of the Netherlands. It operates as part of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, supporting foreign companies in establishing and expanding their businesses in the Netherlands. The organization works with a network of regional partners and has a global presence through its worldwide network of offices, including one in Taipei, to facilitate foreign investment and economic development.  With 25 offices worldwide, Invest in Holland has over 40 years of service experience. The Taipei office assists Taiwanese companies in developing their businesses and R&D IN EUROPE and expanding the opportunities in the Netherlands. The services include to provide customized information on the Netherlands, relevant business locations, Dutch legislation and tax regulations, labor law, permit procedures, government incentives and much more through in-person or digital meetings. With a population of over 18 million people, the Netherlands economy relies on international trade. It is highlighting the importance of foreign investment to strengthen its innovation ecosystems and achieve future economic goals. The network of Invest in Holland actively promotes this idea by focusing on sectors like high-tech industries, and sustainable energy, where collaborations between companies, government, and knowledge institutions drive innovation and economic resilience. Right now, more than 230 Taiwanese companies have setup their European headquarter or R&D center in the Netherlands. Many of which companies are in the Semiconductor and ICT-related sector, eg CHROMA, DELTA ELECTRONICS, MIC, ADVANTECH, and etc.Invest in Holland actively creates opportunities for industrial clusters to develop in the Dutch market by attracting Taiwanese companies and fostering collaboration between businesses, high-tech research institutions, and government, enabling Taiwanese companies to quickly integrate into the local operation and accelerate business development. One important thing, Invest in Holland's services are entirely free for all foreign companies, both new and established, that are looking to expand their operations into the Netherlands. This is a benefit provided by the Netherlands government and its network of partners. These public services offer guidance, practical solutions for establishment, and connections to the right resources and partners to help international businesses succeed in the European market.

In modern competitive sports, the margin between victory and defeat often depends on who can capture and analyze data more effectively. Taiwan's triumph at the 2024 WBSC Premier 12 was not only the result of exceptional player performance and precise coaching but also the scouting team's ability to provide rapid, on-site opponent analysis. As a key member of the scouting team, StatsInsight played a pivotal role. Leveraging its stadium optical tracking system and StatsInsight analytics platform - both built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) - the company provided real-time data insights to players and coaches, making it one of the unsung heroes behind Taiwan's championship win.StatsInsight co-founder Leh Shyu noted, "As sports technology evolves rapidly, baseball has long moved beyond the era of paper scorecards. Professional leagues in both the U.S. and Taiwan have adopted electronic and camera-based systems to record every detail of practices and games. StatsInsight is the only company in Taiwan focused exclusively on baseball analytics and sports technology integration. Our goal is to build a solid foundation for the next generation of baseball data development in Taiwan by delivering comprehensive solutions and customized services that bring technology into every ballpark."Products validated through real-world performance: adopted by pro and national teamsBaseball is a sport defined by subtle details and strategy that are difficult to capture with the naked eye. Founded in 2020, StatsInsight has long specialized in baseball data collection and analysis. Its "Electronic Strike Zone" system has become a familiar presence to Taiwanese baseball fans, offering advanced statistics derived from ball flight trajectories and player motion reconstruction.StatsInsight's scouting data systems and analytics services have been widely adopted and highly recognized by both professional baseball teams and the national team.A former baseball player himself, Shyu entered the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) draft in 2019. Although not selected, his deep knowledge and experience earned him a place on the national team's scouting staff. That opportunity inspired him to co-found StatsInsight with like-minded partners to develop Taiwan's own baseball scouting system.Shyu explained that while the U.S. has a more mature sports technology ecosystem, its systems are often expensive and come with language and support barriers for Taiwanese teams. StatsInsight, though a later entrant, built its system in-house and proved its reliability through multiple competitions. With its ability to deliver customized solutions and localized support, the company successfully partnered with the national team to build an international scouting platform and has since collaborated with professional clubs.Leveraging AWS services to realize a hybrid cloud architectureStatsInsight has deployed its full system and website on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and uses Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for managed database operations. Video data is securely stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), while Amazon CloudFront Content Delivery Network (CDN) ensures smooth and fast content delivery for optimal user experience. The company is also developing an optical computer vision system and, through resources provided by the Startup Terrace Kaohsiung AWS Joint Innovation Center (JIC), received direct technical guidance from AWS experts to implement and validate its hybrid cloud architecture.Shyu shared, "U.S.-made Hawk-Eye systems are highly advanced and purpose-built for baseball stadiums, but renting one costs around NT$7 million per year, with a minimum four-year lease. Including technical support, total expenses can exceed NT$30 million. Our vision system is designed to match the performance of those systems, combining similar-grade cameras with small on-premises servers and AWS cloud services to deliver a more cost-effective hybrid solution. Taiwan's next baseball era will require comprehensive data and biomechanical analysis. By developing our own system, we aim to provide an affordable and effective option to drive Taiwan's baseball technology transformation."Currently, StatsInsight is collaborating with the National Sports Science Institute in Kaohsiung to deploy its system in baseball stadiums and create a next-generation smart baseball field. This collaboration will also serve as a testbed for validating the company's self-developed optical vision system and as a model for future smart stadiums in Taiwan.

As global urbanization accelerates and populations significantly age, cities worldwide are investing heavily in smart city development. The goal is to create safer and more efficient urban environments through AI and digital technologies, enhancing citizens' quality of life. With the emergence of Vision-Language Models (VLM) combined with generative AI, smart city applications have entered a new phase - enabling systems to automatically interpret traffic flow, pedestrian behavior, and unexpected incidents from video footage, and thereby supporting real-time decision-making.In his keynote address ahead of COMPUTEX 2025 in Taipei, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang highlighted Kaohsiung's "Smart Kaohsiung Lighthouse Project," which leverages a VLM-based digital twin architecture to interconnect tens of thousands of city surveillance cameras, significantly improving the efficiency and service capabilities of the municipal government. The key technology driving this initiative comes from Linker Vision, a company renowned for its expertise in computer vision technology.Joining the NVIDIA ecosystem to advance smart applicationsWith more than a decade of experience in AI-powered image recognition, Linker Vision has become a trusted partner for many leading global brands. Following the rapid rise of generative AI in 2023, the company began applying VLM's powerful visual comprehension and semantic reasoning capabilities to achieve a deeper understanding of real-world scenes.Unlike traditional object recognition models, VLM can identify a broad range of objects without additional training while discerning contextual relationships among them. This enables the system to detect complex incidents and assess damage that conventional models often fail to recognize. Building on its solid foundation in visual recognition, Linker Vision utilizes VLM's multimodal data processing capabilities to develop a suite of solutions for smart city and smart factory applications.Yi-Ting Liu, Senior Sales Manager at Linker Vision, explained that the company's smart factory solutions are designed to address enterprises' dual challenges of improving workplace safety and operational efficiency. In smart safety applications, the system can accurately detect fires, chemical leaks, or safety violations - such as workers entering restricted areas or failing to wear protective gear - and even identify complex behaviors like "smoking within a restricted zone," triggering composite alerts in real time. Beyond safety, the solution also monitors employee productivity, status, and compliance with standard operating procedures (SOPs), providing factory managers with a visualized, data-driven management tool that effectively reduces human error.Building global presence through AWSLinker Vision has built its solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for many years, achieving outstanding results in the smart city and smart factory domains through modular and standardized system architectures. Yi-Hsuan Lin, Product Manager at Linker Vision, noted that the company extensively utilizes AWS's AI computing power and services, including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) and tools to deploy and operate agents.The key advantage, Lin said, lies in AWS's on-demand flexibility, which enables the team to access the latest GPU resources anywhere in the world, substantially reducing hardware procurement and maintenance costs. When conducting proof-of-concept (PoC) trials across borders, deployments can be launched instantly on AWS's local infrastructure closest to customers, eliminating the time and expense required for purchasing and installing physical hardware. Amid the global push toward Sovereign AI, Linker Vision also offers hybrid cloud and on-premises services, helping enterprises optimize AI models, develop tailored solutions, and ensure data privacy compliance.Expanding internationally with AWS JIC supportLiu emphasized that participation in the AWS Joint Innovation Center (JIC) has laid a strong foundation for Linker Vision's market development and international expansion. Beyond providing abundant cloud resources and technical expertise, the JIC offers a comprehensive set of empowerment services, including business networking, corporate matchmaking, and marketing exposure, helping Linker Vision connect with strategic partners and accelerate business growth.With rapid momentum in the Taiwan market, the company now aims to expand globally-targeting the Middle East, Southeast Asia and the United States-to capture the vast opportunities in smart city and smart factory development.

The AI-driven paradigm shift is prompting manufacturers to extend real-time data optimization from management decisions to every detail of the production line. Despite advances in automation, up to 30% of production processes still rely on manual operations. PowerArena, a smart manufacturing solution provider, combines industrial data with AI computer vision to close this "last-mile" gap in automation. Through its platform-based model, PowerArena establishes a mechanism for continuous optimization, helping manufacturers accelerate their digital transformation."Pyramid architecture" enhances factory data utilization and boosts ROI in smart manufacturingAccording to Ian Peng, Solutions Director at PowerArena, the company's core platform, the Human Operation Platform (HOP), integrates AI computer vision and IoT technologies to continuously collect and analyze workstation images and data. It identifies operation cycles, idle times, and SOP compliance, replacing traditional walk-around management or paper-based records. The platform directly addresses three major pain points for manufacturers: increasing human-factor variability caused by labor shortages, management gaps arising from production line relocation, and the lack of real-time visibility in quality control.HOP has been widely adopted in EMS electronics, semiconductor, and automotive assembly line management. Using a pyramid-architecture approach, the platform first collects foundational workstation data through IoT implementation, then applies AI vision to analyze manual assembly processes, and finally focuses on the top 1 to 3% of critical production steps to ensure SOP precision-maximizing economic efficiency and investment returns for manufacturers.PowerArena is also developing a large language model (LLM) specifically for manufacturing applications. The model integrates industry knowledge with platform data to provide real-time production line analysis, data aggregation, and improvement recommendations. Peng noted that this feature is especially valuable for new factory training, as it shortens employee onboarding and enhances productivity.To ensure continuous optimization and rapid scaling of both the HOP platform and the LLM, data infrastructure plays a crucial role. Peng explained that manufacturing data is highly proprietary, difficult to obtain, and massive in scale. To manage this, PowerArena leverages Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure. Using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), it securely stores authorized images and generative AI simulation data for model training and optimization. Once uploaded to the cloud, the data is analyzed and retrained through high-performance computing resources, enabling continuous AI refinement.PowerArena also utilizes Amazon Route 53 for DNS management and AWS Fargate for serverless container deployment in hybrid environments, allowing for flexible scaling, maintenance, and multi-region deployment. The upcoming launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region in 2025 further strengthens enterprises' confidence in AWS's security and compliance standards. These cloud advantages not only accelerate product iteration and time-to-market but also empower PowerArena with greater deployment agility-serving as a key enabler of innovation.By integrating the HOP platform with AWS cloud services, PowerArena has already delivered tangible results for global manufacturers. A top-five global electronics manufacturer improved production capacity by 5% and reduced yield fluctuation by 70% within just four weeks. Another semiconductor materials company uses AI computer vision to monitor high-risk operations, ensuring employee safety and regulatory compliance while advancing its ESG performance.PowerArena leverages AWS JIC to expand globally and Startup Terrace Kaohsiung to grow market footprintFrom its inception, PowerArena has maintained a strong international focus, with operations spanning North America, Mexico, East Asia, and Southeast Asia - the latter seeing particularly rapid project growth in recent years. Its global strategy centers on replicating best practices: digitizing high-yield production data from factories in Taiwan and China and transferring it to new plants, enabling faster ramp-up and stable capacity contributions for multinational enterprises.In Taiwan, Kaohsiung's industrial landscape is shifting from traditional heavy industries toward high-tech and smart manufacturing. To deepen local engagement, PowerArena established an office at Startup Terrace Kaohsiung through its participation in the AWS Joint Innovation Center (JIC) program. This new base reinforces PowerArena's long-term commitment to the region and serves as a key hub connecting southern Taiwan's industrial ecosystem.Looking ahead, PowerArena will continue leveraging industrial data and AI technologies as its core competencies "accelerating international expansion while strengthening local partnerships" to play a leading role in driving the next wave of smart manufacturing upgrades.