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Wednesday 22 August 2018
Taiwan seeking tie-up with Texas Medical Center on digital health
Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) is actively promoting the development of Taiwan's biomedical industry through international cooperation, and its officials stationed...
Tuesday 21 August 2018
Taiwan should encourage early-stage investments, says LuxNet chairman Hsing Kung
LuxNet chairman, Hsing Kung, has founded three companies. Among them, SDL was established in 1983, specializing in manufacturing optical communication devices. It was sold for US$41.1...
Tuesday 26 June 2018
Taiwan needs to build angel investor culture, says David Weng, CEO of Taiwania Capital
David Weng, CEO of national-level investment firm Taiwania Capital, worked in Silicon Valley for as long as 37 years with 20 years of them spent in the venture capital industry. He...
Friday 22 June 2018
China AI unicorns grow stronger on fresh financial injections
China's AI sector has witnessed a new round of fundraising campaigns, with a flurry of investment deals completed over the past few weeks to make AI unicorns there stronger, according...
Wednesday 20 June 2018
Edge AI solutions provider Kneron aspires to become innovation leader
Taiwan's edge AI solutions provider Kneron has recently completed its series A1 financing of US$18 million led by Horizons Ventures, a venture capital firm founded by Hong Kong tycoon...
Thursday 7 June 2018
Samsung NEXT to invest in startups with decentralized applications
Samsung NEXT, a multifaceted innovation group within Samsung Electronics, is actively seeking investment targets in the fields of AI, IoT, AR/VR, blockchain, smart healthcare data...
Friday 13 April 2018
Global tech giants rushing to invest heavily in AI deployments
Despite AI (artificial intelligence) technologies and applications still at a nascent development stage, global tech giants have rushed to invest heavily in making strategic deployments...
Tuesday 10 April 2018
Taiwan gearing up to create first startup unicorn
Taiwan is gearing up to improve investment environment for startups to facilitate the establishment of at least 10,000 startups to drive industrial upgrades and transformations, while...
Monday 12 February 2018
Taiwan eases rules to drive investment in AI, big data, biomedicine
Taiwan's National Development Council (NDC) has relaxed regulations on applications for funding under its jurisdiction to better support and encourage investments in AI (artificial...
Thursday 25 January 2018
AppWorks Ventures incubates 323 startups
Taiwan-based AppWorks Ventures has said it has incubated 323 startups with 780 founders and 5,696 employees since its establishment in 2010.
Monday 27 November 2017
Commentary: China actively nurturing unicorns in Southeast Asia
Statistics from US-based research body CB Insights show that non-US unicorn startups commanded a 50% share of total global unicorns as of the end of August 2017, sharply up from only...
Wednesday 30 August 2017
Appier obtains investment of US$33 million in series C round, says paper
Taiwan-based AI (artificial intelligence)-based application developer Appier has raised venture capital funds of US$33 million in series C round from Japan-based SoftBank and LINE,...
Friday 11 August 2017
Taiwan government to foster 30,000 startups in 3 years via direct investment
Taiwan's National Development Council (NDC) has decided to make direct investments in tech startups, instead of offering them subsidies as done in the past, aiming to build sound...
Wednesday 26 July 2017
Taiwan first IoT venture capital of NT$4 billion to be available by end of September
Taiwan's government is very likely to complete raising NT$4 billion (US$130 million) in venture capital fund dedicated to investment in IoT (Internet of Things) startups by the end...
Tuesday 27 June 2017
Trend Micro sets up venture capital fund
Trend Micro has set up venture capital fund of US$100 million for investment in innovation start-up businesses engaged in R&D of new technologies, especially those related to...