July, August & September 2019
July 2019 / August 2019 / September 2019
Taiwan’s startup news:
July 2019
- Taiwan: CyberLink sets sights on US growth with FaceMe facial recognition platform for retail, storing facial information as vector points rather than pictures
- Taiwan: An intro to G Camp for Accelerator Managers, aiming to improve the overall competence of Taiwan’s accelerator ecosystem
- HTC banking on enterprise applications to catalyze wider growth of VR with launch of Vive Enterprise Solutions, new business unit and strategy
- Taiwan: A brief look at one minister’s prompts to government to use tech in radical ways, from use of VR to autonomous robots fixing public infrastructure
- Taiwan: A brief look at 2 theme-park focused VR startups letting visitors fly with the birds or explore the ocean floor
- Taiwan: UK accelerator, The Bakery, opens operations center in Southern Taiwan Science Park, aiming to give AI and robotics startups overseas growth options
- Taiwan startups secure deals of over US$20M at the recent Innovfest Unbound conference and exhibitition in Singapore
- Taiwan: Ju Tian Cleantech begins production of drinking straws made from rice hulls and tea leaves
- Seknova takes win at Taiwan finals of Entrepreneurship World Cup with health monitoring sensor technology
- An overview of Taiwan’s AI ecosystem, via Appworks
- Taiwan: BlockChain Security launches Blockchain Witness app, offering digital evidence preservation solutions
- A brief look at some Taiwanese startups taking steps into South Korea
Taiwan’s startup news:
August 2019
- Taiwan: CyCraft cybersecurity startup raises $5.65M with AI-driven automation
- Taiwan’s OwlTing wide-focus blockchain startup partnered by UAE’s SEED Group to help drive blockchain adoption in Dubai
- Japan’s Line Bank gains license for internet-only banking in Taiwan, building on 165M monthly active users globally
- National Taiwan University Hospital now takes less than 30 seconds to locate brain tumors using AI, thanks to partnership with Vysioneer startup
- Taiwan: Social media influencers competition launches to boost tourism, with 20 set to spend the night in Taiwan’s Presidential Palace
- Taiwan and Thailand prep for collaboration on smart city development
- Taiwan: AsiaYo travel accommodation booking platform secures $7M led by Alibaba Taiwan Entrepreneurs Fund, looking at Singapore, Malaysia and Japan growth
- Taiwan: An intro to CellWine, a wine management app with 120K active users worldwide
- A brief intro to the startups graduating from Taiwan’s MOX mobile-only accelerator
- An overview of the changing nature of coworking in Taiwan
- Taiwan: A brief intro to 5 of the 10 graduating startups from MOX mobile-only accelerator’s 7th batch
Taiwan’s startup news:
September 2019
- Taiwan: A quick look at Taiwan’s moves into Agriculture 4.0, technology-driven precision farming
- Taiwan: Perfect Corp augmented reality startup gains backing from China’s Alibaba with ‘virtual try-it-on’ retail technology
- Taiwan: Bitmark blockchain-backed digital property rights startup secures $3M
- Taiwan: A brief intro to 4 healthcare startups, working on technology-driven solutions spanning AI, VR, and beyond
- Taiwan: An overview of Taiwan Tech Arena’s ecosystem aims with representation, acceleration, and strategic cooperation to establish Taiwan as a startup nation
- Taiwan: KaiKuTek startup takes on the challenge of gesture recognition systems, lining up against Google and others
- Taiwan: FunNow instant entertainment booking startup gains series-A+ funding, with 1000 merchants and sights set on services for the 2020 Olympics
- Taiwan’s ELECLEAN partners Malaysia’s Richmountain with eco-friendly, chemical-free disinfectant process
- Taiwan: 12 biomedical tech startups secure orders to $120M from US military, Hewlett-Packard and Johnson & Johnson via MedTech Conference in Boston
