Taiwan’s Q3 2021 tech news
• July, August and September of 2021
• Tech news headlines at a glance
• Quick reference for a time-poor audience
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• Online and drawn from daily tech news
July 2021 | August 2021 | September 2021
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September 2021
- US Taiwan Startup Forum 2021 set for September 9-10, delivering a virtual showcase of 16 startups founded by Taiwanese and Taiwanese American entrepreneurs
- Taiwan: A brief intro to the 20 startups selected for the Taiwan Tech Arena Accelerator by 500 Startups
- Taiwan: A brief intro to the government’s Taiwania Capital and the 4 funds it manages, investing in IoT, biotech, medtech and early-stage startups
August 2021
- Taiwan: Neurobit secures $1.1M with artificial intelligence-backed diagnosis of neurological disorders
- Israel’s Innohale Therapeutics takes Grand Prize at Taiwan’s InnoVEX 2021 Pitch Contest with focus on nitric oxide therapy
- Taiwan: Gov’t launches ‘Next Big’ project to promote the image of Taiwan as a creative hub overseas, selecting 9 companies to participate
- Taiwan: The Innovators 5 Demo Day event set for August 10, featuring 19 teams showcasing in smart healthcare, smart finance, smart manufacturing and more
- Taiwan: An intro to the 10 Taiwan Tech Arena startups set to showcase in the program’s first Global Innovation Pitch Showcase, in partnership with Berkeley SkyDeck
- Taiwan: AppWorks VC firm closes oversubscribed 3rd fund, raising $150M to back around 40 startups across Series A-C rounds, and in seed-stage investments
- Taiwan’s Foxconn, world’s largest contract electronics producer, to build electric vehicle manufacturing facilities in US and Thailand next year; also mulling plants in Europe
- Taiwan: BE Accelerator online Demo Day set for August 28th, showcasing 12 startups working on healthtech, medtech and digital health solutions
- e-news, latest issue: Healthtech in Taiwan, open banking, Baidu’s robocar, AI artists…
- An iPhone with four wheels’: Inside Foxconn’s bid to build electric vehicles
- e-news, latest issue: Foxconn EVs, wearable tech, Asia-Pac cybersec, Indian startup pitches, Australian Blockchain Awards…
- Taiwan: XREX secures $17M pre-Series A with focus on speeding cross-border businesses in emerging markets, via services including payment escrow and crypto-fiat exchange
- Taiwan’s space technology firm TiSpace to conduct test launches from South Australia having gained regulator approval, focusing on low-Earth orbit satellites
- Singapore’s JustCo to open new co-working centre in Taiwan in January 2022, located in Hsinchu Science Park, home to over 400 tech firms and 2 semiconductor foundries
- ICYMI: Taiwan Mobile invested $20M in Vietnam’s biggest Tiki Corp, country’s largest e-commerce firm, seeking a foothold in greater SE Asian markets
- e-news, latest issue: Australia’s Tech Council, Taiwan and Berkeley, payments from the Metaverse, digital asset custody in Singapore…
July 2021
- Taiwan: Gov’t launches international edition of Presidential Hackathon for data owners, data scientists and field experts to work together to optimize public services
- Taiwan: Taipei launches guidelines for electric vehicle charging station deployment, aiming to address issues around safety, power, battery overcharging and more
- Taiwan: X-PITCH 2021 startup competition applications now open, featuring 15-second, 60-second and 3-minute pitches on the 2021 theme of ‘tech for good’
- Taiwan: JustKitchen cloud kitchen startup celebrates opening of 20th location, in Taoyuan city, on the back of Hong Kong market launch in June
- Taiwan: A brief intro to the startups that participated in the recent TMUxBE demo day, showcasing healthtech and medtech solutions
- Video: Presentations in full from the recent TMUxBE Demo Day in Taiwan, over 2 hours of health-tech, med-tech and related tech startup presentations
- “…semiconductor shortage…could last well into 2022 and hit smartphone production next, foreshadowing deficient supply for a range of appliances and industrial equipment…”
- Taiwan: Holland’s Luxexcel takes online pitch win, gaining soft-landing program spot to explore business opportunities in Taipei for 3D printed prescription lenses
- Taiwan: iXensor launches integrated COVID-19 screening solution, the PixoHealth Pass Admin App and Web Portal, featuring multi-source health data and rapid test results
- Taiwan: 21 Israeli tech firms selected for leading incubator program and 2 other initiatives
- South Korea’s Coupang e-commerce giant enters Taiwan and commences delivery options testing, one month after also launching in Japan
- Asia Venturing – Inside Cross-border Innovation online event set for July 16th, featuring 3 corporate investors and delivered by Anchor Taiwan
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