2018, third quarter
Taiwan’s startups
- Taiwan’s Industrial Tech Research Institute unveils country’ first driverless bus
- Taiwan’s HTC bets big on Exodus, blockchain-powered smartphone
- An intro to the Taiwanese startups that presented at the recent RISE tech conference in Hong Kong
- Microsoft launches enterprise blockchain partnership looking at financial, e-commerce, entertainment and beyond
- Former Estonia president to visit Taiwan for digital forum looking at AI, fintech and beyond
- Green World Fintech Services aims for stablecoin crypto tied to New Taiwan Dollar fiat currency
- Five Taiwanese startups set to join Singapore gov’t Action Community Entrepreneurship initiative, backed by KPMG
- 8 Interactive AI-powered messaging services provider secures US$650K
- Taiwan Tech Arena to collaborate with Singularity University by hosting the 2018 APAC Global Impact Challenge
- More of the Taiwanese startups that took part in Hong Kong’s RISE tech conference
- Appier acquires India’s Qgraph, launches AIQUA AI-powered content marketing platform
- Ultra Taiwan 2018 music festival to be the first to utilise blockchain tech for payments
- An overview of Taiwan’s recently-introduced legislation to govern AirBnB-style rentals
- Global Entrepreneurship Congress Plus set for September 26-29, looking at social impact with AI+IoT in smart cities
- The 6 startups from batch 5 that presented at MOX (Mobile Only Accelerator) Demo Day
- Uber partners government and private enterprises to launch project series
- Nankang Design Incubation Centre aims to help the local IoT ecosystem flourish
- Students from 5 countries participate in Taiwan Tech’s Startup Bootcamp
- FunNow lands $5M to help Asian city populations find last-minute things to do
- Plug and Play’s view of Taiwan’s strengths in entrepreneurship and startup business
- Dexon Foundation blockchain platform developer secures $20M
- Garage+ startup incubation program open for applications until September 7th
- Winners of the First APAC Global Impact Challenge unveiled by Singularity University and Taiwan Tech Arena
- A brief intro to the San Francisco-bound startups in Taiwan Startup Stadium’s demo day
- An intro to Taiwan Startup Stadium’s 125 startups (so far)
- CoolBitX raises $13M backing for credit card-sized crypto wallet
- Taipei Medical University Hospital launches blockchain-based records storage platform
- 2017 Taipei Universiade Athlete’s Village reworked to become an international startup campus
- New Taipei City uses sharing economy principles to improve care for the elderly
- Taiwan’s Ucarer homecare platform for Chinese seniors launches in Silicon Valley
- H. Spectrum, Asia’s largest biomed accelerator, to collaborate with 5 major companies on medical tech innovation
- Microsoft to join innovation efforts in Linkou Startup Terrace development
- President Tsai sets sights on making Taiwan an Asian startup hub with incentives and revised regulations
- ioeX blockchain startup unveils solution to decrease IoT data transfer costs by up to 70%
- The 6 winning startups from Asia Hardware Battle 2018 Taipei
- Ministry of Science and Technology to cour US investors in AI and beyond
- Taiwan Accelerator applications remain open year-round
- Japan: Cinnamon startup opens Taiwan AI R&D center; aims for 5 more across Asia
- Vietnam: HCM City Computer Association signs MOU with Taiwan trade council around smart city tech, experience and solutions exchange
