AppWorks

Based in Taipei, AppWorks is the largest startup accelerator in Greater Southeast Asia. AppWorks launched its Taipei-based accelerator program in 2010 to help Greater Southeast Asian Internet startups optimize their products and business strategies. Every six months, AppWorks Accelerator recruits 30-40 promising startups working on AI, blockchain, and other rapidly growing verticals. With 328 startups and 925 founders in its alumni network to date, the AppWorks Ecosystem is the largest of its kind in Asia. All AppWorks startups collectively generate US$ 2.5B in annual revenues, provide 9,586 jobs and are valued at US$ 3.6B. AppWorks also manages a total of US$61 million in VC funds, typically investing in seed to Series C companies.

Joseph Chan

Partner

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Anne Chen

Investor Relations Manager

Nice Cheng

Partner

Jamie Lin

Partner

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TzuPu Lin

Associate

Jessica Liu

Partner

Andy Tsai

Partner

Past deals in Asia

CHOCOLABS (OHCOOL)

Seed Round in 2013
CHOCOLABS was established in September 2011 in Taiwan. Its current portfolio adds up to total of 62 APPs, more than 12M downloads and 1.8M monthly active users. CHOCOLABS aims to create the perfect living circle by offering users the APPs to ease their daily lives. In present mobile era, CHOCOLABS continues to be dedicated to making users lives more convenient through “App Your Life” experience.

Migo Corporation

Seed Round in 2013
In 1998 MIGO launched as a company with years of expertise in information technology and computing. Assembled from disparate backgrounds, the Minds of MIGO are experienced leaders from the following disciplines: - Computer Science - Business Intelligence - Marketing Strategy Today they have evolved and implemented applications that incorporate principles of precision algorithms and result in machine learning so the software can learn to think for itself. By integrating commercial, technical and BI data, it spots patterns, predicts results and actually makes marketing recommendations in real time. Actionable customer intelligence drives more revenue for marketers and more satisfaction and engagement for shoppers. Through MIGO's proprietary D.I.E.T. blueprint - Data integration, Intelligence, Engagement & Tracking - you turn data into business opportunities. From campaign to channel to segment to individual shoppers. To date, MIGO has garnered over 600 clients through their unique application of Big Data concepts to the multi-channel retail environment.

Sudo Inc

Seed Round in 2015
Sudo is an online recruitment platform for software engineers. It focuses on providing customized recruitment services for the software industry. Sudo offers referral services for various companies according to their business nature and needs. Launched in 2014 by Yvette Lin, the platform is operated from Taipei, Taiwan.

Umbo Computer Vision Inc.

Series A in 2017
Umbo CV is an artificial intelligence company developing cloud-first smart security cameras for enterprises. Their mission is to increase operation efficiency and to reduce the cost of ownership for businesses by bring the entire end-to-end experience from offline to online. Places where you would see their product/services range from small offices, local stores, hotel franchises to large national retailers, city surveillance, school districts, warehouse, major transportation facilities and much more.

Infina

Seed Round in 2022
Infina is an investment platform that engages in real estate and financial services.

Travelio

Series C in 2023
Travelio is an online short-term home rental marketplace that provides apartments, villas, and houses. Its platform allows its clients to reserve and choose houses, villas, and apartments online. Travelio was founded in March 24, 2015, by Christine Amanda, Christina Suriadjaja, and Hendry Rusli.

InfraDigital Nusantara

Series A in 2020
IDN platform is used by Offline Billers , such as schools, foundations, or course institutions, and others. Infradigital Nusantara is motivated by management with more than 15 years of experience in online payment.

Kikitrade

Venture Round in 2022
Kikitrade is a cryptocurrency social investment platform. The company aims to provide mainstream investors with a user-friendly and secure cryptocurrency investment experience and creates an interactive and educational in-app community.

Umbo Computer Vision Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Umbo CV is an artificial intelligence company developing cloud-first smart security cameras for enterprises. Their mission is to increase operation efficiency and to reduce the cost of ownership for businesses by bring the entire end-to-end experience from offline to online. Places where you would see their product/services range from small offices, local stores, hotel franchises to large national retailers, city surveillance, school districts, warehouse, major transportation facilities and much more.

Kuo Brothers

Series A in 2013
Kuo Brothers

Uber Technologies, Inc.

Series F in 2015
Uber is evolving the way the world moves. By seamlessly connecting riders to drivers through our app, we make cities more accessible, opening up more possibilities for riders and more business for drivers. From our founding in 2009 to our launches in over 300 cities today, Uber's rapidly expanding global presence continues to bring people and their cities closer.

Numbers Protocol

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Numbers provides apps and tools to help users create tamper-proof records of media content. There are three core components of the company's product: Capture, Seal, and Trace. Capture generates the birth certificate of media content, Seal preserves the integrity with immutable records, and Trace footprints at every level from creation to archive. The sources of media content include mobile cameras or professional cameras. All media content created by the Numbers Capture comes with a unique certification. When the content is shared, viewers can scan a QR code to review and verify it. Numbers Protocol is a Taiwan startup founded in May 2019.

EZTABLE

Series C in 2016
EZTABLE is a community in which everyone can find a restaurant that resonates to their lifestyle and caters to all their gatherings. EZTABLE is an online restaurant reservation platform, and the largest of its kind in Asia. Founded in Taipei, Taiwan, in Apr. 2008, its mission is to create the world's largest dining program.

NewsLeopard

Seed Round in 2016
NewsLeopard Technology Co., Ltd. operates an electronic direct mail platform designed to increase the ROI of email marketing. Its product offers personalized mail, real-time campaign and tracking, subscriber management, reputation optimization, and troubleshooting and email marketing consulting services. The company offers electronic direct mail (EDM) onsite training and lectures. The company is based in Taipei, Taiwan.

Cybersocial Holdings

Seed Round in 2016
WeTalk Forum was established in 2013. Target they have set is to hope that through WeTalk current affairs forum for Traditional Chinese users in Taiwan and elsewhere, can have a space to discuss current events and important public issues. They hope to discuss current events WeTalk forum, is not subject to disturbance, transparent and open. They hope, WeTalk current affairs forum, Traditional Chinese to become the largest integrated forum. Their vision is to be able to exist through WeTalk affairs forum, so really important issues on the Internet encourages further discussion of positive and negative, so that more people can transmit WeTalk forum for pluralistic understanding of these important issues.

EZTABLE

Series B in 2015
EZTABLE is a community in which everyone can find a restaurant that resonates to their lifestyle and caters to all their gatherings. EZTABLE is an online restaurant reservation platform, and the largest of its kind in Asia. Founded in Taipei, Taiwan, in Apr. 2008, its mission is to create the world's largest dining program.

Lalamove

Series A in 2015
Originally known as EasyVan, Lalamove was launched to satisfy a specific logistical need - van hire. Started in Hong Kong in December 2013, Lalamove operates in 21 markets across Asia and Latin America connecting over 7 million customers with a pool of over 700,000 driver-partners. The Lalamove way has revolutionized old van hiring call centers to being so streamlined, customers and drivers match with each other within 12 seconds. Local deliveries are fulfilled at a breakneck 55 minutes, door-to-door. Providing reliable and quick deliveries for customers, Lalamove also optimises drivers fleet and route to maximise their earning potential.

Lalamove

Series A in 2015
Originally known as EasyVan, Lalamove was launched to satisfy a specific logistical need - van hire. Started in Hong Kong in December 2013, Lalamove operates in 21 markets across Asia and Latin America connecting over 7 million customers with a pool of over 700,000 driver-partners. The Lalamove way has revolutionized old van hiring call centers to being so streamlined, customers and drivers match with each other within 12 seconds. Local deliveries are fulfilled at a breakneck 55 minutes, door-to-door. Providing reliable and quick deliveries for customers, Lalamove also optimises drivers fleet and route to maximise their earning potential.

Eden Farm Indonesian

Series A in 2021
Eden Farm deliver fruit, vegetables and dry goods to restaurants in Indonesia. We work directly with local farmers and central markets all across the country.

ShopBack

Series A in 2017
ShopBack offers a one-stop lifestyle portal that powers smarter purchase decisions for consumers. Today, ShopBack is the dominant player in Southeast Asia’s e-commerce Cashback market, with an established presence in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Taiwan, powering over 1,000 orders per hour. ShopBack enhances shopping by providing up to 30% Cashback for consumers to boost their purchasing power while providing cost-effective marketing solutions for merchant partners. With over 1,300 merchant partners, including Uber, Expedia, and Lazada, ShopBack constantly strives to bring a smarter shopping experience to the consumers. In October 2015, ShopBack was awarded the winner of the Gold award in the Best Start-up (Growth Stage) category and Silver award in the Best Innovative Infocomm Products (Consumers) category at the 7th Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) Awards. This is the local start-up’s maiden voyage in industry awards, pitting against more than 300 nominations for the esteemed titles. The company was recently awarded the Emerging Enterprise Award in September 2016, jointly organized by The Business Times (Singapore) and OCBC Bank, which recognizes outstanding small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore.

Tinvio

Series A in 2021
Tinvio is built around the idea that every merchant and supplier should be able to work smarter together. Through clean design, agile engineering, and genuine support, we unlock capabilities that make them more productive and profitable.

Omnichat Limited

Seed Round in 2020
Omnichat Limited operates a Web-based messaging CRM and marketing automation platform. It offers omnichannel messaging, conversational marketing, marketing automation, and omnichannel CRM services. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Graffle

Seed Round in 2022
Our thin layer over the Flow blockchain allows developers to read, write, and query the blockchain using any language. Graffle provides access to the blockchain through APIs, webhooks, and websockets — enabling teams to build without technical barriers. Providing developers with our toolkit and infrastructure allows them to create consumer experiences without the complexity of adopting Blockchain as their infrastructure.

portto

Series A in 2021
portto aims to make blockchain simple for users and developers. With its most user-friendly blockchain application browser and wallet SDKs, portto has pushed it steps forward for blockchain to be used in real life scenarios.

Pace

Series A in 2022
Pace is an online payment platform that allows users to shop for more with no interest or hidden fees. The platform lets shoppers take charge of their spending without giving up on the things they need or deserve. It turns purchases into 3 interest-free installments that give shoppers the breathing space to buy now.

Gameape

Seed Round in 2012
GameApe is Taiwan's first dedicated iOS and Android mobile games professional website that offers players a wealth of information, including for the strategies, game evaluation, price information or special reports and the like.

InfraDigital Nusantara

Seed Round in 2019
IDN platform is used by Offline Billers , such as schools, foundations, or course institutions, and others. Infradigital Nusantara is motivated by management with more than 15 years of experience in online payment.

Lalamove

Series A in 2016
Originally known as EasyVan, Lalamove was launched to satisfy a specific logistical need - van hire. Started in Hong Kong in December 2013, Lalamove operates in 21 markets across Asia and Latin America connecting over 7 million customers with a pool of over 700,000 driver-partners. The Lalamove way has revolutionized old van hiring call centers to being so streamlined, customers and drivers match with each other within 12 seconds. Local deliveries are fulfilled at a breakneck 55 minutes, door-to-door. Providing reliable and quick deliveries for customers, Lalamove also optimises drivers fleet and route to maximise their earning potential.

EMQ limited

Series B in 2020
Headquartered in Hong Kong, EMQ is a financial technology startup that is building a financial network across Asia with a focus on remittance. With a footprint across Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines, the company partners with financial institutions and other strategic partners in each country to enable and settle cross-border remittance via banks and various modes for top-up and cash pickup. The company received its Money Service Operator license from the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department in September 2014 and its Fund Transfer Operator license from Bank Indonesia in March 2017.

Beam

Series A in 2020
Beam is an e-scooter company . Beam is a micro-mobility startup that encourages users to park their e-scooters in pre-determined parking spots via its app by offering incentives, instead of parking it anywhere randomly on the street.

Eden Farm Indonesian

Series A in 2023
Eden Farm deliver fruit, vegetables and dry goods to restaurants in Indonesia. We work directly with local farmers and central markets all across the country.

XREX Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
XREX Inc. provides blockchain services. It offers XREX Crypto Services (XCS), a stack of PaaS and SaaS offerings for organizations that are building and running crypto markets (spots, futures, options), market-making, banking, custodial services, wallets, clearance and settlement proxies, payment gateways, value transmission services, and decentralized applications. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Taipei, Taiwan.was founded in 2019 and is based in Taipei, Taiwan.
KKday is an e-commerce travel platform that offers 10,000+ experiences around the world. It provides a wide breadth of experiences, including theme park tickets, cooking classes, multi-day tours, airport transfers, sim cards, and hidden sights off the beaten path. KKday was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in T'ai-pei, Taiwan.

uitox

Series B in 2014
uitox corporation provides e-commerce tools for brands and suppliers to build their own online brand stores. It also offers tools to build e-commerce warehouse management, e-commerce logistics, e-commerce payment, embedded shopping cart (in vendors' official sites), e-commerce operation, and cross-border sales services. The company allows brands and suppliers to sell through its own business-to-consumer sites. It serves customers worldwide. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Taiwan.

Dapper Labs

Series A in 2019
Dapper Labs Inc. develops blockchain-based cryptokitties video games. The company offers consumer blockchain collectible cats games for entertainment brands. Dapper Labs Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Docosan

Seed Round in 2021
Docosan is a tech startup on a mission to improve access to quality healthcare for people in emerging markets. Our digital marketplace lets patients compare healthcare providers across a wide range of specialties, book appointments online 24/7, chat with primary care assistants, and manage their own health data for free. Docosan offers providers an easy mechanism to manage patients and massively expand their client base. The Docosan platform is currently available in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam. The Docosan platform improves access to primary healthcare, coordination of care, and generates public health data. Our platform is HIPAA-compliant and our data management system uses HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), DICOM, and other internationally-recognized protocols to ensure that health records we maintain are portable across many different types of electronic health record (EHR) systems. We're dedicated to improving healthcare for Vietnamese people. Check us out!

91App

Series A in 2015
91App is a Taiwan-based startup that builds customized apps for brands and retailers. 91App also has ambitions to promote online-to-offline commerce. In addition to online vendors, the company takes brick-and-mortar stores as its clients. Using location tracking and other data, brands can offer coupons and promotions to drive foot traffic.

WeMo Corp.

Series A in 2020
WeMo Corp. offers smart vehicle rental service through application in Taiwan. The company offers live tracking features, 24/7 customer service, and insurance service for customers. It also offers IoT smart parking solution, enabling users to enter designated parking lots without the need for cards, cash, or any parking fees. WeMo Corp. was founded in 2016 and is based in Taipei, Taiwan.

Kuo Brothers

Series B in 2014
Kuo Brothers

iCHEF

Series A in 2016
iCHEF build the best restaurant POS in the world, and keep making it better. Believing technology should help but handicap entrepreneurship, iCHEF works with hundreds of restaurants owners to design and deliver POS technology and service that helps every restaurant to prevail in their own way. Turning enterprise level technologies into affordable and understandable for small restaurants, iCHEF is making opening restaurant a better business.

Fabelio

Series C in 2020
Fabelio is a design-centric e-tailer operating in Indonesia and soon in entire South East Asia. They partner with the best designers in Indonesia to create original designs and they work closely with the best factories to manufacture good-quality products at attractive prices. At fabelio they focus on furnishing happiness.

17 Media

Series A in 2015
17Media was established in 2015 in Taiwan. Having raised $10m during Series A, 17Media is considered as one of the fastest growing startups in Asia. 17app is a social media app that enables you to livestream, share photos, upload videos and interact with streamers. Celebrities, actors and singers are all live on the app, join us and interact with them. Who knows, you might be the next internet celebrity!

Yummy Corp

Series B in 2020
Yummy Corp is a cloud kitchen management and online catering company that operates a network of delivery-only kitchens. It offers delicious, fresh, and creative food solutions for everyday corporate and group needs and provides food facility management and their signature MICE catering, delivering customers experience while helping them manage costs. Yummy Corp’s cloud kitchen service Yummykitchen, launched in 2019, is a full-service Indonesian cloud kitchen operator, renting out shared kitchen spaces and undertaking operations for the company’s partner brands. The company rents space to existing food and beverage brands, providing them kitchen infrastructure as well as the necessary staff to assist in fulfilling delivery and takeout orders. Yummy Corp is an affiliate of Ismaya Group, a Lifestyle Food & Beverage company. The Tangerang, Jawa Barat-based company was founded in 2017 by brothers Marbio, Mario, and Marius Suntanu, and Juan Chene.

EZTABLE

Series A in 2012
EZTABLE is a community in which everyone can find a restaurant that resonates to their lifestyle and caters to all their gatherings. EZTABLE is an online restaurant reservation platform, and the largest of its kind in Asia. Founded in Taipei, Taiwan, in Apr. 2008, its mission is to create the world's largest dining program.

HarukaEdu

Series C in 2019
PT Haruka Edukasi Utama or HarukaEdu is a company that provides a turn-key solution to enable universities to offer quality online education with minimum investments and risk. Our vision is to provide a brighter future for Indonesians through affordable, quality online degrees and education

Intowow Innovation

Series A in 2017
Founded in June 2014, Intowow Innovation is devoted to the fundamental innovation of mobile video advertising. All the technology we develop, Distributed Ad Serving Technology, Predictive Pre-fetch Algorithm, Dynamic Media Transcoding Technology, Dynamic Ad Placement, Dynamic Time Variant Video Ad Engaging, 360-degree Panoramic Interactive Video, and more, are to create a premium ad experience for consumers.

Fast Retain

Seed Round in 2016
Morning Shop was founded in 2015, is committed to provide consumers with carefully selected high-quality cereals from around the world, as well as nuts, dried fruit, honey, jam and other natural without the burden of snacks, light meals for busy modern people to build dynamic, healthy life style. . Core team members with excellent data analysis capabilities, to develop the majority of accurate cereal market, in early 2016, monthly turnover has exceeded 10 million Taiwan dollars, monthly sold 2,000 kilograms, about 4 million boxes of cereal, the cumulative height equivalent to three 101 building, the future is expected to become the largest online via Taiwan cereal commodities.

Johomy

Seed Round in 2016
Founded in 2014, Johomy is an online shopping site.

Tagtoo

Series A in 2012
Tagtoo focus on digital advertising display technology to reach potential customer cross border and cross screen. They use big data analysis to discover consumer behavior and display personalized recommendations ads. Tagtoo is an advertising technology company which aims to provide the best online advertisement service. Composed by high-skilled programmatic buying team and a group of excellent data scientist, they are constantly working on developing more efficient and creative advertising solutions. Right now, they have the leading techniques (RTB, Remarketing, Dynamic Product Ads and Big Data Analysis) and they provide personalized recommendations Ads display to assist e-commerce players to precisely target potential customers. They make online advertisement easier and greatly increase their revenue and gain effective impressions.

Fashion Subject

Seed Round in 2015
Fashion Subject

iChannels

Seed Round in 2013
iChannels is a marketing platform that provides e-commerce, online gaming, financial customers CPA (Cost Per Action), CPS (Cost Per Sale) and CPL (Cost Per List), etc. Performance Marketing ad serving solution, combined with its 50,000 affiliates force to create impressions on the network, reputation and effective flow.
KKday is an e-commerce travel platform that offers 10,000+ experiences around the world. It provides a wide breadth of experiences, including theme park tickets, cooking classes, multi-day tours, airport transfers, sim cards, and hidden sights off the beaten path. KKday was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in T'ai-pei, Taiwan.

Fandora

Series A in 2014
Fandora focus groups operating in Taiwan illustrator, collection, sharing nearly 2,600 Taiwan creator of image creation, the cumulative number of more than 70,000 works, pipeline and marketing resources to provide exposure to the hormone human creators, and open Fandora Shop illustration merchandise ordered brand path to achieve commercialization and the creation of unique images to sell customized merchandise. From the station opened in 2013 so far, has worked with thousands of illustrations, design, artist, providing the more than ten thousand yuan, unique, original design life of goods to the public, so that these creation into people's lives.

17Life

Series A in 2016
17Life is Taiwan's top two O2O platform to buy vouchers and Delivery of the two spindles, to meet consumer demand for various aspects of their lifestyles recreation also use original O2O buy Advantage dedicated path across the layout of the ecosystem, and Shin Kong Mitsukoshi, family and other large lion pathways O2O project.

Pubgame

Series A in 2013
PubGame is a Web and Mobile Games publishing platform operated by Net Publishing. Net Publishing helps Web and Mobile Games developers and publishers worldwide reach more players and generate more revenue in Southeast Asian markets.  Net Publishing specializes in marketing, distributing and monetizing of games, so that its partners can focus on building the best games.

FashionGuide

Venture Round in 2016
FashionGuide founded in 2008, is Taiwan's largest beauty community platform, while providing a full range of integrated marketing services for the beauty brand, major customers across Europe and America, major international beauty group. FG successfully promoted the world's only beauty product certification mark, since there are thousands of items through market research evaluation unit, which has 360 brands awarded FG privileged mark. In addition, FG 1028 also operates its own and other beauty brand, popular consumer favorite.

Berss

Seed Round in 2016
Berss