Darwin Management
Darwin Venture Management is a boutique investment firm founded in 2009 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. The firm specializes in venture capital, focusing on emerging growth companies in sectors such as biotechnology, software, consumer products, materials and equipment, semiconductors, and communications. Co-founders Dr. Simon Fang and Dr. Yaoting Wang, both Stanford graduates, bring extensive experience from their careers in technology and entrepreneurship. They have a successful track record as angel investors, having invested in over 20 companies with substantial returns. In 2014, Dr. YJ Tsai joined as a partner, further strengthening the team's expertise. Darwin manages four late-stage venture funds and also offers business and technical consulting services to local entrepreneurs, facilitating connections with the venture communities in Greater China and Silicon Valley. Through its hands-on support, Darwin aims to enhance the growth potential of local startups.
cytena Bioprocess Solutions co., Ltd. (cytena BPS) is founded in 2018 as a spin-off from cytena GmbH. Based on the successful story of cytena, cytena Bioprocess Solutions will further focus on offering bioprocess solutions for, but not limited to, pharmaceuticals and top research institutes. We have established collaboration with top academic institutes and industrial companies in researching, development, and application. With the close connection with cytena GmbH, we share the resources, experiences, and expect to bring our novel and comprehensive product into the global bioprocess market soon!
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.
Founded in June 2013 and based in Taipei, AsiaYo is an online room booking platform offering people a chance to discover over 60,000 uniquely designed accommodations covering 60 cities in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and Hong Kong. Growing quickly, AsiaYo offers local hosts a chance to utilize their unused space, opening it to an international audience. Learn more at: www.asiayo.com
ATGENOMIX is changing genome sequencing informatics and the data analysis market by unifying high-performance parallel computing, open-source bioinformatics, and a multi-omic data hub into a truly scalable Bio-IT platform built on the Microsoft Azure secure enterprise cloud. ATGENOMIX empowers its customers and partners to achieve more with its smart high-performance parallel computing to deliver on the promise of precision medicine.
Our team hails from Italy, Taiwan, USA, and the UK with tech backgrounds from NTU (臺大) and MIT (麻省理工)。 We are alumni of Silicon Valley backed MOX Accelerator and recently closed Series A venture funding from Taipei based Darwin Ventures. We're also backed by several notable angel investors and advisors, including Duncan Clark (Alibaba), Chris Reitermann (CEO Ogilvy Asia), Olivier Glauser (Steamboat Capital, Qualcomm Ventures). Our clients are world leading game publishers from across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Started by an international team of AI experts and mobile gaming fanatics, Bubbleye is a fast growing AI startup now with R&D headquarters in Taipei and biz dev teams working across the globe. We are solving mobile user acquisition inefficiencies through automation and inferential algorithms. And to achieve that, we pick the best of the best. A select team with an international DNA, a very open culture mix across nations and continents, driven by the same powerful driving force: a passion for innovation and growth, guts to disrupt, and skills to implement. We are ahead of the global race to solving mobile user acquisition, with unique tech and talent.
Foresee Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. (FP) is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company. Our mission is to serve patients. We strive to improve patients' quality of life and provide cure through innovative research. We are committed to apply the highest ethical standards to our products, services and communications. Foresee's core competency includes rapid development and commercialization of new drugs using its proprietary drug delivery technology as well as develop first-in-class NCE in disease areas of high unmet medical needs.
Jubo delivers exceptional care experience by connecting healthcare data, empowering caregivers, and engaging family in long-term care.
Kdan Mobile Software Ltd. is a software development company established in 2009 and headquartered in Tainan City, Taiwan, with additional offices in Taipei, Huntingdon, Changsha, Beijing, and Tokyo. The company specializes in mobile software applications and online services, offering a range of productivity and creativity tools. Its flagship products include Creativity 365, a comprehensive content creation suite featuring applications like Animation Desk and Write-on Video, and Document 365, which provides document management solutions such as PDF readers and online conversion services. Kdan also offers Kdan Cloud, a collaborative workspace for file management, DottedSign for electronic signatures, and Kdan PDF SDK for developers to handle PDF files across various platforms. Other notable offerings include My Markups for web page annotation and AniZone for video publishing and community interaction. With over 200 million downloads globally, Kdan Mobile serves a diverse customer base, enhancing productivity and creativity through its innovative solutions.
Zuvio's goal is to build a virtual campus for college students to meet college students' everyday needs for the campus life, and become the ultimate communication channel between brands/enterprise and college students. We started to approach the goal with our Zuvio IRS - cloud + mobile based interactive classroom solution, built Zuvio Campus - cross campus social network service - based on Zuvio IRS., and now have more than 50% market shares in Taiwan.
Inline is an online booking management system tailored specifically for restaurant owners. It helps streamline operations by reducing errors and enhancing efficiency in handling reservations. The app automates the booking process by sending text message confirmations to guests, allowing for real-time responses to be displayed. This functionality aims to simplify reservation management, ultimately supporting restaurant owners in providing better service and optimizing their workflow.
ATGENOMIX is changing genome sequencing informatics and the data analysis market by unifying high-performance parallel computing, open-source bioinformatics, and a multi-omic data hub into a truly scalable Bio-IT platform built on the Microsoft Azure secure enterprise cloud. ATGENOMIX empowers its customers and partners to achieve more with its smart high-performance parallel computing to deliver on the promise of precision medicine.
Founded in June 2013 and based in Taipei, AsiaYo is an online room booking platform offering people a chance to discover over 60,000 uniquely designed accommodations covering 60 cities in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and Hong Kong. Growing quickly, AsiaYo offers local hosts a chance to utilize their unused space, opening it to an international audience. Learn more at: www.asiayo.com
Crystalvue Medical Co Ltd is engaged in manufacturing and production of medical devices including chin rest, digital microscope camera, OCT, fundus camera, gastrointestinal endoscopic disposable devices and tonometer among others. It also provides FundusVue which is a diagnostic instrument for ophthalmologists to inspect and record the patients' retina.
Feature Integration Technology Inc., (Fintek) is founded by a group of highly professional and innovative engineers with long experience in personal computer industry and its related ICs design、marketing、sales and application service. Since its establishment in 2002, Fintek has successfully commercialized several ICs for personal computers, peripherals and IA (information appliances) products. It has become a common perception that slim, mobile, and low power consumption will add its importance to the future product design of personal computer and handheld electronics devices. In view of this trend, they have dedicated substantial resource in the research and development of mixed signal IC design technology aiming for brining future oriented, good performance, and environment-friendly products to the market. And they have gained much achievement in the technology fields such as mixed-mode IC design, embedded/memory logic IC design, and system logic IC design.