HTC

HTC Corp is engaged in the design, development, and manufacture of smartphones and tablets in Taiwan. The company offers PDA phones and smartphones for mobile operators and distributors in Europe, the United States, and Asia. These machines are available as HTC devices and as products individually customized for operators and device partners. The company provides its own HTC self-branded products as well as supports operator-branded products and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners. It owns Dopod as a subsidiary company and is a member of the Open Handset Alliance. The company’s products are sold under various brand names such as HTC, Dopod, and Qtek and are often rebranded by major telecommunication carriers. Its products also include pocket PC phones (PDA Phone), ultra mobile phones, HTC kovsky (Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1), and HTC dream (T-mobile G1). HTC Corp was founded by Cher Wang and Peter Chou in 1997. It is headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan.
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David Chen

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Maggie Tseng

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Cher Wang

Chairwoman and CEO

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Dashwire

Acquisition in 2011
Dashwire offers the industry leading mobile-web connected services platform for mobile operators, device makers and retailers to seamlessly deliver a new generation of real-time consumer, social and device management software services on open mobile phones. Today the company supports BlackBerry, S60 and Windows Mobile, which represent approximately 75% of the smartphones being sold in the market. Android support is scheduled for Q1 2010.

Byond

Seed Round in 2017
Byond transforms eCommerce through immersive experiences that increase engagement, conversion and ROI. Byond’s XR eCommerce Platform transforms the tedium and ineffectiveness of today’s online shopping with interactive visual merchandising enabling improved product discovery, exploration and collaboration – empowering brands and retailers to go beyond their targets.

Beats Electronics

Venture Round in 2011
Beats Electronics offers premium consumer headphones, earphones and speakers, software technology and streaming music subscription services. The company's mission is to provide a superior end-to-end music experience - with headphones, devices and services - so fans feel the emotion and hear the music the way artists intended it to sound from the studio. This experience is aided by partnerships with HP, Chrysler Group and HTC Mobile. Led by Co-Founder & CEO Jimmy Iovine, Co-Founder Dr. Dre, and President Luke Wood, Beats Electronics is based in Santa Monica, CA. NEWS & EVENTSBeats Electronics is the brainchild of legendary artist and producer Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, Chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M Records, who set out to develop a new type of headphone with the capability to reproduce the full spectrum of sound that musical artists and producers hear in professional recording studios.

Medis Media

Seed Round in 2019
Medis Media is an award-winning software development company, found in 2015, which specializes in medical/health education software for mobile, desktop, and virtual reality devices. The company has been awarded the ‘Startup of the Year’ in the prestigious 2017 QLD iAwards contest by the Australian Information Industry Association. Medis Media is among the first to recognize the potential of VR technology in medical education; it developed the world’s first fully-featured VR anatomy atlas – 3D Organon VR Anatomy.

Byond

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Byond transforms eCommerce through immersive experiences that increase engagement, conversion and ROI. Byond’s XR eCommerce Platform transforms the tedium and ineffectiveness of today’s online shopping with interactive visual merchandising enabling improved product discovery, exploration and collaboration – empowering brands and retailers to go beyond their targets.

Byond

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Byond transforms eCommerce through immersive experiences that increase engagement, conversion and ROI. Byond’s XR eCommerce Platform transforms the tedium and ineffectiveness of today’s online shopping with interactive visual merchandising enabling improved product discovery, exploration and collaboration – empowering brands and retailers to go beyond their targets.

One & Company Design, Inc

Acquisition in 2008
One & Company Design, Inc provides industrial design and engineering services to science and technology, sporting goods, fashion.

Bitmark Inc.

Series A in 2019
Bitmark Inc. develops property system for digital environment. It offers specialized blockchain technology to convert personal data into property that can be sold, licensed, and transferred peer-to-peer. The company’s property system for the digital environment enables individuals to establish ownership claims for personal data akin to how land registrars track land titles or patent offices track patents. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Taipei, Taiwan with additional offices in Cupertino, California; Reykjavík, Iceland; and Đà Nẵng, Vietnam.

VRChat

Series A in 2017
VRChat is a virtual reality social platform that allows users to easily build social virtual reality content. Any virtual world built with the VRChat platform instantly becomes a social VR world. This means VRChat users can explore and play in these worlds together, in a social setting. Using VRChat, content creators can take their 3D worlds and be walking around those worlds in VR, with friends, in under an hour. Users can then sell their content to other users using the VRChat market place. It was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

ddmap.com

Series B in 2012
Ddmap.com (丁丁网) is a location-based search engine platform that provides information for urban lives. Ddmap.com is committed to providing one-stop comprehensive solutions, providing convenient daily life information. With its self-developed location engine and thorough understanding of information classification and presentation in urban life, ddmap provides every single person with useful and accurate information for daily life. Ddmap.com is affiliated to Shanghai Gsuo Information Technology Co., Ltd. It was founded in May 2005.
Virtual reality is a new industry, and the benefits in and outside the classroom are only now being discovered. Our vision for the future is to see virtual reality become a staple tool for education, and we will strive to produce quality experiences that demonstrate this. Since opening our doors in October 2014 we have moved in leaps and bounds, releasing a range of educational experiences and winning five International awards for Apollo 11 VR. Our current project, Titanic VR, will be no exception. Due to be completed late 2017, this experience lets you explore the shipwreck, and witness the events of 1912 from the eyes of a survivor.

Talespin

Series B in 2020
TaleSpin LLC develops a spatial computing platform to power talent development and skills alignment for employers. It offers Talespin Runway, an enterprise extended reality skills mapping and knowledge transfer software platform that delivers VR training and performance support applications. The company also provides mixed reality field tools to support employee job performance, and to advance the collection and alignment of skills data. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Culver City, California with an additional office in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Subdream Studios

Seed Round in 2016
Subdream Studios Inc. develops and markets social virtual reality games platform. The company’s platform brings players together in a lobby where they can challenge each other in 2-4 person multiplayer VR games using a simple personal computer interface. It facilitates users to purchase the gaming platform package and subscribe to the playing platform in real time. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Bitmark Inc.

Series B in 2022
Bitmark Inc. develops property system for digital environment. It offers specialized blockchain technology to convert personal data into property that can be sold, licensed, and transferred peer-to-peer. The company’s property system for the digital environment enables individuals to establish ownership claims for personal data akin to how land registrars track land titles or patent offices track patents. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Taipei, Taiwan with additional offices in Cupertino, California; Reykjavík, Iceland; and Đà Nẵng, Vietnam.

TRIPP inc.

Series A in 2022
TRIPP inc. develops and offers a virtual reality (VR) game, or experience that focuses on changing the way a person feels. The product/ experience have a combination of audio and visual elements, gameplay mechanics, and meditation. It taps into research that shows that digital and interactive experiences can have an effect on the brain. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California with a satellite development office in Chicago, Illinois.

ddmap.com

Venture Round in 2010
Ddmap.com (丁丁网) is a location-based search engine platform that provides information for urban lives. Ddmap.com is committed to providing one-stop comprehensive solutions, providing convenient daily life information. With its self-developed location engine and thorough understanding of information classification and presentation in urban life, ddmap provides every single person with useful and accurate information for daily life. Ddmap.com is affiliated to Shanghai Gsuo Information Technology Co., Ltd. It was founded in May 2005.

EventXtra Limited

Series B in 2021
EventXtra is a startup that empowers event organizers to deliver events by creating software and hardware solutions. It connects people, generates experiences, and facilitates knowledge exchange. Some of their clients are Apple, Yahoo, Alibaba, InvestHK, WebSummit, and TEDx. The products of the company that are integrated in a platform are registration form, email and SMS, check-in app, CRM, and lead retrieval. The company is bestowed with awards such as MOB-EX Awards 2012-Best Direct Response Campaign and MOB-EX Awards 2012-Best Social App. EventXtra is a Hong Kong-based company that was founded in 2013 by Sum Wong and Angus Luk.

S3 Graphics

Acquisition in 2011
S3 Graphics is a leading provider of innovative graphics visualization technologies for the notebook and desktop markets. As a quality supplier to the OEM and retail markets, S3 Graphics powers consumer, corporate and multimedia platforms to bring the best-in-class energy efficiency, graphics/video performance, and visual features to the user.

Gogoro

Series A in 2011
Gogoro is an electric scooter maker. With a mission to deliver consumer innovations that will improve how the world’s most populated cities distribute and utilize energy, the company is enabling the transformation of megacities into smart cities. Gogoro is working toward a better future by putting power in the hands of everyone – to move us all forward, faster.

WEVR

Series B in 2016
WEVR is a developer of a technology platform used to offer virtual reality content. Its technology uses immersive computing and real-time massively scalable simulations to create immersive entertainment experiences that enable digital artists and developers to produce and publish digital media for virtual reality devices. It creates transcendent immersive stories and globally shared experiences. WEVR was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Venice, California.

SoundHound Inc.

Post in 2022
SoundHound Inc. is the innovator in voice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies. SoundHound Inc.’s Houndify is the first independent AI platform that enables developers and business owners to deploy it anywhere and retain control of their brand and users while differentiating and innovating. Houndify provides all the technology ingredients necessary for voice and AI integration, including the world’s fastest speech recognition, the most sophisticated natural language understanding, easy to use developer tools, knowledge graphs, and a large and rapidly growing number of domains. Houndify technologies represent 10 years of R&D. SoundHound's voice search & assistant app, Hound, leverages their Speech-to-Meaning™ and Deep Meaning Understanding™ technologies on a consumer app experience. Their SoundHound music recognition app applies the technology to the listening experience, enabling people to discover, explore, and share the music around them.

Dopod International Corp. Ltd

Acquisition in 2007
Dopod International Corp. Ltd is one of the PDA Phone and smartphone distributors in Asia.

anzu.io

Series B in 2022
Anzu.io, Inc. develops an advertising solution that creates connections between people and brands through digital game world. Its solution empowers top-tier game studios to bring name brand ads into their titles, as well as brand advertisers to engage with digital audiences. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with a location in Berlin, Germany.

Baobab Studios Inc.

Series A in 2015
Baobab Studios, headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., is a virtual reality company that creates story and character-driven cinematic experiences. The company was founded by Maureen Fan, who was most recently VP of Games at Zynga; and Eric Darnell, the director of such DreamWorks animated features as the four "Madagascar” franchise films and “Antz.” Baobab is funded by Comcast Ventures, HTC, Samsung, Advancit Capital, The Chernin Group and Freelands Ventures, along with individuals including Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.

Surgical Theater, LLC

Series A in 2015
Surgical Theater, LLC develops medical applications for virtual reality and imaging guidance needs (in tumors and cerebrovascular disorders). It offers SuRgical Planner, a neurosurgery imaging platform; and a Surgical Navigation Advanced Platform. The company’s applications transform the way surgeons consult with patients, plan complex surgical procedures, use medical imaging aspects (during surgeries), and conduct post-operative reviews. It serves customers in the United States. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Mayfield Village, Ohio.

DIP.corp

Venture Round in 2000
DIP Corporation (ディップ) (TYO: 2379) is a Japan-based employment agency that links people with the jobs they want. DIP Corporation (ディップ) (TYO: 2379) is a Japan-based employment agency that links people with the jobs they want.

Cognitive3D

Convertible Note in 2017
Cognitive3D is a platform that records, measures, aggregates, and analyzes data from VR, AR and MR experiences. Our technology helps brands develop better products, understand spaces in new ways, and carry out training with clearer results. But that’s not all: we’re also creating a language for this type of insight, giving our customers new ways to understand and quantify user behavior.

WEVR

Funding Round in 2015
WEVR is a developer of a technology platform used to offer virtual reality content. Its technology uses immersive computing and real-time massively scalable simulations to create immersive entertainment experiences that enable digital artists and developers to produce and publish digital media for virtual reality devices. It creates transcendent immersive stories and globally shared experiences. WEVR was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Venice, California.

VRChat

Seed Round in 2016
VRChat is a virtual reality social platform that allows users to easily build social virtual reality content. Any virtual world built with the VRChat platform instantly becomes a social VR world. This means VRChat users can explore and play in these worlds together, in a social setting. Using VRChat, content creators can take their 3D worlds and be walking around those worlds in VR, with friends, in under an hour. Users can then sell their content to other users using the VRChat market place. It was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Beats Electronics

Acquisition in 2011
Beats Electronics offers premium consumer headphones, earphones and speakers, software technology and streaming music subscription services. The company's mission is to provide a superior end-to-end music experience - with headphones, devices and services - so fans feel the emotion and hear the music the way artists intended it to sound from the studio. This experience is aided by partnerships with HP, Chrysler Group and HTC Mobile. Led by Co-Founder & CEO Jimmy Iovine, Co-Founder Dr. Dre, and President Luke Wood, Beats Electronics is based in Santa Monica, CA. NEWS & EVENTSBeats Electronics is the brainchild of legendary artist and producer Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, Chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M Records, who set out to develop a new type of headphone with the capability to reproduce the full spectrum of sound that musical artists and producers hear in professional recording studios.

Proprio, Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
Proprio, Inc. develops a healthcare system for real-time immersive video and mediated reality interaction. It offers surgical microscopes, navigation systems, loupes, and screens to replace surgical microscopes. The company’s networked camera arrays, depth-sensing technology, and computer graphics processing enables users to navigate live 3D environments with a sense of presence and depth of field from any perspective. Proprio, Inc. was formerly known as eLoupes, Inc. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Shanghai F-road Commercial Services Co., Ltd. provides mobile financial services for financial institutions. The company offers a range of services, including encrypted mobile banking services, online day-to-day services, development and operation of community bank, asset management of regional banks, and Internet finance; and mobile banking solutions to regional banks. It offers its services through mobile terminals. Shanghai F-Road Commercial Services Co., Ltd. was founded in 2008 and is based in Shanghai, China.

Drop

Seed Round in 2016
At Drop, we are building what we believe will be the future of discovery in immersive computing. Based in San Francisco, California, we are an HTC portfolio company that has built an immersive internet searching and browsing experience for virtual and augmented realities. In other words, it's the "Google Chrome for VR/AR."

Saffron Digital Ltd.

Funding Round in 2011
Saffron Digital Ltd. develops a video platform that enables to launch a premium multi-platform entertainment service that showcases and monetizes content. The company offers MainStage, a SaaS-based solution that gives users various tools to launch a premium multi-platform OTT service; StagePlay, a custom built player that delivers content to any device; BackStage, a custom built content management system that enables to set-up and operate the scheduling, pricing, and promotion of service across multiple retail models; Mainstage UV for the management and delivery of UltraViolet store; and Stagecraft, a content preparation system that automates the ingestion, profiling, transcoding, packaging, and encryption of content. It also offers TV Everywhere solution that includes live TV, catch-up, and VOD for broadcasters and operators. The company serves pay-TV providers, broadcasters, CE manufacturers, mobile carriers, retailers, and content owners worldwide. Saffron Digital Ltd. was formerly known as Film Night Limited and changed its name to Saffron Digital Ltd. in November 2007. The company was incorporated in 2002 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Asia and the United States. As of June 3, 2016, Saffron Digital Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of NeuLion, Limited.

RADD3, Inc.

Series A in 2016
RADD3 is an Oakland, California-based software development company that develops applications and games for Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) devices as well as for Set Top Boxes, smartphones and tablets. RADD3 is one of the leading developers of AR and VR applications, and we are currently working on some of the first commercial VR applications. RADD3 is also releasing Set Top Box games in North America and Greater China.

Bitmark Inc.

Series A in 2019
Bitmark Inc. develops property system for digital environment. It offers specialized blockchain technology to convert personal data into property that can be sold, licensed, and transferred peer-to-peer. The company’s property system for the digital environment enables individuals to establish ownership claims for personal data akin to how land registrars track land titles or patent offices track patents. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Taipei, Taiwan with additional offices in Cupertino, California; Reykjavík, Iceland; and Đà Nẵng, Vietnam.

Kura Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Kura Technologies is an augmented reality company focused on building the next generation AR glasses with the largest field of view and highest transparency customized optics, display, ASIC, and algorithm. Our solution includes both hardware and software platform, which is designed to be integrated with software companies to provide enterprise and consumer solutions. We are providing the best performing AR platform for telepresent collaborations, training, and 3D visualization.

Abaxia

Acquisition in 2010
Abaxia SAS operates as a software developer providing mobile handset software solutions for network operators and handset manufacturers. It specializes in on-device solutions for activating the first screen of mobile devices. The company offers Mobile Portal, a mobile-embedded client-customized user interface that replaces the classical home page, and brings users one-click access to value-added services and information; and Mobile Finder, a mobile embedded software designed to simplify the offline and online search. It also provides Smart Agent, a mobile embedded software, which interacts with the handset environment to enhance Mobile Portal or other client software features; and Mobile Tag, an embedded application that can read tags and decipher them. Abaxia SAS was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Neuilly sur Seine, France. As of June 7, 2010, Abaxia SAS operates as a subsidiary of HTC France Corporation.

Byond

Seed Round in 2019
Byond transforms eCommerce through immersive experiences that increase engagement, conversion and ROI. Byond’s XR eCommerce Platform transforms the tedium and ineffectiveness of today’s online shopping with interactive visual merchandising enabling improved product discovery, exploration and collaboration – empowering brands and retailers to go beyond their targets.

VRChat

Series C in 2019
VRChat is a virtual reality social platform that allows users to easily build social virtual reality content. Any virtual world built with the VRChat platform instantly becomes a social VR world. This means VRChat users can explore and play in these worlds together, in a social setting. Using VRChat, content creators can take their 3D worlds and be walking around those worlds in VR, with friends, in under an hour. Users can then sell their content to other users using the VRChat market place. It was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

OnLive

Venture Round in 2011
OnLive is a cloud gaming company offering a cloud gaming platform and a cloud desktop system that develops server-based video game processing. Its games run on high-end gaming PCs in its data centers and are streamed via the cloud to its users’ Mac, PC, or Android device. The company’s game client automatically patches, updates, and pre-installs all of its users’ games automatically so they can start playing. OnLive develops server-based video game processing, allowing games to run without game consoles or high-end computers, moving away from a system in which games are purchased and downloaded. OnLive Desktop, named the No.1 app of 2012 by Time Magazine, demonstrates that a remote desktop experience on a mobile device can feel local. OnLive was founded in 2007 by Steve Perlman, noted entrepreneur and inventor who spent years in developing the technology before launching the OnLive Game Service. It is headquartered in Mountain View, C.A.

Owlchemy Labs LLC

Series A in 2016
Owlchemy Labs LLC is a game studio that develops games and VR experiences. It focuses on mechanic-driven games and formed insane premises around them. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. As of May 10, 2017, Owlchemy Labs LLC operates as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

Inquisitive Minds

Acquisition in 2011
Inquisitive Minds is a company that was acquired by HTC Corp in 2011.

KKBOX TAIWAN CO., LTD.

Venture Round in 2014
KKBOX TAIWAN CO., LTD. provides online music streaming services. Its service features various legal tracks, including Asia-Pop music library. The company also provides videos, artist interviews, live concert reports, entertainment news, and a collection of music editorials in its monthly magazine. It offers its service in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand KKBOX TAIWAN CO., LTD. was founded in 2004 and is based in Taipei, Taiwan.