Hive Ventures

Hive Ventures is a global seed to early stage VC, with a focus on AI, IOT, Blockchain and its applications across Taiwan, HK & SEA regions. We believe that the key to producing superior performance, is by exercising a hands on approach on a concentrated and interconnected portfolio, to help them scale across regions with our wealth of operational experience regionally and globally. We also believe that Taiwan will be a hotspot for AI, IOT and Blockchain technologies development.

Yan Lee

Founder and Managing Partner

15 past transactions

Recce

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Solving the data context problem

Instill AI

Seed Round in 2023
Instill AI, founded in June 2020, is a startup focused on making artificial intelligence accessible to a wider audience. The company develops AI and data infrastructure, offering a no-/low-code solution that allows users to efficiently extract insights and create AI-driven applications from diverse data types, including text, images, audio, and video. As the primary developers of the open-source Instill Core project, Instill AI provides a comprehensive platform for data, model, and pipeline orchestration. In May 2023, they launched Instill Cloud, a cloud service that enhances their offerings. By integrating these tools into existing data systems, users can fully leverage their data assets and benefit from advancements in AI technology. Instill AI is characterized by a dedicated team of engineers and researchers committed to high-quality product development and automation.

Profet AI

Series A in 2023
Profet AI, founded in Taiwan, specializes in manufacturing AI software by offering a no-code AutoML platform designed for industry and IT experts. This platform allows users to quickly build and deploy high-quality predictive models, addressing challenges in production and digital transformation. Furthermore, Profet AI features the world's first manufacturing AI lifecycle management platform, which has gained traction among leading companies in various sectors, including electronic manufacturing services, semiconductor packaging, printed circuit board design, and materials solutions. By leveraging successful case studies from prominent industry players, Profet AI enables its customers to implement AI solutions rapidly, often within a week, thereby accelerating digital innovation and enhancing operational efficiency in the manufacturing sector.

KryptoGO

Seed Round in 2022
KryptoGo is a leading provider of advanced blockchain technology and consulting services, specializing in the creation and implementation of comprehensive blockchain solutions for various industries. The company offers a range of services, including crypto asset exchange, centralized and decentralized wallets, and consortium blockchain solutions, tailored to meet the needs of its clients. KryptoGo also focuses on enterprise-level solutions that facilitate the adoption of cryptocurrencies, providing tools for transaction visualization, trading behavior monitoring, and anti-money laundering report generation. With a strong network of suppliers and buyers and a team of professionals experienced in blockchain, KryptoGo serves as a reliable technology partner for businesses looking to integrate decentralized applications into their operations.

Canner

Seed Round in 2022
Canner is a provider of data management solutions that enables businesses to navigate the complexities of data and its context effectively. The company has developed a universal semantic layer powered by artificial intelligence, which harmonizes various aspects of data, including schema, structure, relationships, and metadata. This innovative solution fundamentally transforms how organizations interact with their data. Canner's flagship offerings include Canner Enterprise, an enterprise-grade semantic layer, and WrenAI, an open-source AI agent and semantic framework. Additionally, Canner offers a content management system that facilitates the management, auditing, analysis, and sharing of data within a unified platform, providing clients with a consolidated view of their data across the organization.

Viewabo

Seed Round in 2022
Viewabo is a developer of a cloud-based customer support application that enhances remote assistance for businesses. Its software enables support agents to request access to customers' smartphone cameras, allowing customers to share live-streamed video of their issues without the need to install any applications. This capability provides customer service teams with a clear view of the problems customers are facing, facilitating a more efficient diagnosis and resolution process. By streamlining communication and reducing obstacles, Viewabo improves turnaround times and enhances the overall customer support experience.

LinkBy

Seed Round in 2021
LinkBy is the most powerful social sales platform for content creators and influencers.

Instill AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Instill AI, founded in June 2020, is a startup focused on making artificial intelligence accessible to a wider audience. The company develops AI and data infrastructure, offering a no-/low-code solution that allows users to efficiently extract insights and create AI-driven applications from diverse data types, including text, images, audio, and video. As the primary developers of the open-source Instill Core project, Instill AI provides a comprehensive platform for data, model, and pipeline orchestration. In May 2023, they launched Instill Cloud, a cloud service that enhances their offerings. By integrating these tools into existing data systems, users can fully leverage their data assets and benefit from advancements in AI technology. Instill AI is characterized by a dedicated team of engineers and researchers committed to high-quality product development and automation.

InfuseAI

Series A in 2021
InfuseAI specializes in providing a low-code platform for enterprises to efficiently create and manage machine learning models through its PrimeHub AI platform. This solution enables organizations to develop, train, and deploy AI models significantly faster. PrimeHub offers a comprehensive model training environment along with cloud or on-premise cluster computing capabilities, including container orchestration with Kubernetes. The platform includes collaboration tools to facilitate teamwork among data scientists and IT leaders, allowing for effective management of resources and settings. Additionally, InfuseAI provides PrimeHub Deploy, a tool that enables users to train, deploy, update, and monitor AI models, tracking service health and resource usage while maintaining a history of deployments and logs. This functionality empowers data scientists to concentrate on their work while ensuring that IT leaders retain control over configurations and access.

Phase

Convertible Note in 2021
Phase is a visual and intuitive digital design tool, reworked for the new age.

Avesha

Seed Round in 2021
Avesha is a technology platform that enables application workloads to disaggregate across cloud, multi-cloud, and edge locations. Enterprises can improve business outcomes by enabling more automation, real-time use cases, and high performance/low latency applications by distributing data and application logic closer to the end-users. The Avesha SNAP (Smart Network Application Platform) creates a virtual overlay on any network underlay. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.

ALPHA Camp

Series A in 2020
ALPHA Camp hope, with innovative educational model of the Internet era, the desire to exert its influence to help all people, to create a more exciting life meaningful. The introduction of Silicon Valley Startup environment and spirit, and the integration of the Asian market demand, ALPHA Camp in the most efficient way complete heritage industry required skills, contacts and soft power, determined to put the Internet in your Startup. Uphold strict educational approach, combined with enthusiasm and professionalism, ALPHA Camp look forward to bringing new and creative industries Asian network ring again strong growth surge of solid new momentum.

PicSee

Series A in 2019
PicSee is a provider of URL shortening and optimization services aimed at enhancing marketing effectiveness. The company's platform enables users to shorten URLs, customize link profile pictures, and track click activity, which facilitates better analysis of marketing targets. By offering data analysis tools, PicSee helps clients understand their audience more effectively, allowing them to create tailored content that resonates with the right people at the right time. This approach fosters long-term relationships with customers and gradually improves conversion rates through strategic optimization of marketing efforts.

Botrista

Convertible Note in 2019
Botrista Technology, Inc. is a robotics company based in Hayward, California, specializing in automation solutions for the food services industry. Founded in 2017, the company has developed the Botrista Cloud Bar, an automated drink system that prepares a variety of craft beverages, including tropical lemonade, mixed berry black tea, and matcha almond milk. Botrista also manufactures the Automatic Boba Cooker, which streamlines the preparation of boba. By offering an end-to-end beverage solution for food and beverage retail chains, Botrista enhances drink selection, quality, and consistency while reducing labor costs. Their technology caters to the rising demands of health-conscious consumers by automating the production of specialty drinks, thus enabling clients to improve brand image and increase revenues from beverage sales.

Canner

Seed Round in 2019
Canner is a provider of data management solutions that enables businesses to navigate the complexities of data and its context effectively. The company has developed a universal semantic layer powered by artificial intelligence, which harmonizes various aspects of data, including schema, structure, relationships, and metadata. This innovative solution fundamentally transforms how organizations interact with their data. Canner's flagship offerings include Canner Enterprise, an enterprise-grade semantic layer, and WrenAI, an open-source AI agent and semantic framework. Additionally, Canner offers a content management system that facilitates the management, auditing, analysis, and sharing of data within a unified platform, providing clients with a consolidated view of their data across the organization.
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