WI Harper Group

WI Harper Group is a venture capital firm founded in 1993 with offices in San Francisco, Beijing, and Taipei. It focuses on early and early expansion investments across the United States, Greater China, and the Asia Pacific region, with emphasis on technology, healthcare, clean technology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, robotics, fintech, IoT, insurtech, blockchain, media, and wellness sectors. The firm supports startups from seed to later stages and has a track record of more than 300 investments with over 80 exits. It manages more than $1 billion in capital across multiple funds and maintains a team of investment professionals in its core hubs. WI Harper seeks opportunities that combine scientific or tech innovations with scalable business models, aiming to help companies grow internationally and leverage cross-border opportunities.

Paul Chau

Managing Director

Yvonne Chen

Venture Partner

Y.K. Chu

Managing Director

Eric Fu

Director

Vincent Gao

Vice President and Partner

Past deals in Video Streaming

HowLiving

Seed Round in 2017
HowLiving is a Taiwanese cooking video content platform established in 2015 by culinary researcher Xie Kai Ting. The company specializes in quick cooking, hand baking, and parent-child food, catering specifically to the Chinese-speaking audience. HowLiving combines audio-visual content with social media and e-commerce to create a comprehensive culinary experience. Its platform features a diverse range of cooking-related videos, articles, and recipe books, alongside options for users to buy and sell cooking-related merchandise. By providing original content and engaging resources, HowLiving aims to enhance the culinary skills and knowledge of its users.

iStaging

Seed Round in 2016
iStaging Corp. is an augmented and virtual reality technology company based in Taipei, Taiwan, with additional offices in Shanghai, Fuzhou Shi, Beijing, San Francisco, and Paris. The company specializes in providing a platform that allows users to create virtual tours using their smartphones. Its offerings include live tour capabilities, partnerships with service providers, and 720° panorama shooting services. iStaging aims to enhance the user experience by enabling real estate and design businesses to present properties and interior designs in an immersive manner, allowing clients to interact with locations and objects remotely as if they were physically present.

Holor Media

Seed Round in 2016
Holor Media specializes in augmented and virtual reality technologies designed for video creation. The company provides innovative techniques and applications that enhance the creation and distribution of video content across multiple platforms, including desktop and mobile devices. By focusing on enabling VR and media creators, Holor Media aims to facilitate the development of next-generation content, thereby advancing the capabilities of video production in the evolving digital landscape.

Owlii

Angel Round in 2016
Owlii Inc. is a China-based company that specializes in 3D technology, focusing on providing visual solutions for mobile advertisements and virtual social content. The company aims to enhance creativity and authenticity while promoting diversity, inclusion, and equality. By integrating advanced 3D technology, Owlii enables users to achieve high-quality short videos and immersive experiences, thereby redefining communication and entertainment in a visually engaging manner.

Nom

Series A in 2016
Nom is a live and interactive video community platform that enables users to host professional cooking, creative, and DIY shows. It provides an application tailored for food enthusiasts, allowing them to create, share, and watch their favorite culinary stories in real-time. By tapping into a network of makers, creators, and chefs, Nom empowers individuals to direct, produce, and host their own food shows, fostering a vibrant community centered around culinary exploration and creativity.

Sungy Mobile

Series C in 2010
Sungy Mobile Limited is a global mobile app and platform development firm. Sungy Mobile provides its users with access to over 70 channels and a vast array of professional media and user-generated content such as entertainment and sports event coverage in multimedia formats. In addition to their GO series products and GO platform, Sungy Mobile also offers 3G.cn, a mobile internet portal and mobile reading services platform. Sungy Mobile has over 160 million registered users with a daily page view of 1.2 billion, and more than 25 million active users per day. Its product, GO desktop, has reached 200 million global users and has become the most popular Android third party desktop globally. Sungy Mobile was launched in 2003 and completed its third round of financing from CBC Capital, IDG, JAFCO, and WI HARPER in July 2010. It was listed in the New York Stock Exchange on November 22, 2013.

Daqi

Series B in 2007
Daqi is a media platform that concentrates on the integration of social media resources. Relying on its technology of social search, the information resources cover more than 700,000 Chinese active forums and over 100, 00 elite blogs as well as mainstream video platforms. It achieves the overall integration of the public opinions distributing on BBS, Blog, SNS, and video. It has become the preferred platform for the net explorers to learn about the public opinions and public praises on the internet as well as the vane of hotspots and consuming trend. Daqi creates a special disseminating mode of distribution-integration-enlargement-pervasion in China.

Sungy Mobile

Series B in 2006
Sungy Mobile Limited is a global mobile app and platform development firm. Sungy Mobile provides its users with access to over 70 channels and a vast array of professional media and user-generated content such as entertainment and sports event coverage in multimedia formats. In addition to their GO series products and GO platform, Sungy Mobile also offers 3G.cn, a mobile internet portal and mobile reading services platform. Sungy Mobile has over 160 million registered users with a daily page view of 1.2 billion, and more than 25 million active users per day. Its product, GO desktop, has reached 200 million global users and has become the most popular Android third party desktop globally. Sungy Mobile was launched in 2003 and completed its third round of financing from CBC Capital, IDG, JAFCO, and WI HARPER in July 2010. It was listed in the New York Stock Exchange on November 22, 2013.

China Broad Media

Venture Round in 2006
China Broad Media Corp. is an interactive media service provider based in Beijing, specializing in wireless value-added services, radio broadcasting, and multimedia entertainment. The company offers a diverse array of services, including internet radio, mobile radio, and traditional radio broadcasting, targeting both the Chinese mainland and Chinese communities globally. With a strong foundation in mobile value-added services and internet capital raising, China Broad Media has developed a comprehensive dissemination platform that integrates broadband internet, mobile networks, and broadcasting networks. This platform enables the company to curate and distribute audio and video content, both from professional media organizations and user-generated sources, facilitating products such as internet and mobile videos, podcasts, and mobile TV.
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