2021 Meet Taipei—Startups for Tomorrow

Time	Event	Guests
09:30-10:30	Opening and Issuing Neo Star Certification	Events
10:30-11:30	Demo Show Part 1	Events
11:30-12:30	Demo Show Part 2	Events
12:30-14:00	Lunch Break	Events
14:00-15:00	Neo Star Demo Special Session	Meet Global Star X 6 teams Events
15:00-16:00	Demo Show Part 3	Events
16:00-16:50	panel Discussion	Events
16:50-17:40	Disclose the final Winners	Events

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Michael Lee

General Manager, Business Solutions Group at Qisda

Michael Lee

General Manager, Business Solutions Group at Qisda

Michael Lee is the Vice President and General Manager of Business Solutions Group at Qisda Corporation. Under his leadership, several M&A in business solutions area have been done in recent years to accelerate the integration of ICT and OT, and to increase the cooperation between Qisda and strategic partners. He is therefore positioned as chairman of Sysage Technology corp., Aewin Technology corp., Ace Pillar corp., and vice chairman of Partner Tech corp. Michael Lee joined Qisda Corporation (formerly BenQ Corporation) in 2001 and was the head of R&D of Qisda/BenQ BUs. He was responsible for IA M&A strategy when he was the Special Assistant to CEO in Qisda, leading strategy alliance with DFI Inc. and Partner Tech Corp. His working experiences include FPD/Networking/DVDR/PTV/GPS/Industrial-Display/ePaper/Tablet/Scanner/Printer/IP-CAM/IA/IPC-MB/POS/Kiosk, with the expertise in designing hardware-software integrated solutions. Michael Lee received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. His research interests include databases, data mining, mobile computing, flat panel display and multimedia networking. He has published more than 20 papers and got more than150 patents in his research areas.

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Ning Ning Yu

V.P, R&D, LA, Taboola

Ning Ning Yu

V.P, R&D, LA, Taboola

Ning Ning Yu, V.P, R&D, LA, is in charge of product and R&D for Taboola in the US. Taboola is the global leading discovery platform, using AI and Deep Learning to serve over one trillion recommendations of articles, blogs, videos, products, and apps monthly to over 500 million active daily users on more than nine thousand premium sites and mobile carriers. Ning Ning also participated in several successful California startups in different industries, and developed one of the first Wireless Data Switch in the U.S and deployed the switch worldwide. Ning Ning is an AAB board member of UCLA CS department, also Chairperson of Southern California Monte Jade Science & Technology Association.

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John B Chen

Founder and Managing Partner, Hive Ventures

John B Chen

Founder and Managing Partner, Hive Ventures

John B Chen is a Founder and Managing Partner at Hive Ventures. Previously, John co-founded Buzzinate, a big data company, which later was acquired by iClick Interactive. As the Executive VP of Technology at iClick, John played an integral role in guiding iClick to a Nasdaq (ICLK) listing in 2017. With a strong background in big data and AI technology and experience in building a big data and AI platform and business from scratch, John has the technical expertise and global business background to help portfolio companies succeed.

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John B Chen

Founder and Managing Partner, Hive Ventures

John B Chen

Founder and Managing Partner, Hive Ventures

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Edgar Chiu

Co-founder and Managing Partner

Edgar Chiu

Co-founder and Managing Partner

Edgar Chiu, Co-founder and Managing Partner of SparkLabs Taipei Edgar Chiu is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of SparkLabs Taipei, a seed-stage VC fund and accelerator that helps startups expand into overseas markets by working with successful entrepreneurial mentoring, multinational corporations, and global investors. Prior to SparkLabs Taipei, Edgar was the COO of Gogolook. There, he headed global partnerships for the Whoscall app, a global caller ID service, developing major partnerships in Japan, Korea, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In 2013, Gogolook was subsequently acquired by NAVER, the South Korean Internet Giant. Previously, Edgar worked at IBM as a management consultant. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Quantitative Finance from National Tsing Hua University.

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Ryan Kuo

President CDIB Capital Innovation Advisors CDIB Capital Innovation Accelerator

Ryan Kuo

President CDIB Capital Innovation Advisors CDIB Capital Innovation Accelerator

Ryan's Bio Ryan Kuo is currently acting the president of CDIB Capital Innovation Accelerator Fund (Innovation Fund), he also manages the Alibaba Taiwan Entrepreneurs Fund (Ali Fund). Innovation Fund is a venture capital fund focusing on global early stage startups in cloud computing、IOT、mobile internet and next generation e-commerce. Ali Fund is focusing on Taiwanese entrepreneurs related to Alibaba eco-system. Total fund size under managed is around US$150m. Prior to establishing these two funds, Ryan is the executive vice president of CDIB Capital Group(CCG), he was in charge of direct investment in high tech industry. Prior to CCG, he was the founding CEO of MosArt semiconductor corp after graduated from National Taiwan University Department of Electrical Engineering. MosArt was a successful wireless IC design company. Not only with venture capital experience, Ryan has more than 20 years of experience in high-tech industrial entrepreneurship. Ryan is very active in Taiwan startup community. He is now the mentor of Garage+ accelerator of EPOCH foundation and he is also the Committee Member of government's startup programs. Ryan acted as the director for Honchuan, STL and Jochu. He is currevntly the director of Zentera, GreenVin, Fiiser, Viscovery and Achieve Made International

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Shawn Chu

Principal, 500 Global

Shawn Chu

Principal, 500 Global

Shawn is a Principal in 500 Global. He is familiar with the Taiwan startup ecosystem and community. Before joining 500 Global, Shawn has over ten years of work experience in startups and venture capitals. Shawn received a B.S. in Physics from National Taiwan University and an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Wisconsin - Madison.

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Cecilia Tang

LINE Taiwan- Senior Director of Corporate Strategy LINE TV- Chief Financial Officer/ Board of director LINE TAXI- Chief Strategy Officer/Board of director

Cecilia Tang

LINE Taiwan- Senior Director of Corporate Strategy LINE TV- Chief Financial Officer/ Board of director LINE TAXI- Chief Strategy Officer/Board of director

Cecilia Tang joined LINE as Head of Corporate Strategy of LINE Taiwan in September 2015. She is primary overseeing corporate strategy planning, new business development, business insights, partnership management including startup sponsoring and investment & post-investment management. Started from 2017, Cecilia was been appointed as Board of Director and leadership role of affiliate companies.

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Tina Cheng

Cherubic Ventures Managing Partner

Tina Cheng

Cherubic Ventures Managing Partner

Tina is a Managing Partner at Cherubic Ventures and leads Cherubic’s global investments and portfolio management. Tina holds her MBA from UCLA's Anderson School of Management.

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Eric Wu

Vice President, Corporate Venture Office, Wistron Corporation

Eric Wu

Vice President, Corporate Venture Office, Wistron Corporation

Eric Wu mainly responsible for cooperate venture related initiative. One of his job role is to co-work with start-ups to inline cooperate business development. Wistron Corporation is the leading Electronics devices OEM/ODM company in Taiwan. Prior this, Eric has serviced in company more than 25 years. His job roles are product manager, business development and account manager. He used to be the President of Wistron Optronics Corporation, and General Manager of Optronics Business Division of Wistron. He has well experience in product marketing, business development, and operations of hardware industry.

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Headline Asia

Partner of Headline Asia

Headline Asia

Partner of Headline Asia

Joseph Huang is the Partner of Headline Asia. He earned his Bachelor in Arts in Asian American Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara, and holds an MBA from IESE Business School. Currently, he is a managing partner at Headline Asia (Previously Infinity Ventures, IVP) and contributes to seed and A investment rounds in the mobile industry, SaaS, Fintech, IoT, AI, digital content, and disruptive technology. He is proud to support world-class Taiwanese companies at Headline Asia such as Pinkoi, M17, and Mixer Box. He was a co-founder of Gamesamba.

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Sono Kuo

Senior Vice President Global Digital Segment & Commercial Subsidiary Group Commercial Bank Citibank Taiwan Limited

Sono Kuo

Senior Vice President Global Digital Segment & Commercial Subsidiary Group Commercial Bank Citibank Taiwan Limited

Sono currently assumes the role of Head of Global Digital Segment (GDS) and Commercial Subsidiaries Group in Citibank Taiwan. He is also appointed as leader of Life Science sector to support biotechnology and medical companies’ global expansion with Citi market insight and banking solutions. He is an experienced financial services professional with a proven track record of serving digital startups and developing ecosystems cross geographically. He serves a client base covering cross-border eCommerce, SaaS, Edtech, MarTech, MediTech, IOT, and AI startups. He is also dedicated to supporting Taiwanese corporates upgrade and transform digitally by collaborating digital startups and ecosystem resources to introduce technology advancement. Sono has an M.B.A. from University of Leeds and an M.A.

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Yuan-Kai Chen

the Vice President of Investment Department of Chunghwa Telecom (CHT)

Yuan-Kai Chen

the Vice President of Investment Department of Chunghwa Telecom (CHT)

Dr. Yuan-Kai Chen is now the Vice President of Investment Department of Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), in charge of group M&A, portfolio management, new business incubation, and 5G accelerator program. Prior to current position, Dr. Chen served in various strategic management positions in corporate strategy planning, mobile spectrum auction, advanced mobile technology research and mobile phone app development.

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David Chou

Asia Pacific Partner, Seraph Group in Silicon Valley

David Chou

Asia Pacific Partner, Seraph Group in Silicon Valley

World’s largest structured angel fund group with 17-year history, 11 funds, 120+ portfolio companies (including 3 unicorns), and 400+ elite investors (such as AT&T Chairman, GE Healthcare CEO, “The Lean Startup” author Eric Ries, WebTV Co-Founder) Completed 50+ cross-border transactions in Asia, Americas, and Europe: Angel, VC, & PE investment (Alibaba’s first institutional investor; 91x returns) M&A, fund raising, listing, SPAC, & business facilitation Total transaction amount: USD 7+ Billion

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Denny Yang

Red Building Capital Founding Partner

Denny Yang

Red Building Capital Founding Partner

Denny Yang is the co-founder and chairman of Red Building Capital Ltd. . He once worked at Quanta Cloud Department, and also had experiences of in-depth cooperation with Facebook and the Amazon cloud server design department. He established a venture studio company with other co-founders, focusing on assisting blockchain startups to open up markets and introduce capital resources

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Patrick Li

flyingVest Director

Patrick Li

flyingVest Director

Patrick has 5+ years’ investment experience in manufacturing, biotech, and IT industry, including investing more than USD 20M. Patrick loves to meet and learning from those entrepreneurs with great passion and cutting edge idea.

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Charles LUCIMA

President

Charles LUCIMA

President

Charles is an investor and entrepreneur with background in MBA and Psychology, and built up business in artistic content production. Now he backs early-growth startups as the President of LUCIMA.

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Edward Lee

Senior Director.JAFCO Taiwan Capital Management Consulting Corp.

Edward Lee

Senior Director.JAFCO Taiwan Capital Management Consulting Corp.

Edward is a Senior Director with JAFCO Asia and responsible for investment activity in Taiwan. Focus business areas for Edward are TMT (technology, media and telecommunications), renewable energy, Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity startups. His training and career experience give him the breadth and depth of knowledge to identify and develop profitable venture capital opportunities. After obtaining an MBA and a Master of Engineering in Computer Science at Cornell University in the US, Edward joined WANDL, Inc. (acquired by Juniper Networks) and was a key contributor to the firm’s success with its network planning and management software. He then supervised investments in venture capital funds for the finance division of TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company). Edward went on to manage US investment portfolios for Singapore-listed investment firm, Hotung International, before joining JAFCO Asia in 2010.

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TP Lin

General Manager of Cornerstone Ventures

TP Lin

General Manager of Cornerstone Ventures

TP was an early member of Lextar Electronics and experienced the company's rapid growth to IPO, where he managed different functions including RD, product, sales, etc. Later on at AppWorks, TP gave guidance and invested in different startups, focusing on B2B, AI and IoT. Currently, TP is the General Manager of Cornerstone Ventures. TP believes that the future has unlimited possibilities, and hopes to work with outstanding startup teams. He completed his bachelor's degree in physics and master's degree in photonics, all from National Taiwan University.

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Daisy Kuo

Head of Startups and Innovation
KPMG in Taiwan

Daisy Kuo

Head of Startups and Innovation
KPMG in Taiwan

Professional Service Experience： -Audit and attestation related service-Provide financial statement attestation, corporate income tax return certifications and due diligence reviews. -Advisory services- Provide advisory services related IPO, accounting systems, management control and internal auditing. -Internal control evaluation. -Start-up companies advisory service.

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Jeff Hou

founding member of KPMG Social Enterprise Service Team

Jeff Hou

founding member of KPMG Social Enterprise Service Team

Jeff Hou is our founding member of KPMG Social Enterprise Service Team since 2014, and he was named our Advisory Star in 2018. He provides multiple stakeholders advisory services, such as eco-system building for social enterprises, capacity building for social entrepreneurs, cooperate social innovation strategy planning and impact investing evaluation.

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Michael Lee

General Manager, Business Solutions Group at Qisda

Ning Ning Yu

V.P, R&D, LA, Taboola

John B Chen

Founder and Managing Partner, Hive Ventures

John B Chen

Founder and Managing Partner, Hive Ventures

Edgar Chiu

Co-founder and Managing Partner

Ryan Kuo

President CDIB Capital Innovation Advisors CDIB Capital Innovation Accelerator

Shawn Chu

Principal, 500 Global

Cecilia Tang

LINE Taiwan- Senior Director of Corporate Strategy LINE TV- Chief Financial Officer/ Board of director LINE TAXI- Chief Strategy Officer/Board of director

Tina Cheng

Cherubic Ventures Managing Partner

Eric Wu

Vice President, Corporate Venture Office, Wistron Corporation

Headline Asia

Partner of Headline Asia

Sono Kuo

Senior Vice President Global Digital Segment & Commercial Subsidiary Group Commercial Bank Citibank Taiwan Limited

Yuan-Kai Chen

the Vice President of Investment Department of Chunghwa Telecom (CHT)

David Chou

Asia Pacific Partner, Seraph Group in Silicon Valley

Denny Yang

Red Building Capital Founding Partner

Patrick Li

flyingVest Director

Charles LUCIMA

President

Edward Lee

Senior Director.JAFCO Taiwan Capital Management Consulting Corp.

TP Lin

General Manager of Cornerstone Ventures

Daisy Kuo

Head of Startups and Innovation KPMG in Taiwan

Jeff Hou

founding member of KPMG Social Enterprise Service Team

Head of Startups and Innovation
KPMG in Taiwan