Mosa: Full Schedule

Official site: www.mosa.org.tw
Get tickets

8:30am CST

Investor Who's-Who

Brought to you by AlumVest and Silverlink-Aranya Founders Fund!

Get to know 30+ most active investors from around the globe, including angels and VCs: their focused verticals, preferred stage, typical investment size, current portfolio, investments in the past 12 months (lead? follow?), successful exits in the past 24 months, and what they're looking for in the next 12 months to complete their portfolio.

Moderators

Arthur Chen（陳彥諭）

Managing Partner, AlumVest

Arthur Chen works as the managing partner at AlumVest, dedicated to developing trusted networks of engaged supporters and investors for early stage startups. He creates smart, trusted and social investment networks, supporting angle investors "Discover and Invest in New Ventures... Read More →

Speakers

William Bao Bean（賓威廉）

Investment Partner, SOS Venture

William is a Partner at SOSV, a US$235m accelerator focused venture capital fund, and the Managing Director of Chinaccelerator, China's first startup accelerator. William joined SOSV from SingTel Innov8 Ventures where he was Managing Director supporting China investments. While at... Read More →

David Chang（張瑞褀）

Partner, MindWorks Ventures

David has been involved with some of the most transformative companies to emerge from Silicon Valley and Asia. While working in finance, David started investing and advising his family’s office with a focus in media technologies. Their previous investments includes Buslogic (became... Read More →

Tina Cheng（成之璇）

Chief Representative of Taiwan, Cherubic Ventures

Tina is the partner at Cherubic Ventures' Taiwan office. She has extensive experience working in the education and technology sector. Her past employers include Yahoo, Cisco, Trianz Consulting, and Ogilvy & Mather. Tina holds an MBA degree from UCLA Anderson School of Management... Read More →

Yvonne Chen（陳儀雪）

Partner, WI Harper Group

Yvonne has over 18 years of experience in international wireless & telecommunications industry and corporate investments. Before joining WI Harper, she worked for leading smartphone maker hTC spearheading their direct investment division, which includes corporate investments, business... Read More →

Kurt Chen（陳文強）

Partner, SEEDS of Innovation

Kurt Chen is a Partner at Seeds of Innovation, a private investment company focused on early stage investment. Before Seeds, Kurt worked in Lehman Brothers/Nomura as the leader of Corporate Solution team, which focused on structured financing projects in greater China area. Currently... Read More →

T.C. Chou（周德虔）

Founder & President, Harbinger Venture

Dr. Chou co-founded Harbinger Venture in 2000 and has built Harbinger to be a Pan-Pacific early to mid-stage value-added technology venture firm with over 100 portfolio companies in Greater China and Silicon Valley. Before founding Harbinger, he also served as General Manager of... Read More →

Michel Chu（瞿志豪）

General Partner, Acorn Campus Taiwan

Michel Chu is an experienced serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Michel was the founding CTO of GigaMedia (NASDAQ: GIGM) and led the company through a US$4B IPO in 2000, the first ever Taiwan-based Internet company to be listed on NASDAQ. From 2004, Michel also served as the Executive... Read More →

Nicolas du Cray

Venture Partner, Iris Capital

Based in China, Nicolas is a Venture Partner at Iris Capital, a global venture capital investor specialized in the digital economy who has been sponsored by Orange and Publicis since 2012. Nicolas takes care of Iris Capital’s investments in Greater China and supports the development... Read More →

Christopher Fisher

Cofounder and Impact Investor, Giinseng

Visionary angel investor with demonstrated experience leading diverse global teams to create and execute powerful strategies for leveraging information to win. Through seventeen years of progressive challenges at rapidly growing companies, has gained expertise at every level in the... Read More →

Masatoshi Fukasawa（深澤優壽）

SVP, Strategic Investment Office, DeNA

- Manage company as CEO - Develop and execute new business & growth strategy - Plan & execute marketing strategy - Plan & execute M&A strategy - Develop Mobile/Internet platform and contents business strategy - Marketing strategy and operations, User Acquisition, Platform & Product... Read More →

Maarten't Hooft

Managing Partner, Quest Venture Partners

Maarten spent over 6 years at Google with 4 of those years on the Android team. On the Android team he was responsible for the European launch of the G1 (ﬁrst Android phone), and was the technical program manager for the Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, and Nexus 7 devices. Maarten has a... Read More →

Kuanhua Hsu（徐冠華）

Principal, GREE Ventures

Kuan Hsu joined GREE Ventures in 2012 and serves as Principal of GREE Ventures Asia. Based in Singapore, he oversees GREE Ventures' overall Southeast Asia operations as well as advising our portfolio companies. Kuan has led GREE Venture’s rapid expansion in Southeast Asia, leveraging... Read More →

Eric Huang（黃梓洋）

Chief Partner, CoinX Accelerator

Eric Huang, Ph.D. is founder and CEO of COINX Ventures, a bay area venture capital company with an accelerator program focusing on grow-stage companies. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director of Arch Equity Holdings, concentrating in biotechnology, medical devices, electronics... Read More →

Wayne Huang（黃耀文）

VP Engineering, Proofpoint

Wayne Huang is VP Engineering at Proofpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFPT) and co-founder and CEO to Armorize Technologies, Inc. Wayne is also an angel investor. He bootstrapped and ran two of Asia’s largest security conferences OWASP Asia 2008, 2009, and Syscan Taipei 2008, 2009. With over... Read More →

Allen Kao（高誌廷）

Funding Partner, WK Innovation

Allen Kao is the co-founder of WK Innovation, a Greater China based venture capital fund focusing on potential start-ups with unique technology and long-term competence. Previously, Allen was the Vice President of WK Technology Fund, one of the most historic and largest VC/PE fund... Read More →

Bindi Karia

Bindi is incredibly passionate about all things startup in Europe and connecting the dots between Investors, Founders and Corporates. Having devoted much of her career in and around the startup ecosystem, most recently as Vice President at Silicon Valley Bank, she focussed on building... Read More →

Jamie Lin（林之晨）

Founding Partner, AppWorks

Jamie started AppWorks, the largest accelerator in Asia with 190 startups and 400 founders in its alumni network. Twice a year, AppWorks takes in 25 startups, help them find product-market fit, build scalable business models and raise funding to accelerate growth. Star alumni of AppWorks... Read More →

Peter Lin（林銘遠）

Founder & Managing Director, Catalyst Capital Group

Peter Lin is Managing Director of Catalyst Capital Group, one of Taiwan venture capital firms and social impact investment funds. Through Catalyst Capital, Peter provides direct supports and strategic advices to technology start-ups, and social enterprises. He is also involved in... Read More →

Genping (Leo) Liu（劉根平）

Investor Director, Vertex Venture

Genping is Investor Director with Vertex. He covers Southeast Asia and Taiwan on industry sectors including internet/mobile and enabling technologies. Genping has a diversified set of experience working with startups & multinational companies in various sectors including internet... Read More →

Ben Liu（劉秉祐）

Partner, Mesh Ventures

Ben Liu co-founded Mesh Ventures in 2015 where he facilitated new investments in the IoT space along with advising portfolio companies. Mr. Liu started his career as an Investment Banker at Merrill Lynch and then went on to receive his MBA from China Europe International Business... Read More →

Jim Li（李仲琪）

Senior Vice President, Industrial Technology Investment Corporation (ITIC)

Dr. Jim Li is a Senior Vice President of ITIC (Industrial Technology Investment Corporation, the venture capital arm of ITRI) and TPTF (Trans-Pacific Technology Fund), focusing on the evaluation and investment in technology companies. He served as judges in many startup competition... Read More →

Rui Ma（馬睿）

Partner, 500 Startups

Rui Ma is a Partner at 500 Startups, a leading accelerator and seed investment fund in technology companies, where she is in charge of all investment activity in the Greater China region. Prior to 500, she worked for nearly a decade in private equity and mergers & acquisitions roles... Read More →

Jeffrey Paine

Founding Partner, Golden Gate Ventures

Jeffrey Paine is the founding partner of Golden Gate Ventures, an early stage technology venture capital fund based in Singapore investing in Southeast Asia. Jeff started and manages the Founder Institute in Singapore where he is currently overseeing its expansion in Southeast Asia... Read More →

Ed Roberto

VP of Middle East & Africa, Techstars

Ed Roberto has been an active entrepreneur and investor for the past 33 years. He is a limited partner in several venture capital funds in the United States. His angel investment activity is primarily focused in software technology startups. Ed enjoys mentoring company founders and... Read More →

James Shen（沈勁）

Managing Director, Qualcomm Ventures

James Shen is vice president of Qualcomm and managing director of Qualcomm Ventures in Greater China. He leads Qualcomm’s venture investments in CooTek (TouchPal), GFan, NetQin, Xiaomi, ThunderSoft, YongChe, Dolphin Browser, Madhouse, AccuVally，Hawkeye, ALO7, Boohee, Cocos, Unisound... Read More →

David Tai（戴偉衡）

Founder, Chairman & CEO, Fortune Chinarun Capital Fund（華鑫資本投資 / 華遠資本）

David Tai(戴偉衡, Tai Weiheng) is the founder and managing partner of Chinarun Capital Partners. After receiving his Master’s degree from MIT Sloan School of Management, David focused his career on the Taiwan technology sector, working in major technology companies such as TSMC... Read More →

Akio Tanaka（田中章雄）

Co-founder & Managing Partner, Infinity Ventures

Akio Tanaka is a managing co-partner at Infinity Ventures Partners, a boutique VC firm focused on Internet, mobile, and digital media opportunities in Japan and China. Akio was formerly the head of venture investment program for Adobe in Asia and was responsible for Adobe's corporate... Read More →

Anderssen Tu（杜彥宏）

Partner, NCTU Angel Club

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/anderssen-y-h-tu/1/43/122

Eric Wang

Managing Partner, GRC Funds

Dr. Eric Wang is a private equity/ venture capital (PE/VC) fund manager with strong track record in Silicon Valley, Taiwan and China. He is currently a Managing Partner at GRC Funds, a Greater China based venture capital fund focusing on private companies with competitive advantages... Read More →

Vincent Wang（王韋中）

Chairman, Sunsino Venture Capital

Vincent has over 10 years experience in undertaking investments. He is currently the chairman of Sunsino Venture Capital, which managing several private funds and Taiwan government funds. Prior to current positions, he was the senior vice president and the chief executive officer... Read More →

Robert Yang

Managing Director, Blackstone Group

Robert Yang is a Managing Director in the Real Estate group and is based in Hong Kong. Since joining Blackstone in 2007, Mr. Yang has been involved in evaluating real estate investment opportunities in Greater China including residential and retail joint ventures. Before joining... Read More →

Brian Yang（楊致偉）

head, APAC

Brian Yang is Head of APAC for ProSiebenSat1.Medai AG(P7S1), the leading media group and in Germany. Together with teams in US, Germany, and Israel, Brian is responsible for identifying, investing and growth early stage investments in travel, video, IoT and Health-Tech sectors by... Read More →

Investors

Benjamin Joffe

Contributor, Forbes / HAX

Benjamin is a contributor to Forbes and TechCrunch and Partner at HAX , the world’s top early stage investor for hardware startups. He is a recognized expert on innovation ecosystems and Asia with 17 years experience in China, Japan and Korea. HAX invested in over 200 startups... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2015 8:30am - 12:15pm CST
08) Huashan Central 4B 2F Huashan Creative Park, Bade Road Sec. 1, Zhong Zhen District, Taipei

VC & match making

2:45pm CST

1-1 InvestorStartup match making

Limited Capacity seats available

Brought to you by AlumVest and Silverlink-Aranya Founders Fund!

Comfortable café hosting 100+ one-on-one investor-startup pitches involving 30+ active early-stage investors.

RSVP required. Startups must send in their top 5 selection of investors.

Venue: Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Red Brick Lane West Block 5（(華山1914文創園區，花草雨林館，紅磚區西5棟）

Moderators

Rabbie Kao

Business Lead, Installments Inc.

Rabbie (ErhFen) Kao is an entrepreneur, tech blogger and community curator. She works for Installments Inc. a Silicon Valley start-up as a Business Lead, working with international teams to develop the simplest installments payment service that speaks to the users' need to help... Read More →

Speakers

Johan Asplund

CTO, Alcatel-Lucent Taiwan

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/johan-asplund/1/509/a93

William Bao Bean（賓威廉）

Investment Partner, SOS Venture

Joe Chan（陳棗烈）

Partner, Mindworks Venture

Joe Chan is an angel investor and veteran TMT investor. Prior to that, Chan has worked for Guosen Securities, one of the largest investment banks in China, as a director and an analyst of Central Asset Investment which is an multi-year award winning asset management firm. Chan has... Read More →

Tina Cheng（成之璇）

Chief Representative of Taiwan, Cherubic Ventures

Yvonne Chen（陳儀雪）

Partner, WI Harper Group

Arthur Chen（陳彥諭）

Managing Partner, AlumVest

Kurt Chen（陳文強）

Partner, SEEDS of Innovation

T.C. Chou（周德虔）

Founder & President, Harbinger Venture

Michel Chu（瞿志豪）

General Partner, Acorn Campus Taiwan

Nicolas du Cray

Venture Partner, Iris Capital

Christopher Fisher

Cofounder and Impact Investor, Giinseng

Maarten't Hooft

Managing Partner, Quest Venture Partners

Kuanhua Hsu（徐冠華）

Principal, GREE Ventures

Eric Huang（黃梓洋）

Chief Partner, CoinX Accelerator

Wayne Huang（黃耀文）

VP Engineering, Proofpoint

Benjamin Joffe

Contributor, Forbes / HAX

Allen Kao（高誌廷）

Funding Partner, WK Innovation

Bindi Karia

Jamie Lin（林之晨）

Founding Partner, AppWorks

Peter Lin（林銘遠）

Founder & Managing Director, Catalyst Capital Group

Genping (Leo) Liu（劉根平）

Investor Director, Vertex Venture

Ben Liu（劉秉祐）

Partner, Mesh Ventures

Jim Li（李仲琪）

Senior Vice President, Industrial Technology Investment Corporation (ITIC)

Rui Ma（馬睿）

Partner, 500 Startups

Robert Neivert

Venture Partner, 500 Startups

I am an energetic executive for startups having founded or worked at eight companies with four exits and four companies still operating. I was CEO for last two venture funded start-ups. I also maintain a broad domain of expertise, having held leadership positions in products, marketing... Read More →

Marcus Ogawa

Managing Partner, Quest Venture Partners

Marcus Ogawa is a Managing Partner and founder of Quest Venture Partners since its inception in late 2007. Marcus is responsible for finding new investment opportunities, evaluating and closing seed / A rounds and working closely with the management teams of Quest Venture Partners... Read More →

VC & match making