With the recent rise of innovation and entrepreneurship in Taiwan, Hoton completed the establishment of the “CDIB Innovation Acceleration Fund” in 2017, with a fund size of NT$1.29 billion. The fund focuses on four areas: cloud networking, IoT, mobile internet, and next-generation e-commerce. It also collaborates with Taiwan’s largest entrepreneurial community, Meet Digital, to build Taiwan’s largest innovation and entrepreneurship resource platform, integrating resources from CDIB Financial Holdings, industry, educators, communities, and media to accelerate the growth of startups and assist Taiwanese companies in entering overseas markets.

Established in 1990, JAFCO Asia is a leading venture capital brand in the Asia-Pacific region. Its parent company, JAFCO, is the largest venture capital group in Japan (listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, TYO: 8595). The company’s headquarters is in Singapore, with offices in Taiwan, South Korea, Beijing, and Shanghai. The total fund management scale is currently US$600 million (with a cumulative total managed scale of US$1.7 billion). JAFCO Asia has invested in over 500 companies, with 115 having successfully gone public.

Founded in 2015, Taiwan Cooperative Venture Capital is a wholly owned subsidiary of Taiwan Cooperative Financial Holding Co. It focuses on investing in promising startups both domestically and internationally, with particular emphasis on industries under the “5+2 Industrial Innovation Plan” and Taiwan’s “Hidden Champions.” The company primarily invests in early- to mid-stage startups and leverages Taiwan Cooperative Financial Holding’s resources to help portfolio companies enter capital markets. As of 2019, Taiwan Cooperative Venture Capital had invested in more than a dozen companies domestically and abroad.