The News Lens
Date: 2018/07/13
By: David Green
Photo Credit: 留榮鋒 Luke Liu for Taiwan Startup Stadium
Taiwan Startup Stadium presented a high quality and diverse line up of startup talent, starting with fintech, AI and loyalty app offerings.
Eight of Taiwan’s best and brightest startups presented to a full house to wrap up RISE 2018 in Hong Kong last night at the Taiwan Startup Stadium (TSS) Demo Day.
Garage Academy played host to more than 200 people to learn more about Taiwan’s startup excellence and to hear short sharp pitches from the island’s sharpest new talent.
In introducing, TSS General Manager Holly Harrington painted an enticing picture of Taiwan’s increasingly dynamic startup ecosystem, picking out a list of star companies, from the now defunct Wretch blogging platform that was ubiquitous until Yahoo closed it in 2013, to more recent luminaries such as AI ad targeting platform Appier and photo editing app PicColage, the latter of which now has an eye-popping 170 million downloads.
She also said Taiwan is now seeing Taiwanese angels such as YouTube co-founder Steve Chen and Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, both of whom are recent investors in The News Lens, return to the island as angel investors.
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