Participated · Series A · Jun 2026

Return Helper builds in-house products including a SaaS returns management platform with merchant and buyer portals, a proprietary warehouse management system with mobile apps, and FlexForward, its forward logistics service for cross-border shipping and fulfilment. The company integrates AI across operations to improve efficiency, shorten processing times, and raise service quality, which it credits for driving over 60% revenue growth in 2025 and achieving profitability in the second half of that year. Return Helper operates more than 20 overseas warehouses, partners with over 30 logistics and carrier providers, and supports marketplaces such as Shopify, Amazon, TikTok, and eBay. Europe has emerged as a major growth engine: EU revenue grew 215% in 2025 and nearly 100 European merchant partners work with the company, with first‑quarter 2026 performance pointing to continued triple‑digit growth. Planned use of recent funding includes international expansion (notably deeper Europe penetration), development of next‑generation AI agents for returns operations, and scaling recommerce to recapture value from returned inventory.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2026

Femtum develops laser technologies and solutions aimed at advanced semiconductor manufacturing. The company positions its technology as enabling critical laser processes needed for next-generation chips powering the AI era. After closing an oversubscribed $16M Series A, Femtum plans to accelerate deployment of its laser technologies. Cathay Venture's participation is noted as helping the company deepen its presence in the global semiconductor ecosystem, particularly in Taiwan. The company described the financing as a milestone and credited investor introductions and CFO Francois Courteau for executing the round.

Participated · Series B · Sep 2025

Dat Bike designs and produces electric motorbikes for the mass Vietnamese two-wheeler market, which counts more than 77 million bikes in circulation and around 3 million new sales each year. The company positions its models as locally built, high-performance alternatives to gasoline motorcycles. Fresh capital is being channelled into scaling production capacity, improving its supply chain, upgrading distribution networks, and deepening R&D. Management consulting and value-chain optimisation support are also being provided by its latest investor, Thien Viet Securities (TVS). Dat Bike previously secured a US$22 million Series B round in 2023, with regulatory filings indicating US$33.9 million in total that year when debt and convertible notes are included. Past backers include F.C.C Co. Ltd., Rebright Partners, Jungle Ventures, Cathay Venture, TVS Motor, Wavemaker Pacific, and AiViet Ventures. The additional funds position Dat Bike to capture a larger share of Vietnam’s rapidly electrifying mobility sector.

Participated · Series A · Jul 2025

SiPearl designs high-performance, energy-efficient processors intended for supercomputing and AI workloads, including the Rhea1 CPU. The company was launched in January 2020 under the European Processor Initiative and was seed funded by the European Union. SiPearl has built a processor team of about 200 employees across France, Spain, and Italy and established sovereign infrastructure with data centres and emulation servers in France for design work. Rhea1, conceived as the most complex processor ever designed in Europe, contains more than 61 billion transistors across 80 Arm Neoverse V1 cores and has taped out for manufacturing at TSMC in Taiwan. Rhea1 is slated to equip the CPU cluster of JUPITER, the first European exascale supercomputer operated by Jülich Supercomputing Centre. The company is advancing industrialization and R&D toward next-generation processors targeting supercomputing, data centres, AI, and enterprise markets.

Participated · Series A · Jan 2022

Graid Technology develops SupremeRAID™, a GPU-based RAID solution that optimizes NVMe SSD performance for enterprise customers. SupremeRAID is designed to deliver high speed, efficiency, and scalability for AI, machine learning, media, and high-performance computing workloads. The company partners with OEMs and global technology providers and maintains an R&D center in Taipei, Taiwan. Led by CEO and founder Leander Yu, Graid targets enterprise and OEM markets that require accelerated NVMe storage performance. The company intends to use its Series B proceeds to drive global expansion, product innovation, and strategic partnerships. Graid recently raised $30M in a Series B financing to fund these initiatives. GRAID Technology develops SupremeRAID™, an NVMe and NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMeoF) RAID card and software suite intended to disaggregate storage while preserving performance and low latency. The company positions SupremeRAID as foundational SCI technology for private and hybrid cloud solutions and to handle emerging data-center workloads. GRAID highlights SupremeRAID performance of a single card delivering up to 16 million IOPS and 110 GB/s of throughput. It targets OEM and enterprise customers with data protection products and has received recognition including CRN's Ten Hottest Data Storage Startups of 2021 and a CES 2022 Innovation Award. GRAID is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with an office in Ontario, CA and an R&D center in Taipei, Taiwan. The announced financing is intended to accelerate growth and continued delivery of its storage and data protection solutions.