Hive Ventures
4/F, No. 222, Section 2, Jinshan South Road, Taipei City, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
Overview
Hive Ventures is a global seed to early stage VC, with a focus on AI, IOT, Blockchain and its applications across Taiwan, HK & SEA regions. We believe that the key to producing superior performance, is by exercising a hands on approach on a concentrated and interconnected portfolio, to help them scale across regions with our wealth of operational experience regionally and globally. We also believe that Taiwan will be a hotspot for AI, IOT and Blockchain technologies development.
- Total investments
- 10
- Lead investments
- 2
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 3
Sector focus
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Decube
Led · Equity · Jan 2026
Decube builds a unified context layer that sits between an enterprise’s raw data systems and its AI or analytics applications, automatically capturing lineage, ownership, quality signals, and usage policies. By replacing fragmented metadata spreadsheets and manual documentation, the platform enables business and data leaders to understand where data originates, how it changes, and whether it can be trusted. The solution is already used by regulated organizations such as banks, telcos, and global corporates, including Indonesia’s PT Superbank. Following strong market pull, Decube plans to deepen its global footprint and accelerate expansion across the APAC region through new product capabilities, regional partnerships, and large-scale enterprise deployments. The company positions its offering as the missing foundation for moving AI projects from experimentation to production. Decube has now raised a cumulative USD 5 million, including the latest USD 3 million round, to fuel its growth initiatives.
- Recce
Participated · Seed · Apr 2025
Recce brings data validation best practices natively into code review to help data-driven organizations ensure the stability and accuracy of critical data transformation projects and complex AI systems. Led by CEO and founder CL Kao, the product originated as an open-source project and now also offers a cloud platform for cross-team collaboration. The platform embeds data validation into the software lifecycle to surface issues during code review. Recce plans to use newly raised funds to expand operations and accelerate development efforts. Its open-source project sees about 3,600 downloads per week on GitHub, with users including The Philadelphia Inquirer, telecom companies, healthcare tech startups and government entities in Brazil and Australia.
- Briskly
Led · Equity · Sep 2024
Briskly builds software for unattended retail and manufactures self‑service store equipment at its own factory in Vyborg. Its core offering includes the B‑Pay app for customers to scan barcodes and pay via smartphone plus smart refrigerators and micro‑markets that replace vending machines. The company has produced more than 15,000 pieces of smart equipment and serves over 3,000 entrepreneurs across Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. On the B‑Pay platform customers have completed over 8 million purchases totaling about ₽1.5 billion. In 2023 Briskly reported revenue of ₽231.8 million (a 4.4x increase year‑over‑year) and a net profit of ₽325.7 million after a 2022 loss. The company plans to use new funds to launch serial production of coffee machines, expand equipment types, and accelerate technology development and market growth. In late 2023 Briskly restructured from a Cyprus head company and fully relocated to Russia, signaling focus on the domestic and CIS markets.
- Instill AI
Participated · Seed · Feb 2023
Instill AI builds no-/low-code tooling to derive insights or generate content from unstructured data and offers the open-source Versatile Data Pipeline (VDP) for unstructured-data ETL. Users can integrate the service into their data stack to access and operationalize unstructured data. The company emphasizes quick deployment so customers can start tapping into their unstructured data and benefit from AI rapidly. Led by CEO Ping-Lin Chang and COO Xiaofei Du, Instill AI is based in London, UK. The startup raised a $3.6M Seed round and plans to use the funds to expand hiring and double its headcount by the end of 2023. Later in the year it aims to launch a fully managed cloud service of VDP.
- Profet AI
Participated · Series A · Jan 2023
Profet AI builds AutoML software that lets manufacturers create prediction models and industrial AI applications even with only basic machine learning knowledge. Its flagship products are the AutoML Virtual Data Scientist Platform, a no-code development program for designing enterprise AI applications, and Ready To Go Applications, which are industry-specific AI apps deployable in public cloud or on-premise. The company targets semiconductor, electronics, chemicals and textile manufacturing clients and lists customers including Foxconn, Advantech and ASE Group. Founded in 2018 and based in Taiwan, Profet AI said it doubled its revenue in 2022. The recently announced funding will support expansion in Japan, Southeast Asia and China and plans to sign joint ventures with overseas partners. Profet AI emphasizes quick deployment for production and digitalization use cases through its no-code platform and prebuilt applications.