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Yuanta Asia Investment

No. 66, Sec. 1, Dun Hua S. Road, Taipei, Songshan Dist., 105, Taiwan

Overview

Yuanta Financial Holding operates as a financial services firm. It provides products and services in banking, insurance, futures, investment trust, investment consulting, venture capital, and asset management. The company was founded on February 4, 2002 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.

Total investments
6
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
0

Sector focus

  • Asset Management
  • Financial Services
  • Wealth Management
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Investment portfolio

  • Linker Vision

    Participated · Series A · Jan 2026

    Linker Vision develops an AI software platform that combines Physical AI and Reasoning AI technologies to enable large-scale deployment of smart-city and smart-space solutions. Its platform supports use cases across industrial automation, enterprise analytics, telecom AI, humanoid robotics, and autonomous services. By providing end-to-end tools for building, deploying, and managing AI models, the company targets governments, enterprises, and service operators that require scalable, real-time intelligence. With fresh capital, Linker Vision plans to broaden its geographic presence across the United States, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. The company will also accelerate product development, deepen platform integration, and recruit top global talent to maintain technological leadership. Although no revenue or user metrics were disclosed, the Series A round underscores investor confidence in the firm’s vision to drive the next wave of AI innovation.

  • GRAID Technology

    Participated · Series B · Mar 2025

    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.

  • Tiki

    Participated · Series E · Nov 2021

    Tiki is a Vietnamese e-commerce platform that expanded into fresh grocery and express delivery in recent years. The company launched TikiNgon fresh produce delivery last year and has operated TikiNow since 2018, offering two-hour deliveries in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Tiki reported that TikiNgon grew 2,000% year‑on‑year in Q3 2021 and that TikiNow memberships grew threefold over the same period; it has reached 20 million registered users. The platform saw a large boost in users during the early COVID‑19 pandemic, particularly in fresh food delivery. Tiki raised $258 million in a Series E and said the proceeds will be invested in logistics, including artificial intelligence and robotics to manage inventory, orders, and deliveries. The company is reportedly exploring a U.S. IPO in 2022 or 2023. Tiki.vn is a Vietnamese e-commerce platform. InnoVen Capital provided an undisclosed venture loan to Tiki.vn as part of the firm's push into Vietnam's fast-growing tech ecosystem. The article did not disclose the loan amount or other deal terms. Venture debt, the instrument used by InnoVen, is presented as an alternative to equity funding that allows startups to raise capital while minimizing equity dilution. No operating metrics, revenue figures, or additional financial details for Tiki.vn were reported in the article. The investment was mentioned alongside other InnoVen deals in the region, including investments in Indonesian logistics company Kargo and e-scooter sharing company Beam Mobility. Tiki is a seven-year-old online retail service based in Vietnam. It operates an e-commerce platform serving Vietnamese consumers. The company has attracted strategic investment from regional players including VNG and now a Series C led by JD.com. The partnership aims to support merchandising, cross-border opportunities, logistics, fulfillment, and technology. JD.com will become one of Tiki's largest shareholders and said it looks forward to helping deliver a truly world-class e-commerce experience to Vietnamese consumers. The round size is undisclosed but TechCrunch understands it to be around $50 million.

  • TOT BIOPHARM

    Participated · Series B · Aug 2018

    Dongyao Pharmaceutical, founded in July 2010 and headquartered in Suzhou Industrial Park, focuses on research, development, production and marketing of anti‑cancer drugs. Its pipeline exceeds 10 candidate drugs, including more than three biologics and three chemical drugs that have obtained IND approvals, and an ADC expected to receive clinical approval soon. Lead programs include TAB008, a bevacizumab biosimilar whose Phase I head‑to‑head pharmacokinetic and safety results showed high similarity to Avastin and is now in Phase III (ranked among the top three domestically), and TAA013, an ADC whose clinical application is under review. The company is also developing TVP211, a third‑generation oncolytic virus with scale‑up work underway and benefits from a domestic BSL‑2 virus workshop. Dongyao operates an integrated manufacturing base in Suzhou, completing a first‑phase facility in 2012 and a 13,000 sqm second‑phase monoclonal antibody production base in 2018 with planned 16,000L cell‑culture capacity. The completed $102M Series B will be used to accelerate development and commercialization of key pipelines and strengthen the company's competitive position.

  • Perfect

    Participated · Series A · Oct 2017

    Perfect Corp builds augmented‑reality and AI-powered beauty tools for consumers and brands, best known for the YouCam Makeup mobile app. The YouCam app offers virtual try-on from 300+ global brands, livestreams, tutorials, social features and a Skin Score; it reports about 40–50 million monthly active users. The company also sells B2B AR and SaaS solutions for in-store retail, e-commerce and social media, and about 90% of its clients are cosmetics or skincare brands. Its tech uses facial landmark tracking to build a 3D mesh for realistic try-ons, performs computing on-device, and the company states it does not save user photos or biometrics. Perfect Corp has integrations with partners including Google Search AR, YouTube and Snapchat, and offers an AI Skin Diagnostic verified by dermatologists that grades eight skin metrics. The Series C proceeds are earmarked to advance multichannel retail technology and to open more international offices; the company operates in 11 cities and is led by CEO Alice Chang in New Taipei City, Taiwan. Perfect Corp develops YouCam, an augmented-reality virtual try-on product that lets users preview makeup on their faces. The company has formed a strategic partnership with Alibaba to bring its AR technology to Alibaba’s online platforms. Alibaba will deploy YouCam on Taobao and Tmall for beauty products such as lipstick and eyeliner. Founder Alice Chang said the partnership will help Perfect form relationships with global brands and gain access to China’s beauty market. Perfect has attracted a new funding round led by Alibaba with participation from CCV and Taiwan’s Cyberlink Corp.; financial terms were not disclosed. Representatives for the parties did not immediately provide comment. Perfect Corp. develops a suite of mobile beauty apps that use augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) to transform how consumers try and buy beauty products. Its app portfolio includes YouCam Makeup, YouCam Perfect, YouCam Nails, and YouCam Fun, all available on the App Store and Google Play. The company reports more than 500 million app downloads and partnerships with over 150 global brands, including Estée Lauder, Yves Saint Laurent, L’Oréal Paris, MAC Cosmetics, and Macy’s. Management says the financing will be used to continue development of its mobile app suite and related technologies. CEO Alice H. Chang emphasized the goal of creating a fresh consumer experience beyond existing beauty industry models. Investors voiced confidence in the company’s disruptive AR/AI technologies and leadership position in the beauty industry.

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