Taiwan’s tech startup news: August 2020
The Taiwan startup news collection here has been gathered from online coverage of Taiwan’s technology, startup and venture capital ecosystems across August of 2020, as covered in English-language internet media.
Taiwan focused startup news items here capture Taiwan’s startup news headlines from the last month; each Taiwan startup headline is linked to the online article it was drawn from. This gives readers with an interest in Taiwan’s startups an at-a-glance overview of August 2020’s startup news from Taiwan, and also allows you to instantly read each Taiwan startup news article in full.
Our monthly news collections are drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily startup news updates – delivered on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and by app – which gather technology news from across 17 locations across Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
- Taiwan: HwaCom partnered by Germany’s Siemens Mobility and local research organizations, universities and enterprises for experimental 5G internet-of-vehicles facility
- Taiwan: Briefing session for Global Hack 2020 International Entrepreneurship Challenge, competition to match startups with corporates and investors, set for August 7th
- Taiwan: Internet of Things sector output totaled $43.6BN in value in 2019, in part attributed to government Asia Silicon Valley Development Plan
- Taiwan: “…Operation Skeleton Key…appeared aimed at stealing as much intellectual property as possible, including source code, software development kits, and chip designs.”
- Taiwan: CakeResume raises $900K seed funding to build tech talent database, with talent matching services already provided to 3000 companies
- Taiwan: Meet Taipei Startup Festival 2020 set for November 18-21 – global call now open for startup exhibitors to participate
- US Taiwan Startup Forum virtual event set for September 11th and 25th, aiming to advance a collaborative startup community and conversation on innovations
- Taiwan: UK’s Rainmaking Innovation inaugurates tech-focused Center of Excellence and Expertise in the Southern Taiwan Science Park, becoming the 3rd accelerator there
- Taiwan: iKala raises $17M with AI-based customer engagement platform, aiming for Indonesia and Malaysia launches and growth in existing SEA markets presence
- Taiwan: Microsoft to establish Internet of Things research and training center to develop artificial intelligence and IoT solutions for target industries
- Taiwan: MediaTek chip-maker claims world-first by connecting NB-IoT – narrow band internet of things – device with Inmarsat satellite 35K kilometres above the planet
- Taiwan: Lootex partners Digital Crafter game developer for limited edition blockchain-based 3D virtual figure and digital collectible for Fight of Animals game
- Taiwan: American Institute in Taiwan to host 5G Policy Forum to jointly declare determination of US and Taiwan to work together to safeguard internet security
- Taiwan: Chunghwa Telecom partners Yang-Ming and Chiao-Tung universities to develop smart healthcare utilizing 5G and artificial intelligence of things technologies
- Taiwan: An intro to JustKitchen, ‘cloud kitchen’ startup running a hub-and-spokes model with local, lastmile cooking and completion of orders via Uber Eats
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