ABOUT TALENTS TAIPEI

Talents Taipei program is a unique 10-day business development soft-landing program to explore the Taiwan/Chinese/Asia market potential for high-tech foreign startups. It is an exclusive opportunity to be a part of a top entrepreneurial teams, accelerate one's business growth, showcase the product/service as a leading startup for innovation and dive into the exciting entrepreneurial scene of such high level Taipei innovation ecosystem.

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THE PROGRAM OFFERS

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• Round trip flight tickets with upper limit for one person

• Free accommodations at Taipei with Co-working space

• One on one business partnering event

• Assist with followups to complete a local POC and win possible first orders

• Non-stop roadshow with high-profile potential clients and partners

• Help create your network and build partnerships

• Fund raising pitch opportunity

• VIP pass attending at the largest Startup exhibition – InnoVEX of Computex

• Entrepreneur visa application

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WHY TAIWAN?

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• Taiwan is a great center for your activity in the Far East with a robust ecosystem proving to be a great:

  1) Distribution Hub

  2) Manufacturing Hub

  3) Localization Hub

• Geographical proximity to major Asian markets: Approximately 3- hour flights to major cities including Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore

• Taiwan is one of the biggest manufacturers of PC, LCD, semiconductors, and mobile phones in the world:

  1) 3/4 production of PCs worldwide

  2) 1/2 production of LCDs worldwide

  3) 1/4 production of semiconductors worldwide

  4) 1/5 production of mobile phones worldwide

• Rank #3 in Industrial Clusters Development worldwide

• Homeland to international industry major players: TSMC, Foxconn, Mediatek, AUO, Acer, Asus, HTC, Advantech, Giant and more.

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WHO CAN APPLY?

• International startups who have registered company in your country.

• Founding and managing members of foreign startups

• International startups with a business development plan focusing on Asia and ready to explore/grow their business in Taiwan/China/Asia with potential partners/customers here

• International startups under following verticals:

  1) ICT

  2) IoT

  3) Biotech/Digital Health/Medical Devices

  4) AI

  5) Blockchain

  6) FinTech

  7) AR/VR

  8) Deep Tech

• International startups with at least 1 team member available to stay in Taipei for duration of the program