Meet Taipei Closed with a Record Breaking Success with 260,000+ visitors in 2019

TAIPEI, TAIWAN�- Media OutReach - 28 November 2019 - Meet Taipei has closed out another
record-breaking event, with startup, visitor and matchmaking session numbers all
significantly up in 2019. This year’s event features the presence of all major
key players in Taiwan’s startup ecosystem, including accelerators, investors,
corporates, and government agencies and winners of Neo Star Demo Show was
announced in the event.

 

More than 26,000 visitors attended one of the Asian largest startup event
in Taipei, Taiwan between 14 and 16 November — nearly 30% more than last year.
Furthermore, a record 460+ startups exhibited among eight tech categories to showcase
their products and services. The three-day event also has venture capitalists and
corporate representatives in 440+ matchmaking sessions.

 

More than 20 forums
have taken place on five stages. On the main stage, industry leaders and
experts, from Google, LINE, Qualcomm, Indiegogo, Arm Treasure Data and so on,
share with the audience their views on various topics, including the trends,
challenges, and opportunities for Taiwanese and Asian startups in the
innovation-driven economy.

 

One of the stages,
named Global Stage, marks the organizer’s first attempt to highlight the
discussion of “going global.” Meet Taipei works with the French Office in
Taipei, French Tech Taiwan, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), and
Dragons’ Chamber Taiwan to organize a number of forums here, where speakers talk
about how to manage cross-border resources and what opportunities startups
should tap into to enter the global market.

This year’s event
features the presence of all major key players in Taiwan’s startup ecosystem,
including accelerators, investors, corporates, and government agencies. All the
startup teams therefore have the opportunity to connect the dots and accelerate
their growth.

 

Seizing this
opportunity, Meet Startup, the organizer, hopes to present Taiwan’s startup
landscape to the world — which echoes with the theme of the event this year.
Taking a brief walk inside the venue, one might quickly get a sense of what the
local startup scene is like.

 

While meeting with
Taiwan startups, one might as well bump into a great number of overseas
startups — from 16 countries and 30 cities across the globe this time. They
come as exhibitors with the aim of either seeking funds, finding potential
partners, or expanding user base, making not only Meet Taipei 2019 but Taiwan’s
startup scene much more diverse than it has ever been.

 

Winners of Neo Star Demo Show 2019 announced

As in the previous
years, the winners of Neo Star Demo Show have been announced on the second day
of Meet Taipei. This year, the grand prizes go to Aiello, TMYTEK, and
International Trust Machine (ITM), startup teams working on various tech
topics.

 

Aiello wins the jury’s favor with its
AI-powered voice assistant. Shaped like an alarm clock, it can be used in hotel
rooms for room service, facility introduction, and self check-in/out. TMYTEK and ITM, the winners of the second and third
prizes, provide mm-Wave beamforming solution for 5G infrastructure and
blockchain-enabled chips for connected devices, respectively.

 

The three teams
have been selected from a group of Neo Stars, 30 outstanding startups Meet
Startup handpicked in advance from a pool of approximately 150 teams they’ve
interviewed this year. They are offered a booth at the venue as well.

 

Besides them,
around 120 teams have also pitched their products and services to venture
capitalists, accelerator partners, corporate representatives, community leaders
and media, in over 440 matchmaking sessions.

 

In fact, at Meet
Taipei 2019, these key players in Taiwan’s startup ecosystem are given a
dedicated space for matchmaking, where they give exhibiting startups feedback
on their ideas and connect them with resources and opportunities they may need
to succeed. The lineup includes corporates like Audi, Microsoft Taiwan,
Chunghwa Telecom, VC-backed accelerators like SparkLabs Taiwan and MOX, and
other VC firms like Taiwania.