AppWorks

AppWorks

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Overview

Based in Taiwan, founded in 2009, AppWorks is a leading startup community and venture capital firm built by founders, for founders. AppWorks Accelerator, the renowned 6-month free accelerator program, admits 30 - 40 AI, Blockchain, and Southeast Asia startups per batch from across the region and boasts 490 active startups and 1,589 founders in its alumni network. Collectively, all companies in the ecosystem generate annual revenue totaling US$15.3 billion (-12% YoY), and have created 23,999 jobs (+6% YoY). Altogether, the ecosystem raised a total of US$5.7 billion (+10% YoY), with an aggregate valuation reaching US$31.8 billion (+2% YoY). The AppWorks web3 ecosystem now has 129 startups and 345 founders. AppWorks web3 companies generate revenue totaling US$3.5 billion, and raised US$1.4 billion, with an aggregate valuation of US$26 billion. The AppWorks AI ecosystem now has 150 startups and 439 founders. AppWorks AI companies generate revenue totaling US$246 million, and raised US$277 million, with an aggregate valuation of US$714 million.

As a VC, AppWorks manages four venture capital funds totaling US$ 350 million, typically investing in seed to Series C companies. We fund 20-30 deals a year, now with more than 100 names in our portfolio, including leading startups in several verticals such as Lalamove, Dapper Labs / Flow, Animoca Brands, 91APP, Figment, Carousell, ShopBack, Tiki, 17LIVE, and KKday, while having produced 5 IPOs, 4 IEOs, 1 hectocorn, 2 decacorns, and 5 unicorns.

【If you are a founder working on web3, AI / IoT, and Southeast Asia, apply to AppWorks Accelerator: bit.ly/3bbDw7Q】

Highlights

Founded

2009

Industry

Venture Capital

Employees

11-50

Investment

99

Lead Investment

39

Exits

6

Stages

Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed

Investor Type

Accelerator, Venture Capital

Location

Asia

Contact Information

Social

Profile Resume

AppWorks, established in 2009 and headquartered in Asia., specializes in Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed investments across Publishing, Gaming, MMO Games, Financial Services, Venture Capital, Semiconductor, Restaurants, Finance, Hedge Funds, Wireless. The organization boasts a portfolio of 92 investments, with an average round size of $35.7M and 6 successful exits. Their recent investments include PubGame, CID Group, EZTABLE, Rose Park Advisors, UMC Capital. The highest investment round they participated in was $151.0B. Among their most notable exits are PubGame and CID Group. Explore their portfolio in detail, see who is connected to them, and find their contact information on our platform.

Employees

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Jamie Lin

Chairman, Founder, and Managing Partner

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Shih Chin Huang

Fellow

Investment portfolio

AppWorks has made 99 investments. Their most recent investment was on Jun 05, 2024, when Botsync raised $5.2M.

investments

99

Diversity investments

0

Lead investments

39

Number of exits

6

Investments

99

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Exits

6

Funding Timeline

Funding rounds

99

Investors

0

Funds

4

Funding Rounds

99

AppWorks has raised 99 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jun 12, 2024 from a Non Equity Assistance - Qiro Finance round.

Annouced DateTransaction NameNumber of InvestorsMoney RaisedLead Investor
Jun 12, 2024
Non Equity Assistance - ABConvert Non Equity Assistance - ABConvert
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Jun 12, 2024
Non Equity Assistance - Ajourney Non Equity Assistance - Ajourney
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Jun 12, 2024
Non Equity Assistance - Quantlytica Non Equity Assistance - Quantlytica
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Jun 12, 2024
Non Equity Assistance - Qiro Finance Non Equity Assistance - Qiro Finance
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Investors

0

There is no funding round available on this profile

Fund raised

2

Susa Ventures has raised a total of $590M across 6 funds, their latest being Susa Ventures Opportunities II. This fund was announced on Aug 30, 2021 and raised a total of $250M.

Annouced DateFund NameMoney Raised
May 10, 2013
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1.0M
May 11, 2013
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1.0M

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