by Ekrem Duman | Aug 25, 2026 | Taiwan Company Stories, Taiwan Startups & Innovation
⚡ TL;DRKKday and Pinkoi are Taiwan’s notable consumer marketplace start-ups — one aggregating travel experiences from thousands of small local operators across Asia, the other connecting independent designers with cross-border buyers — and both...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 25, 2026 | Taiwan Company Stories, Taiwan Startups & Innovation
⚡ TL;DR91APP built a business helping Taiwanese retailers escape marketplace dependence by running their own e-commerce apps, stores and customer data — a software-as-a-service position in a market where most commerce technology is either a marketplace...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 25, 2026 | Taiwan Company Stories, Taiwan Startups & Innovation
⚡ TL;DRAppier is Taiwan’s most successful software start-up, an artificial intelligence marketing platform founded by returning academics that grew across Asian markets and listed in Tokyo rather than Taipei — a decision that says as much about...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 25, 2026 | Taiwan Company Stories, Taiwan Startups & Innovation
⚡ TL;DRGogoro built an electric scooter company around battery swapping rather than charging — six-second exchanges at thousands of stations across Taiwan — solving electrification for dense Asian cities where nobody can charge at home, and then...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 25, 2026 | Taiwan Company Stories, Taiwan Founders & Dynasties
⚡ TL;DRCher Wang used the resources of Taiwan’s most established industrial family to build companies in industries her father’s generation never touched — VIA Technologies in chipsets and HTC in smartphones — producing the island’s...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 25, 2026 | Taiwan Company Stories, Taiwan Founders & Dynasties
⚡ TL;DRStan Shih founded Acer, gave Taiwanese industry the smiling curve that explained where value actually sits, proved a Taiwanese company could build a global consumer brand, and then split his own company in two to resolve the conflict between brand and...
