Taiwan VM5, Korea Team Flitto, Singapore Brand Pit Win the Annual Award in “2014 IDEAS Show”
Date: 2014/07/25
”2014 IDEAS Show” holds by Innovative DigiTech-Enabled Applications & Services Institute (IDEAS) of III is the 7th annual event; the scale of Innovative Network feast is growing bigger each year. The international enlisted teams extended specially and inviting entrepreneurs’ community, enterprise, venture investors to join the event. The final selected 33 elite teams included from Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and New Zealand that more than 100 international startups participated; and everyone is trying their best, using the most innovative 6 minutes DEMO to display the most popular trends in Network Startup!
President Dr. Ruey-Beei Wu of III at the opening speech expressed that “Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship” are always the core topics of “IDEAS Show” promote by III. III provides complete startup business support environment to appeal innovative entrepreneurship for new generation at international stage and drive for integrated startup activity. Through many years effort in “IDEAS Show”, the biggest ever Innovative Network announcement and exchange platform, we discovered many creative innovative talents full of potential in Taiwan, and provides startup team to be noticed by international venture investment, or enterprise that provides the opportunity to be connected with international venture market; with international capital resource creating new startup bright star, and bring in the stable economic development for the whole creative industry of Taiwan in order to occupy globalization territory at international market.
In fact, the annual “2014 IDEAS Show” award competition, among 33 teams chosen in the final, a total of 20 new startups provide Cloud Integration services, 8 teams provide mobile software services, and other 5 teams provide software and hardware integration services that from the characters of chosen teams we could perceive the trends of global network entrepreneurship. The selection of IDEAS Show is a simulation of Demo Conference in Silicon Valley, USA; every team’s demo is limited with 6 minutes, and the heavyweight panel of judges includes Haxlr8r partner Benjamin Joffe, Japan Global Brain Venture investor Chairman, Japan Cyber Agent Venture General Manager Chien-Yun Fang, Singapore GREE Ventures Director Kuan-Hua Hsu, Korea K-CUBE Ventures founder Jimmy Rim, and Intel Investor Director Tsai-Yang Chen, a total of 20 from Venture Investor, enterprise representative, and accelerator vendors for the selection of final Network Startup new stars
After the fierce competition, Taiwan team VM5, Korea team Flitto, Brand Pit of Singapore has won the annual Award; while VM5 mainly combines the top Cloud technology, Virtualized technology, Stream technology, and cross platform technology to build largest “Cloud Virtual Mobile phone Platform” to provide “AdPlay” service which changed operation model of worldwide download and mobile advertisement market; Flitto dismantles the language barrier for people who knows two languages, using game play and reward system for translation quickly.
Other than this, Samsung Innovation Award, Samsung Social Enterprise Award provides cash NT$120K for Taiwan team to Korea’s Kotra Global Startup; the winning teams are MimiOpen and Chung Society Limited Co to represent Taiwan team to compete in Korea; Taiwan Mobile Award offers cash 100K for Ai-Ti Tech; FETnet Award offers cash 100K to Japanese glams team, and CyberAgent Venture Award offers VM5 cash 50K to international development stage. And, finally GB Award obtained by Longgood and will represent Taiwan for GB Annual competition.
Besides marvelous new startups deliver of DEMO at “IDEAS Show” held on 25th, “The Next Big Money” took the opportunity to invite AppWork original venture investor partner Mr. Te-Hung Tsan, GREE Ventures Director Kuan-Hua Hsu, and K-CUBE Ventures founder Jimmy Rim to talk about next waves of investment trends. What is worth to mention is that the Armorize Technologies founder Mr. Yao-Wen Huang, long term incubated by IDEAS Show in the past, Hiiir Inc founder, Mr. Chien-Han Yeh, and iPeen COO, Mr. I-Cheng Chen to share their joy and sorrow during their startup process as well as the resource IDEAS Show platform provided to each team including international development, international fund raising for encouragement to the younger generation that they must move out the Taiwan market toward international.
Since 2008, III has been promoting “IDEAS Show”, and not only the scale is expanding, the tentacles also extending to every corner worldwide with serious respect from international innovative network sector; team from Taiwan in recent year also exhibits resounding round of applause. Innovative Network startup is in its Renaissance time with great prospect ahead; many international venture capitalists and enterprise are optimistic in energy of Taiwanese Startup. The enterprise awards are provided with favorable reward offers to protruding Startup team include enterprise Taiwan Samsung, Japan Global Brain ventures, Taiwan Mobile, and FETnet in hope of providing Taiwan Innovative Network team moving into bright star of international “millions-dollar class” stage.
Photo: At the guidance of Commerce Department of MOEA, IDEAS of III holds “2014 IDEAS Show” on 25th of July; after fierce competition, Taiwan team VM5, Korea team Flitto, and Singapore team Brand Pit won the annual Award. Dr. Ruey-Beei Wu, President of III (center), with 33 teams in final list, mentors, and panel judges in the group photo.
Award Winning Team list:
Award Category
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Award
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Winning Team/ Service name
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Panel of Judges Award
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l Flitto/Flitto
l Brand Pit/Brand Pit
l VM5/AdPlay
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Butterfly Star
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l VM5/AdPlay
l Zuvio Technologies/Cloud Real time Feedback system
l Ai-Ti Technologies/FlyFit Smart Ankle Tracker for Fitness
l MimiOpen Limited/MimiOpen & IOH Open Personal Experiment Platform
l TopSchool Technologies/Go1Buy1 International purchasing Platform
l MicroMacro Mobile/Pass2U Electronic Ticket Manufacturing Production Platform
l PsyComputing/Finding Dog (Republic of Seychelles)
l Domiso Technology/ wewha
The chosen Butterfly Star team will proceed 4 months in-depth Butterfly project international development training, including one to one guidance, startup course, and industry VC matching.
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Korea Special Award
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Award Name
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Award Team/Service Name
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Best K Startup
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Flitto/ Flitto
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Enterprise Award
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Award Name
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Award Team/Service Name
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Award Content
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Samsung Innovation Award
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MimiOpen Technology/MimiOpen &IOH Open Personal Experience Platform
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Provides Team Cash Award 120K to participate Kotra Global Startup (Include Tax)
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Samsung Social Enterprise Award
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Chung Community/Smart City Friendly Cloud Platform
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Provides Team Cash Award 120K to participate Kotra Global Startup (includes Tax)
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Taiwan Mobile Enterprise Award
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Ai-Ti Technology/FlyFit Smart Ankle Tracker for Fitness
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Provides Team Cash Award 100K for international market development
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FETnet Enterprise Award
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glams Co.,Ltd/zenfotomatic
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Provides Team Cash 100K for international market development
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CAV Encourage Award
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VM5/AdPlay
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Provides Team Cash 50K for team startup
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GB Award
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Longgood /PAPAMAMA Empirical Physical therapy system
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Provides Team one person to GB annual ticket and lodges
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Best PRC Market Potential Award
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Voice Tube Technology/Voice Tube watch movie and learn English
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Provides one team member to PRC for “Market Entry program” round trip ticket, one monthCo-working Space and local guidance cost
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Best US Market Potential Award
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MiniOpen /MimiOpen &IOH Open Personal Experience platform
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Provides one team member to Singapore for “Market Entry Program” with one round trip ticket, one month Co-working Space and local guidance cost
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Best Far East Asia Market Potential Award
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Herxun Technology /Lightspeed Open Communication and Social Platform
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Provides one team member to Singapore for “Market Entry Program”, with one round trip and one month Co-working Space, and local guidance cost
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For detail news information, please contact:
IDEAS of III:
Ms. Ya-Ni Li, Section Manager
Ms. I-Chun Hsien
Tel: (02)6607-2104, (02)6607-2536
Ms. Meredith Chang, Section Manager
Ms. Hsuan Yan, Manager
Ms. Ying-Yin Shen, Manager
Tel: (02) 6631-8638; (02) 6631-8640; (02) 6631-8643
Sales and Mass Media Section
Planning and Evaluation Division, III