AppWorks Accelerator
Turbocharging Asia’s Top AI & Blockchain Startups
State of The AppWorks Network
Help Solve Problems, Cross-Promote, Connect with Investors & Business Partners
Once you join AppWorks, you are immediately connected to our extraordinary alumni network of 780 founders. You’ll find the AppWorks Network extremely powerful when:
- You run into problems and need advice from those who had done similar things
- You need help with product promotions
- You want to check references on an investor or a potential business partner
- You need an intro to someone
By size, it is the largest of its kind in Asia. But more importantly, our culture of helping each other out is the real reason why it is so valuable.
Your Mentors =
Successful Founders
With the help of AppWorks, we successfully raised our seed funding from Steven Ho (何英圻), one of Asia’s most successful e-commerce startup founders. The ability to learn from his decades-long experience in online retail and in managing growing companies really shaped my development as a founder / CEO.
JEFFREY WU, FOUNDER / CEO, MORNINGSHOP (AW#4)
Connect with the Right Coach, Acquire the Right Mindset, Become the Best Founder You Can Be
Steven Ho, Founder of 91APP whose previous startups were successfully exited to eBay and Yahoo!; Ming Chen, Founder of KKday who successfully completed 2 IPOs and 1 M&A exits earlier; Jerry Kuo of Kuo Brothers (創業家兄弟) and Ben Tseng of Net Publishing (隆中網絡) all started and ran their companies all the way to IPO; Together with Mike Jiang of GameSofa, Nathan Chiu of cacaFly, John Fan of Cardinal Blue, as well as 60+ other successful startup founders are all AppWorks Mentors that you can connect and build a lifelong coaching relationship with.
Your Next Fundraising
Round, Led by AppWorks
With AppWorks leading the way, we completed 4 rounds of funding raising US$ 14.4 million, from reputable investors such as Ikyu, CID Group, I-Mei, Steven Ho’s NineYi Capital and Clayton Christensen’s Disruptive Innovation Fund.
ALEX CHEN, FOUNDER / CEO, EZTABLE (AW#1)
Terms, Structures, and Syndicate, Tailored to Your Needs
Venture capital is a sophisticated and complex ecosystem filled with firms specializing in different segments for various startup stages. It is also brimming with a slew of complicated terms and game rules. First-time founders often find the learning curve difficult to overcome and getting to the right investors a daunting task. That is why AppWorks is also a VC firm ourselves so we can better help you on the fundraising end. With 2 funds and US$ 61 million under management, we’re always ready to put the money to work in our startups. After all, who knows our startups better than us? On top of that, we can often act as the bridge between our startups and the venture capital community by leading financing rounds and putting together a syndicate tailored to your needs.
As founders who are always out there grinding and battling, there is nothing more important when your investors are respectful and supportive of your decisions. AppWorks is hyper active in providing support and connections for the startups while instill great confidence in founders even during the toughest periods of the startup life cycle.
SHAWN GUAN, FOUNDER / CEO, UMBO CV (AW#9)
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