HeyJaredStartup Island TAIWAN Podcast
This is Startup Island TAIWAN Podcast, everything about Taiwan in cutting-edge technology, startup unicorns, and connections to the world. SUBSCRIBE NOW!
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 12
- Latest publication
- Sep 21, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 6, 2026
Latest episodes
EP4-3 | From Luxembourg to Taiwan: Building in Europe, Developing in Asia, Innovating in Taiwan (opens the original)
Read excerpt
In this episode, we sit down with Richard “Rick” Wiltgen, founder of RideFair, whose entrepreneurial journey has taken him across Europe and Asia before bringing him to southern Taiwan. After spending some 20 years in Asia and most recently running a company in Luxembourg, Rick could have chosen many places to build his next venture. Instead, he chose Taiwan, and specifically Kaohsiung. He shares what building in Luxembourg taught him, why Asia remains central to developing his business, and wha
EP4-3 | Is Taiwan’s Startup Scene Going South? Inside Kaohsiung’s Emerging Founder Ecosystem (opens the original)
Read excerpt
In this episode, we sit down with Arturs Vancans, founder of Second Space, to explore why he chose Kaohsiung to build his life and business, and what he is seeing as Southern Taiwan’s startup ecosystem evolves. When Arturs first arrived in Kaohsiung, the city was rarely seen as a destination for startup founders, particularly international entrepreneurs. But over the years, he has watched the ecosystem change, with more founders, startups, and ecosystem players looking beyond Taipei. Through Sec
EP4-2 |Tired of Losing the Taylor Swift Ticket Battle? This Startup in Taiwan to Fight Scalpers (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Tired of Losing the Taylor Swift Ticket Battle? This Canadian Founder Built a Startup in Taiwan to Fight Scalpers In this episode, we sit down with LK Shelley, co-founder of ARMCo Lab and FanID, to explore how a frustrating concert-ticket experience led her to found a startup in Taiwan. After seeing firsthand the problems of ticket scalping, long entry queues, and the privacy concerns surrounding real-name ticketing, Shelley set out to create a different approach: a “one person, one face, one ti
EP4-1 | From Scotland to Taiwan: Choosing the Co-Founder Who Can Make or Break Your Startup (opens the original)
Read excerpt
From Scotland to Taiwan: Choosing the Co-Founder Who Can Make or Break Your Startup In this episode, we sit down with Rebecca (Ching Wen) Huang, founder of Founduz, to explore her journey from Taiwan to Scotland and back, and one of the most important decisions a founder can make: who to build a company with. Drawing from her experience as an international founder, her background in Global Mental Health, and her work building Founduz, Rebecca shares what she has learned about founder compatibili
EP3-51 | Why Foreign Gen Z Founders are Looking at Taiwan (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Why Foreign Gen Z Founders are Looking at Taiwan What makes a Gen Z founder skip the traditional career path and instead build a deep-tech startup? In this episode, we sit down with Chai Chang Yao, co-founder of Buildables, a Singapore startup developing AI-powered engineering models that help manufacturers inspect products, optimize R&D, and coordinate machines, humanoids, and workers from a single command center. Chai shares why he started Buildables at such a young age, why Taiwan caught his
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.