For fifteen years, Yushan Ventures has helped Audi, Continental, ABB, ZEISS, Coca-Cola and more set technology strategy — mapping markets, shaping roadmaps, and finding the partners and technologies to execute — and served as venture partner to funds investing over USD 100M in deep tech.
From automotive OEMs to industrial giants and consumer brands — we set technology strategy, run innovation workshops, and scout the suppliers and partners that get them to market.
Also engaged: GSMA · Foxconn · Trans Pacific Technology Fund · NiSource · MobileMonday Taipei
Fifteen years of scouting, strategy, and investment engagements — on the ground across the innovation hotspots of Asia, Europe, and the Americas, and connected to governments in 10+ APEC economies.
Active engagements on both sides of the Pacific — scouting, market research, and business development.
A board-level strategy paper on the automotive MicroLED ecosystem — market and value-chain mapping, low-risk product entry points, make-vs-buy-vs-partner analysis, and a risk-adjusted roadmap for R&D and CAPEX decisions.
Business development for the advanced-materials startup: US market-entry strategy and warm customer introductions across our corporate network.
RFQ development and best-cost-country supplier scouting in India — from crafting the RFQ through supplier evaluation and selection.
IAV · Volkswagen GroupWe map markets, shape technology roadmaps, and run make-vs-buy-vs-partner analysis — then find and qualify the technologies, startups, and suppliers to execute, across 25+ countries.
Explore →Venture partner to deep-tech funds — Trans Pacific Technology Fund and HeidelbergCement's Foundamental — plus corporate roadshows, due diligence, and deal sourcing for strategic investors. In its early years, Yushan also invested its own capital as an angel in Taiwanese startups.
Explore →Market entry for technology startups, accelerator design, and ecosystem programs — from introducing Startup Weekend to Taiwan to co-building the APEC O2O accelerator worldwide.
Explore →"The rise of internet economies will continue to challenge traditional business models, labor requirements and revenue streams."Volker Heistermann — APEC O2O Summit, Lima, Peru
From GMIC in Beijing and Bangalore to APEC summits in Nanjing, Seoul and Lima, our founder is a frequent keynote speaker, moderator, and startup-competition judge across Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
Global Mobile Internet Conference · Bangalore 2014 — featured speaker alongside InMobi, Kae Capital, Nazara & True Global VenturesScouting · RoadshowSix-country technology scouting for Audi, including the Brain-Wave Scouting project to identify wireless brain-wave sensing for the vehicle — plus executive roadshows.
Scouting · RoadshowScouted visualization and machine-vision technologies in Japan for ABB Robotics' YuMi collaborative robot, and ran the executive roadshow.
ScoutingScouted high-sensitivity, high-temperature sensor technologies for Siam Cement Group's kiln tunnels.
Served as venture partner sourcing and evaluating deep-tech deals for the Trans Pacific Technology Fund (USD 100M) across the Pacific.
Yushan built ecosystems, scouted technology for the world's largest industrial companies, advised venture funds, founded an accelerator — and the founder is back at the helm.
Yushan Ventures established to bridge global innovation and Asia's ecosystems. Introduced Startup Weekend to Taiwan and ran the MobileMonday Taipei chapter. In these early years Yushan also made a handful of direct angel investments of its own capital into Taiwanese startups — most since wound down; Lucent Sky, a web-security company, remains.
MobileMonday TaipeiConceived and co-built the APEC O2O accelerator with Taiwan's government — running startup programs around the world, from Nanjing to Lima.
Became technology scouting partner to the Volkswagen Group and Audi; ran a China scouting engagement for Coca-Cola; toured 10 cities with GSMA on "The Rise of Asia's Innovation Machines".
Venture partner to HeidelbergCement's Foundamental fund; scouted vision tech in Japan for ABB's YuMi robot and high-temperature sensors for Siam Cement. Founded Mosaic Venture Lab, powered by Audi AG and Taiwan's MoEA.
With Mosaic running independently, the founder returns to Yushan full-time — scouting, investment advisory, and startup growth under one roof again.
From a 1996 hometown-paper profile in Germany to the Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch and Taiwan's 數位時代 — three decades of building ventures, in the press and on the record.
“Lars Windhorst für Lippe”
“Ein Büro im Studentenwohnheim”
“Startup Labs · 串聯全球創意”
“Schwäbische Engel suchen Bodenhaftung”
The WSJ's China Real Time on Yushan's founder and why Taiwan's teams must build for global markets.
Read ↗TechCrunch covers a security startup from Yushan's Taipei network as it launches.
Read ↗Insider column on the obstacles between us and everyday autonomous mobility.
Read ↗From mini-furniture to human kidneys — e27 on Taiwan's maker moment.
Read ↗Feature in the American Chamber of Commerce's flagship Taiwan Business magazine.
Read ↗專訪 in INSIDE, one of Taiwan's leading technology publications.
Read ↗Also covered by VentureVillage & 數位時代 創業小聚 — and, more recently, podcast guest on Startup Island TAIWAN, Startup DNA & Business Next
Created in 2018 as Yushan's deep-tech accelerator and hands-on VC in Taipei — powered by Audi AG and Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs — Mosaic Venture Lab grew into an integrated startup-support ecosystem with 20+ professionals. Today it operates independently.
Audi Innovation Award 2023 Hackathon · “Women Driving the Future of Mobility” — powered by Audi & Mosaic Venture Lab, TaipeiOver 110 years of combined experience across automotive, deep tech, and cross-border venture — advising boards, running the research, and doing the deals from Germany, the USA, and Taiwan.
Founded Yushan in Taipei in 2011 after 15 years in Silicon Valley — Google, AT&T, and investment bank Rutberg & Co. Venture partner to the Trans Pacific Technology Fund and Foundamental; founded Mosaic Venture Lab; judge at Obama's Global Entrepreneurship Summit.
Automotive engineering leader with deep OEM experience. Leads technology research, supplier programs, and innovation consulting for European automotive clients.
Brings Stanford research and Silicon Valley networks to Yushan's strategy and market-research engagements.
A serial entrepreneur and IoT specialist who has spent his career in technology companies including Dell and PictureTel, Bruce leads Yushan's semiconductor research and scouting with decades of cross-border operating experience across Asia's technology and manufacturing sectors.
Leads display-technology research for Yushan's strategy and market-research engagements, working across the Mosaic deep-tech network in Taiwan.
A venture capital investor based in Malaysia, Ken backs and scouts early-stage deep-tech founders and connects Yushan's portfolio and clients to capital and partners across Southeast Asia.
Scouting a technology, sourcing deals, or entering a new market — start with a conversation.