Audi Taiwan – Anemone Ventures

Audi Taiwan Innovation Team’s aim was to foster a smart mobility start-up community in Taiwan and identify local start-ups who could potentially integrate their solutions with Audi AG. They planned to achieve this through hosting the 1st Audi Innovation Award Show with special focus on urbanization, sustainability and digitalization technology solutions.

Goal

Anemone Ventures was selected to facilitate Audi Taiwan Innovation Team in the creation of the first Audi Innovation Award held in 2018 and establishing it as an annual tradition.

Results

The role of Anemone Ventures was to turn a concept into execution and guide the Audi Taiwan Innovation Team in orchestrating the mission and event that ultimately reached over 200 startups. In summation, the event brought together: 28 corporations, 23 academic institutes and incubators, over 200 start-ups, 33 accelerators, 26 government bodies and officials, 12 media partners, 5 judges, and 5 agencies and service providers.

Traction #1

Over 200 start-ups were involved in the event: 75 start-ups applied, 16 start-ups selected, 14 finalist start-ups presented, 5 start-ups awarded 6 prizes, and 2 start-ups selected for PoC at Audi AG

Traction #2

Over 200 participants attended the event: 54 investors, 17 accelerators, 87 start-ups, 123 corporations, 43 students, 18 media outlets, and 63 independent attendees

Traction #3

85% of the participants mentioned in their feedback that they intend to visit the next event

Traction #4

Over 44 media and social network outreach

“It was a pleasure to work with the Anemone Venture because they provided a professional strategy to establish a smart mobility community in Taiwan and valuable insights into the local startup ecosystem in Taiwan. The team of Anemone Venture are professional networkers who assisted us in establishing a network and in interacting with the right partners in the local startup ecosystem. They cared about our short and long-term needs and objectives, conducted positive and effective communication with startups and our partners throughout the full spectrum of the working process.”

– Zoe Wan, Digital Business, Audi Taiwan

“I would like to sum up that Anemone Ventures has been very effective in pitch mentoring and message setting in various occasions to various composition of audience. They are the right partner to work with if you are limited by 5-minutes to close a deal or a negotiation, when it is the moment of truth to move your start-up onward to the next level.”

– BJ Perng, CEO and co-Founder of NiveauUp, Selected start-up for the Audi AG PoC

“With Anemone Ventures support, we were able to win the 3rd prize and a chance for PoC at the headquarter of Audi AG in Germany in the 1st Audi Innovation Award. The effective mentoring and follow through of Anemone Ventures allowed us to focus on issues of importance to investors and achieve progress in our start-up journey.”

– Po-Chun Shen, CEO of creDa, Prof. Jiun-In Guo, Dept. of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University , Selected start-up for the Audi AG PoC