We’re excited to announce that we received additional sponsorship for Asia Tour 2015 and now we have 15 additional hardware startup/creator spots on the tour, total of 30. On the tour, participants will have the opportunity to visit assembly lines, meet 300 experts from the manufacturing and supply chain industry, and gain insights into the market for smart, [...]
Last year, HWTrek sponsored 30 hardware startups and creators to visit Taiwan and Beijing on the Asia Innovation Tour 2014. We’re doing it again this August. We reached out to Mike Kasparian (CTO and co-founder of Atlas Wearables), a participant in the tour last year, to see what he’s been up to during the past [...]
Tour Provides Qualified Hardware Creators and Startups the Opportunity to Visit Prominent Manufacturers and Suppliers in Taiwan and China HWTrek (Hardware Trek), the global open innovation platform for hardware creation, is now accepting applications for its HWTrek Asia Tour 2015, taking place August 17-21, 2015 in Taipei and China. The tour offers hardware creators and [...]
A Taipei-based cloud platform which connects hardware start-ups with manufacturers and experts has raised US$4 million in a Series A funding round led by US-Chinese venture firm WI Harper and ITIC. Chinese business-to-consumer e-commerce platform JD.com, Legend Star Capital, the investment arm of Lenovo parent company Legend Holdings, and Japanese venture firm Global Brain also [...]
Strategic Investment from Legend Star, JD.com, Global Brain, ITIC and WI Harper to Drive Development of Hardware Innovation Platform TAIPEI, Taiwan. – June 2, 2015 – HWTrek (Hardware Trek), the global open innovation platform for hardware creation, today announced the closing of a $4 million Series A round of strategic investment funding. WI Harper and [...]
An improved urban landscape with safer driving, quick payment systems and pollution alerts was laid out at Asia's biggest tech trade fair Tuesday. Computex, held in the capital Taipei, is in its 35th year with 1,700 exhibitors spread across three sprawling venues, many of whom are tapping into the nascent but burgeoning Internet of Things [...]
HWTrek, a Taipei-based startup that connects hardware makers with experts to help build marketable products, today announced it has completed a US$4 million series A round of funding led by WI Harper and ITIC, followed by Legend Star Capital, JD, and Global Brain. HWTrek acts as an end-to-end platform where a maker can turn his [...]
HWTrek, a Taipei-based platform that connects hardware startups with manufacturers and other resources, has scored a $4 million Series A. The funding was led by WI Harper and ITIC. Legend Star Capital (the investment arm of Legend Holdings, Lenovo’s parent company), Chinese e-commerce platform JD.com, and Tokyo venture capital firm Global Brain also participated. The [...]
We’re hosting a meetup and demo day with Indiegogo on Monday, June 8th. Ben Bateman (Director of Design & Technology categories) of Indiegogo and Liz Wald (VP, Technology & Design) are coming to Taiwan for a short visit to meet hardware technology creators and startups that might be interested in crowdfunding their projects as well [...]
Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration. In this sharing economy era of open software and open hardware, you might say it’s just another overhyped term. But I bet any startup or founder can argue otherwise. Communication and exchange, as general markers of joint processes, can turn into quite a problem for any team, especially when it comes to [...]