Startup Island TAIWAN, the national startup brand of Taiwan, backed by the National Development Council (NDC), led 33 Taiwanese deep-tech startups to the Taiwan Pavilion at SWITCH 2026 in Singapore from October 27 to 29, in partnership with Startup Terrace, Hsinchu Science Park Bureau, the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) and Taiwan Digi Gold Card. Exhibiting at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, the startups used Singapore as their starting point to open up more business opportunities in Southeast Asia.
The trip pushed forward investment discussions, potential testing partnerships and plans to set up in Singapore. Tera Electronics, SiCEV, Alpenglow Tek and Leafy Lab have held investment talks with Xora Innovation, Temasek’s deep-tech investment platform, as well as Insignia Ventures and Samsung; 3Egreen and Speculum AI are discussing testing partnerships with a global semiconductor company and a Singapore engineering group; and CarbonClean Energy and EpiSante Biomed plan to establish a presence in Singapore, using StageOne, Singapore’s official startup platform, to find sites to test their products and set up labs. During the show, Godspeed, the company behind Cellbedell, signed an MOU with Singapore’s WESPAC PTE LTD covering software licensing and hardware distribution, helping commercial spaces manage access and move to unattended operations. Optiqb also signed an MOU with South Korea’s Y.GRAM to work together on glasses-free 3D content solutions.
Visiting the Pavilion, Tung Chen-yuan, Representative of the Taipei Representative Office in Singapore, noted that the startups build on Taiwan’s strengths in semiconductors and AI, bringing integrated ICT capabilities to partners in Singapore and Southeast Asia in areas such as healthcare and energy. He believes that these internationally experienced teams, by taking Singapore as their first step in building international partnerships, can become highly competitive global companies within the next five to ten years.
The technologies showcased by the Taiwanese startups at SWITCH 2026 spanned four fields: semiconductors, AI and software, healthcare and biotech, and energy. In semiconductors, they ranged from more power-efficient AI chips and tools that speed up chip design to technologies that move data between chips faster, helping AI data centers and smart devices balance performance with energy savings; in AI and software, the focus was on helping businesses bring AI safely into everyday operations, from factory equipment management and real-time video safety monitoring to multilingual customer service and professional services such as legal and finance; in healthcare and biotech, the solutions spanned drug development, early cancer detection and digital rehabilitation to speed up medical innovation; and in energy, they included smart power management, green energy and battery storage dispatch, water plant energy savings and carbon recycling to help businesses cut emissions and keep power supply stable.
Startup Island TAIWAN said long-term growth between Taiwan and Singapore can build on a clear division of roles: Taiwan develops and validates the technology, while Singapore serves as the hub for commercialization and expansion into Southeast Asia, with room to deepen cooperation in trustworthy AI governance and physical AI, drug validation standards and a clean energy ecosystem. Building on the startups’ landing and validation experience in Singapore, it will help more Taiwanese deep-tech startups extend pilots, distribution and licensing partnerships across Southeast Asia.
About Startup Island TAIWAN: Startup Island TAIWAN is Taiwan’s national startup brand, launched by the National Development Council (NDC). With hubs in Tokyo and Silicon Valley, it helps Taiwanese startups go global and international founders land in Taiwan.
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Startup Island TAIWAN, the national startup brand of Taiwan, backed by the National Development Council (NDC), led 33 Taiwanese deep-tech startups to the Taiwan Pavilion at SWITCH 2026 in Singapore from October 27 to 29, in partnership with Startup Terrace, Hsinchu Science Park Bureau, the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) and Taiwan Digi Gold Card. Exhibiting at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, the startups used Singapore as their starting point to open up more business opportunities in Southeast Asia.
The trip pushed forward investment discussions, potential testing partnerships and plans to set up in Singapore. Tera Electronics, SiCEV, Alpenglow Tek and Leafy Lab have held investment talks with Xora Innovation, Temasek’s deep-tech investment platform, as well as Insignia Ventures and Samsung; 3Egreen and Speculum AI are discussing testing partnerships with a global semiconductor company and a Singapore engineering group; and CarbonClean Energy and EpiSante Biomed plan to establish a presence in Singapore, using StageOne, Singapore’s official startup platform, to find sites to test their products and set up labs. During the show, Godspeed, the company behind Cellbedell, signed an MOU with Singapore’s WESPAC PTE LTD covering software licensing and hardware distribution, helping commercial spaces manage access and move to unattended operations. Optiqb also signed an MOU with South Korea’s Y.GRAM to work together on glasses-free 3D content solutions.
Visiting the Pavilion, Tung Chen-yuan, Representative of the Taipei Representative Office in Singapore, noted that the startups build on Taiwan’s strengths in semiconductors and AI, bringing integrated ICT capabilities to partners in Singapore and Southeast Asia in areas such as healthcare and energy. He believes that these internationally experienced teams, by taking Singapore as their first step in building international partnerships, can become highly competitive global companies within the next five to ten years.
The technologies showcased by the Taiwanese startups at SWITCH 2026 spanned four fields: semiconductors, AI and software, healthcare and biotech, and energy. In semiconductors, they ranged from more power-efficient AI chips and tools that speed up chip design to technologies that move data between chips faster, helping AI data centers and smart devices balance performance with energy savings; in AI and software, the focus was on helping businesses bring AI safely into everyday operations, from factory equipment management and real-time video safety monitoring to multilingual customer service and professional services such as legal and finance; in healthcare and biotech, the solutions spanned drug development, early cancer detection and digital rehabilitation to speed up medical innovation; and in energy, they included smart power management, green energy and battery storage dispatch, water plant energy savings and carbon recycling to help businesses cut emissions and keep power supply stable.
Startup Island TAIWAN said long-term growth between Taiwan and Singapore can build on a clear division of roles: Taiwan develops and validates the technology, while Singapore serves as the hub for commercialization and expansion into Southeast Asia, with room to deepen cooperation in trustworthy AI governance and physical AI, drug validation standards and a clean energy ecosystem. Building on the startups’ landing and validation experience in Singapore, it will help more Taiwanese deep-tech startups extend pilots, distribution and licensing partnerships across Southeast Asia.
About Startup Island TAIWAN: Startup Island TAIWAN is Taiwan’s national startup brand, launched by the National Development Council (NDC). With hubs in Tokyo and Silicon Valley, it helps Taiwanese startups go global and international founders land in Taiwan.
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