Yichen Chu

Cofounder & COO

IrisGo

Apr 2025 - Current (1 year 3 months)

Building exciting on premises AI assistant for everyone.

Founder in Residence

AI Fund

Apr 2025 - Current (1 year 3 months)

Selected as Taiwan's first startup in AI Fund's portfolio (founded by Andrew Ng). Key Achievements: • Co-founded IrisGo.AI - Privacy-first, on-device AI assistant for knowledge workers • Built advanced PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) system with semantic search across 1,000+ documents • Developed multi-device AI coordination system (MAGI) with episodic memory sharing • Successfully secured strategic partnerships and entered AI Fund's accelerator program Strategic Focus: • Advising portfolio companies on product strategy and go-to-market execution • Building innovative on-premises AI solutions addressing enterprise privacy concerns • Leading product development from 0-1 with focus on user autonomy and data ownership

Advisor

Tallgeese AI

Apr 2025 - Current (1 year 3 months)

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Board Member

NCKU Chemistry

Jan 2025 - Current (1 year 6 months)

I am pleased to announce that I have joined the board of directors for the alumni association and foundation of the National Cheng Kung University chemistry department. In this capacity, I will be involved in fostering the department's growth and securing financial support for its initiatives.

Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)

Tallgeese AI

Mar 2024 - Mar 2025 (1 year 1 month)

Tallgeese AI is an AI startup company. We provide on-premise AI solutions for SMBs. We assist clients in evolving from traditional sales approaches to AI-driven sales. Furthermore, we protect our clients' data and business secrets to ensure they are not used as training datasets by other companieTal

Advisor

REDREAMER Lab

Oct 2023 - Feb 2025 (1 year 5 months)

Re:Dreamer Lab is a Web3 Startup. Provide consumer data monetization

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Director of Strategy & Innovation

NOCERA Inc

Sep 2023 - Mar 2024 (7 months)

Nocera, Inc. (NASDAQ:NCRA), a fully integrated sustainable seafood company focusing on manufacturing and operating land-based Recirculatory Aquaculture Systems (RAS), announced today that the Company's Chief Executive Officer, Jeff Cheng, and executive team will ring Nasdaq's closing bell in celebration of the Company's listing in August of this year under the ticker symbol "NCRA."

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Advisor

JoyID

Jun 2023 - Feb 2025 (1 year 9 months)

A self custody web3 wallet by using #passkey technology. You can test from https://app.joy.id/?invitationCode=HnCrNB

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Chief Technology Advisor

Richwell Investment Management Limited

Apr 2023 - Sep 2024 (1 year 6 months)

Richwell financial group is based on "asset management" and "capital management" As an emerging financial investment institution with dual core operations. Lman provides his expertise in Web3, Blockchain, IoT and help Richwell to expand clients in APAC.

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Seed Investor

Sustainable Impact Capital SICGroup

Jan 2023 - Jan 2025 (2 years 1 month)

Advisor of ASIA Ecosystem

IOTA

Oct 2022 - Jun 2023 (9 months)

Mentor

Orbit Ventures

Jul 2022 - Current (4 years)

CEO & CoFounder

BiiLabs

Sep 2017 - Dec 2023 (6 years 4 months)

BiiLabs = Blockchain Intelligent & Innovation Labs We focused on the IoT x Blockchain Contributor of W3C DID Offering Payment, Digital certificates, Traceability & DLT for the industries

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Evangelist @ IEN Steering Group

IEN IOTA Evangelist Network

Sep 2017 - Jul 2022 (4 years 11 months)

IEN is the global Evangelist network to help IOTA landed allover the world. As the first IEN Member in Taiwan, Lman was continuously contribute the networks expansion, community organized, and develop the engineering ecosystem in Taiwan. Include introduce the IOTA to the Taiwan industries & Government Ecosystem.

Industry expert

National Cheng Kung University

Jul 2017 - Jan 2025 (7 years 7 months)

Collaboration with the top academic in Taiwan for the cutting edge technology to the market. The focus areas are include AI, Blockchain/Distributed Ledger, IoT, Data science. Cofounded the NCKU DLT Lab to bring the revolution DLT tech to the industries.

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Mentor

ChinaacceleratorMOX

Jul 2017 - Jul 2022 (5 years 1 month)

MOX — the Mobile Only Accelerator — helps the best mobile startups from around the world acquire millions of users in mobile-first, mobile-only markets i.e. SE Asia, Eastern Europe and South America. MOX has 150+ million users on its smartphone platform and offers free user acquisition and investment in return for equity and revenue share. The strategic partnership kicks off with a three month accelerator program and includes 250-500k new users to optimize retention and monetization. Based in Taipei, MOX is operated by SOSV – the Accelerator VC – a venture fund with $300M AUM operating eight global accelerators. Chinaccelerator, a leading startup accelerator in China, is a mentorship-driven program helping internet startups from around th

Advisor

Business Next Media Corp 巨思媒體集團

Feb 2017 - Current (9 years 5 months)

New Business model & opportunities discovering. Collaborate with various industries by leveraging internal & external resource. Responsible for the hard core tech topics, like AIoT, Embedded, Web3, AI

Evangelist

South Star Xelerator

Jan 2017 - Mar 2024 (7 years 3 months)

As the evangelist of entrepreneurship. Personally focused on the high technology like #IoT, #Blockchain

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Consultant

TTMaker

Sep 2016 - Dec 2017 (1 year 4 months)

TTMaker is the best program in Taiwan that collaborated by Taitung government, Taitung University & TTMaker executive team. They are making Taitung more intelligent & more beautiful through City collaboration. As a consultant, to provide the domain know-how & incubate the teams in Taitung. Collaboration with TTMaker team to create value for Taitung.

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Consultant

TXA Accelerator

Aug 2016 - Mar 2017 (8 months)

TXA is the company spin off from ITRI. Which hold private board meeting for startups & SMEs. Currently, Provide startup coaching service & mentoring to the startups & SMEs in TXA.

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Consultant

ShenZhen Open Innovation Lab

Apr 2016 - Feb 2023 (6 years 11 months)

Act as the consultant and worked with SZOIL team. To collaborate for the better future by focusing on the IoT, Smart Hardware sector. Concretion with young talents from China & Taiwan.

Cofounder & CEO

South Star Xelerator

May 2014 - Feb 2017 (2 years 10 months)

Start up the South Star Xelerator from South Taiwan. But not only in South Taiwan. We focused on the TMT, IoT, Smart Medical devices. Providing Open Innovation consultant services to the corporations by leveraging the startups' flexibility. CoCreation & Collaboration with Corporations & Startups. - Open Innovation Consultant - IoT/TMT social media services in great China - Startups incubation/acceleration - International startups network with Accelerators, VCs

Director

LILEE Systems

Nov 2009 - Nov 2012 (3 years 1 month)

Lilee Systems is the professional specialized radio solution provider & industrial networking equipment provider in the Railroad & diaster prevention industry. Focus on delivering the network access into the locomotive & the wayside to the central control office. In charge of the Lilee Taiwan unit to help on the product development & supply chain management

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Senior Manager

Quanmax Inc

Apr 2008 - Nov 2009 (1 year 8 months)

The Kontron ASIA became the joint venture platform of Kontron AG & Quanta computer. So the company change the name to Quanmax Inc. Participate in the development and implementation of goals, objectives, policies, and priorities for the Business Development Program; identify resource needs; recommend and implement policies and procedures. Focus on the Japan Embedded market. To help the Japan branch office to build up the business and projects.

Senior Product Manager

Kontron Europe

Dec 2005 - Apr 2008 (2 years 5 months)

In charge of all the PCBA level products, include PICMG 1.x series, Embedded Motherboard, Small Form Factor board. Form the PM team infrastructure & policy. Setup the NPI process in Kontron ASIA. Build up the Kontron ASIA PM Service portal site for the internal customers, include all entities. Push 10 board projects to the market in 2006. Contributor and the iniaitor of UGM(Universal Graphics Module) standard. In charge of the Agilent measurement equipment main board project. Handled the Sanyo ETX project in ASIA.

Product Manager

ADLINK Technology

Mar 2002 - May 2005 (3 years 3 months)

* In charge of the PICMG SBC & Industrial MB product line. It’s the major cash cow product line of company. * The products ever earned the 2003/2004 Taiwan Excellence prize. * NuPRO-900A wined the 2003 Computex Award (Computex 最佳外銷資訊產品獎) * NuPRO-841 as the major successful project in the past 3 years. The best selling products in the company. * Handle the 中石化 project in China, with the NuPRO-760 the best selling product in the ADLINK during 2002~2003. And replaced by NuPRO-841. Until 2007, NuPRO-841 is still the best selling SBC in the ADLINK.

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Product Marketing Assistant Manager

Coventive Inc

Jan 2000 - Feb 2002 (2 years 2 months)

Responsible for the product promotion, sales training, product planning FAE Supports for the Server Appliance products, include the Pre-sales & Post-sale Help RD to survey customer's needs and do the initial Linux products concept model. System RD Linux Distributation development and design the server appliance system. Design the rescue system in the server appliance to avoid the system crash. PCSchool & Coventive Training lecturer. Teach the Linux LPI certification.

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