Central and Eastern Europe Investment fund 2022

Dear SLOVCA members,

Are you interested in obtaining information about the possibility to establish cooperation with Taiwanese companies? Is your business oriented at laser optics, biotechnology, aerospace, fintech, electric vehicles, smart manufacturing, software manufacturing?

Slovak Business Agency in cooperation with Taipei Representative Office in Slovakia is organizing the networking event that will take place on 3rd and 6th of June, 2022 at the premises of Slovak Business Agency.

The aim of the event is to provide Slovak entrepreneurs with information about the possibility of establishing cooperation with Taiwanese companies and obtaining an investment incentive for their business in the total amount of USD 200 million through a presentation and face to face meeting.

The main condition to establish the cooperation is to have business in one of these sectors:

• semiconductors,
• laser optics,
• biotechnology,
• aerospace,
• fintech,
• electric vehicles,
• smart manufacturing,
• software manufacturing,
• software development
• smart cities.

Background

National Development fund, established in March 2022, has aim to enhance the business investment, industrial partnership and supply chain cooperation between Taiwan and Central and Eastern European countries. Taiwania is really interested to enhance cooperation, build up the partnershis and establish joint venture companies in this region. It is being managed by the Taiwan’s national investment arm founded in 2017, being backed and supported from the Taiwan’s government and private enterprises. Taiwania’s main targets are connecting promising Taiwanese companies with global partners, to be a leading VC firm in Taiwan and help developing start up ecosystem in Taiwan. Taiwania is currently raising new funds, managing 6 funds of 48 portfolio companies and has over 665mil. USD assets under management. Their full range of investment coverage consists of high-tech domain, biotech domain and central and eastern Europe.

Fund size is 200,000,000 USD and the span of fund is for 10 years. It is planned to be allocated to 60-80% to Lithuania, Czech Republic and Slovakia and 20-40% to other Central and Eastern European countries.

Registration to this event opens 18.5.2022 and will be closed 2.6.2022

Registration form HERE.

Schedule of the event HERE.

More information about the event you can find in the attachment.