Taiwan Tech Arena, a startup incubator established in 2018, is aiming to help entrepreneurs go global. Over the past few years, Taiwan has seen an explosion in successful startups in a wide variety of fields from meditech to plantbased food. FTV reporter Stephany Yang spoke to some of the startup founders to learn about their innovations.

Take the phone and scan your face. Once the phone detects your features, it is able to measure vital signs such as heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, oxygen saturation, and stress index. This tech company uses a videobased technology to measure vital signs. It has a database of more than 76 million verified records from clinical trials conducted in hospitals and other medical institutions in Taiwan and in the U.S.

Wilson Chen
Business development manager
Every time a heart pumps, our face turns slightly bit red because of our capillaries. Our eyes can’t see it but a camera can. Using the slight fluctuation in the redness of our face, we can derive the oxygen level, the blood pressure, heart rate, and heart rate variability. This actually came from National Chiao Tung University, from a very famous university in Taiwan. Once we got the face detection and tracking technology, we decided to incorporate physiological data in order detect vital signs without touching the patient which is important during the pandemic times.

Plantbased burgers, steamed mockpork buns, and more. This food tech startup aims to make plantbased food even tastier. With their processing technology, they create vegan fats in hopes of making plantbased food juicier and healthier.

Huang Jenyu
Cofounder and CEO
It’s a very new processing technology that we discovered in Cornell. No one else brought it to a larger scale or on to the market before. The difficulty is how to scale it up and how to apply into different types of plantbased meat like patties is one way, but for example, steak, bacon, or in Taiwan we love pork belly. There are so many different applications so we have to try it out and do alot of R&D.

Are you a coffee lover? This AI brewing coffee robot allows people to enjoy specialty coffee with just a swipe of a finger. To build its AIpowered handdrip coffee machine, the R&D team spent two years working closely with professional awardwinning baristas to learn about handbrewing techniques.

Faraday Chen
Managing director
Firstly, the barista does their pull over brewing on this machine. This machine will automatically record all the details of the pour over processor. Then, the process becomes formatted into the IP. Over the internet, the machine can get the IP then do the pour over process according to the IP so when the consumers come over to this machine, they just order the coffee through this touch panel.

Taiwan Tech Arena offers co working and event spaces designed for tech innovation. The arena brings together academics, R&D talents, accelerators, startups, and investors.

Andrea T. Hsu
National Science and Technology Council
We established TTA here that includes nine international accelerators. They provide coaching courses and venture capitalists to help Taiwan startups. We help aggregate such kind of resources to help startups in Taiwan and also invite startups from overseas to start up their businesses in Taiwan.

Roudy Stanley Penn
Haiti ambassador to Taiwan
One of the main opportunities of collaboration that Taiwan can have with my country is technology. Not only because of the importance of technology and the world, but because particularly of what Taiwan represents as a technological country.  

TTA aims to cultivate a crossborder deep technology startup ecosystem and foster commercialization for entrepreneurs, so that businesses can shine on the international stage.