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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>&#160; Founded in 2010 by Jamie Lin, AppWorks Accelerator is a startup community created by founders, for founders.  Every six months, we welcome founders who are building on the edge of what’s possible &#8211; those pushing the boundaries of technology and creating what the world has yet to imagine. We equip them with the necessary [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Founded in 2010 by </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamielin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jamie Lin</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, AppWorks Accelerator is a startup community created by founders, for founders. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Every six months, we welcome founders who are building on the edge of what’s possible &#8211; those pushing the boundaries of technology and creating what the world has yet to imagine. We equip them with the necessary resources, mentorship, and community to turn bold visions into lasting impact.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We know there are many considerations for founders when applying to an accelerator. That’s why we’ve created an FAQ page to help you decide whether or not AppWorks is the right fit for your startup. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As of May 2026, AppWorks #33 is </span><a href="https://bit.ly/4d3vujg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">open for applications</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can find important information about the Accelerator experience on our main page.</span></p>
<p><b>The FAQs</b></p>
<h3><strong>1. What do I need to know before joining the accelerator? What is AppWorks doing to help founders make the most out of the accelerator?</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We understand the unique needs and aspirations for founders, and we&#8217;re committed to providing an experience that&#8217;s both flexible and deeply supportive: </span></p>
<h4><strong>a. Tailored Events for Founders</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>:</strong> </span></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No two founder journeys are alike — whether you’re just getting started, actively scaling, based in Taiwan, or operating from anywhere in the world, we’ve designed a flexible accelerator that blends online and offline experiences. You’ll have access to the resources, mentorship, and connections that best fit your unique path, ensuring that you get what you need, when and where you need it.</span></p>
<h4><strong>b. A Pan-Asia Founder Network: </strong></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beyond flexibility, what truly sets AppWorks apart is our expansive presence across Asia. Our active founder and investor network now spans Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Hong Kong. Wherever you are, you’ll find peers, mentors, and partners who can share local insights, facilitate introductions, and open doors to new cross-border opportunities.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></p>
<h4><strong>c. Taiwan: Your Strategic Base for Innovation:</strong></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taiwan stands at the intersection of technology, manufacturing, and finance, making it an ideal base for founders building in AI, manufacturing, defense technology, and on-chain banking.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Its world-class engineering talent, reliable manufacturing partners, and robust supply chain give startups the speed and stability to develop and scale products efficiently. Combined with an open, innovation-friendly environment and strong digital infrastructure, Taiwan provides everything you need to move from prototype to market with confidence.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">We encourage founders to join our in-person activities whenever possible. Face-to-face engagement within our community in Taiwan and across Asia builds deeper relationships, sharper insights, and opportunities that online meetings cannot fully replicate.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Your success is at the heart of what we do. We can&#8217;t wait to embark on this journey with you.</span></p>
<h3><strong>2. I already raised a Series A / I’m profitable, is AppWorks right for me?</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The short answer is, yes!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The long answer is, reaching a funding goal can be a cause for celebration, but it’s also a relatively minor part of the founder journey. So many more things can go right or wrong, even with a funding round. There are many other facets to overcome and master. When we admit founders into the program, it is because we have carefully considered what they need as a founder, and how our resources and network across Asia can help them grow. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joel Leong and Henry Chan at</span> <a href="https://www.shopback.sg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ShopBack</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">had already built a business model and received seed funding in 2015 when they launched in Singapore before they came to AppWorks Accelerator #13 in 2016. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joel told us that had the team known about Taiwan’s massive</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> US$20 billion GMV e-commerce market </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and all the region-wide technical and tactical innovations that it would eventually yield, they would have made the move to Taiwan much sooner. Taiwan has since become one of ShopBack’s biggest markets and R&amp;D centers. It demonstrates that funding rounds and business model maturity do not limit founders in learning something new. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As long as you think that AppWorks can help you in the entrepreneurial learning process, you should apply. </span></p>
<h3><strong>3. What is an RFS? What kind of support can AppWorks Accelerator provide for startups in AW#33 RFS#1: Manufacturing AI, RFS#2: Defense Tech, RFS#3: On-Chain Banking, and RFS#4: PQC?</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Request for Startups (RFS) highlights the specific problem spaces AppWorks is most focused on each batch &#8211; areas we believe have strong growth potential and for founders to make a meaningful impact.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A RFS is not a restriction; it’s a signal. It helps founders understand where AppWorks can provide the most value and resources in this batch. If you’re already building in one of these areas, we’d love to meet you. But even if not, as long as your startup aligns with our focus or could benefit from joining the AppWorks founder community strategically, you are very welcome to apply.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For AppWorks #33 (AW#33), we&#8217;re looking for founders building in </span><b>Manufacturing AI, Defense Tech, On-Chain Banking, and PQC</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> — four verticals that will redefine Asia&#8217;s industrial and economic foundation in the coming decade, and where Taiwan and the AppWorks community can provide a unique advantage.</span></p>
<h4><b>AW#33 RFS#1: Manufacturing AI</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over the past two years, the rapid progress of AI has begun to fundamentally reshape manufacturing — from design and production to operation and maintenance. Now is the time for the industry to embrace intelligent transformation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With Taiwan’s world-class manufacturing and supply chain ecosystem, AppWorks helps founders directly connect with leading OEMs, manufacturers, and cross-industry partners to co-develop and validate PoCs, as well as build AI-driven solutions for automation, quality inspection, and predictive maintenance.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our community already includes startups deeply rooted in manufacturing innovation, such as </span><a href="https://nunox.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NunoX</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#31), which accelerates textile development with generative AI; </span><a href="http://relajet.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Relajet</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#17), which delivers advanced sound separation for smart acoustics; and </span><a href="http://groundup.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Groundup.AI</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#27), which enables predictive maintenance through acoustic monitoring.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Through collaboration, sales partnerships, and shared know-how within our network, AppWorks helps your solution validate faster, scale faster, and reach real-world impact.</span></p>
<h4><b>AW#33 RFS#2: Defense Tech</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In an era of geopolitical uncertainty and growing emphasis on supply chain and technological sovereignty, dual-use technologies such as unmanned systems, sensing, cybersecurity, AI models, and advanced materials are becoming critical to both national and industrial resilience. This shift is also creating unprecedented opportunities for startups innovating in high-barrier sectors.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks Accelerator, together with </span><a href="https://accelerator.wistron.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wistron Accelerator</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, has long focused on hardware, AIoT, and deep tech, providing a full-scale environment for manufacturing, prototyping, and validation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our community already includes deep-tech startups delivering cutting-edge solutions across both defense and commercial domains — such as </span><a href="http://www.aliena.sg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aliena</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#30), developing propulsion systems for small satellites; </span><a href="https://aonic.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aonic</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#30), Southeast Asia’s largest industrial and agricultural drone operator; and </span><a href="https://www.mapxus.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mapxus</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#30), offering precision mapping and geospatial intelligence.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Through this ecosystem, AppWorks helps founders connect with manufacturing and enterprise partners, develop and test PoCs, access investors and R&amp;D talent, and accelerate both technological development and market adoption.</span></p>
<h4><b>AW#33 RFS#3: On-Chain Banking</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We believe the future of finance will be programmable, transparent, and borderless.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks is looking for founders reimagining financial infrastructure through Web3 technologies. From asset tokenization and decentralized clearing and settlement, to cross-border payments and on-chain compliance and regulatory tools.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As you build toward this new financial architecture, AppWorks helps you understand Asia&#8217;s fintech landscape, connecting you with regional financial institutions, compliance advisors, and investors.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Through our community of FinTech, LegalTech, and Web3 founders and mentors across nine markets in Asia, we provide hands-on insights and strategic guidance for scaling within regulated markets and driving real-world adoption. Our community already includes on-chain finance pioneers like </span><a href="https://www.straitsx.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">StraitsX</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#21), a MAS-licensed stablecoin infrastructure provider powering cross-border payments and regulated settlement across Asia.</span></p>
<h4><b>AW#33 RFS#4: PQC </b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The cryptographic foundations protecting the global digital economy are mathematically vulnerable to quantum computers, and the threat is closer than most assume.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In March 2026, Google&#8217;s </span><a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/cryptography-migration-timeline/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">research</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> showed that quantum computers may break today&#8217;s encryption with far fewer qubits than previously estimated, prompting Google to set 2029 as its internal PQC migration deadline. Meanwhile, &#8220;Harvest Now, Decrypt Later&#8221; attacks — where adversaries collect encrypted data today to decrypt once quantum capability arrives — are widely believed to already be underway.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taiwan is uniquely positioned to lead this transition. Taiwanese semiconductor companies are already producing PQC-hardened hardware at scale: </span><a href="https://www.winbond.com/hq?__locale=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Winbond</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> became the first memory vendor in the world to integrate PQC into its secure flash, now deployed across IoT, industrial, server, and automotive applications. AppWorks&#8217; own community includes </span><a href="https://www.chelpis.com/?lang=zh" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chelpis Quantum</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#10 / Wistron Accelerator #5), a PQC migration specialist already serving multiple financial institutions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The verticals where PQC is most urgently needed: finance, telecom, manufacturing, and defense — map precisely onto AppWorks&#8217; LP base and ecosystem. For founders building the security layer that every other industry will depend on, there is no better time, and no better place to start, than Asia right now.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Whether you&#8217;re building the next-generation AI factory, advancing dual-use technologies, constructing the foundation of on-chain finance, or pioneering the quantum-safe security infrastructure of tomorrow, AppWorks is more than an accelerator — we&#8217;re your strategic partner for entering Taiwan and scaling across Asia. Helping you go from prototype to scale, from the lab to the real world.</span></p>
<h3><strong>4. How can AppWorks Accelerator help a web3 founder?</strong></h3>
<h4><b>a. Grow with one of the largest web3 founder communities.</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks has built a Web3 ecosystem of more than 152 active teams and 313 founders. Our accelerator alumni include</span><a href="https://www.pendle.finance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Pendle</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#20), a DeFi yield-trading protocol enabling the tokenization and trading of future yield, and</span><a href="https://www.straitsx.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">StraitsX</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#21), a MAS-licensed stablecoin infrastructure provider powering cross-border payments and regulated settlement across Asia. Beyond our accelerator alumni, our fund portfolio includes </span><a href="https://sanctum.so/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sanctum</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the largest Solana liquid staking token infrastructure with 16.25M SOL (US$1.45B) under management, and </span><a href="https://www.signalplus.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SignalPlus</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a leading platform for digital asset options trading.</span></p>
<h4><b>b. Build PoC and product integrations with key Web2 and Web3 partners.</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Through deep collaborations with leading financial institutions, telecom operators, and exchanges in Taiwan, AppWorks provides Web3 startups with real PoC opportunities to test and refine products in a trusted and compliant environment. Beyond Web3, our large Web2 founder community spanning B2C and B2B sectors offers potential partnerships that help you reach new user profiles and accelerate adoption.</span></p>
<h4><b>c. Stay ahead of the game to capture the pulse of the ecosystem and access premium development partners</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Within the AppWorks community, nearly 95 teams are already building on major public chains such as Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Hyperliquid, Sui, and Base.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We maintain close ties with leading L1 and L2 ecosystems, and partner with global blockchain infrastructure players including GSR, Alchemy, Quantstamp, and Chainlink, ensuring founders can access reliable tools, liquidity partners, and expert support to scale faster in the region.</span></p>
<h3><strong>5. How does AppWorks Accelerator help founders enter new markets?</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since 2010, AppWorks has made close connections within founder communities and throughout the venture capital ecosystem. When startup teams decide to enter a new market, we can quickly help them learn from local partners to tap into key resources and business models that are specifically tailored to different regions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, the AppWorks community brings together over 600 active technology startups, of which more than 300 operate across multiple Asian markets. The network spans founders from Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">—ensuring that wherever you plan to expand, there’s already an AppWorks founder community on the ground ready to exchange insights, share local know-how, and open doors.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This community is supported by a strong layer of mentors, alumni founders, and seasoned operators, many of whom have built, scaled, or exited successful companies. Together, they form a trusted network that helps new founders navigate everything from product localization to cross-border partnerships.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beyond the founder network, AppWorks actively invests in over 25 venture funds across AI and Web3, including AC Ventures, Golden Gate Ventures, Openspace Ventures, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, Figment Capital, and Pantera Capital. This extended capital network gives founders exposure to top investors and potential follow-on funding partners throughout Asia.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks also partners with leading corporate LPs across manufacturing, finance, media, and telecommunications. Our funds are backed by institutions such as Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund and Korea’s government investment agencies, giving our founders privileged access to regional corporates, pilot opportunities, and distribution networks.</span></p>
<h3><strong>6. What does AppWorks look for in applications?</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When AppWorks reviews applications submitted by founders, we pay special attention to a founder’s north star. Some questions that might help you think about whether AppWorks is a good fit for you: </span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why did you launch your startup?</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What problem do you want to solve and why?</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What do you believe fundamentally needs to exist in this world that doesn’t already?</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What kind of future do you want to create and how will you get there?</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What have you already done to demonstrate your commitment to tackling this problem?</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks Accelerator’s online application covers about 30 topics related to team background, product/service, business model, market analysis, and more. It is very detailed and requires time to complete. It also includes a required one-minute self-intro from the founder (CEO) for us to know you better.</span></p>
<h3><strong>7. Does AppWorks Accelerator cost anything?</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No. AppWorks Accelerator has always been free for founders. We will not charge rent or service fees, nor will we require any form of compensation, such as sweat equity, tokens, options, revenue, or profit-sharing. Our exclusive mission is to help founders. </span></p>
<h3><strong>8. We need funding now, can we get an investment by joining AppWorks?</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The short answer is you will have much better access to us than non-AppWorks accelerated teams. We will discuss with you and help you figure out at this stage of your startup’s journey if capital can give your startup a significant edge and/or take it to the next level, or if there are other more burning issues, e.g., achieving stronger product-market fit, figuring out a working go-to-market strategy, recruiting a solid co-founder, etc. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Any AppWorks founder is welcome to start a discussion with us on fundraising anytime. We will do our best to advise and support you with US$ 386 million in total fund size behind us. </span></p>
<h3><strong>9. My service (or product) has not yet started to make money. Can I still apply?</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of course! There probably isn’t a better time to learn in an accelerator than as a founder just starting out. This period before a founder has built a startup into a scalable business model with Product-Market Fit is called the “seed stage.” During this period, founders always need more than funding; they need a variety of entrepreneurial-related insights, inspiration from other founders, and room for trial and error. AppWorks Accelerator, with over 15 years of experience, was built to provide these lessons and more. </span></p>
<h3><strong>10. I’m planning to expand my business into Taiwan, however, since I am not a Taiwanese citizen, can you help me obtain a proper visa?</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">International founders admitted to AppWorks Accelerator, according to your qualifications and needs, AppWorks can help with your application for the</span> <a href="https://goldcard.nat.gov.tw/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gold Card</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, or </span><a href="https://www.boca.gov.tw/cp-166-277-41131-2.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Entrepreneur Visa</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in Taiwan. This enables founders from overseas to concentrate on work in Taiwan without traveling abroad to sort out troublesome visa issues. We can offer guidance on this process.  </span></p>
<h3><strong>11. Do I have to set up a company to join AppWorks Accelerator?</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not necessarily, but we recommend founders to set up an office when entering a new market, especially those of you that are B2B facing. This may enable you to build relationships with business partners and make negotiating commercial agreements smoother in the future.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the founders who are planning to land in Taiwan, AppWorks has professional accounting and legal specialists who can assist in managing the necessary procedures, making the process of setting up much easier and more efficient.</span></p>
<h3><strong>12. What is the difference between applying during the first round vs. the final round? </strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The application period is split into two intakes, with interviews and admissions facilitated on a rolling basis. Based on past experience, teams that submit their application earlier tend to have a higher chance of being admitted and are also immediately granted access to all the resources that AppWorks Accelerator has to offer.</span></p>
<h3><strong>13. I have previously applied to AppWorks and have been rejected, can I apply again? Will it affect the chances of admission?</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reapplying repre</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">sents the d</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">etermination of the founder and is a positive signal for us. Therefore, we will re-evaluate all aspects, not only for the growth of the founder but also for the progress of the company. In the past, some entrepreneurs applied 2-3 times before being selected. In some cases, after unsuccessful applications, they continued to explore and eventually achieved more user growth and deeper insights. In other cases, they honestly faced the fact that there was no Product-Market Fit (PMF), changed their topic, found a scalable business model, and reapplied. These entrepreneurs have performed well after graduating from the accelerator.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We hope the above FAQ can help clarify your questions about AppWorks Accelerator. If you seek more clarity, please write to:</span> <a href="mailto:a@appworks.tw"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a@appworks.tw</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and we will try to answer your questions.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’re a founder creating what the world doesn’t know it needs yet, you’ve come to the right place! Applications for</span></i> <a href="https://bit.ly/4urhZkA" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks #33 </span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">will be open until </span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">July 19, 2026.</span></i></p>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>&#160; AppWorks Accelerator 在 2010 年由 Jamie  林之晨等創業者，為創業者所成立。每半年招募一屆，對象是來自台灣、亞洲與世界各地的新創團隊。成立 16 年以來，AppWorks Accelerator 總共已招募 32 屆，自 2026 年 5 月起，開放申請的第 33 屆 (AW#33)，將特別聚焦在站在科技最前線、致力於改寫產業規則與突破現況的創業者，並邀請正在打造智慧製造（Manufacturing AI）、國防科技（Defense Tech）、鏈上金融（On-Chain Banking），以及後量子密碼學 (PQC) 相關應用的新創團隊加入。 每次招募團隊，AppWorks 都會收到許多申請書，過程中我們發現，新創團隊在看完網站的介紹後，對我們的加速器計畫仍有些許疑問，因此，我們整理了以下常見問題，希望能為有類似疑惑的你，提供一些解答。 【AppWorks #33 自 2026 年 5 月開放申請】 1. 在加入加速器之前，我需要了解什麼？AppWorks 在幫助創業者充分利用加速器方面做了哪些工作？ AppWorks 致力於提供創業者彈性且全面的體驗，服務台灣本地創業者、以及國際創業者。以下是一些我們獨有的特點： 專為創業者打造的活動：無論你正處於初步驗證、產品開發，還是正在擴張成長，我們都會依照創業階段，設計最適合的活動，協助你持續突破下一個里程碑。 AppWorks 的創業者來自台灣、亞洲美國及全球各地，為了滿足跨時區與多元需求，我們提供實體與線上並行的活動形式，讓你能以最適合自己的方式參與。從工作坊、創業者對談，或是商業媒合，每場活動都經過精心設計，幫助你在每個關鍵時刻加速成長。 亞洲創業網絡：經過 15 年的持續耕耘，我們可以很自豪地分享，AppWorks 已串連起亞洲最活躍的創業生態系，包括創業者社群與投資網絡，遍佈台灣、新加坡、香港、印尼、越南、菲律賓、馬來西亞、韓國與日本，確保你無論身在何處，都能獲得需要的支持。 台灣的市場能量：台灣是亞洲科技創新的核心樞紐，擁有完整的硬體製造鏈、強大的工程與研發人才，以及開放成熟的科技環境。這裡不只是電子與半導體重鎮，更是 AI、國防科技與金融創新的理想實驗場。 AppWorks 深耕台灣超過 16 年，擁有最廣泛且活躍的在地網絡，串連企業龍頭與製造商、創投，以及頂尖學術機構。我們幫助創業者連結供應鏈資源、共同開發解決方案，並加速進入區域市場。 我們強烈建議創業者親自參與 AppWorks [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks Accelerator 在 2010 年由 </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamielin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jamie </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 林之晨等創業者，為創業者所成立。每半年招募一屆，對象是來自台灣、亞洲與世界各地的新創團隊。成立 16 年以來，AppWorks Accelerator 總共已招募 32 屆，自 2026 年 5 月起，開放申請的第 33 屆 (AW#33)，將特別聚焦在站在科技最前線、致力於改寫產業規則與突破現況的創業者，並邀請正在打造智慧製造（Manufacturing AI）、國防科技（Defense Tech）、鏈上金融（On-Chain Banking），以及後量子密碼學 (PQC) 相關應用的新創團隊加入。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">每次招募團隊，AppWorks 都會收到許多申請書，過程中我們發現，新創團隊在看完網站的介紹後，對我們的加速器計畫仍有些許疑問，因此，我們整理了以下常見問題，希望能為有類似疑惑的你，提供一些解答。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">【AppWorks #33 自 2026 年 5 月</span><a href="https://bit.ly/4cXrvVu" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">開放申請</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">】</span></p>
<h3><b style="font-size: 2.4rem;">1. 在加入加速器之前，我需要了解什麼？AppWorks 在幫助創業者充分利用加速器方面做了哪些工作？</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks 致力於提供創業者彈性且全面的體驗，服務台灣本地創業者、以及國際創業者。以下是一些我們獨有的特點：</span></p>
<p><b>專為創業者打造的活動</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">：無論你正處於初步驗證、產品開發，還是正在擴張成長，我們都會依照創業階段，設計最適合的活動，協助你持續突破下一個里程碑。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks 的創業者來自台灣、亞洲美國及全球各地，為了滿足跨時區與多元需求，我們提供實體與線上並行的活動形式，讓你能以最適合自己的方式參與。從工作坊、創業者對談，或是商業媒合，每場活動都經過精心設計，幫助你在每個關鍵時刻加速成長。</span></p>
<p><b>亞洲創業網絡</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">：經過 15 年的持續耕耘，我們可以很自豪地分享，AppWorks 已串連起亞洲最活躍的創業生態系，包括創業者社群與投資網絡，遍佈台灣、新加坡、香港、印尼、越南、菲律賓、馬來西亞、韓國與日本，確保你無論身在何處，都能獲得需要的支持。</span></p>
<p><b>台灣的市場能量</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">：台灣是亞洲科技創新的核心樞紐，擁有完整的硬體製造鏈、強大的工程與研發人才，以及開放成熟的科技環境。這裡不只是電子與半導體重鎮，更是 AI、國防科技與金融創新的理想實驗場。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks 深耕台灣超過 16 年，擁有最廣泛且活躍的在地網絡，串連企業龍頭與製造商、創投，以及頂尖學術機構。我們幫助創業者連結供應鏈資源、共同開發解決方案，並加速進入區域市場。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">我們強烈建議創業者親自參與 AppWorks 在台灣與亞洲各地舉辦的實體活動，透過面對面的交流，建立更強的關係與更深的洞察，獲得真正能推動成長的連結。</span></p>
<h3><b style="font-size: 2.4rem;">2. 什麼是 RFS？AppWorks Accelerator 可以分別提供 AW#33 RFS#1: Manufacturing AI、RFS#2: Defense Tech、RFS#3: On-Chain Banking，以及 RFS#4: PQC 新創什麼幫助？</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">RFS (Request for Startups) 是我們在每一期加速器中特別關注的主題，代表我們認為具有發展潛力、值得優秀創業者投入的方向。RFS 不是限制，而是我們希望創業者留意的訊號，讓創業者了解 AppWorks 此期聚焦的重點與我們能提供的資源。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">如果你的創業題目正好屬於這些關鍵領域，我們很期待認識你；若不是，但你認為自己的解決方案與我們關注的方向相契合，或者相信加入 AppWorks 社群將能帶來策略性的成長，也同樣非常歡迎申請。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks 正在尋找致力於 </span><b>智慧製造（Manufacturing AI）</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">、</span><b>國防科技（Defense Tech）</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">、 </span><b>鏈上金融（On-Chain Banking），以及後量子密碼學（PQC）</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 的創業者。我們相信，這四個領域將在未來十年改變亞洲的產業結構與經濟基礎，也是台灣與 AppWorks 的社群能為創業者發揮助力的地方。</span></p>
<p><b>AW#33  RFS#1: 智慧製造（Manufacturing AI）</b><b><br /></b><span style="font-weight: 400;">過去兩年 AI 的加速發展，讓我們看到了 AI 正全面改變製造業的運作模式，從產品設計、生產製程，到後續維運，皆有機會被大幅翻轉 &#8211; 現在正是製造產業迎向智能化升級的關鍵時刻。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">台灣擁有世界級的製造與供應鏈生態系，AppWorks 能協助創業者直接連結頂尖 OEM、製造商與跨產業夥伴，共同驗證 PoC、開發 AI 驅動的自動化、品質檢測與預測維護等實際應用。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">同時，我們的社群中已聚集眾多 AI 與製造相關的新創，例如可加速織品開發流程的 </span><a href="https://nunox.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NunoX</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#31)、提供精細音訊分離技術的 </span><a href="http://relajet.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Relajet</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#17)、以聲音監測進行預防性維護的 </span><a href="http://groundup.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Groundup.AI</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#27) 等等。透過彼此共同開發、銷售或是經驗分享，AppWorks 社群能幫助你更快驗證、更快落地，推動產品從原型走向規模。</span></p>
<p><b>AW#33  RFS#2: 國防科技（Defense Tech）</b><b><br /></b><span style="font-weight: 400;">在地緣政治緊張、各國追求供應鏈與關鍵技術自主的時代，具「雙重用途」的科技—如無人系統、感測、資安、AI 模型與新材料，正快速成為維護國家與產業安全的關鍵力量；這同時也代表著新創能以創新技術切入高門檻市場的機會。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks 加速器、以及我們與緯創集團共同運營的</span><a href="https://accelerator.wistron.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">緯創加速器（Wistron Accelerator）</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">，長期聚焦於硬體、AIoT 與深科技領域，提供從製造生產到概念驗證的場域。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">同時，我們的社群中已有多支深科技新創，提供國防與商業最前沿的科技應用。包括打造航太與小型衛星推進技術的 </span><a href="http://www.aliena.sg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aliena</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#30)、東南亞最大的農工業無人機服務供應商 </span><a href="https://aonic.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aonic</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#30)、提供高精度定位與地圖資料解決方案的 </span><a href="https://www.mapxus.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mapxus</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#30) 等等。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">在這樣的生態網絡中，AppWorks 將協助新創團隊媒合製造與企業夥伴，開展 PoC 與試驗合作，並連結投資人與技術人才，幫助你強化研發實力、拓展商務應用。</span></p>
<p><b>AW#33  RFS#3: 鏈上金融（On-Chain Banking）</b><b><br /></b><span style="font-weight: 400;">我們相信金融的未來，將是程式化、透明且全球化的。AppWorks 正在尋找致力於用 Web3 技術重構金融基礎設施的創業者，包含資產代幣化、去中心化清算與結算、跨境支付，以及鏈上合規與監管工具等領域。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">在這條通往新金融架構的路上，AppWorks 能協助你了解亞洲的金融科技生態，連結區域內的金融機構、法遵顧問與投資人，同時透過 AppWorks 社群中橫跨亞洲九個不同市場的 </span><b>Fintech、LegalTech、Web3</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 創業者與導師網絡，我們能為你提供在受監管市場中擴張的實戰經驗與策略建議。我們的社群中已有鏈上金融的先行者，例如 StraitsX (AW#21)，一家持有 MAS 牌照的穩定幣基礎設施供應商，在亞洲各地提供跨境支付與合規結算服務。</span></p>
<h4><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>AW#33 RFS#4：後量子密碼學（PQC）</b></span></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Google 在 2026 年 3 月發布的</span><a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/cryptography-migration-timeline/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">研究</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">顯示，量子電腦破解現行加密技術所需的運算資源，遠比過去預估還更少。為此，Google 已將 2029 年定為內部完成 PQC 遷移的截止期限 &#8211; 這是目前科技大廠公開過最具份量的量子安全時間表之一。與此同時，”Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” 攻擊手法——駭客先竊取加密資料存檔，待量子電腦成熟後再解密，已被普遍認為正在發生中。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">台灣在這波轉型中，擁有其他地方難以複製的條件。硬體層面，華邦電子 (</span><a href="https://www.winbond.com/hq?__locale=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Winbond</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) 是全球第一家將 PQC 整合進 secure flash 的記憶體廠商，產品已廣泛應用於 IoT、工業、伺服器與車用領域。AppWorks 社群中也已有先行者：</span><a href="https://www.chelpis.com/?lang=zh" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">池安量子 (Chelpis Quantum)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">（AW#10 / Wistron Accelerator #5）專注於 PQC 遷移服務，已與多家金融機構簽約合作。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">PQC 最迫切需要的領域：金融、電信、製造與國防，正好與 AppWorks 的 LP 網絡高度重疊。對於想打造「所有產業都將依賴的安全基礎層」的創業者而言，現在正是最好的時機，亞洲正是最好的起點。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">無論你正在打造下一代 AI 智慧工廠、研發國防自主科技、建立鏈上銀行的基礎架構，或是佈局未來產業都將依賴的安全基礎層，AppWorks 的定位，並不只是加速器，而是你進入台灣與亞洲市場的策略夥伴。我們期待與你一起，從原型走向規模，從實驗室走進現場。</span></p>
<h3><b>3. AppWorks Accelerator 可以提供 web3 新創什麼幫助？</b></h3>
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<h4><span style="font-size: 12pt;">a. 與亞洲最活躍的 web3 創業者社群共同成長</span></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks 的 Web3 生態系已累積 152 支活躍新創團隊、超過 313 位創業者。加速器校友包括實現資產未來收益代幣化的</span><a href="https://www.pendle.finance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Pendle</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#20)，以及 MAS 持牌的穩定幣支付基礎設施</span><a href="https://www.straitsx.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">StraitsX</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#21)，在亞洲各地提供跨境支付與合規結算服務。此外，AppWorks 基金投資組合中也包含 Solana 上最大的流動性質押代幣 (LST) 基礎設施 </span><a href="https://sanctum.so/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sanctum</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">（管理規模達 1,625 萬 SOL，約 14.5 億美元），以及市佔第一的數位資產期權交易平台 </span><a href="https://www.signalplus.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SignalPlus</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">。</span></p>
<h4><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">b. 與 Web2 與 Web3 領域的關鍵夥伴建立 PoC 與產品整合機會</span></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks 與台灣的金融產業龍頭、電信公司及交易所維持深度合作，為 Web3 新創打造真實的 PoC 測試與落地機會。除了活躍的 Web3 生態外，我們的 Web2 創業者社群橫跨 B2C 與 B2B 各領域，讓 Web3 團隊能與不同用戶群的夥伴合作、快速驗證市場需求。</span></p>
<h4><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">c. 在快速發展的 web3 生態系保持領先，並獲得優質的開發合作夥伴</span></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks Web3 生態系中，有近 95 支團隊已在 Ethereum、Solana、Arbitrum、Hyperliquid、Sui、Base 等主流公鏈上開發產品。此外，AppWorks 也與 GSR、Quantstamp、Chainlink 等全球知名的造市商、審計公司與開發工具供應商合作，為新創提供專業資源與支援。</span></p>
<h3><br /><b style="font-size: 2.4rem;">4. 如果我的新創已經完成 Series A/B 募資、或是已經開始獲利，AppWorks Accelerator 還適合我嗎？</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">我們並沒有限定申請團隊的成熟階段，無論是正處於早期、或是已規模化擴張的團隊，只要你認為在創業過程中，AppWorks 能提供到你所需要幫助，都歡迎申請加入。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">依過去的案例，也有許多較成熟的團隊加入，例如，有些團隊已經在台灣做出不錯的成績，想往東南亞發展，AppWorks 可以成為新創佈局東南亞的橋樑或跳板。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">或者是規模已不小的國際團隊，如果想在台灣建立技術團隊或開發市場商機，加入 AppWorks， 可以成為在台落地的第一步。像是例如來自新加坡、在 2016 年進駐 AW#13 的 </span><a href="https://www.shopback.com.tw/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ShopBack</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">，早在 2014 年就創立，並在 2015 年完成種子輪募資並在新加坡推出服務，而透過在 AppWorks Accelerator 的時間，ShopBack 在台灣建立起技術團隊，並同時驗證了測試台灣市場的發展性可能性。如今，台灣已是 Shopback 所有經營的市場中，重要的營收來源和核心研發基地。</span></p>
<h3><strong>5. AppWorks Accelerator 可以提供想進入國際市場的新創什麼幫助？</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks Accelerator 自 2010 年啟動迄今，累積了廣大的創業者社群與 VC 夥伴網絡，協助新創團隊在進入新市場時能快速獲取關鍵資源，並向當地的創業者學習因地制宜的商業模式。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">目前，我們的社群中已有超過 600 家活躍的科技公司，其中超過 300 間已經是跨市場經營的企業。社群中不僅包含加速器校友新創與 AppWorks 基金投資的國際團隊，也有眾多曾成功規模化或退出的創業者與 Mentors。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">他們分布於亞洲 9 個市場：台灣、新加坡、印尼、越南、菲律賓、馬來西亞、韓國、日本，與香港，這代表無論你想進入哪個市場，AppWorks 社群中都已有在地的創業者群體，以及曾成功拓展跨國事業的創業者，能與你交流經驗、協助引薦人脈，加速你在新市場的落地。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">除了創業者社群以外，AppWorks 另外在 AI、web3 等領域投資超過 25 個創投基金，包含 AC Ventures、 </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Golden Gate Ventures</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">、 Openspace Ventures、Ascend Vietnam Ventures、Figment Capital、Pantera 等。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">此外，AppWorks 與認同我們理念的基金投資人合作，其中包括在科技製造、金融、媒體、電信等領域領先的企業，基金也獲得馬來西亞主權基金與韓國政府投資機構的支持，並與印尼最大的電信公司建立策略夥伴關係，進一步鞏固我們在亞洲的布局，讓新創團隊進入新市場時，能與不同區域的投資人合作、更有效率的拓展人脈與商機。</span></p>
<h3><b>6. AppWorks Accelerator 要收費嗎？</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks Accelerator 是針對創業者完全免費的服務。我們不會向新創團隊收取租金、服務費，也不會要求技術股、選擇權、營收、獲利分成，或是 Token 等任何形式的回饋。</span></p>
<h3><b>7. 我們現在需要一筆資金，加入 AppWorks 就可以被投資嗎？</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">相較於其他新創團隊，參與 AppWorks Accelerator 的創業者，有更多與我們深度交流的機會，自然也就有更高的合作機率。無論參與的新創處於什麼階段，我們都會與創業者討論，什麼是現階段最需要且適合你的幫助。在對的時間點，當資金可以大幅提升該新創的實力與競爭優勢，我們會全力協助你完成該輪募資。但有些時候，創業者當下更重要的任務，是解決其他更急迫的問題，包括重新定義市場問題、 探索正確的目標客群、或是尋找更強的 Product Market Fit 等等。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks 管理四支創投基金規模共 3.86 億美元，無論是關於募資，或是其他策略面向的討論，我們隨時準備好提供你最適切的建議與協助。</span></p>
<h3><b>8. 我的服務 (或產品) 還沒開始賺錢，這樣能申請嗎？</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">當然可以。從公司創立到找到可規模化商業模式這段期間，稱為「種子期」。種子期新創公司需要的多半不是資金，而是各種與創業有關的知識、啟發，以及嘗試與犯錯的空間。AppWorks Accelerator 有豐富的經驗，協助種子期新創尋找可規模化商業模式，幫助他們順利邁向下一階段。</span></p>
<h3><b>9. 加入 AppWorks Accelerator 一定要設立公司嗎？</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">不一定，但我們會建議做 B2B 的團隊設立公司。根據我們的經驗，這將有助於你與潛在事業夥伴洽談後續合作。AppWorks 有專業的會計與法務專家，可以為創業者提供成立公司過程中所需要的協助；以及為計劃擴張到台灣的團隊處理落地的手續。</span></p>
<h3><b>10. 我不是台灣公民，能否幫忙申請簽證？</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">入選 AppWorks Accelerator 的國際創業者，可根據個人的需求與條件，由 AppWorks 提供協助，申請 </span><a href="https://foreigntalentact.ndc.gov.tw/cp.aspx?n=57ABC704441FFEFC&amp;s=55CD067C9A36F3F8" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gold Card 就業金卡</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">、 </span><a href="https://www.boca.gov.tw/cp-166-277-41131-2.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Entrepreneur Visa 創業家簽證</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> ，讓來自海外的創業者能在台灣專心工作，不需為了簽證問題出境往返。</span></p>
<h3><b>11. 新創的申請書中，AppWorks 注重的內容有哪些？</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">我們特別重視驅動創業者長期持續自我精進、沿途排除阻礙，非得要抵達的北極星。此外，以下幾個問題，也是我們關注的：</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">為什麼要創業？</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">你希望透過創業解決什麼問題？為什麼？</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">你相信世界上，還有哪些尚未被滿足的基本需求？</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">你希望創造什麼樣的未來？計畫如何去實現？</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">你已經做了哪些努力來證明你正在解決這些問題？</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><b>12. 申請書的題目都是英文，用中文寫會不會影響分數？</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks Accelerator 的線上申請書共有約 30 個題目，包含團隊、產品、商業模式，與市場分析等眾多面向，非常詳盡，需要花一定的時間與心思填寫。我們希望透過這些題目協助每一個來申請的團隊，釐清自己當下的發展狀態與所需協助。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">填寫報名表是一種自我健檢，因為在填寫過程中，創業者必須深入思考自己的產品、市場策略、團隊分工，以及整體產業環境。因此，不管申請與否，我們都建議創業者針對這些問題仔細思考、研究。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">在 AppWorks，創業者有大量使用英文的機會，與各國創業者、投資人與企業夥伴溝通交流。因此，我們鼓勵你嘗試以英文作答。用中文填寫並不會影響評估結果，最重要的是必須清楚表達你想傳達的訊息。另外，我們也需要創辦人/CEO 拍攝一段一分鐘的自我介紹與產品說明影片，讓我們不僅是透過文字，能夠更加認識你。</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">13. </span><b>第一階段 VS. 第二階段申請有何差別？</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks Accelerator 的面談與入選採先收先審方式 (Rolling-basis)，根據過去的經驗，先繳交申請書的團隊，有較高的入選機率，且能提早知道自己已經入選，有更充裕的時間預先規劃相關事宜。因此，我們會鼓勵創業者在第一階段就填寫申請書，以免到了最後申請截止前夕，競爭變得更加激烈。</span></p>
<h3><b>14. 我以前有申請過 AppWorks 被拒絕了、還能再申請嗎？是否會影響錄取的機率呢？</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">不會影響錄取率。我們會評估你在這段時間的進展，無論是 Founder 本身的成長，或是公司的拓展。整體而言，再次申請代表了創業者的決心，對我們來說是正面的訊號。過去也有創業者申請了 2~3 次才獲選。有的案例是在申請未果後，仍繼續耐心摸索，最終成功增長更多的用戶、也累積了更深入的洞察；有的案例則是坦誠面對沒有 PMF 的事實，更換了題目後，找到可擴展的商業模式而再次申請，而這些創業者自加速器畢業後的表現也相當優秀。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">希望以上整理能幫助你釐清對 AppWorks Accelerator 的諸多疑問。若還有其他需要進一步瞭解的地方，歡迎留言給我們，或是來信至：</span><a href="mailto:a@appworks.tw"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a@appworks.tw</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">，我們將盡量為你解答。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">【歡迎所有不滿足於現狀、正致力於以嶄新方式突破傳統的創業者，加入專為你們服務的 </span><a href="https://bit.ly/4cXYqcp" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks Accelerator</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">，AW#33  申請截止日為 2026 年 7 月 19 日】</span></p>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>在美國的醫療門診市場中，真正限制診所成長的往往不是資金，而是那些跟看診毫無關係的瑣事。據統計，美國診所平均要耗費高達三分之一的時間處理非臨床事務，其中絕大部分是處理財務工作。考慮到美國醫療業是個 5.9 兆美元規模的市場，以及全美有著超過 35 萬家獨立診所，這樣的不效率令人難以想像。 長久以來，為了解決這個痛點，這些診所被迫使用非為他們量身打造的工具，包含費用報銷平台、會計軟體，採購系統等，靠著東拼西湊來應付系統上的落差。即便如此，還是無法真正解決效率低落的問題。 Nitra 正是為了填補這個缺口而生。他們為美國診所打造了一站式的財務與工作流程平台：包含專為醫療產業發行的信用卡、費用管理、帳單支付，以及整合了超過 35 萬種醫療用品 SKU 的採購平台。 解決一個 5.9 兆美元市場的痛點當然極具吸引力。但單靠市場夠大遠不足以成就一家偉大的企業。我們投資決策的核心，實際上是 Nitra 的創辦人 Timothy Hwang。在創辦 Nitra 之前，他曾走過一段傳奇的創業旅程：從擠在廉價的 Motel 6 汽車旅館，一路走到紐約證券交易所（NYSE）敲鐘。如今，他選擇重返起點，挑戰美國醫療體系中最棘手的難題。 從國會山莊到矽谷 和大部分典型的矽谷創業家故事不同，成為創業家前，Tim 原本志在政壇。在華盛頓特區長大的他，青少年時期就創辦了一個家教非營利組織，並將收益捐作弱勢兒童的開學用品。18 歲時，他成功當選郡教育委員會的委員，拿下 3.8 萬張選票、掌管 5 億美元預算，並肩負起 6 萬名員工的生計。隨後，他加入歐巴馬的總統競選團隊，擔任地區組織幹事。對 Tim 而言，政治從來都不是抽象的理念，而是一套能大規模動員群眾、朝共同目標邁進的系統。 這股對於「動員群眾，齊心達成目標」的信念及熱愛始終如一，但 Tim 對於政治的想法隨後發生了改變。身為少數族裔，看著茶黨運動（Tea Party Movement）重塑美國政治版圖，Tim 開始思考：從政真的是他能發揮最大影響力的一條路嗎？ 帶著這樣的疑問，他跟隨同儕來到矽谷，並在普林斯頓大學就讀期間，透過引薦認識了 Jack Dorsey 並加入 Square。這段經歷徹底改變了他的視角。他意識到，打造一家公司和打一場選戰的驅動力如出一轍：一個值得解決的問題、一股支撐你走下去的強大信念，以及號召眾人與你同行的能力。唯一的差別是，商業世界的反饋速度快多了。 從父母的地下室走向紐約證交所 2013 年，Tim 與共同創辦人 Jonathan Chen 拿著 Plug [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">在美國的醫療門診市場中，真正限制診所成長的往往不是資金，而是那些跟看診毫無關係的瑣事。據統計，美國診所平均要耗費高達三分之一的時間處理非臨床事務，其中絕大部分是處理財務工作。考慮到美國醫療業是個 5.9 兆美元規模的市場，以及全美有著超過 35 萬家獨立診所，這樣的不效率令人難以想像。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">長久以來，為了解決這個痛點，這些診所被迫使用非為他們量身打造的工具，包含費用報銷平台、會計軟體，採購系統等，靠著東拼西湊來應付系統上的落差。即便如此，還是無法真正解決效率低落的問題。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nitra 正是為了填補這個缺口而生。他們為美國診所打造了一站式的財務與工作流程平台：包含專為醫療產業發行的信用卡、費用管理、帳單支付，以及整合了超過 35 萬種醫療用品 SKU 的採購平台。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">解決一個 5.9 兆美元市場的痛點當然極具吸引力。但單靠市場夠大遠不足以成就一家偉大的企業。我們投資決策的核心，實際上是 Nitra 的創辦人 Timothy Hwang。在創辦 Nitra 之前，他曾走過一段傳奇的創業旅程：從擠在廉價的 Motel 6 汽車旅館，一路走到紐約證券交易所（NYSE）敲鐘。如今，他選擇重返起點，挑戰美國醫療體系中最棘手的難題。</span></p>
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<h2><b>從國會山莊到矽谷</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">和大部分典型的矽谷創業家故事不同，成為創業家前，Tim 原本志在政壇。在華盛頓特區長大的他，青少年時期就創辦了一個家教非營利組織，並將收益捐作弱勢兒童的開學用品。18 歲時，他成功當選郡教育委員會的委員，拿下 3.8 萬張選票、掌管 5 億美元預算，並肩負起 6 萬名員工的生計。隨後，他加入歐巴馬的總統競選團隊，擔任地區組織幹事。對 Tim 而言，政治從來都不是抽象的理念，而是一套能大規模動員群眾、朝共同目標邁進的系統。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">這股對於「動員群眾，齊心達成目標」的信念及熱愛始終如一，但 Tim 對於政治的想法隨後發生了改變。身為少數族裔，看著茶黨運動（Tea Party Movement）重塑美國政治版圖，Tim 開始思考：從政真的是他能發揮最大影響力的一條路嗎？</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">帶著這樣的疑問，他跟隨同儕來到矽谷，並在普林斯頓大學就讀期間，透過引薦認識了 Jack Dorsey 並加入 Square。這段經歷徹底改變了他的視角。他意識到，打造一家公司和打一場選戰的驅動力如出一轍：</span>一個值得解決的問題、一股支撐你走下去的強大信念，以及號召眾人與你同行的能力。<span style="font-weight: 400;">唯一的差別是，商業世界的反饋速度快多了。</span></p>
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<h2><b>從父母的地下室走向紐約證交所</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">2013 年，Tim 與共同創辦人 Jonathan Chen 拿著 Plug &amp; Play 的一筆小額種子資金，創辦了政策與市場情報 SaaS 平台 FiscalNote。在初期為了省錢，公司註冊地直接登記在 Tim 父母的地下室，整個創辦團隊更是擠在一間狹小的 Motel 6 的房間內長達數個月，只為打造出 MVP。之後，在急需資金又欠缺人脈的情況下，他們在某天半夜寄了一封 cold mail 給知名投資人 Mark Cuban，沒想到 Cuban 馬上回信。這封信件隨後開啟了一場長達六小時的即時 Due Diligence ，面對許多沒準備過的問題，兩位創辦人甚至得臨場即興發揮才能招架他犀利的提問。但這招奏效了，Cuban 最後決定投資 FiscalNote。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">從那一刻起，這股敢拚、無所畏懼的基因就深植於公司。FiscalNote 在之後發展迅速，不到五年的時間內，團隊擴張至 200 多人，營收突破千萬美元。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">2018 年完成 D 輪融資後，FiscalNote 迎來了與經濟學人集團旗下 CQ Roll Call，也是 FiscalNote 主要競爭對手的正面對決。Tim 找上一位與著名的羅斯柴爾德家族（同時也是經濟學人集團大股東）有交情的大學好友，成功約到了 CQ Roll Call 的執行長。對方以為這只是一場前輩指導後輩的閒聊，不料 Tim 直接攤牌：若不把數據部門賣給 FiscalNote，就準備迎戰一個資金充沛、且產品明顯優於 CQ Roll Call 的強勁對手。這場會面結束後，那位執行長帶走了一份被收購的投資意向書。最終，收購案順利落幕，奠定了 FiscalNote 在產業中的霸主地位。2022 年 8 月，公司正式在紐交所掛牌上市，如今服務全球超過 6,000 家機構，涵蓋過半的財富 500 強企業與破千個美國聯邦政府機構。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">公司成功上市後，Tim 轉換了自己的角色，開始經營一家橫跨金融科技、國防與氣候科技的 Venture Studio。儘管有趣，但他總覺得少了點什麼。經過一段時間的探索後 Tim 才找到答案：</span>他懷念那種捲起袖子在第一線拚搏的實戰感。<span style="font-weight: 400;">與此同時，上述提到美國診所體系中的不效率，作為他職涯中所見過最大的未解難題，不斷在他眼前浮現。於是，他與 Jonathan Chen 再次聯手創立 Nitra。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">醫療產業看似遙遠，但 Tim 在 FiscalNote 累積了十年的實戰經驗完美契合醫療市場的特性：如何贏得非科技原生傳統機構買家的信任、駕馭與合規高度相關的工作流程，並開發出能無縫融入日常營運的軟體。政府機構、律師事務所和醫療診所其實非常相似：它們都是在繁瑣法規限制下運作的專業服務機構，任何帳務疏失都會帶來財務與合規的雙重災難。當 Tim 和 Jonathan 重新踏上旅程打造 Nitra 時，他們帶著的是在 FiscalNote 打磨了十年的歷練。</span></p>
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<h2><b>為什麼是 Nitra？為什麼是現在？</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">產品上線三年來，成長數據呈現驚人的複利效應。Nitra 已成功協助 700 多家診所導入系統，最新的季度總交易額（GTV）年增率高達 9.3 倍。我們也看到越來越多診所以信用卡為敲門磚，進而採用 Nitra 所提供，包含費用管理、帳單支付與採購系統在內的全面財務管理系統。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">展望未來，一個直覺的問題會是：AI 將如何顛覆現有醫療診所的工作流程？而 Nitra 正在回答這個問題。如今，Nitra 的 AI Agent 已經能處理平台上的各種任務，從發行虛擬卡、下訂採購單，到標記異常費用等；而用於病患預約排程的語音 AI，及支援臨床工作流程的 AI 模組也將於今年上線。隨著這些工具更方方面面地串入診所的工作流程，我們觀察到的是，</span>Nitra 正在掌握通用型平台無法觸及的深層數據：每一筆流經診所、綁定特定供應商、藥品或療程的資金流向，<span style="font-weight: 400;">並以此來提供給診所更好的服務。多年來，診所一直在拼湊那些從未為它們設計的工具；而當基礎設施終於是量身打造的，它們不再需要東拼西補。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">與此同時，AI 時代正加速傳統產業的數位轉型，而醫療保健無疑是其中最大的一塊拼圖。Tim 擁有駕馭這種產業特性的成功實績：FiscalNote 曾將數據情報成功打入政府機構、國會辦公室與律師事務所。這些客戶同樣受制於繁瑣法規、對軟體陌生，且抗拒改變。他深知如何贏得這些人的信任、讓產品成為他們日常營運不可或缺的一部分，並藉此擴展版圖。這份經驗與 Nitra 正在做的事完美契合。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">是的，「市場夠大」、「時機正好」，「產品也已獲驗證」都可以是我們投資的原因。但貫穿這一切的核心，是我們對創辦人的信念。Tim 和 Jonathan 選擇在成功 IPO 後將自己歸零，挑選了美國經濟中結構最複雜的市場，帶著當初那份草根的拼勁，以及如今更深厚的商業智慧重新出發。Tim 曾把一家公司從父母的地下室一路帶進紐交所，如今他回來挑戰更艱鉅的任務。單憑這一點，就比任何市場規模預估更能說明 Nitra 的無窮潛力。在他們追求更高目標的第二段創業旅程中，我們很榮幸能與之並肩同行。</span></p>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Why We Invested: Tim Hwang, Co-founder &#038; CEO of Nitra]]></title>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>In US outpatient care, the limiting factor isn&#8217;t capital. It&#8217;s the operational drag. Physicians and clinic administrators spend up to a third of their work hours on non-patient-facing tasks, and a significant share of that burden falls on financial operations. Multiply that across 350,000+ independent group practices in a $5.9T market, and the problem becomes [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In US outpatient care, the limiting factor isn&#8217;t capital. It&#8217;s the operational drag. Physicians and clinic administrators spend up to a third of their work hours on non-patient-facing tasks, and a significant share of that burden falls on financial operations. Multiply that across 350,000+ independent group practices in a $5.9T market, and the problem becomes staggering. The tools available to most practices were never built for them. The entire stack — expense platforms, accounting software, procurement systems — was architected for a different kind of company, and practices have been patching around that mismatch ever since.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nitra was founded to close that gap. The company provides an all-in-one finance and workflow platform for US practices: a healthcare-native credit card, expense management, bill pay, and a procurement marketplace aggregating 350,000+ medical SKUs. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Indeed, a $5.9T market is exciting, but markets don&#8217;t build companies. Underlying our thesis is Timothy Hwang — a founder who has already navigated the full journey from a shared Motel 6 room to the NYSE, and came back to do it again on one of the hardest problems in American healthcare.</span></p>
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<h2><b>From Capitol Hill to Silicon Valley</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before startups, Tim&#8217;s early ambitions were in politics. Growing up in Washington, D.C., he started a peer-to-peer tutoring nonprofit as a teenager, donating the proceeds to purchase school supplies for children in need. By eighteen, he had run for the county&#8217;s board of education and won—38,000 votes, a $500M budget, and responsibility for 60,000 employees. He later joined the Obama presidential campaign as a regional field organizer. Politics, for Tim, was never abstract. It was a system for mobilizing people toward a shared goal at scale.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That certainty about mobilizing people never left him—but the arena shifted. As a minority watching the Tea Party Movement reshape American politics, Tim began to question whether elected office was the highest-leverage path available to him. He followed his cohort to Silicon Valley, joining Square through an introduction to Jack Dorsey while still studying full-time at Princeton. What he found there reframed everything. </span>Building a company, he realized, ran on the same fuel as a political campaign: a problem worth solving, a conviction strong enough to sustain you, and the ability to get people to move with you. The feedback loop was just much faster.</p>
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<h2><b>From Basement to NYSE</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tim and his co-founder Jonathan Chen received a small check from Plug &amp; Play to kickstart FiscalNote, a policy and market intelligence SaaS platform, in 2013, registering the company in his parents&#8217; basement and sharing a Motel 6 room to survive. Needing funding with no warm intros, they cold emailed Mark Cuban in the middle of the night. Cuban replied instantly, and what started as an email exchange turned into a six-hour live due diligence session, with the two founders making things up on the spot to keep up with his questions. It worked. Cuban invested. From there, that scrappy, fearless energy never left the company: FiscalNote scaled quickly, growing to a team of more than 200 in under five years and reaching eight figures in revenue.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After its Series D in 2018, FiscalNote was going head-to-head with The Economist Group&#8217;s CQ Roll Call. Tim tracked down a college friend with ties to the Rothschild family, a major shareholder of The Economist Group, and secured an introduction to its CEO. </span>The CEO arrived expecting a mentorship chat; Tim arrived with a choice: sell the data division, or face a well-funded, tech-native competitor. The CEO left with a term sheet.<span style="font-weight: 400;"> The acquisition followed, cementing FiscalNote as the dominant player in its category. </span>In August 2022, the company went public on the NYSE, and today serves over 6,000 organizations globally, including more than half of the Fortune 500 and over 1,000 US federal government agencies.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After FiscalNote&#8217;s listing, Tim ran a venture studio across fintech, defense, and climate. He found it stimulating, but something was missing: the grind. Healthcare kept surfacing as the largest unsolved problem in his orbit, and he and Jonathan regrouped to build Nitra. The move made more sense than it looked: Tim&#8217;s decade at FiscalNote had given him a transferable playbook for exactly this kind of market: earning trust from institutional buyers who aren&#8217;t technology natives, navigating compliance-adjacent workflows, and building software that embeds into daily operations. Government agencies and law firms are not so different from healthcare practices: professional services businesses inside a regulatory maze where billing errors carry both financial and compliance consequences. When Tim and Jonathan sat down to build Nitra, that playbook came with them.</span></p>
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<h2><b>Why Nitra? Why Now?</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Three years since launch, the numbers are compounding. </span>Nitra has onboarded 700+ practices, grown quarterly GTV 9.3x year-over-year<span style="font-weight: 400;">, and is seeing a growing share of those practices adopt multiple products across its financial back office, with the card as the entry point, expense management, bill pay, and procurement building on top. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The forward-looking question is what this platform looks like with AI on top — and Nitra is already answering it. Today, </span>Nitra AI agents already handle tasks across the platform, from issuing virtual cards, placing procurement orders, to surfacing expense anomalies in one conversation, while voice AI for patient scheduling and agentic modules for clinical workflow are on deck for 2026.<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Underneath all of it, the platform is capturing what no generalist fintech ever could: every dollar moving through a practice, tied to a vendor, a drug, a procedure. The long-term vision is a full CFO and operations layer woven into how a clinic runs. Practices have spent years stitching together tools that were never built for them. When the infrastructure is finally purpose-built, they stop patching, because they no longer need to.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The AI era is also accelerating how quickly underdigitized industries can adopt software — and healthcare is one of the largest of them. Tim has a direct track record of navigating exactly this dynamic: FiscalNote brought data intelligence to government agencies, congressional offices, and law firms. All of them were institutional buyers operating inside regulatory constraints, largely unfamiliar with software, and skeptical of change. He learned how to earn their trust, embed the product into daily operations, and scale from there. That experience maps directly onto what Nitra is building. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The market is large, the timing is right, and the product is already working. Underlying all of it is our founder bet. Tim and Jonathan chose to return to zero after a public exit, picked one of the most structurally complex markets in the US economy, and are building with the same scrappiness and significantly more accumulated wisdom. The fact that Tim has already taken a company from his parents&#8217; basement to the NYSE, and came back for something harder, tells us more about what Nitra can become than any market sizing exercise. We are proud to support them on this second, more ambitious journey.</span></p>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>我們很高興宣佈 AppWorks 投資了 Sanctum 的原生代幣 $CLOUD。這項投資象徵著我們對 Sanctum 創始團隊的長期信念，以及對於他們多年來建立的強大護城河的認可。 在這篇文章中，我們將分享為什麼我們認為 Sanctum 是 Solana 生態系中最重要的基礎建設之一；它將如何重塑加密貨幣領域中最被誤解的垂直賽道，以及為什麼現在 Sanctum 正處於爆發前夕。 Sanctum：打破常規的 Solana LST 要理解 Sanctum，我們首先需要了解 Solana 流動性質押代幣（LST）的歷史。 很長一段時間以來，大多數人假設 Solana 的流動性質押市場會遵循以太坊的劇本：出現一個主導者（如 Lido），而其他競爭者的市占率將逐漸被該主導者蠶食鯨吞。因此，在 Solana 流動性質押市場的早期，許多協議爭相複製 Lido 模式，試圖在早期達到規模經濟並統治該賽道。 然而，最具洞察力的創辦人往往能看見他人忽視的細節。 Sanctum 的創辦人 FP Lee 作為設計 Solana 質押帳戶合約的核心貢獻者，很早就知道 Solana 的架構設定與以太坊有著根本上的不同。每一個質押帳戶（Stake Account）本質上都是模組化、可轉移且可組合的。這意味著所有 Solana 上的 LST 在核心層面上本質是同質的（Fungible），它們只是同一個底層質押帳戶的不同包裝。 有了這個認知，下一個問題顯而易見：假設一個有著多元 LST 的世界注定將發生，那我們還缺少什麼？ 仔細觀察，質押池（Stake Pool）服務於三個不同的目的： 代幣化（Tokenize）： 將原生質押帳戶轉換為生息的 SPL 代幣。 委託（Delegate）： [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">我們很高興宣佈 AppWorks 投資了 Sanctum 的原生代幣 $CLOUD。這項投資象徵著我們對 Sanctum 創始團隊的長期信念，以及對於他們多年來建立的強大護城河的認可。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">在這篇文章中，我們將分享為什麼我們認為 Sanctum 是 Solana 生態系中最重要的基礎建設之一；它將如何重塑加密貨幣領域中最被誤解的垂直賽道，以及為什麼現在 Sanctum 正處於爆發前夕。</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sanctum：打破常規的 Solana LST</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">要理解 Sanctum，我們首先需要了解 Solana 流動性質押代幣（LST）的歷史。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">很長一段時間以來，大多數人假設 Solana 的流動性質押市場會遵循以太坊的劇本：出現一個主導者（如 Lido），而其他競爭者的市占率將逐漸被該主導者蠶食鯨吞。因此，在 Solana 流動性質押市場的早期，許多協議爭相複製 Lido 模式，試圖在早期達到規模經濟並統治該賽道。</span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15864" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15864" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15864 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig1-640x345.png" alt="" width="640" height="345" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig1-640x345.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig1-768x414.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig1.png 1168w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15864" class="wp-caption-text">資料來源: DeFillama</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">然而，最具洞察力的創辦人往往能看見他人忽視的細節。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sanctum 的創辦人 FP Lee 作為設計 Solana 質押帳戶合約的核心貢獻者，很早就知道 Solana 的架構設定與以太坊有著根本上的不同。每一個質押帳戶（Stake Account）本質上都是模組化、可轉移且可組合的。這意味著所有 Solana 上的 LST 在核心層面上本質是同質的（Fungible），它們只是同一個底層質押帳戶的不同包裝。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">有了這個認知，下一個問題顯而易見：</span><b>假設一個有著多元 LST 的世界注定將發生，那我們還缺少什麼？</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">仔細觀察，質押池（Stake Pool）服務於三個不同的目的：</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>代幣化（Tokenize）：</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 將原生質押帳戶轉換為生息的 SPL 代幣。</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>委託（Delegate）：</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 實現高質押收益並分散網絡去中心化。</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>流動性（Liquidate）：</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 為質押的 SOL 提供即時流動性。</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">對 FP 而言，他的答案是「流動性」。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">原因很簡單：以太坊已經進行過這個實驗。Lido 之所以主導以太坊，很大程度上是因為 stETH 整合進了所有主要的 DeFi 協議，並具有極高的可組合性。多年的整合使其成為網路上最具可組合性的資產，其在派發上的優勢逐漸如滾雪球般幫助 Lido 達到了統治地位。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">在 Solana 上，同樣的結論更加清晰：質押帳戶是可以互換的；每一顆質押的 SOL 在交易流中都承載著相同的經濟權重。在這個世界裡，「多 LST 並存」的未來是預設狀態，而</span><b>誰能協調流動性，誰就能贏得這場競爭。</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">因此，FP 沒有試圖爭奪成為單一最大的質押池，而是看到了更大的機會：</span><b>成為連結 Solana 上所有 LST 的流動性層。</b></p>
<p><b>這就是 Sanctum 的起點。</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">他們破解這個難題的方式與上述洞察息息相關。首先，他們創建了 「</span><b>Sanctum Router</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">」，用於在成千上萬種 LST 之間進行交換。這種交換只需簡單地「unwrap」和「re-wrap」底層質押帳戶即可完成。</span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15865" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15865" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15865 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig2-640x274.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="274" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig2-640x274.jpg 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig2-768x329.jpg 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig2.jpg 1199w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15865" class="wp-caption-text">資料來源: Sanctum document</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">必要時，這些 Swap 也可以導流到 </span><b>Infinity Pool</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">，其這可以被視為一籃子由 Sanctum 管理的 LST 組合，且所有這些 LST 都在 Sanctum 的 LST 發行基礎設施下運作。當 Swap 被導流進入 Infinity 時，交易費用將分配給 Infinity Pool 的流動性提供者（即 $INF 持有者）。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">這種設計增強了整個 Sanctum LST 生態系統的流動性，同時將 $INF 本身變成了 Solana 上最具吸引力的 LST 之一。</span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15866" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15866" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15866 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig3-640x202.png" alt="" width="640" height="202" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig3-640x202.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig3-1280x403.png 1280w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig3-768x242.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig3-1536x484.png 1536w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig3-1200x378.png 1200w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig3.png 1600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15866" class="wp-caption-text">資料來源: Sanctum document</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">最後，Sanctum 管理著規模可觀的原生 $SOL 儲備，這由所有 Sanctum 品牌的 LST 共享。</span><b>對於任何項目來說，他們無需自行建立數百萬美元的流動性池，只需透過 Sanctum 發行他們的 LST，而不必擔心流動性的冷啟動問題。</b></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15867" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15867" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15867 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig4-640x482.png" alt="" width="640" height="482" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig4-640x482.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig4-768x579.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig4.png 1072w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15867" class="wp-caption-text">資料來源: AppWorks</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">在不到兩年的時間裡，Sanctum 已經和 Bybit、Crypto.com、Backpack、Jupiter 等領域內的主要參與者合作，</span><b>管理著超過 20 億美元的 $SOL</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">。截至 2025 年底，Sanctum 以創紀錄的指標結束了該年度：</span><b>總管理資產達 1,436 萬顆 SOL（年增 96%），年營收達到 585 萬美元（年增 226%）。</b></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15868" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15868" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15868 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig5-640x443.png" alt="" width="640" height="443" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig5-640x443.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig5-1280x886.png 1280w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig5-768x532.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig5-1536x1064.png 1536w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig5-1200x831.png 1200w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig5.png 1600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15868" class="wp-caption-text">資料來源: Sanctum 25Q4 Report</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15869" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15869" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15869 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig6-640x482.png" alt="" width="640" height="482" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig6-640x482.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig6.png 650w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15869" class="wp-caption-text">資料來源: Sanctum 25Q4 Report</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">另一個令人印象深刻的指標是 Sanctum 在 2025 年對 Solana LST 類別的統治力；Sanctum 實現了近 800 萬顆 $SOL 的淨累積流入，而其兩大競爭對手 Jito 和 Marinade 的 LST 產品則以淨流出結束了這一年。這種差距凸顯了 Sanctum 在 LST 市場中流動性護城河的複利競爭優勢。</span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15870" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15870" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15870 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig7-640x412.png" alt="" width="640" height="412" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig7-640x412.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig7-1280x823.png 1280w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig7-768x494.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig7-1536x988.png 1536w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig7-1200x772.png 1200w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig7.png 1600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15870" class="wp-caption-text">資料來源: Sanctum 25Q4 Report</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">回過頭看，人們很容易認為這一切都順理成章，彷彿 Sanctum 的崛起是注定的。但事實是，這是Sanctum 團隊於過去五年來堅持不懈、不斷迭代，並在市場寒冬中保持信念才達成的結果。這將我們引向第一個，也是最重要的投資原因：創辦人 FP Lee。</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">投資論點 #1：我們對創辦人 FP Lee 的核心信念</span></h2>
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<h3><b>尋找非共識的洞見</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">我們在 FP 身上看到一種獨特的能力：他能看見別人錯過的東西，並深入鑽研一個概念，直到浮現出反向的洞察。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">2023 年，當許多人競相打造「Solana 版的 Lido」時，FP 注意到了上游的一些東西：Solana 的質押帳戶在設計上是模組化且同質的。這單一的觀察顛覆了整個劇本。他沒有去競爭成為最大的質押池，而是將 Sanctum 打造為連結每一個 LST 的流動性層，這徹底改變了遊戲規則。</span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15871" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15871" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15871 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig8-640x407.png" alt="" width="640" height="407" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig8-640x407.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig8-768x489.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig8.png 1078w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15871" class="wp-caption-text">資料來源: 0xfp.com, 2023</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">如今，在 Solana 生態系中建構多年後，他又發現了另一個鮮少人注意到的低效之處：Solana 交易層的不可預測性。簡而言之，我們相信他近期收購 Ironforge 並推出 Gateway 的舉動反映了同樣的模式：</span><b>鑽得夠深，找到結構性的瓶頸，然後構建出其他人往往視為理所當然的缺失基礎設施。</b></p>
<h3><b>與社群的深度連結 </b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">我們認為創辦人在 Crypto 世界裡建立社群的能力常常被低估。對我們而言，FP 是少數不只是「管理」社群，而是與社群「共同建設」的創辦人之一。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sanctum 在代幣生成事件（TGE）前舉辦的 Wonderland 活動，不僅僅是另一個積分農場（Points farm）；Sanctum 將其變成了一個協作的、遊戲化的任務層，用戶質押 LST 以賺取經驗值並共同完成社群挑戰，這使得參與度具有黏性，而非僅是為了逐利。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">結果令人驚艷，Sanctum 的 TVL 在 38 天內增長了 171%，社群論壇衍生出了常態性活動（如 Cloudfam Emoji Clan 競賽），讓成員在初次空投後很久仍持續創作與招募，展現了有機的動能而非付費買來的流量。其社群（後來被親切地稱為 CloudFam）成為了 Solana 上最強大的草根運動之一。</span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15872" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15872" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15872 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig9-640x251.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="251" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig9-640x251.jpg 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig9-768x301.jpg 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig9.jpg 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15872" class="wp-caption-text">資料來源: Sanctum website</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">大多數人不知道的是，FP 和團隊為了展現這份在乎付出了多少努力。當 $CLOUD 空投的時候，他們不僅僅是跑個程式腳本或在試算表裡算數字。他們手動篩選了成千上萬個 Discord 頻道和 Telegram 聊天記錄，以識別真正的死忠用戶，並給予他們遠比大多數項目更慷慨的獎勵。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">代幣終究是創辦人的第二個產品。把「代幣投資人關係（Token IR）」做好不僅僅是管理價格；更是建立信任、透明度和歸屬感。許多創辦人說他們在乎代幣持有者，但很少有人真正言行一致。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">FP 是少數言行合一的創辦人之一，從發布月度更新到在 Discord 中持續與用戶互動，</span><b>他將社群建設視為一門他仍持續優化、且熱愛的事情。隨著時間推移，這種真實性會產生複利效應，將用戶群轉化為更接近「運動」的力量。我們相信這將仍然是 Sanctum 最強大的長期差異化優勢之一</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">。</span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15873" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15873" style="width: 638px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15873 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig10-638x640.png" alt="" width="638" height="640" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig10-638x640.png 638w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig10-150x150.png 150w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig10-768x771.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig10.png 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15873" class="wp-caption-text">資料來源: Sanctum $CLOUD holder group</figcaption></figure></p>
<h3><b>找到天命</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">FP 最初並沒打算成為創辦人。在進入加密貨幣領域之前，他只是一個試圖尋找方向的年輕軟體工程師。他是出於好奇和對成長的渴望而跌跌撞撞進入 Solana 的，而他之所以留下來，是因為在旅途中，他找到了天命。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">這種天命的發現來自於從事真正熱愛的事情。在加密領域建設多年後，FP 經歷了許多事情：FTX 的崩潰、許多創辦人對用戶撤資跑路、項目魯莽地賭光整個國庫等等。在一個常被短期主義和貪婪籠罩的行業裡，FP 想要證明：</span><b>在 2026 的今天，你仍然可以打造一個偉大的產品、保持透明，並以正確的方式成功。</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">雖然聽起來有些虛無飄渺，甚至有些老套，但我們相信這是這個產業中最欠缺，卻也強大的驅動力之一，這也正是我們想要支持的使命。</span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15874" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15874" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15874 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig11-640x286.png" alt="" width="640" height="286" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig11-640x286.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig11-1280x571.png 1280w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig11-768x343.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig11-1536x685.png 1536w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig11-1200x536.png 1200w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig11.png 1600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15874" class="wp-caption-text">資料來源: Solana Accelerate 2025</figcaption></figure></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">投資論點 #2：許多對於 Sanctum LST 的利好正在醞釀</span></h2>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">我們看見 Sanctum LST 的幾個催化劑，並堅信現在萬事俱備，只欠東風。</span></p>
<h3>Solana LST 仍處於早期階段並在成長中</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Solana LST 的滲透率在兩年內增長了 4.4 倍，從 3% 增長到 13.3%。這種加速是由像 Sanctum 這樣的生態系基礎建設的出現，以及節點運營者對搶佔 LSTfi 市場份額日益增長的需求所積極推動的。</span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15875" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15875" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15875 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig12-640x254.png" alt="" width="640" height="254" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig12-640x254.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig12-1280x509.png 1280w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig12-768x305.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig12-1536x611.png 1536w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig12-1200x477.png 1200w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig12.png 1600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15875" class="wp-caption-text">資料來源: Dune</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">然而，這 13.3% 的滲透率意味著大多數質押的 $SOL 仍然是非流動的。對比以太坊更成熟的市場（接近 35-40% 的 LST 滲透率），顯然 Solana 的流動性質押層——這個解鎖資本效率和可組合性的關鍵——仍處於早期局勢。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">在此背景下，我們相信 Sanctum 正處於那個轉折點。Sanctum 的產品套件（Router、Reserve、Infinity）被明確設計為這種中立的流動性中心。這創造了一個強大的護城河，使 Sanctum 成為這個快速擴張且碎片化市場的預設聚合點。</span></p>
<h3>LST 的網路效應</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">對於任何發行新 LST 的協議來說，他們不想自行建立數百萬美元的流動性池。相反，最簡單的方法是接入 Sanctum，並只專注於品牌、核心產品和分發；Sanctum 提供流動性層（Router + Reserve + Infinity），使這些 LST 在第一天就能與 Solana 的其餘部分互換。這就是我們所見證的。這個聯盟每天都在變得越來越強大。迄今為止，Sanctum 正在服務所有最大的客戶，如 Jupiter、Bybit、Backpack。</span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15876" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15876" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15876 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig13-640x243.png" alt="" width="640" height="243" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig13-640x243.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig13-1280x486.png 1280w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig13-768x291.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig13-1536x583.png 1536w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig13-1200x455.png 1200w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig13.png 1600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15876" class="wp-caption-text">資料來源: AppWorks</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><b>更多整合 → 更多支援的 LST → 更多可互換的路徑 → 跨 DeFi 的更深層效用。 這個飛輪效應是很難被追上的。</b></p>
<h3>機構也正在採用 Solana LST</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">對 Solana 收益的競爭正迅速演變，超越了 DeFi 原生協議的範疇。新一波規模更大的成熟資本，從傳統金融的資產管理公司、潛在的 SOL 質押 ETF 到上市公司（如 DATs），正進入這個競技場。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">對於這些實體而言，基礎質押收益僅僅是起點。為了吸引龐大的資產管理規模（AUM），他們必須提供合規、品牌化且</span><b>高度差異化的流動性產品</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">。這需要在基礎 LST 之上疊加獨特的驗證者策略、透明的報告和深度的 DeFi 整合。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">這正是 Sanctum 成為關鍵賦能基礎設施的地方。作為一個中立、模組化的平台，它提供了全端式的「質押即服務（Staking-as-a-Service）」，讓任何實體都能發行自己的 LST。它允許他們保留對財務策略和品牌的完全控制權，同時將深層的技術複雜性外包給 Sanctum 經過驗證的流動性層和可組合後端。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">我們已經看到了強有力的驗證。2025 年 5 月，上市金融公司 DeFi Development Corp (NASDAQ: DFDV) 使用 Sanctum 的基礎設施推出了 </span><b>dfdvSOL</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">。這標誌著上市公司首次持有並使用定制的 Solana LST。他們的明確目標是將流動性貢獻回 Solana DeFi 生態系統，創造一種也能讓自家公司資產負債表受益的飛輪效應。</span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15862" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15862" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15862 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig14-640x323.png" alt="" width="640" height="323" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig14-640x323.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig14-1280x646.png 1280w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig14-768x387.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig14-1536x775.png 1536w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig14-1200x605.png 1200w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/fig14.png 1594w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15862" class="wp-caption-text">資料來源: DeFillama</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">我們的核心信念是，隨著更多</span><b>結構化的 SOL 產品</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">出現以競爭這波新資本，Sanctum 將成為他們的預設發行合作夥伴和流動性骨幹。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">我們的論點很明確：在中短期內，</span><b>Sanctum 是這波機構浪潮中最被低估的基礎設施標的</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">，他們正悄悄成為每個主要生息 Solana 產品所依賴的必要管線。</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">投資論點 #3：Sanctum App 將成為 Solana 的實質入口</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">在 2025 年 Solana Breakpoint 大會上，Sanctum 揭曉了其最新力作：Sanctum App。這是一個輕量級的手機端應用程式，旨在幫助用戶在一個有趣、遊戲化的環境中，透過每日獎勵輕鬆增長他們的 $SOL 持有量。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">回到我們最初的論點，Sanctum LST 尚未達到市場滲透率峰值的主要原因是當前 DeFi 用戶體驗（UX）固有的摩擦。人們很容易忘記，許多 $SOL 持有者完全存在於「DeFi 泡沫」之外。他們對 Solana 的技術內部結構或 LST 收益背後的複雜數學不感興趣；接觸他們的唯一方法是將這些複雜性抽象化。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">繼 Wonderland 的巨大成功之後，我們加倍確信 Sanctum 創始團隊是少數擁有這種「基因」的團隊之一：不僅能建立社群，更重要的是能贏得社群持久的信任。從團隊基因的角度來看，我們有信心他們能再次創造奇蹟。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">從產品角度來看，這段旅程已經形成了一個完整的閉環。Sanctum 團隊是將複雜的質押帳戶概念轉化為易於使用的 LST 的先驅。現在，他們正將這一使命擴展到更廣泛的受眾。展望未來，我們預期 Sanctum App 將成為日常用戶的主要介面和入口，而 Sanctum LST 則繼續作為整個 Solana 基礎設施的基石。</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">總結</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">當我們看到 Sanctum 時，我們看到的不僅僅是一個協議，而是 Solana 下一個篇章的基礎：其核心是 FP，一位充滿長期思維，以信念以及熱忱建構產品的創辦人，他帶領 Sanctum 從一個簡單的想法發展成為 Solana 的流動性織物，現在更進一步擴展到交易基礎設施。除此之外，我們也預期 LST 業務將透過強大的網路效應、機構採用和跨生態系統的深度整合持續產生複利。</span></p>
<p><b>這就是我們投資的原因。FP 和 Sanctum 代表了我們所相信的一切。</b></p>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Why We Invested: FP Lee, Co-founder &#038; CEO of Sanctum]]></title>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are delighted to share that AppWorks has invested in </span><b>$CLOUD</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the native token of </span><b>Sanctum</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, as a demonstration of our long-term belief in Sanctum’s founding team and in the strong defensibility and moat they’ve built over the years.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Below, we will share why we think </span><b>Sanctum is one of the most important companies being built on Solana; how it is reshaping one of the most misunderstood verticals in crypto, and why everything is finally clicking for them.</b></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sanctum &#8211; A Chronicle of Finding the Non Consensus and Right</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To understand Sanctum, we need to first understand the history of Solana LST. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the longest time, most people assumed Solana’s liquid staking market would follow the Ethereum playbook: one dominant player, i.e. Lido, and everyone else fading into the background. Many protocols rushed to build copycats of the Lido model, believing the game was simply about scale and validator sets.</span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15894" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15894" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15894 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image7-640x345.png" alt="" width="640" height="345" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image7-640x345.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image7-768x414.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image7.png 1168w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15894" class="wp-caption-text">Source: DeFillama</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The most insightful founders see what others miss. FP Lee, Sanctum’s founder, being the core contributor who has designed Solana’s stake account contracts, knew early on that Solana’s setup is fundamentally different from Ethereum’s. Every stake account is modular, transferable, and composable. That means </span><b>all LSTs on Solana are essentially fungible at their core. They are just wrappers of the same underlying stake accounts.</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With that realization, the next question was obvious: in a world of many LSTs, what’s the missing primitive? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Look closely, stake pools serve three distinct purposes: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Tokenize</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> &#8211; convert native stake accounts into yield bearing SPL token</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Delegate</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> &#8211; achieve high staking yield and decentralize the network </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Liquidate</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> &#8211; Provide instant liquidity for staked SOL</span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>And FP bet on liquidity. </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why? Because Ethereum already ran the experiment. Lido dominated Ethereum largely because stETH is integrated into all major DeFi protocols and has extremely high composability. Years of integrations made it the most composable asset on the network, and distribution compounded into dominance.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Solana, the conclusion is even clearer. Stake accounts are interchangeable; every staked SOL carries the same economic weight in the transaction flow. In this world, a multi-LST future is the default, and </span><b>whoever orchestrates liquidity wins the competition. </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Therefore, instead of fighting to become the single biggest stake pool, </span><b>FP saw a bigger opportunity in becoming the liquidity layer that unites all LSTs on Solana.</b></p>
<p><b>And this was the start of Sanctum. </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The way they cracked this is deeply connected to the insight. First, they created “</span><b>Sanctum Route</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">r” for swaps between thousands of LSTs. A swap takes place with simply unwrapping and re-wrapping the underlying stake account.</span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15892" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15892" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15892 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image9-640x274.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="274" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image9-640x274.jpg 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image9-768x329.jpg 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image9.jpg 1199w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15892" class="wp-caption-text">Source: Sanctum document</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When necessary, swaps can also be routed into </span><b>Infinity Pool</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which can be regarded as a basket of LSTs that is managed by Sanctum, and all of these LSTs are under Sanctum’s flagship white labeled LST issuance infrastructure. When a swap is routed into Infinity, the trading fees are distributed to the liquidity providers of Infinity Pool, i.e. $INF holders. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This design reinforces liquidity for the entire Sanctum LST ecosystem while turning $INF itself into one of the most compelling LSTs on Solana.</span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15897" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15897" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15897 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image4-640x201.png" alt="" width="640" height="201" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image4-640x201.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image4-1280x403.png 1280w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image4-768x242.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image4-1536x483.png 1536w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image4-1200x378.png 1200w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image4.png 1722w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15897" class="wp-caption-text">Source: Sanctum document</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lastly, a sizable native $SOL reserve managed by Sanctum is shared across all Sanctum branded LSTs. For any project, instead of spinning off another multi-million liquidity pool, they can just issue their LSTs with Sanctum without worrying about bootstrapping the liquidity.</span><b> </b></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15889" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15889" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15889 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image12-640x482.png" alt="" width="640" height="482" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image12-640x482.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image12-768x579.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image12.png 1072w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15889" class="wp-caption-text">Source: AppWorks</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In less than 2 years, Sanctum is now managing over US$ 2B of $SOL with various key players in the space, including Bybit, </span><a href="http://crypto.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Crypto.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Backpack, Jupiter, etc. By the end of 2025, Sanctum closed the quarter with record-high metrics: </span><b>14.36M SOL (+96% YoY) under its umbrella and an annual revenue of US$5.85M (+226% YoY).  </b></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15900" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15900" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15900 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image1-640x443.png" alt="" width="640" height="443" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image1-640x443.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image1-1280x887.png 1280w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image1-768x532.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image1-1536x1064.png 1536w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image1-1200x831.png 1200w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image1.png 1770w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15900" class="wp-caption-text">Source: Sanctum 25Q4 Report</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15890" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15890" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15890 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image11-640x482.png" alt="" width="640" height="482" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image11-640x482.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image11.png 650w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15890" class="wp-caption-text">Source: Sanctum 25Q4 Report</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another impressive metric to look at is Sanctum’s dominance of the Solana LST category in 2025; Sanctum achieved a net cumulative inflow of nearly </span><b>8M $SOL</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, while its two largest competitors, Jito and Marinade, </span><b>saw their LST offerings end the year with net negative inflows.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> This disparity underscores the compounding competitive advantage of Sanctum&#8217;s liquidity moat within the LST market.</span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15899" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15899" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15899 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image2-640x412.png" alt="" width="640" height="412" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image2-640x412.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image2-1280x823.png 1280w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image2-768x494.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image2-1536x988.png 1536w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image2-1200x772.png 1200w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image2.png 1828w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15899" class="wp-caption-text">Source: Sanctum 25Q4 Report</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Looking back, it is easy to think it was all smooth and inevitable, as if Sanctum’s rise was destined. But the truth is, this was the result of five years of persistence, iteration, and unshakable conviction through market winters. Every piece of today’s success was earned the hard way, block by block, decision by decision. And that leads us to our first and foremost thesis: </span><b>the founder</b> <b>FP</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thesis #1: Our core beliefs in FP Lee as a founder</span></h2>
<h3>Practiced Contrarianism</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We see in FP that he has a unique ability to see what others miss and to dive deep enough into a concept until a contrarian insight emerges.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2023, while many were racing to build “the Lido of Solana,” FP noticed something upstream: Solana’s stake accounts were modular and fungible by design. That single observation flipped the playbook. Instead of competing to be the biggest pool, he built Sanctum as the liquidity layer that unites every LST, and that completely changed the game. </span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15896" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15896" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15896 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image5-640x407.png" alt="" width="640" height="407" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image5-640x407.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image5-768x489.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image5.png 1078w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15896" class="wp-caption-text">Source: 0xfp.com, 2023</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And now, after years of living in Solana’s core, he’s spotted another inefficiency few others even noticed: the unreliable transaction layer. In short, we believe his latest move of acquiring Ironforge and launching </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gateway</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> reflects the same pattern: go deep enough, find the structural bottleneck, then build the missing piece of infrastructure that everyone else takes for granted.</span></p>
<h3>Deep attachment to community</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We believe founders’ ability to build a community in crypto is underrated. FP is one of the rare founders who doesn’t just “manage” a community but builds alongside them. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Wonderland campaign, which Sanctum team held before their TGE, wasn’t just another points farm; Sanctum turned it into a coordinated, gamified quest layer where users stake LSTs to earn EXP and complete community challenges together, which kept participation sticky instead of mercenary. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The result was amazing, Sanctum’s TVL </span><b>grew 171% in 38 days</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and community forums spun up recurring events (like the Cloudfam Emoji Clan contests) that kept members creating and recruiting long after the initial drop, showing organic momentum rather than paid churn. Its community, later affectionately known as </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CloudFam</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, became one of the strongest grassroots movements on Solana.</span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15887" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15887" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15887 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image14-640x251.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="251" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image14-640x251.jpg 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image14-768x301.jpg 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image14.jpg 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15887" class="wp-caption-text">Source: Sanctum website</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What most people don’t know is how far FP and the team went to show that care. When it came time for the $CLOUD airdrop, they didn’t just run a script or crunch numbers in a spreadsheet. </span><b>They manually sifted through thousands of Discord channels, Telegram chats to identify true evangelists and rewarded them far more generously than most projects would.</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A token is ultimately a founder’s second product. Doing “token IR” right isn’t just about managing price; it’s about building trust, transparency, and belonging. Many founders </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">say</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> they care about token holders, but few actually walk the talk. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">FP is one of those few that from publishing monthly updates to constantly engaging users in Discord, he treats community building like an ongoing craft. Over time, that level of authenticity compounds, turning a user base into something closer to a movement. We believe this will remain one of Sanctum’s strongest long-term differentiators.</span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15895" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15895" style="width: 638px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15895 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image6-638x640.png" alt="" width="638" height="640" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image6-638x640.png 638w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image6-150x150.png 150w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image6-768x771.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image6.png 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15895" class="wp-caption-text">Source: Sanctum $CLOUD holder group</figcaption></figure></p>
<h3>Found his mission along the way</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">FP didn’t set out to be a founder. Before crypto, he was just a young software engineer trying to find his way. He stumbled into Solana out of curiosity and a desire for growth, and he stayed because, somewhere along the journey, he found meaning.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That meaning came from experience. After years of building in crypto, FP has seen it all — the FTX collapse, teams rugging their users, projects recklessly gambling away entire treasuries. In an industry often clouded by short-termism and greed, FP wants to prove that it is still possible to build a great product, stay transparent, and win the right way.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As intangible, and perhaps as cliché as it sounds, we believe this is one of the strongest forms of drive in the industry — and it is precisely the kind of mission we want to back.</span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15893" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15893" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15893 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image8-640x286.png" alt="" width="640" height="286" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image8-640x286.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image8-1280x571.png 1280w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image8-768x343.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image8-1536x686.png 1536w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image8-1200x536.png 1200w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image8.png 1904w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15893" class="wp-caption-text">Source: Solana Accelerate 2025</figcaption></figure></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thesis #2: Major upcoming catalysts for Sanctum LST </span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We see several catalysts for Sanctum LSTs, and we hold a strong conviction that everything is clicking for them now. </span></p>
<h3>Solana LST is still early-stage and growing</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Solana&#8217;s liquid staking penetration has expanded 4.4x in two years, from 3% to 13.3%. This acceleration was actively driven by ecosystem catalysts like Sanctum and a growing appetite from validators to capture LSTfi market share.</span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15898" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15898" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15898 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image3-640x254.png" alt="" width="640" height="254" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image3-640x254.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image3-1280x509.png 1280w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image3-768x305.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image3-1536x610.png 1536w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image3-1200x477.png 1200w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image3.png 1988w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15898" class="wp-caption-text">Source: Dune</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, this 13.3% penetration implies that most of the staked $SOL remains illiquid. Drawing a parallel with Ethereum’s more mature market (approaching 35-40% LST penetration), it&#8217;s clear Solana&#8217;s liquid staking layer, the key to unlocking capital efficiency and composability, is still in its early innings.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We believe in this context, Sanctum is positioned right at that inflection point. Sanctum&#8217;s product suite (Router, Reserve, Infinity) is explicitly designed to be this non-partisan liquidity backbone. This creates a powerful moat, positioning Sanctum as the default aggregation point for a rapidly expanding and fragmenting market.</span></p>
<h3>Network effects of LSTs</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For any protocols that are launching a new LST, they don’t want to spin up multi‑million‑dollar liquidity pools. Instead,</span><b> the easiest way is to plug into Sanctum, and focus solely on branding, core product, and distribution</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">; Sanctum supplies the liquidity layer (Router + Reserve + Infinity) so these LSTs are interchangeable with the rest of Solana on day one. This is what we have been seeing. The alliance has been getting stronger and stronger every day. To date, Sanctum is serving all the biggest clients like Jupiter, Bybit, Backpack. </span></p>
<p><figure id="attachment_15888" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-15888" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-15888 size-medium" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image13-640x243.png" alt="" width="640" height="243" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image13-640x243.png 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image13-1280x486.png 1280w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image13-768x292.png 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image13-1536x583.png 1536w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image13-1200x456.png 1200w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image13.png 1999w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-15888" class="wp-caption-text">Source: AppWorks</figcaption></figure></p>
<p><b>More integrations → more supported LSTs → more interchangeable routes → deeper utility across DeFi. </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That flywheel is hard to catch up to. </span></p>
<h3>The Institutional Staking Layer</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The competition for Solana&#8217;s yield is rapidly evolving beyond DeFi-native protocols. A new, larger wave of sophisticated capital, ranging from </span><b>TradFi asset managers and potential SOL staking ETFs to publicly traded companies (like DATs)</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, is now entering the arena.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For these entities, base staking yield is merely the starting point. To attract serious AUM, they must offer compliant, branded, and </span><b>highly differentiated liquid products</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><b>This requires layering unique validator strategies, transparent reporting, and deep DeFi integrations on top of a base LST.</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is precisely where Sanctum becomes the critical enabling infrastructure. As a neutral, modular platform, it provides the full-stack &#8220;Staking-as-a-Service&#8221; for </span><b>any entity</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to launch its own LST. It allows them to retain full control over their financial strategy and branding while outsourcing the deep technical complexity to Sanctum’s proven liquidity layer and composable backend.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are already seeing strong validation. In May 2025, </span><b>DeFi Development Corp (NASDAQ: DFDV), a publicly traded financial firm,</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> launched dfdvSOL using Sanctum’s infrastructure. This marked the first time a listed company held and utilized a bespoke Solana LST. Their explicit goal is to contribute liquidity back to the Solana DeFi ecosystem, creating a flywheel effect that also benefits their own corporate balance sheet.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is our core belief that as more </span><b>structured SOL products</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> emerge to compete for this new wave of capital, Sanctum will be their default launch partner and liquidity backbone.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our thesis is clear. In the short to medium term, Sanctum is the most underrated infrastructure play for this </span><b>institutional wave</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and they are quietly becoming the essential plumbing every major yield-bearing Solana product will depend on.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thesis #3: Sanctum App will become the de facto entry point for Solana </span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the 2025 Solana Breakpoint, Sanctum unveiled its latest endeavor: the </span><b>Sanctum App</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. This is a lightweight, delightful application designed to help users effortlessly grow their $SOL holdings through daily rewards in a fun, gamified environment.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This pivot stems from a first-principles approach. Referring back to our initial thesis, the primary reason Sanctum LSTs haven&#8217;t yet reached peak market penetration is the friction inherent in current DeFi UX. It is easy to forget that many $SOL holders exist entirely outside the &#8220;DeFi bubble.&#8221; They aren&#8217;t interested in the technical internals of Solana or the complex math behind LST yields; the only way to reach them is to </span><b>abstract that complexity away.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Following the massive success of </span><b>Wonderland</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we are doubling down on our belief that the Sanctum founding team is one of the few with the &#8220;DNA&#8221; to not only build a community but—more importantly—earn its lasting trust. From a team-gene perspective, we are confident they can capture lightning in a bottle once again.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From a product standpoint, the journey has come full circle. The Sanctum team were the pioneers who took the complicated concept of stake accounts and made LSTs accessible. Now, they are scaling that mission to a much wider audience. Moving forward, we expect the </span><b>Sanctum App</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to serve as the primary interface and entry point for everyday users, while </span><b>Sanctum LSTs</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> continue to function as the foundational backbone of the entire Solana infrastructure.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Summary</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When we look at Sanctum we see more than just a protocol, but the foundation of Solana’s next chapter: at its core is FP, a contrarian founder who builds with conviction and has led Sanctum from a simple idea into the liquidity fabric of Solana, and now it’s expanding even further into the transaction infrastructure. Apart from that, we also see the LST business continues to compound through strong network effects, institutional adoption, and deep integrations across the ecosystem. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ultimately, this is why we invested. FP &amp; Sanctum represent everything we believe in. </span></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">About AppWorks</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Founded in 2009, AppWorks is a leading accelerator + VC  in Asia and Web3, managing US$ 368M across its funds. At AppWorks, we invest in the founders who are obsessed with true product-market fit and committed to playing the long game. If this resonates with you, let’s chat. </span></p>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[AppWorks Closes Fund IV to Lift Total Funds Raised to US$386M, Uniting Pan-Asian Sovereign and Corporate Limited Partners to Accelerate Regional Startups]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-01-28T04:01:25Z</updated>
		<published>2026-01-06T01:00:43Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>AppWorks announced the final close of its fourth flagship venture capital fund, AppWorks Fund IV, at US$165 million, bringing its total funds raised to US$386 million. Fund IV marks the first time three major sovereign LPs, featuring Taiwan’s National Development Fund, Malaysia’s Jelawang Capital, the national fund-of-funds under Khazanah Nasional, and Korea Venture Investment Corporation [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks announced the final close of its fourth flagship venture capital fund, AppWorks Fund IV, at US$165 million, bringing its total funds raised to US$386 million.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fund IV marks the first time three major sovereign LPs, featuring Taiwan’s National Development Fund, Malaysia’s Jelawang Capital, the national fund-of-funds under Khazanah Nasional, and Korea Venture Investment Corporation (KVIC), joined forces in a single vehicle. Other LPs include leading corporates and institutional investors such as Fubon Life, Taiwan Mobile, Wistron, Phison, and E Ink. This Pan-Asian footprint aligns with AppWorks’ mission to connect founders with high quality capital and corporates into a regional startup ecosystem driving both frontier-tech adoption and top-quartile venture returns.</span></p>
<h3><b>Turning Asia’s Largest Founder Ecosystem into a Venture Flywheel</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since its founding in 2009, AppWorks has built one of Asia’s most extensive founder communities—with 2,086 entrepreneurs and 653 active startups that have collectively created 28,256 jobs across the region. Built by founders, for founders, this ecosystem thrives on collaboration, peer learning, and shared networks, forming a strong foundation for innovation and regional economic growth.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over the past decade, AppWorks has evolved this community into a venture flywheel that continuously drives both ecosystem development and investment performance. Since 2017, the firm has focused on AI and Web3, nurturing active founder communities comprising 128 active AI startups and 146 live Web3 startups and projects, at the same time expanding its reach across Asia—with around 70% of founders in each of the recent 14 accelerator batches now coming from outside Taiwan.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When AppWorks launched the Fund IV raise in late 2022, the initial target was set at US$360 million. Soon after, the Fed entered into a tightening cycle, triggering global capital markets correction and a broader recalibration across the venture landscape. Integrating both LP feedback and market signals, the firm reassessed the size of the fund in light of the repriced opportunity set. In what is shaping up to be one of the more compelling venture vintages in recent years, AppWorks ultimately optimized the vehicle at US$165 million—a size that enables disciplined deployment into high-conviction opportunities emerging from its ecosystem across the region.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This founder-first ecosystem has become a proprietary pipeline of high quality opportunities for AppWorks Funds, backing during early stages category leaders such as Lalamove, Flow/Dapper Labs, Animoca Brands, 91APP, Carousell, ShopBack, KKday, and 17LIVE.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks’ 2014 vintage Fund II has delivered a 1.9x DPI, placing it among top-quartile global venture funds—showcasing how an ecosystem-first approach can deliver both innovation outcomes and realized returns across Asia.</span></p>
<h3><b>Empowering Corporates to Innovate Through Founders</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Having partnered with corporate LPs for more than a decade, AppWorks deeply understands how enterprises are seeking new engines for growth in an era shaped by rapid technological advancement. Building on this experience, AppWorks not only delivers top-quartile financial returns to its LPs but often serves as a portal to the future—connecting corporates with visionary founders building the next generation industry leaders. Through these collaborations, AppWorks enables corporates to engage with frontier technologies in AI and Web3, co-developing products and business models that extend beyond their core businesses. By working closely with startups, corporates gain early access to emerging technologies and entrepreneurial energy—turning innovation into their next growth engine.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A standout example is Taiwan Mobile, which partnered with USPACE (AppWorks Accelerator #18 alumni) to launch MyCharge, an EV-charging service integrating 5G, smart-parking and charging technologies. The partnership accelerated Taiwan Mobile’s entry into the EV ecosystem while enabling USPACE’s cross-border expansion into Japan, Indonesia and Thailand through AppWorks’ connections.</span></p>
<h3><b>Carrying the Mission Forward in Asia’s Next Chapter</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As AI is reshaping industries worldwide, Asia stands at the heart of this transformation—anchored by its deep tech expertise, manufacturing capabilities, and fast-growing digital economies. Now with the support of sovereign partners and capital networks, AppWorks bridges Taiwan’s deep tech and manufacturing strengths, Malaysia’s multilingual and commercially savvy founders, and Korea’s frontier consumer technologies with cross-border commercialization and capital access. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This moment reinforces what AppWorks has always believed—and what it has continued to do relentlessly: helping founders disrupt the world. That same mission now extends across an expanding regional landscape, bringing together founders, corporates, and investors to build the technologies that will define the next generation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I want to take this chance to express my deepest gratitudes to every single one of our LPs for their enormous support during the fundraising process,” said Jamie Lin, Chairman &amp; Partner, AppWorks. “Everyone knows it has not been the easiest environment to raise and we truly appreciate every dollar that has been entrusted with us.  Team AppWorks has already started executing our strategies to deliver both extraordinary financial returns and business synergies to our LPs. Together, I am certain we will take Asia’s startup ecosystem to the next level.”</span></p>
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		<id>https://appworks.tw/?p=15837</id>
		<updated>2026-01-28T04:01:00Z</updated>
		<published>2026-01-06T01:00:10Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>AppWorks宣布第四支創投基金AppWorks Fund IV完成最終募集 (Final Closing)，基金規模達1.65億美元，累計募集基金規模達3.86億美元，穩居亞洲具規模創投機構。 AppWorks Fund IV是亞洲少數同時獲得三個國家級資本支持的創投基金，包括台灣國家發展基金、馬來西亞國庫控股 (Khazanah Nasional Berhad) 旗下的fund-of-funds Jelawang Capital，以及韓國風險投資機構Korea Venture Investment Corporation (KVIC)，加上包含富邦人壽、台灣大哥大、緯創、群聯電子、元太科技等領先機構投資人，自此AppWorks在亞洲串連起台灣、東南亞及東北亞的完整網絡，推動區域前沿科技的同時，為投資人創造卓越的財務及策略回報。 化亞洲最大創業者生態系為創投飛輪 自2009年成立以來，AppWorks已建立了亞洲最具規模的創業者社群之一，聚集2,086位創業者、總共653家活躍新創，爲區域創造28,256個工作機會。創業者社群橫跨台灣、印尼、新加坡、馬來西亞、越南、菲律賓、韓國、日本與香港等九大市場，AppWorks致力於陪伴創業者打造跨市場、具長期競爭力的事業，持續為亞洲帶來創新動能與經濟效益。自2017年以來，AppWorks深入耕耘AI和Web3領域，目前AppWorks新創生態系中，已累積128家活躍AI新創與146家Web3新創。同時，AppWorks也持續擴大其在亞洲的影響力—在最近14屆的加速器中，已有七成的創業者來自台灣以外的地區，為創業者創造了早期接軌國際市場的同儕網絡。 在推動創業者生態系的同時，AppWorks也發展出獨特的投資模式，成功將生態系轉化為獨家案源，讓AppWorks管理的創投基金得以在早期階段支持Lalamove、Flow/Dapper Labs、Animoca Brands、91APP、Carousell、ShopBack、KKday 和 17LIVE等多間具相當代表性的領先科技公司。 AppWorks於2022年底啟動Fund IV募資時，原始目標設定為3.6億美元。緊接著美國聯準會進入緊縮週期，全球資本市場大幅修正，新創投資環境也重新校準。管理團隊在將投資人回饋及市場動向納入考量後，審慎重新檢視基金規模，同時間，2024-2025年也被認為是近10年來最具潛力的創投基金成立年份，最終AppWorks在1.65億美元規模完成募集。此金額足以讓AppWorks在現階段有紀律地積極部署投資，充分把握來自其生態系豐沛的優質投資機會。 於2014年成立的AppWorks Fund II，目前已實現1.9倍DPI (實質回報倍數)，基金表現位居全球創投基金的前四分之一 (Top Quartile) 之列，充分顯現以創業者生態系為本的投資策略，能夠為投資人實現卓越的財務回報。 賦能企業透過新創實現新事業可能 AppWorks 與企業投資人深度合作超過十年，深知在科技快速迭代的時代，企業正積極尋求下一個十年的成長引擎。 對企業來說，AppWorks常扮演「通往未來」的科技入口，協助企業涉足AI和Web3等前沿科技。透過系統性地與新創公司合作，企業投資人得以接觸新興科技和創業文化，開發超越其核心業務的產品和商業模式，賦能並啟動下一波成長動能。 其中一個成功案例是台灣大哥大與USPACE (AppWorks Accelerator #18) 共同推出MyCharge電動車充電服務，完美結合5G與智慧停車及充電服務技術。這項合作加速了台灣大哥大跨足電動車生態系的步伐，也在AppWorks的跨境網絡協助下，助力USPACE拓展日本、印尼及泰國市場。 AppWorks承繼初心，推進亞洲下一世代的科技變革 AI浪潮正重塑全球產業，而亞洲憑藉其深厚的技術底蘊、強大的製造能力以及快速成長的數位經濟，被視為驅動這場變革的關鍵引擎。如今，在企業與國家級資本網絡的強大串聯下，AppWorks成功打通台灣的高端科技和製造優勢、馬來西亞多語言和商業敏銳度高的創業文化，以及韓國活躍的前沿消費科技，創造更多跨區域的商業化活動，進一步壯大泛亞洲的經濟影響力。 2009 年創辦以來，AppWorks始終相信並持續實踐初心：協助創業者實現改變。如今，這項使命以台灣為基石，並在整個亞洲區不斷茁壯，將創業者、企業和投資者聚集在一起，共同建構下一世代的科技變革。 AppWorks 董事長暨合夥人林之晨表示：「我想藉此機會向我們每一位投資人，對這次募資過程所給予的巨大支持，表達最深的謝意。大家都知道，這不是一個容易募資的環境，我們衷心感謝託付給我們的資金背後所代表的高度信任。AppWorks團隊也已經開始有紀律的執行投資策略，以期為股東實現卓越的財務回報和戰略合作價值。AppWorks將繼續努力，與投資人攜手，把亞洲的新創生態帶往下一個高峰。」</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks宣布第四支創投基金AppWorks Fund IV完成最終募集 (Final Closing)，基金規模達1.65億美元，累計募集基金規模達3.86億美元，穩居亞洲具規模創投機構。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks Fund IV是亞洲少數同時獲得三個國家級資本支持的創投基金，包括台灣國家發展基金、馬來西亞國庫控股 (Khazanah Nasional Berhad) 旗下的fund-of-funds Jelawang Capital，以及韓國風險投資機構Korea Venture Investment Corporation (KVIC)，加上包含富邦人壽、台灣大哥大、緯創、群聯電子、元太科技等領先機構投資人，自此AppWorks在亞洲串連起台灣、東南亞及東北亞的完整網絡，推動區域前沿科技的同時，為投資人創造卓越的財務及策略回報。</span></p>
<h2><b>化亞洲最大創業者生態系為創投飛輪</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">自2009年成立以來，AppWorks已建立了亞洲最具規模的創業者社群之一，聚集2,086位創業者、總共653家活躍新創，爲區域創造28,256個工作機會。創業者社群橫跨台灣、印尼、新加坡、馬來西亞、越南、菲律賓、韓國、日本與香港等九大市場，AppWorks致力於陪伴創業者打造跨市場、具長期競爭力的事業，持續為亞洲帶來創新動能與經濟效益。自2017年以來，AppWorks深入耕耘AI和Web3領域，目前AppWorks新創生態系中，已累積128家活躍AI新創與146家Web3新創。同時，AppWorks也持續擴大其在亞洲的影響力—在最近14屆的加速器中，已有七成的創業者來自台灣以外的地區，為創業者創造了早期接軌國際市場的同儕網絡。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">在推動創業者生態系的同時，AppWorks也發展出獨特的投資模式，成功將生態系轉化為獨家案源，讓AppWorks管理的創投基金得以在早期階段支持Lalamove、Flow/Dapper Labs、Animoca Brands、91APP、Carousell、ShopBack、KKday 和 17LIVE等多間具相當代表性的領先科技公司。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks於2022年底啟動Fund IV募資時，原始目標設定為3.6億美元。緊接著美國聯準會進入緊縮週期，全球資本市場大幅修正，新創投資環境也重新校準。管理團隊在將投資人回饋及市場動向納入考量後，審慎重新檢視基金規模，同時間，2024-2025年也被認為是近10年來最具潛力的創投基金成立年份，最終AppWorks在1.65億美元規模完成募集。此金額足以讓AppWorks在現階段有紀律地積極部署投資，充分把握來自其生態系豐沛的優質投資機會。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">於2014年成立的AppWorks Fund II，目前已實現1.9倍DPI (實質回報倍數)，基金表現位居全球創投基金的前四分之一 (Top Quartile) 之列，充分顯現以創業者生態系為本的投資策略，能夠為投資人實現卓越的財務回報。</span></p>
<h2><b>賦能企業透過新創實現新事業可能</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks 與企業投資人深度合作超過十年，深知在科技快速迭代的時代，企業正積極尋求下一個十年的成長引擎。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">對企業來說，AppWorks常扮演「通往未來」的科技入口，協助企業涉足AI和Web3等前沿科技。透過系統性地與新創公司合作，企業投資人得以接觸新興科技和創業文化，開發超越其核心業務的產品和商業模式，賦能並啟動下一波成長動能。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">其中一個成功案例是台灣大哥大與USPACE (AppWorks Accelerator #18) 共同推出MyCharge電動車充電服務，完美結合5G與智慧停車及充電服務技術。這項合作加速了台灣大哥大跨足電動車生態系的步伐，也在AppWorks的跨境網絡協助下，助力USPACE拓展日本、印尼及泰國市場。</span></p>
<h2><b>AppWorks承繼初心，推進亞洲下一世代的科技變革</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AI浪潮正重塑全球產業，而亞洲憑藉其深厚的技術底蘊、強大的製造能力以及快速成長的數位經濟，被視為驅動這場變革的關鍵引擎。如今，在企業與國家級資本網絡的強大串聯下，AppWorks成功打通台灣的高端科技和製造優勢、馬來西亞多語言和商業敏銳度高的創業文化，以及韓國活躍的前沿消費科技，創造更多跨區域的商業化活動，進一步壯大泛亞洲的經濟影響力。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">2009 年創辦以來，AppWorks始終相信並持續實踐初心：協助創業者實現改變。如今，這項使命以台灣為基石，並在整個亞洲區不斷茁壯，將創業者、企業和投資者聚集在一起，共同建構下一世代的科技變革。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks 董事長暨合夥人林之晨表示：「我想藉此機會向我們每一位投資人，對這次募資過程所給予的巨大支持，表達最深的謝意。大家都知道，這不是一個容易募資的環境，我們衷心感謝託付給我們的資金背後所代表的高度信任。AppWorks團隊也已經開始有紀律的執行投資策略，以期為股東實現卓越的財務回報和戰略合作價值。AppWorks將繼續努力，與投資人攜手，把亞洲的新創生態帶往下一個高峰。」</span></p>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>AI走進最難自動化的場域，從廁所清潔到金屬研磨都開始交給機器人  供應鏈以資料重新排列、能源與資本市場重新定義Web3的基礎建設角色 AppWorks(之初加速器)今日舉辦AppWorks Accelerator #31與Wistron Accelerator #9 以及TINC Batch X聯合Demo Day。AppWorks Accelerator #31共23組新創登台，其中有 19組AI團隊、4組Web3團隊，20組國際新創，來自香港、新加坡、馬來西亞、南韓、日本、菲律賓、印尼、美國等國，整體組成反映AppWorks以過去10年深耕的「台灣＋東南亞」為基礎，已開始向泛亞洲市場輻射，涵蓋日韓等東北亞市場的新創版圖正逐步成形。 從本屆新創趨勢也可觀察到，亞洲企業導入AI的步伐，已從早期的試驗階段，跨入「可複製、可擴張」的規模化部署階段；本屆團隊多半直接切入最不易標準化、最缺工、也最依賴經驗判斷的現場作業，使AI與機器人成為真實環境中運作的核心系統，而非輔助角色。 在供應鏈重組、中美技術競爭與東協市場擴張的推動下，本屆團隊的區域分布與應用場景，顯示亞洲市場正把成長重心，從單純擴大消費規模，轉向以技術升級與營運效率為核心的長線佈局。隨著AppWorks十六年累積的跨國創業網絡日益成熟，本屆 Demo Day也成為觀察亞洲科技創業脈搏的重要窗口。 商用清潔、金屬加工到城市導航，AI開始接管最不標準化的現場流程 來自新加坡的Hivebotics聚焦商用清潔機器人，鎖定過去最難倚賴自動化的場域：公共廁所的整理與維護。其機器人產品Abluo能在馬桶、小便斗、洗手台與地面之間自主移動，結合蒸氣、高壓清洗、烘乾與吸塵模組，搭配AI視覺即時判讀污漬與清潔程度，讓過去高度依賴人工判斷的「乾淨」首次被量化、標準化。Hivebotics目前已在新加坡樟宜機場完成測試，並獲得ISS、Sodexo、Kintsugi Holdings與Chaico Development等國際企業採用。產品亦已出貨至美國，將於主要國際機場啟動試點，並預計在香港與阿布達比等公共設施展開部署。 Hivebotics亦獲得新加坡教育部(MOE)與MDDI聯合舉辦的“Enhancing Toilet Cleaning Operations in Schools”創新挑戰首獎，將進入頂尖Junior College展開為期12個月的長期試點，作為校園清潔標準升級的示範場域。 在台灣，Holon Robotics則把金屬加工領域最依賴師傅經驗的「研磨／拋光流程」數位化。透過無須程式碼的作業系統HolonOS搭配3D視覺逆向建模，Holon能掃描實際工件，一鍵生成機械手臂路徑，並在生產過程中即時修正誤差，老師傅過去「看光澤、看紋路」的隱性技術被轉成能複製的Digital IP，使工廠能在缺工與世代交替下維持品質並擴張產能。 來自香港的Auki Labs則嘗試解決另一項硬問題：裝置如何「正確理解空間」。Auki以“Real-World Web”為核心概念，打造讓AI、機器人、手機與智慧眼鏡可以共同存取的空間運算基礎設施。透過將真實場域建構成高精度3D數位分身，Auki讓裝置能在幾公分誤差範圍內即時定位、規劃路徑，並在同一套空間座標上疊加導覽、數據分析與機器人導航等應用。 Auki認為，在這層空間基礎設施尚未被建構前，機器人無法真正做到「在任何場域自動運作」。目前Auki的技術已導入超過1,000個場域，年營收達數百萬美元，並逐步成為embodied AI與機器人協作的關鍵底層。 紡織、金屬到廢棄物處理，傳產流程迎來以資料為核心的新規則 AppWorks長期支持台灣經濟與產業創新，其中傳統產業鏈的轉型，在今年Demo Day中呈現更明顯的「AI 重建期」 趨勢。來自台灣的NunoX以AI模擬重新定義紡織材料研發流程，過去需要多次打樣、反覆試驗才能完成的布料配方與塗佈工藝，如今能在早期階段就由模型預測可行性，大幅縮短40–60%開發時程並降低生產成本。 目前NunoX已與台灣與越南多家布料與成衣供應鏈合作導入，其中包括成衣大廠Makalot(聚陽實業)，並已取得Under Armour、Little King、印度最大成衣製造商 SHAHI等國際品牌採用其技術作為數位打樣與布料開發流程的一環。這類以預測模型為核心的研發方式，正逐步形塑台灣紡織業邁向淨零與高效率生產的新基礎。 同樣來自台灣的AIRECO將視覺AI技術整合至整廠自動化分選流程，結合高速自動分選設備與機器手臂，實現廢棄物精準分類與回收。該系統由AI主導決策與營運，將過去高度仰賴人工經驗的回收流程全面資料化與自動化，並同步建立每項回收品項的ESG追蹤紀錄。 團隊目前已在多家回收處理場落地驗證，預期可將產能提升至傳統回收廠的2倍，減少超過70%的人力需求，並大幅提升塑料與紙類等項目的回收純度。AIRECO同時入選 NVIDIA Inception與Plug and Play Taiwan，持續強化AI模型效能與機器人部署能力，朝全自動化、零人工干預的智慧回收工廠目標邁進。 台灣團隊GreenBidz切入工廠轉型與產能移動帶來的設備再利用需求，透過AI驅動的B2B競標平台，協助台灣製造業處理大型設備的跨境轉移與再部署。目前已累積超過100間企業客戶，包含保瑞藥業、台達電子、全家、Siemens與Nana Chemical，過去12個月平台GMV達1,065萬美元。GreenBidz讓二手機械從台灣流向印度、東南亞等新興生產基地更透明、高效。 [&#8230;]</p>
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<h4><b>AI走進最難自動化的場域，從廁所清潔到金屬研磨都開始交給機器人 </b></h4>
<h4><b>供應鏈以資料重新排列、能源與資本市場重新定義Web3的基礎建設角色</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks(之初加速器)今日舉辦AppWorks Accelerator #31與Wistron Accelerator #9 以及TINC Batch X聯合Demo Day。AppWorks Accelerator #31共23組新創登台，其中有 19組AI團隊、4組Web3團隊，20組國際新創，來自香港、新加坡、馬來西亞、南韓、日本、菲律賓、印尼、美國等國，整體組成反映AppWorks以過去10年深耕的「台灣＋東南亞」為基礎，已開始向泛亞洲市場輻射，涵蓋日韓等東北亞市場的新創版圖正逐步成形。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">從本屆新創趨勢也可觀察到，亞洲企業導入AI的步伐，已從早期的試驗階段，跨入「可複製、可擴張」的規模化部署階段；本屆團隊多半直接切入最不易標準化、最缺工、也最依賴經驗判斷的現場作業，使AI與機器人成為真實環境中運作的核心系統，而非輔助角色。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">在供應鏈重組、中美技術競爭與東協市場擴張的推動下，本屆團隊的區域分布與應用場景，顯示亞洲市場正把成長重心，從單純擴大消費規模，轉向以技術升級與營運效率為核心的長線佈局。隨著AppWorks十六年累積的跨國創業網絡日益成熟，本屆 Demo Day也成為觀察亞洲科技創業脈搏的重要窗口。</span></p>
<p><b>商用清潔、金屬加工到城市導航，AI開始接管最不標準化的現場流程</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">來自新加坡的Hivebotics聚焦商用清潔機器人，鎖定過去最難倚賴自動化的場域：公共廁所的整理與維護。其機器人產品Abluo能在馬桶、小便斗、洗手台與地面之間自主移動，結合蒸氣、高壓清洗、烘乾與吸塵模組，搭配AI視覺即時判讀污漬與清潔程度，讓過去高度依賴人工判斷的「乾淨」首次被量化、標準化。Hivebotics目前已在新加坡樟宜機場完成測試，並獲得ISS、Sodexo、Kintsugi Holdings與Chaico Development等國際企業採用。產品亦已出貨至美國，將於主要國際機場啟動試點，並預計在香港與阿布達比等公共設施展開部署。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hivebotics亦獲得新加坡教育部(MOE)與MDDI聯合舉辦的“Enhancing Toilet Cleaning Operations in Schools”創新挑戰首獎，將進入頂尖Junior College展開為期12個月的長期試點，作為校園清潔標準升級的示範場域。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">在台灣，Holon Robotics則把金屬加工領域最依賴師傅經驗的「研磨／拋光流程」數位化。透過無須程式碼的作業系統HolonOS搭配3D視覺逆向建模，Holon能掃描實際工件，一鍵生成機械手臂路徑，並在生產過程中即時修正誤差，老師傅過去「看光澤、看紋路」的隱性技術被轉成能複製的Digital IP，使工廠能在缺工與世代交替下維持品質並擴張產能。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">來自香港的Auki Labs則嘗試解決另一項硬問題：裝置如何「正確理解空間」。Auki以“Real-World Web”為核心概念，打造讓AI、機器人、手機與智慧眼鏡可以共同存取的空間運算基礎設施。透過將真實場域建構成高精度3D數位分身，Auki讓裝置能在幾公分誤差範圍內即時定位、規劃路徑，並在同一套空間座標上疊加導覽、數據分析與機器人導航等應用。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Auki認為，在這層空間基礎設施尚未被建構前，機器人無法真正做到「在任何場域自動運作」。目前Auki的技術已導入超過1,000個場域，年營收達數百萬美元，並逐步成為embodied AI與機器人協作的關鍵底層。</span></p>
<p><b>紡織、金屬到廢棄物處理，傳產流程迎來以資料為核心的新規則</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks長期支持台灣經濟與產業創新，其中傳統產業鏈的轉型，在今年Demo Day中呈現更明顯的「AI 重建期」 趨勢。來自台灣的NunoX以AI模擬重新定義紡織材料研發流程，過去需要多次打樣、反覆試驗才能完成的布料配方與塗佈工藝，如今能在早期階段就由模型預測可行性，大幅縮短40–60%開發時程並降低生產成本。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">目前NunoX已與台灣與越南多家布料與成衣供應鏈合作導入，其中包括成衣大廠Makalot(聚陽實業)，並已取得Under Armour、Little King、印度最大成衣製造商 SHAHI等國際品牌採用其技術作為數位打樣與布料開發流程的一環。這類以預測模型為核心的研發方式，正逐步形塑台灣紡織業邁向淨零與高效率生產的新基礎。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">同樣來自台灣的AIRECO將視覺AI技術整合至整廠自動化分選流程，結合高速自動分選設備與機器手臂，實現廢棄物精準分類與回收。該系統由AI主導決策與營運，將過去高度仰賴人工經驗的回收流程全面資料化與自動化，並同步建立每項回收品項的ESG追蹤紀錄。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">團隊目前已在多家回收處理場落地驗證，預期可將產能提升至傳統回收廠的2倍，減少超過70%的人力需求，並大幅提升塑料與紙類等項目的回收純度。AIRECO同時入選 NVIDIA Inception與Plug and Play Taiwan，持續強化AI模型效能與機器人部署能力，朝全自動化、零人工干預的智慧回收工廠目標邁進。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">台灣團隊GreenBidz切入工廠轉型與產能移動帶來的設備再利用需求，透過AI驅動的B2B競標平台，協助台灣製造業處理大型設備的跨境轉移與再部署。目前已累積超過100間企業客戶，包含保瑞藥業、台達電子、全家、Siemens與Nana Chemical，過去12個月平台GMV達1,065萬美元。GreenBidz讓二手機械從台灣流向印度、東南亞等新興生產基地更透明、高效。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">新加坡的Farmio正打造以AI驅動的食品供應鏈營運系統，目前已在新加坡服務超過1,600客戶，以不到12個月的時間達成600萬美元年化營收(ARR)，並以僅5人團隊完成5.5萬筆以上的自動化訂單處理。Farmio的長期願景是成為供應鏈的AI Operating System，為品牌與跨國供應鏈企業提供AI‑as‑a‑Service(AaaS)，以一套可模組化擴張的 agentic infrastructure，推動區域的供應鏈自動化與效率提升。除新加坡之外，Farmio目前已正式啟動香港市場，並規劃進入台灣、日本、阿聯酋等地。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">製造與供應鏈的數位化已走過初期階段，今年可以明顯感受到企業開始以資料與模型重新調整流程本身。無論是紡織開發、金屬加工、廢棄物分類，或設備的跨境再利用，新技術的導入都不再止於提升效率，而是直接改變現場的運作方式：哪些步驟可被預測、哪些工序能被複製、哪些資產可以重新流動。這些變化正在重新定義傳統產業鏈的作業節奏，也為下一波升級展開了新的起點。</span></p>
<p><b>奢侈品真偽、旅遊點數、醫療判讀等高信任場景出現AI方案</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">今年可觀察到，AI已能在消費與專業服務領域，承接原本需要真人執行的環節，從鑑定、審核到初級判讀，開始直接替代而非輔助人工。香港團隊LegitApp專注奢侈品鑑定市場，處理使用者在二手電商中最棘手的問題：「買到假貨卻無法判斷、平台端也缺乏足夠驗證能力」。LegitApp目前每日處理3,000件鑑定申請，累積超過2百萬用戶，年營收300萬美元。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">平台已與PopChill、Carousell、TikTok Shop等合作，為高假貨率、高仿品快速流動的市場提供「10分鐘內完成、多層次AI＋人工專家」的鑑定服務。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">在跨境電商快速成長的背景下，超級仿冒品所帶來的問題更加層出不窮。LegitApp正成為二手時尚市場的信任基礎建設，讓平台得以建立更健康的交易環境，也協助政府與海關辦案單位辨識可疑物品。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">新加坡團隊HeyMax聚焦旅遊獎勵整合，處理亞洲旅客最常面臨的問題——航空公司、飯店與平台回饋分散、難以管理、價值流失。HeyMax以單一介面統整多來源點數，讓旅客能以更一致的方式管理並兌換跨境回饋資產，重建多平台獎勵體系的使用效率。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">目前HeyMax已累積15萬用戶(其中4萬為付費用戶)，並與Japan Railways East、Cathay Pacific、新加坡航空、卡達航空、Trip.com、KKDay、Amazon.sg、Octopus HK、Klook等超過800家商家合作。年化營收達600萬美元，月活使用者45,000，是亞洲旅遊獎勵市場整合能力最完整的新創之一。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">在醫療與內容產業鏈，AI的角色同樣朝向「輔助決策」與「降低行政負擔」。台灣團隊Medvisor由台大醫學生獨立創立，產品正以高速迭代逼近USMLE(美國醫師執照考試)滿分水準，被視為醫療AI領域的潛力新秀。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">不同於一般的單次問答工具，Medvisor具備獨創的 「長期健康記憶」 功能，能整合用戶過往病史、檢查紀錄與日常健康數據，生成更貼近個人狀態的精準衛教建議。近期也新增 居家「認知功能評估」，讓原本僅有醫院能提供的專業檢測，首次以輕量化形式走進家庭，成為使用者的AI健康管家。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">這些能力使Medvisor成為醫療院所提升初級照護效率的可能解方，也為高齡社會的居家健康管理建立新的操作模型。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">來自菲律賓的HeyEva則為娛樂產業開發AI經紀助理，用於安排檔期、整合資料與處理大量行政繁瑣，使經紀人能將更多時間投入在內容或人才管理本身。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">今年的消費與專業服務新創呈現出一個共同趨勢──AI不只是提升效率，而是開始「重寫某些產業的標準」。從奢侈品鑑定、旅遊點數、到初級醫療，每一項原本依賴經驗、模糊不清的判斷，都被迫變得可度量、可追蹤、可驗證。</span></p>
<p><b>分散式電池、法幣入金到私募代幣化，Web3回到基礎建設主軸</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">面對持續高波動的市場環境，今年Demo Day登台的Web3團隊普遍聚焦在基礎建設層級，從能源、法幣入金到高端資產的取得方式，都可看到更務實的應用方向。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">台灣新創Juic3 Labs正構建分散式電池網路，透過邊緣電池節點提供電力平衡與能源調度，提供智慧電網可能的運作雛形。團隊已取得來自電池商、EPC(工程採購建置)與EMS(能源管理系統)三家關鍵能源夥伴支持，累積部署2.8MWh電池容量，成為台灣能源網路走向分散式架構的重要實證案例。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">馬來西亞團隊Hata則以合規為核心，作為當地持牌的數位資產交易所，提供MYR與 USD的法幣入金服務，強化Web3與傳統金融之間的制度連結。目前Hata已累積6.5萬註冊用戶、託管資產約1,800萬美元，年營收達380萬美元，成為區域金融機構佈局Web3的重要合規入口。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">來自香港的Singular則瞄準高端投資市場的最大痛點——私募基金門檻高、跨境取得難、流動性不足。Singular以鏈上基礎設施提供 私募資產的「小額化、可分割、跨市場取得」，讓原本僅限機構與高淨值族群的資產，得以以更透明、更可追蹤的方式被更廣泛的投資者接觸。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">目前平台已累積55,000名註冊用戶、8,300 MAU、1,020名付費投資者，累計託管資金 63.7萬美元，並在穩定幣支付軌道上達成99.6%成功交易率。Singular已於香港、馬來西亞、日本與阿聯酋等市場啟動營運，成為亞洲跨境資產代幣化領域成長最快的新創之一。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">這一波Web3團隊所投入的，不再是市場投機循環，而是讓能源、資產與場域資料能有更可靠的交換與運作方式，顯示這個領域正逐步朝向更長線的基礎建設形態發展。</span></p>
<p><b>外骨骼、永續材料到跨境人力平台，硬體與服務鏈出現新需求</b></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">同步登場的Wistron Accelerator（緯創加速器）Demo Day #9呈現的是硬體、永續材料與跨境人力服務在區域市場中的新需求。截至第九屆，Wistron Accelerator已累積46家團隊，來自11個國家，合計創造565個就業機會，形成橫跨製造、通訊、永續與人力服務的創業社群。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">新加坡團隊ArmasTec以布料外骨骼協助減輕物流、製造及醫療現場的人力負荷，提供一種更輕量、可長時間佩戴的輔助方式。目前ArmasTec已獲Micron、SATS、SingHealth等企業採用，並持續擴展至更多高工時產線與醫療場景。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">另一家新加坡團隊TalentHero則以EOR(Employer-of-Record)平台協助企業快速在亞洲部署人力，符合遠距工作與跨境人才流動的趨勢。成立僅28個月，TalentHero已擁有120家付費企業客戶，包含Agora、Momos、OCP Group等國際公司，並在新加坡、越南、泰國與菲律賓管理超過1,000名跨境遠端員工。團隊年營收規模已達350萬美元，成為亞洲成長速度最快的EOR服務之一。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">台灣團隊REWOOD則重新定義永續木材供應鏈，從植樹、材料再製到成品開發，提供一條龍的產品化流程，呼應全球ESG需求的快速攀升。目前REWOOD已執行100+個 B2B／B2G專案，協助119所學校回收再利用超過2,000公噸木材，每年減少1,800公噸CO₂e。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">團隊營運版圖遍及台灣、日本、馬來西亞，年營收達250萬美元，成為亞洲永續建材領域的重要新創。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">這些團隊補足了AppWorks生態系在硬體、永續與人才服務上的關鍵拼圖，並提供與軟體新創相互連動的產業面向。緯創技術長沈慶堯也在會上高喊：「除了持續投入加速器之外，緯創算力捐贈計畫以每年捐贈100萬小時GPU算力，希望讓全球AI新創與研究團隊的創新不被資源所限。」</span></p>
<p><b>票券流通與語音客服成為東南亞服務業的兩大數位化引擎</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">今年的TINC Batch X共有兩家團隊登台，分別為來自新加坡的3TGDS與來自印尼的Cavos。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">3TGDS提供跨境B2B電子票券基礎設施，整合品牌、銀行、支付與點數通路，讓餐飲、飯店、便利商店、文化體驗與旅遊服務等商品能在多國市場順利流通。3TGDS在2024年度的年營收實現逾1,150%的年增，2025年收入再成長超過250%，達USD14.4M。跨境電子票券交易量持續上升，並與多家電信商、OTA、電子錢包與連鎖品牌合作，包括台灣大哥大、Trip.com、蝦皮、KKday、7-11、昇恆昌、兆豐銀行等。也透過TINC加速器，與印尼電信旗下的myTelkomsel完成POC驗證，使平台由台灣擴展至更大的國際市場。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cavos則以Voice AI重構企業的聯絡中心流程，其語音代理能協助企業處理大量客服、合規性審查與例行溝通，自今年推出以來，已在多家企業客戶中落地，成為印尼早期導入Voice AI的代表案例之一。團隊目前與印尼、菲律賓、澳洲及台灣的企業展開超過10項合作專案。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">這兩家團隊的案例，也彰顯AppWorks與印尼最大電信商Telkomsel在跨境創新上的合作成果，為新創打開區域級的B2B商務機會。</span></p>
<p><b>亞洲創業能量進入落地期：35%團隊年營收破百萬美元，跨境生態全面成形</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">今年的Demo Day反映出亞洲科技市場的成熟度正快速提升。AI、IoT、Web3與硬體解決方案不再停留在概念階段，而是進入可部署、可跨境複製的實際落地期。本屆更有約35%的團隊已突破年營收100萬美元大關，展現創業者面對資金環境轉變時，仍具備強大的商業化能力與市場執行力。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">隨著AppWorks、Wistron與Telkomsel的合作加深，生態系已形成橫跨台灣、東南亞、日韓的創業網絡，讓創業者能在更廣泛的市場與業態中取得早期驗證。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">這張逐步擴大的跨境網絡，也象徵AppWorks將持續加深技術與市場間的連結，協助更多具備執行力與全球視野的創業者，將真正能解決問題的技術推向整個區域。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks董事長暨合夥人林之晨表示</span><b>：</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">「我們正見證AI從『數位助理』進化為『實體勞動力』的關鍵轉折點，本屆Demo Day最令我興奮的，是看到創業者們不再只是用AI寫程式生成影片，而是讓AI拿起抹布、工具，走進廁所、工廠等實體場域，去解決產業缺工的痛點。當AI學會手眼協調，台灣與泛亞洲的強大硬體供應鏈，將為新創在下一波全球科技發展中，提供最堅固的後盾。在創投產業大體回歸理性的此刻，我們在這些創業者身上看到了偉大的韌性——他們不只是擁抱AI或Web3典範轉移，更進一步用技術產生真實的營收與獲利。當AI開始接管現場、Web3打好穩固基礎，亞洲新創已經從『盲目成長』走向『商業落地』，準備好在全球洗牌的浪潮中，定義下一波產業規則。」</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-15823" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ed7cb21e-79ed-4a6e-9b2b-61e1b0f1c680-640x427.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="427" srcset="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ed7cb21e-79ed-4a6e-9b2b-61e1b0f1c680-640x427.jpg 640w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ed7cb21e-79ed-4a6e-9b2b-61e1b0f1c680-1280x853.jpg 1280w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ed7cb21e-79ed-4a6e-9b2b-61e1b0f1c680-768x512.jpg 768w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ed7cb21e-79ed-4a6e-9b2b-61e1b0f1c680-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ed7cb21e-79ed-4a6e-9b2b-61e1b0f1c680-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ed7cb21e-79ed-4a6e-9b2b-61e1b0f1c680.jpg 1920w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></span></p>
<p><b>關於 AppWorks 之初加速器集團</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">2009 年成立，由「創業者」為「創業者」設立的加速器，以及基於加速器發展的新創社群與創投機構，致力協助下世代的創業者，抓住數位革命的成長機會。正如 Mobile Internet 曾引發巨大的產業變革，我們相信 AI 與區塊鏈正推動新一波關鍵的典範轉移。我們認為，創造一個偉大事業的過程中，創業者是主角，而投資人則是配角，我們專注扮演配角，從種子時期開始支持有想法的團隊，一路陪著他們打造區域級、世界級的偉大企業。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">更多資訊：</span><a href="https://appworks.tw/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">appworks.tw</span></a></p>
<p><b>關於 AppWorks Accelerator 之初加速器</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">2010 年成立，AppWorks Accelerator 每半年遴選最具潛力的團隊加入，協助創業者從 0 到 1 找到 Product-Market Fit、並在成長階段建立可持續與可擴張的商業模式。截至目前，AppWorks 生態系共有 653 家活躍新創、2,086 位創業者；其中包含 288 家 AI 新創、600 位 AI 創業者，以及 156 家 Web3 新創、424 位 Web3 創業者。這些公司合計已募得 73 億美元，總市值 377 億美元，共同創造 174 億美元年營收，並提供 28,256 個工作機會。我們的新創社群分佈於台灣、印尼、新加坡、馬來西亞、越南、菲律賓、韓國、日本與香港等九大市場，陪伴創業者打造跨市場、具長期競爭力的事業。</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15824" src="https://appworks.tw/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/AppWorks-Ecosystem-G.png" alt="" width="512" height="474" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">更多資訊：</span><a href="https://appworks.tw/accelerator"><span style="font-weight: 400;">appworks.tw/accelerator</span></a></p>
<p><b>AppWorks Demo Day #31×Wistron Demo Day #9×TINC Batch X—登場團隊列表（依字母排序）</b></p>
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<td><b>AppWorks #31 </b></td>
<td><b>中文簡介</b></td>
<td><b>HQ</b></td>
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<td><a href="https://www.adora-app.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adora</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">兒少網路安全 AI App，協助防堵網路霸凌與不當接觸</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">JP</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://www.aireco.tw/zh-tw" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">AIRECO</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">AI 視覺辨識與機器手臂回收系統，協助廢棄物處理場提升分類效率、減少人力並建立 ESG 資料追蹤</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">TW</span></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.auki.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Auki Labs</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Real-World Web 空間運算基礎設施，為手機、眼鏡與機器人提供高精度定位與 AI Copilot 能力。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">HK</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://beringlab.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bering Lab</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">AI 法律與專利翻譯平台，以高精準度翻譯協助律師事務所與企業加速跨境法務流程。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">KR</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://www.carching.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carching</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">車隊媒體與數據廣告平台，將日常車輛轉為移動廣告載具，提高品牌的線下觸及效率。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">MY</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://farmio.io/zh/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Farmio</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">AI 食材供應鏈操作系統，協助餐飲批發商自動化訂單、預測損耗並優化冷鏈物流。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">SG</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://www.flyidea.app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">FlyiDEA</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">CTO-as-a-service 平台，以 No-Code＋AI 產品 ODM 協助新創快速驗證想法並打造可上線的 MVP，降低技術債並加速市場迭代。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">TW</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://www.gofluid.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fluid</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">AI 驅動的 B2B 支付與授信平台，協助供應鏈企業整合收款、對帳與信用決策。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">SG</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://greenbidz.com/?lang=zh-hant" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GreenBidz</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">AI B2B 設備競標平台，協助製造業進行大型機械跨境轉移與再利用，提高設備流動性。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">TW</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://hata.io/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hata</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">持牌數位資產交易所，提供 MYR 與 USD 法幣入金，協助企業安全進入 Web3 生態。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">MY</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://www.heyeva.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">HeyEva</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">AI 經紀助理，用於娛樂產業的檔期安排、資料整合與行政流程自動化。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">PH</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://heymax.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">HeyMax</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">旅遊獎勵整合平台，統一管理航空、飯店與多平台點數，提升跨境回饋的可用性與兌換效率。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">SG</span></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.hivebotics.tech" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hivebotics</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">商用清潔機器人，透過 AI 視覺與多模組清潔技術自動化公共廁所與大型場館維運。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">SG</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://www.holonrobotics.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Holon Robotics</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">無程式碼機器人作業系統，將金屬研磨與拋光的師傅經驗數位化，協助工廠自動化產線。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">TW</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://juic3.xyz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Juic3 Labs</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">分散式電池網路(DePin)平台，透過邊緣電池節點提供電力平衡與智慧能源調度。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">TW</span></td>
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<td><a href="http://klipy.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Klipy</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">AI 行政秘書，協助律師、理財顧問等高接觸專業人士處理文書與行程安排。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">HK</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://legitapp.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">LegitApp</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">奢侈品真偽鑑定平台，結合 AI 圖像分析與國際鑑定師，提供 10 分鐘內的多層次驗證服務。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">HK</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://www.maibel.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maibel</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">女性健康 AI 夥伴，以敘事式互動提供個人化訓練、健康與心理支持。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">SG</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://medvisor.info/welcome" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Medvisor AI</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">AI Video Doctor，整合健康資料與長期病史，提供個人化衛教與居家認知功能評估。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">TW</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://nunox.io/zhtw/%E8%81%AF%E8%A6%BA%E7%A7%91%E6%8A%80-nunox-official-website/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NunoX</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">AI 紡織材料開發平台，用數位打樣與預測模型加速布料開發並降低打樣成本。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">TW</span></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.parkitmy.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Parkit</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">智慧停車與車位管理平台，協助物業與企業提升停車空間利用率並提供增值服務。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">MY</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://singulardex.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Singular</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">私募資產鏈上分割平台，提供小額化、可追蹤的跨境私人股權投資機會。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">HK</span></td>
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<td><a href="http://trainge.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trainge</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">健身場館與教練管理平台，整合預約、課程、會員與支付的一站式系統。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">TW</span></td>
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<td><b>Wistron #9</b></td>
<td><b>中文簡介</b></td>
<td><b>HQ</b></td>
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<td><a href="https://www.armastec.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ArmasTec</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">布料外骨骼設備，以輕量式可穿戴輔具減輕製造、物流與醫療現場的人力負荷。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">SG</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://www.rewood.com.tw/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">REWOOD</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">永續木材循環系統，從植樹、回收至產品開發的一條龍 ESG 材料解決方案。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">TW</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://talenthero.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TalentHero</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">高速成長的亞洲 EOR 平台，協助企業在多國快速部署與管理跨境遠端人力。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">SG</span></td>
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<td><b>TINC Batch X</b></td>
<td><b>中文簡介</b></td>
<td><b>HQ</b></td>
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<td><a href="https://www.3tgds.com/en" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">3TGDS</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">跨境 B2B 電子票券基礎建設，串接品牌、電信商與支付系統，提升票券流通與兌換效率。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">SG</span></td>
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<td><a href="https://cavos.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cavos</span></a></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Voice AI 聯絡中心平台，協助銀行與電商以語音代理處理客服、審查與例行溝通。</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">ID</span></td>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>緯創資通與 AppWorks 從 2014 年開始合作，是 AppWorks Fund II、Fund III 的主要股東之一，之後也陸續投資了 MoBagel (AW#16)、 ANIWARE (AW#17)、Authme (AW#18) 與  Aiello (AW#20) 等自 AppWorks Accelerator 畢業的新創校友，雙方有長期的策略合作關係與默契，並於 2021 年 9 月首度啓動緯創垂直加速器，由大東南亞領先的新創加速器 AppWorks 提供營運等核心業務。 計畫申請緯創加速器的新創團隊，也許對本計畫將有更近一步的疑問，因此，我們整理了以下常見問題，希望可以協助創業者從中得到解答。 【Wistron Accelerator #10 現正開放申請中：申請專頁】 1. 緯創集團期待藉由加速器與新創達成什麼樣的合作成果？緯創集團可以提供新創什麼幫助？ Wistron Accelerator 可以提供的相關幫助包括：  緯創集團各企業 / 事業單位高階主管提供產業面的專業建議 這個加速器的最大特色，是由緯創集團各企業與事業單位高階主管擔任 Mentors，加入的新創可直接與 Mentor 們討論合作內容與商業模式，從他們身上，獲得產業最前緣的 Insights，大幅減少新創摸索、試錯與實驗的機會成本。緯創集團參與 Wistron Accelerator 的企業與事業單位如下： Wistron 緯創資通 (包含CVC 企業投資辦公室) Wiwynn 緯穎科技 [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">緯創資通與 AppWorks 從 2014 年開始合作，是 AppWorks Fund II、Fund III 的主要股東之一，之後也陸續投資了 </span><a href="https://mobagel.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">MoBagel</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#16)、 </span><a href="https://www.aniware.ltd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ANIWARE</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#17)、</span><a href="https://authme.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Authme</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#18) 與  </span><a href="https://aiello.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aiello</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AW#20) </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">等自 </span><a href="https://appworks.tw/accelerator/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">AppWorks Accelerator</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 畢業的新創校友，雙方有長期的策略合作關係與默契，並於 2021 年 9 月首度啓動緯創垂直加速器，由大東南亞領先的新創加速器 AppWorks 提供營運等核心業務。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">計畫申請緯創加速器的新創團隊，也許對本計畫將有更近一步的疑問，因此，我們整理了以下常見問題，希望可以協助創業者從中得到解答。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">【Wistron Accelerator #10 現正開放申請中：</span><a href="https://appworks.tw/wistron/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">申請專頁</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">】</span></p>
<p><strong>1. </strong><b>緯創集團期待藉由加速器與新創達成什麼樣的合作成果？緯創集團可以提供新創什麼幫助？</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wistron Accelerator 可以提供的相關幫助包括： </span></p>
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">緯創集團各企業 / 事業單位高階主管提供產業面的專業建議</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">這個加速器的最大特色，是由緯創集團各企業與事業單位高階主管擔任 Mentors，加入的新創可直接與 Mentor 們討論合作內容與商業模式，從他們身上，獲得產業最前緣的 Insights，大幅減少新創摸索、試錯與實驗的機會成本。緯創集團參與 Wistron Accelerator 的企業與事業單位如下：</span></p>
<ol>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Wistron 緯創資通 (包含CVC 企業投資辦公室)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Wiwynn 緯穎科技</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> WNC 啟碁科技</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Wistron ITS 緯創軟體</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> WMT 緯創醫學</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> WiAdvance 緯謙科技</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">有與企業合作經驗的創業者都知道，通常高階主管負責策略，而團隊負責執行，因此如果能直接與最高層級溝通，那麼在策略合作聚焦，以及共同發展出新服務、新事業的機會將因此大增。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">除此之外，當新創與企業合作時，常遇到的挑戰是，即便新創在本身領域具備一定的專業能力，但面對每一個不同領域的產業、每一家組織規模更大的企業，都是仍有許多需要更深入掌握的軟硬知識與技術。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">因此，Wistron Accelerator 在內容設計上，一開始就由高階主管親自上陣，解決上述問題。</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">新創在加速器期間，將與各事業單位負責人進行深度的合作與互動，不只能更深入理解企業真正的需求與計畫、產業 Insight，也能藉此學習如何與企業客戶有效溝通、幫助解決他們的問題。</span></p>
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">與緯創集團獨家合作 PoC</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">做 B2B 生意的新創都知道，因為企業組織與決策流程的關係，要成功推動企業合作，通常需要醞釀比較長的時間，動輒一季、甚至超過半年，都是常有的情形。</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">為了加速合作的速度，Wistron Accelerator 在時程、進度與合作目標，都經過了精心規劃。參與 Wistron Accelerator 的團隊，以與緯創集團各企業共同協作 PoC 為目標，過程中 AppWorks 也將全程協助推動 PoC 的討論與實作，以 4 個月的時程安排，驗證最小可行性產品 (MVP)，作為新創與緯創集團的協作學習經驗，以及後續合作的評估標準。</span></li>
</ol>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400;">2. 緯創集團會從申請加入的新創之中，觀察哪些重點？</span></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">當收到創業者提出申請後，結合 AppWorks 輔導創業者的經驗，以及緯創集團的產業專業，我們特別重視引領創業者持續自我精進、排除阻礙的北極星，以及產品的核心技術。以下幾個問題，可幫助創業者思考是否適合加入 Wistron Accelerator：</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">為什麼要創業？</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">你希望透過創業解決什麼問題？為什麼？</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">你已經做了哪些努力來證明你正在解決這些問題？</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">你所打造的產品，與其它既有的解決方案有什麼不同之處？</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">你期待藉由與緯創集團的合作得到什麼？你能為緯創集團帶來什麼價值？</span></li>
</ul>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400;">3. Wistron Accelerator 要收費嗎？我們現在需要一筆資金，加入就可以被投資嗎？</span></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wistron Accelerator 是針對創業者完全免費的服務。我們不會向新創團隊收取租金、服務費，也不會要求技術股、選擇權、營收和獲利分成等任何形式的回饋。同時，每一支入選 Wistron Accelerator 的新創團隊，皆會獲得緯創贊助 20 萬新台幣的補助 (不佔股份)。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">緯創近幾年的策略投資，已投入超過 130 億新台幣，超過 60 家投資甚或長期經營的對象，更於 2021 年成立了企業創投 (CVC)，將積極佈局新創策略投資。因此入選  Wistron Accelerator 的新創，不論在加速器期間，或是加速器應屆計畫結束後，都將有機會與緯創企業創投、所合作的企業與事業單位，進一步討論未來的正式合作或投資機會。</span></p>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400;">4. 為什麼限定招募來自 AI、物聯網、雲端、資安、教育與醫療科技的創業者？</span></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">緯創資通身為全球 ICT 產業領導廠商之一，正積極佈局未來、邁向永續。憑藉堅強的研發及技術創新能力，以及多元化產品發展，將硬體設備結合軟體服務、雲端數據系統，提供技術服務與解決方案，建立新技術產業鏈以及創新平台，大力將事業擴展至教育、企業服務、物聯網及醫療等新領域。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">藉由 Wistron Accelerator，緯創集團希望分享其產業經驗與豐富的業界資源，結合新創獨有的解決方案，藉由 PoC 合作，探索新的發展機會，幫助新創測試 B2B 解決方案、擁有緯創集團作為使用者案例。同時，也樂見緯創集團透過加速器期間的合作成果，發展成為下個十年的創新動能。</span></p>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400;">5. 什麼階段的新創適合申請 Wistron Accelerator？</span></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">我們並沒有限定申請團隊的成熟階段，但我們會建議來申請的新創，最好已經有和企業的合作案例，或是至少有 1~2 個 PoC 的合作經驗，將能更善用加速器所規劃的 4 個月時程，並確保在這樣的時間內，能有一定程度的成果產出。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">如果你目前仍處於打磨 MVP、尚未和目標客戶接觸的階段，我們會建議你優先專注於打造你的產品，並嘗試接觸幾個目標客戶，搜集意見回饋、調整產品，確認自己想解決的問題以及核心優勢之後，再申請 Wistron Accelerator。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">如果你已經有產品雛型，但尚未設立公司，根據我們的經驗，我們會建議你先完成此程序，這將有助於尋找事業夥伴並洽談後續合作。AppWorks 備有專業的會計與法務顧問，可以為創業者團隊提供成立公司過程中，所需要的協助，也有豐富的經驗，能為海外團隊處理落地台灣的手續。</span></p>
<p><strong>6. 我不是台灣公民，能否幫忙申請簽證？</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">入選 Wistron Accelerator 的國際創業者，可根據個人的需求與條件，由緯創與 AppWorks 提供協助申請 </span><a href="https://www.boca.gov.tw/cp-166-277-41131-2.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Entrepreneur Visa 創業家簽證</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">、</span><a href="https://foreigntalentact.ndc.gov.tw/cp.aspx?n=57ABC704441FFEFC&amp;s=55CD067C9A36F3F8" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gold Card 就業金卡</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">與 </span><a href="https://www.boca.gov.tw/cp-8-163-1e1b0-1.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Business Visa 商業簽證</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">，讓來自海外的創業者能在台灣專心工作，不需為了簽證問題出境往返。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">我們將持續關注台灣政府的最新政策，以確保能提供所有創業者必要的協助。</span></p>
<p><strong>7. 進駐 Wistron Accelerator 後，是否每週一到五整天都要待在緯創？我們可以遠距參加嗎？</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">新創並不需要整天待在緯創集團工作，每一家錄取的新創，將與其媒合的事業單位或企業，針對其合作需求，討論必要的會議頻率、工作地點，以及會面方式。</span></p>
<p><strong>8. 申請書的題目都是英文，用中文寫會不會影響分數？</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wistron Accelerator 的線上申請書共有約 26 個題目，包含團隊、產品、商業模式，與市場分析等眾多面向，非常詳盡，需要花一定的時間與心思填寫。我們希望透過這些題目協助每一個來申請的團隊，釐清自己當下的發展狀態與所需協助。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">填寫報名表是一種自我健檢，因為在填寫過程中，創業者必須深入思考自己的產品、市場策略、團隊分工，以及整體產業環境。因此，不管申請與否，我們都建議創業者針對這些問題仔細思考、研究。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">我們鼓勵你嘗試以英文作答，但用中文填寫並不會影響評估結果，最重要的是必須清楚表達你想傳達的訊息。另外，我們也鼓勵創辦人 (CEO) 拍攝一段一分鐘的自我介紹影片，讓我們能夠更完整的認識你。</span></p>
<p><strong>9. 第一階段申請和第二階段申請有何差別？</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wistron Accelerator 的面談與入選採先收先審制度 (Rolling-basis)，根據過去的經驗，先繳交申請書的團隊，有較高的入選機率，且能提早知道自己已經入選，有更充裕的時間預先規劃相關事宜。因此，我們會鼓勵創業者在第一階段就填寫申請書，以免到了最後申請截止前夕，競爭變得更加激烈。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">希望以上整理能幫助你釐清對 Wistron Accelerator 的諸多疑問。若還有其他需要進一步瞭解的地方，歡迎留言給我們，或是來信至：</span><a href="mailto:a@appworks.tw"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a@appworks.tw</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">，我們將盡量為你解答。</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">【歡迎所有 </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">AI、物聯網、雲端、資安、教育與醫療科技</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">的創業者，加入</span><a href="https://appworks.tw/wistron/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Wistron Accelerator </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">申請，早鳥輪申請截止日為 2025 年 12 月 28 日】</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://appworks.tw/wistron-faq/">Wistron Accelerator FAQ 緯創加速器常見問題回覆 (為 #10 申請團隊準備)</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://appworks.tw">AppWorks 之初加速器</a>.</p>
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