Online Event
AMA with CVCs Featuring Erik Colin (Cathay Venture)
Learn the current investment trends and what investors look for in startups
Date
Nov 25, 2025
Time
02:00 am - 03:30 am
Address
Online Event
If you are currently raising funding for your startup, or are looking to raise funding in the future, then join this online 'Ask me Anything' (AMA) with Erik Colin from Cathay Venture' event to hear directly from the VC arm of Cathay Financial Holdings, one of Taiwan's largest financial groups with 700+ branches, 20,000 reps, and 10M customers across Asia. . Learn how startup funding works, how investors evaluate pitches, the types of founders investors are looking for, and more
Bring your questions about fundraising, market expansion, or investor engagement, and Erik will be sharing candid, practical insights based on his real experience investing across the SEA region.
Through in-depth discussions and expert insights, you’ll learn:
- How Taiwanese CVCs identify, evaluate, and collaborate with promising startups
- What corporates look for in founders — from leadership qualities to market positioning
- Common challenges in startup-corporate partnerships and how to navigate them
- The evolving role of CVC in driving sustainable growth and long-term innovation
This AMA offers a unique chance for founders to gain insights into early-stage investments and the dynamic venture capital landscape both in Taiwan and globally.
Featured Speaker:
- Erik Colin - Investor at Cathay Venture - A venture capitalist, working at Cathay Venture, the investment arm of Cathay Financial Holdings, one of Taiwan's largest financial institutions. Focused on the Southeast Asia (SEA) region, Erik is part of a sector-agnostic VC team that engages with startups at all stages of development.
Moderator:
Erdinc Ekinci - Founder, Investment Lead of Co-capital.vc, Co-Founder, CEO of Openfor.co, Managing Director of Founder Institute Japan/Korea/Taiwan
📌 Who Should Attend
- Early-stage founders looking to raise venture capital or corporate VC investment
- Startup teams exploring sector-agnostic investment strategies
- Founders interested in learning how to connect with CVCs like Cathay Venture
- Anyone curious about the current VC and CVC investment landscape in Asia
📌 What You Will Learn
- How CVCs operate differently from traditional VCs
- What Taiwanese corporates look for in startups
- How to approach and collaborate with CVCs effectively
- Insights on building long-term value beyond capital
- Real-world examples of startup–CVC partnerships
- Emerging trends shaping Taiwan’s CVC landscape
- Common challenges in startup–corporate collaboration and how to overcome them
- How to leverage corporate networks, resources, and market access for growth
About Founder Institute:
Founder Institute: Founder Institute, which originated in Silicon Valley, is a founder and idea stage accelerator, and with its Founder Capital, backs the best performing FI alumni as early as the angel stage. FI has over 8K+ startup portfolio (Including leading e-learning platform Udemy, IPO in Nasdaq $3,8B) across 200 cities in 100 countries around the world.) We are also the largest mentor network in the world, with over 35,000 mentors, and our alumni have already raised over $2 billion in US dollars and have recently exceeded the 10K mark of investors network as the FI-Venture-Network.
FI’s sister program, called VC Lab, helps launch aspiring investors into launching VC firms. As an accelerator that allows both sides of the table, 70% of the activities we do are advocacy of entrepreneurship and ecosystem creation, which means we do way more activity than the accelerator to promote entrepreneurship to solve real-world problems with entrepreneurship in an economically feasible way, build a company that grows into a venture-scale.
Openfor.co: A “Global Partnership Accelerator” originated in Silicon Valley that combined with an online platform and marketplace for learning, building, launching, monetizing, and growing partner ecosystems and a collaborative community around you for achieving effective marketing, sales, community building, GTM, fundraising, and many more.
Co-Capital: Pre-seed & Seed stage new firm that focuses on hands-on GTM, sales, and partnership support, focusing on English-speaking Asian founders who have global ambitions from day ONE. Domiciled in the USA, with regional appearances in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Utilizes partnerships with the GTM expert network and the venture partner network across 20 major hubs and a network of 35 other VC networks who are willing to co-back our founders!
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