Start-up101 Ventures was established in 2000. The investment activities till 2010 was centered on multimedia, communication and semiconductor. We have been investing primarily at the seed round or Series A round. Along with the investment activities, we provide management consulting for our portfolio companies, drawing upon the partners' hands-on experience on alliances, corporate development and revenue growth.

For the next phase of the business, we raise our bars to focus on impact venture, an emerging asset class that pursue triple bottom-lines; market rate return, global impact and people's happiness.

"Impact Venture" embraces collaboration, develops industry infrastructure, and undertakes research and advocacy to help achieve social missions. "Impact technology" means a technology which helps build new communities that respond to social and environmental problems. Our goal is to help foster an impact technology to accelerate the development of market-based solutions to pressing social and environmental needs. For this business, we have set up TBL Partners, LLC in order to manage investments.TBL stands for Triple Bottom Line-Profit, People and Planet.

Impact technology can be a powerful complement to philanthropy and government efforts to address many issues, including renewable energy, energy saving, green industries, and sustainable agriculture and fishing, which conserve natural resources and maintains ecosystems for long-term.

Value of Mentoring for Success

The naming of Start-up101 Ventures comes from the idea that we pursue best practices to start and grow a company. Back in the 70's when a venture capital started, the partners worked side by side with entrepreneurs to develop vision, mission, business plan, and products, as well as to attract customers and investors.  We value this original venture capital model to build a company together, and strive to build 101 (one-hundred-one) ventures!