Best Internet of Things - Industry Applications Companies in Taiwan
The 85 best Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in Taiwan in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: NextDrive.
Our analysis of 184 Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies
$13.9b in tracked funding; 91% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in Taiwan
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NextDrive Developer of personal cloud and home automation solutions | $10M | 75 mo ago | Series B | Jeryuan Yan CEO | 2013 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+32 | 11 patents Intelligent network load/management and ML-driven cloud‑local energy control systems | — |
| 2 | Athentek Wearable smart location tracking device | $7M | 124 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2015 | — | 47 patents Indoor Wi‑Fi beacon mapping and real‑time positioning/tracking systems for mobile devices | — |
| 3 | Id Water Provider of aquaculture and mangrove forestry carbon credit solutions | $6M | 27 mo ago | Series A | Alan Yu CEO | 2017 | PHPBootstrapApache HTTP Server+5 | 24 patents Aquaculture monitoring and optimization: water-quality sensors, imaging analysis, and eco-friendly filtration. | — |
| 4 | Cubo AI Online retailer of smart baby monitors and related accessories | $5M | 19 mo ago | Series B | Steven Shen Co-Founder & CTO | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Ubiik Provider electricity monitoring systems for smart cities | $5M | 61 mo ago | Series A | Himanshu Tiwari Co-Founder | 2016 | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+14 | 4 patents Smart‑meter data aggregation and wireless AMI communication devices | — |
| 6 | Fox-Tech Provider of IoT solutions for perishable goods monitoring and data analytics | — | 88 mo ago | Seed | Sonic Wang Co-Founder | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Alfred Smartphone app to turn mobile phone into connected camera | — | 133 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | Node.jsFirebaseEmotion+20 | — | — |
| 8 | SanJet ADAS products for the automotive sector | — | 149 mo ago | Series A | Steve Liao CEO | 2009 | — | 114 patents Automated tool‑change mechanisms and precision tool‑holder interfaces for CNC machining equipment | — |
Top 8 Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in Taiwan
#1
Series B · Taipei, Taipei · founded 2017$5.2Mraised▾
Online retailer of smart baby monitors and related accessories. It provides devices with features such as safety alerts, sleep tracking, and lullaby programming. It offers products designed to monitor breathing motion, detect covered faces, and track sleep patterns. The company also provides accessories and add-ons for its monitoring systems.
- Oct 2024Series B$5.2M
#2
Series A · Keelung, Keelung · founded 2017 · 60 employees$6.4Mraised▾
Provider of aquaculture and mangrove forestry carbon credit solutions. It integrates aquaculture and mangrove forestry using AI, water quality sensors, and robotics. Wastewater from aquaculture fertilizes mangroves, significantly increasing their carbon sequestration. This sustainable approach offers a unique carbon credit generation method. The company's technology enables stable aquaculture production while enhancing environmental benefits.
- Mar 2024Series A$3.1M
- Dec 2022Series A$3.3M
#3
Series B · Taipei, Taipei · founded 2013 · 108 employees$10Mraised▾
NextDrive is a developer of a range of smart products for personal usage of a user. The solution includes Plug - a device which brings any storage device online and accessible from anywhere. Cube - a device that acts as a hub for other smart home devices, Cube also enables user to bring online any storage device. The company has also developed sensors for identifying motion and monitoring temperature and humidity at home and a connected camera for continuous video monitoring. These 3 devices communicate with the user via Cube and can work in sync with each other. Plug managed to raised just under $75K on Indiegogo in 2015.
- Mar 2020Series B$10M
#4
Series A · Taipei, Taipei · founded 2016 · 70 employees$5Mraised▾
Provider electricity monitoring systems for smart cities. Its platforms use RFID and LPWAN technologies. It offers a device called weightless which is a narrowband LPWAN gateway offering long-range connectivity and its firmware can be updated over the air. It can operate a diverse ranges of license-exempt sub-GHz ISM or SRD bands and offers an adaptive data rate. It also offers a plug-and-play LPWAN development kit and develops NFC and UHF-based e-paper tags which feature a read-and-write capability.
- Apr 2021Series A$5M
#5
Deadpooled · Taipei, Taipei · founded 2015 · 4 employees$7Mraised▾
Circo is a wearable location tracking device developed by Athentek. The device uses a blend of GPS, AGPS, WiFi, and Cell-ID to track position both indoors and outdoors. The user has to insert a sim of their own choice in the slot provided and the device used around 30 MB of data monthly. The device monitors the locations visited by the wearer and marks the frequently visited locations as safe zones. It automatically sends an update to the mobile app when the wearer enters or leaves a safe location. The device has an SOS button that can be used by the wearer in case of an emergency to alert the followers. The company has offices in Taipei, Taiwan, and Palo Alto, California, USA.
- Feb 2016Series A$7M
#6
Seed · Taipei, Taipei · founded 2016 · 10 employees—raised▾
Provider of IoT solutions for perishable goods monitoring and data analytics. They digitally transform farming, logistics, cold chain, and manufacturing businesses by providing an IoT platform that combines real-time data, applications, and sensors. The company offers temperature and humidity change alerts with global coverage. They develop end-to-end hardware and software solutions, assisting businesses with risk mitigation and policy compliance. The company also provides actionable data analytics.
- Jan 2019Seed—
#7
Seed · Taipei, Taipei · founded 2015 · 40 employees—raised▾
Alfred has developed a smartphone app that after installing into a mobile phone turns it into a home video monitoring camera feed from which can be tapped into by user from his smartphone. The user has to login in both the phones, using the same Gmail account to set up the app. The app can be installed on more than one phones to set up entire home monitoring. The user is notified whenever camera picks up any motion. App is available for both android and iOS phones.
- May 2015Seed—
#8
Series A · Hsinchu, Northern Taiwan · founded 2009 · 8 employees—raised▾
Manufacturer of vehicle electronic products designed to offer portable devices for recording video and audio. The company's products include dashboard digital video recorders, action cameras, web cameras, wearable cameras, traffic camera monitors, electronic rearview mirrors and advanced driver assistance systems, as well as offer Internet vehicle related applications, enabling customers to increase vehicle image and safety, as well as have entertainment while driving.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Internet of Things - Industry Applications coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Internet of Things is moving in Taiwan
A read on the academic research around Internet of Things — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 537 Taiwan-affiliated papers.
- Asia University47
- National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University44
- Soochow University34
- National Taiwan University of Science and Technology33
- National Yunlin University of Science and Technology33
- Computer security1→36
- Wireless4→36
- Wireless sensor network14→44
- Scalability3→26
- Embedded system1→22
- Wireless3→21
- Cloud computing1→11
- Computer security3→13
- Wireless sensor network14→20
- Real-time computing2→8
- Computer security1→10
- Wireless sensor network3→4
Where iot is researched across Taiwan
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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