Easing VC Listing Rules: What Listed Venture Firms Could Bring to Taiwan’s Early-Stage Investment

Continuing to Ease Listing Rules for Venture Capital Firms Li Ailing (李愛玲) emphasized that venture capital has always been an important participant in capital markets. Beyond funding, VCs provide substantive help with business thinking, helping startups overcome barriers to market entry. They can also help portfolio companies seek business or technical cooperation with peers, suppliers, and customers, supporting steady team development and preparing the way for listing. TWSE welcomes and encourages VC firms to apply for listing because they are important forces for industrial diversity and innovation. Its active promotion of the Taiwan Innovation Board is designed for companies with critical core technologies, future potential, and growth prospects. Through cooperation with the venture capital association, it hopes to bring more innovative companies to market, accelerate development, improve the circulation of venture capital, and strengthen Taiwan’s overall innovation capacity. Association chairman Chiu Te-cheng (邱德成) said venture capital is the most important capital provider behind startups. It offers not just money but knowledge, guidance, and sustained support, serving as a major pillar throughout their development. Chiu also thanked TWSE for listening to the industry and easing listing rules. Encouraging VC firms to list will bring more funding and financing channels and help strengthen local firms’ brands and professional standing. TWSE stressed that Taiwan’s capital market is ready to work with venture capital partners to build an Asian innovation center. Whether a venture firm applies to list itself or a portfolio company enters through the Innovation Board, TWSE will provide full support and resources. It hopes more VC firms will seek listing, jointly advancing institutional innovation and resource integration, strengthening innovative Taiwanese companies, and building an internationally competitive capital-market platform toward the goal of an Asian asset-management center. #Asian asset-management center #Building an internationally competitive capital-market platform --- Chairman Chiu believes that ten Taiwanese VC firms, each of 3–5 billion in scale, could provide at least 30–50 billion for sustained investment in Taiwan’s early- and mid-stage ventures. Through venture thinking—embracing failure, pursuing home runs, thinking long term, backing unconventional founders, and investing at the frontier and in change—they could become Taiwan’s next growth engine. Fifty billion is less than roughly 0.02% of national wealth exceeding 250 trillion, yet could help leverage Taiwan’s transformation and upgrading. ---- VC is a small investment business capable of positioning for the future early and creating outsized influence. It accounts for a tiny share of finance. Compared with listed equities, fixed income, real estate, commodities, and even derivatives, VC is classified as an alternative investment. Yet its small scale produces many important businesses of today and tomorrow. Many of the largest US companies by market capitalization have had VC backing: Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, NVIDIA, and Tesla.