AppWorks Announces Limited Recruitment of AI and Blockchain Teams

Established in 2010, AppWorks Accelerator, the largest start-up startup accelerator in the largest Southeast Asia alumni community, announced that it will begin to recruit artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain teams from the 18th issue of 2018. AppWorks Accelerator It is recruiting members of AppWorks #17 Entrepreneurial Accelerator to invite Taiwanese and Southeast Asian AI and blockchain teams to join in. The AppWorks #17 team will formally enter in August and expect to recruit 30 teams to join. AppWorks co-founder Lin Zhizhi Chen said that the impact of AI and blockchain will be like the 80s PC, the Internet in the 1990s, and the Mobile Internet in the 2000s. It is a huge paradigm shift to rewrite the business and life in the next 30 years. Now, after the Internet in 1998 and the Mobile Internet in 2008, the best time to start a business in 10 years, 2018 entrepreneurs should make good use of machine learning behind AI and blockchain waves, deep learning, and decentralization. Trading networks, decentralized encryption systems and other technologies to solve the large existing problems in the society to build great new technology giants for a long time. To encourage and encourage more outstanding Investing in AI, blockchain entrepreneurship, it is decided that only two new types of teams will be recruited in the future. AppWorks provides six major values ​​to attract new AI and blockchain joins: First, the new world-class AI/blockchain Creating an entrepreneurial business: The team of AppWorks #17 will be the most outstanding AI from Taiwan and Southeast Asia, and the new blockchain creation. In addition to exchanging the most frontier industry observations, they will be inspired by each other's products and business models. In addition to healthy peer pressure, the 'comrade-in-arms friendship' accrued during their stay will continue to support each other and expand their markets.

Second, get AppWorks Mentor's one-on-one tutoring: AppWorks Accelerator's 60 tutors, who are successful entrepreneurs with 10 or 20 years of experience, can guide young entrepreneurs to face from 0 to 1 with the right attitude. 1 to 100 various challenges in different startup stages.

Third, standing on the shoulders of 300 alumni companies: AppWorks Accelerator has accumulated more than 300 companies, covering active B2B and B2C alumni companies. The total annual output value has exceeded NT$40 billion. It is AI's newly-created connected data pipe ( Data pipeline). The blockchain creates the best springboard for application fields.

Fourth, AppWorks Masters' professional tutoring: The AppWorks Master Team consists of six counselors specializing in legal affairs, finance, recruitment, engineering, design, marketing and public relations, and provides free advice or counseling for accelerator alumni companies. In these major aspects, let AI, blockchain startup in the early stage of the venture, have no worries, focus resources and focus on its own core competitiveness.

V. Exchange with top academic and business institutions: AppWorks maintains good interaction with academic and corporate institutions in the frontline of innovation for the long-term and assists start-ups in grasping technology trends at the earliest. Including AI Lab led by Professor Sun Min of Department of Electrical Engineering of Tsinghua University. AI expert Du Fu led Taiwan's artificial intelligence school, and AppWorks Funds shareholders Cathay Financial's FinTech team, CITIC Financial's blockchain lab, etc.

6. Experimental Resources worth more than $100,000: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform are long-term sponsors of AppWorks Accelerator. Each entry team can receive sponsored resources worth more than US$100,000, significantly reducing the number of newly created teams. Experimental costs.

VII. Since its establishment, AppWorks has accumulated more than 300 active new alumni. In the AI ​​field, AppWorks Accelerator has accumulated a total of 30 alumni companies. Representative alumni, including applied machine learning, have created Asia Yo (the largest bed and breakfast booking platform in Taiwan). AW#12); Product sales in more than 30 countries around the world, and has raised a total of US$9.8 million in two rounds of smart security control Umbo CV (AW#9); using Chatbot to call a taxi, over 1,000 vehicles per day TaxiGo (AW#11); launched the world's first smart baby camera Cubo (AW#16), etc. In the blockchain field, AppWorks Accelerator has accumulated alumni of 10 companies. Representative alumni, including Taiwan’s most Representative Crypto exchanges, and in the recent ICO BitoEX coin tray (AW#6) with more than 650 million NTD worth of achievements in the recent 26 hours, WageCan (AW#5) focusing on blockchain asset trading, and focused blockchain Domain content of social media blockers (AW#14), dynamic trends (AW#16), etc.