Tim Liao

Earthshot Labs is a platform for developing and financing nature restoration and conservation projects using carbon as the primary financing mechanism. Our mission is to restore nature at planetary scale.

Are you overwhelmed by supply chain complexities and bogged down by manual spreadsheet-driven processes that introduce risk? Is your customer service suffering? Too much of the wrong inventory and not enough of the right stuff? Its time to transform your business with the Firstshift AI-powered supply chain planning platform. Firstshifts innovative planning platform leverages generative AI to automate tedious tasks and accelerate actionable insights, to free up your valuable resources, allowing you to scale without compromising quality, overloading your team or incurring unnecessary risks. Experience greater confidence and faster decision-making that comes from new insights to drive your business forward. The Firstshift platform provides comprehensive supply chain planning and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) to harness big data and optimize inventory investments while achieving your customer service goals. No more risky guesswork or excess inventory that ties up your working capital. With the Firstshift digital supply chain platform, youll accelerate decision-making, unlock profitable growth opportunities, and efficiently scale your business. In todays tight labor market, it can be challenging to recruit and retain high-demand supply chain planning experts who can manage all aspects of your supply chain. Firstshifts Supply Chain Planning as a Service (SCPaaS) gives you the option to leverage our trusted experts in S&OP, demand, inventory, and supply planning to help accelerate business results, reduce operational expenditures, and achieve a tangible return on investment faster. Say goodbye to risky spreadsheets, rigid solutions, and long IT projects that fail to deliver results. Firstshift delivers a rapid return on investment and sustainable business results tuned to the latest market conditions. From intuitive onboarding to real-time visibility, Firstshift enables you to make confident decisions, scale operations, and drive profitable growth.

Socialtrait leverages advanced generative AI and community simulation technologies to provide rapid, cost-effective, and deep insights into consumer behaviour. By creating AI-based virtual communities, we integrate both qualitative and quantitative research, reducing recruitment time and eliminating sampling errors and research fatigue. Our platform constructs virtual communities mirroring specific demographic and psychographic profiles. These communities engage with product concepts through structured methodologies like in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and surveys, all moderated by AI. Real-time insights are extracted through sentiment analysis and empathy mapping, ensuring actionable feedback. Recognized by Berkeley Skydeck and backed by major Silicon Valley investment, Socialtrait is at the forefront of audience insights. With headquarters in San Francisco and team members across Australia, Europe, and Asia, we are shaping the future of audience insights through Generative AI.

Acorn Pacific Ventures is an early-stage investor based in San Mateo, California, focusing on B2B enterprise, supply chain, and health tech investment opportunities across North America and APAC regions.

UpHonest Capital is an early-stage venture capital based in Silicon Valley. We commit our investments to the most outstanding entrepreneurs and rapidly scaling early-stage startups, applying our considerable resources and networks to catalyze value creation. We are here to help and support game changers for the big greatness. - Stage: Angel to Series A - Investment Landscape: 500+ portfolios, 30 Unicorns - Industries: ConsumerTech, Enterprise, Deeptech - Sectors: New Brand, New Lifestyle, Creative Content, New E-Commerce, Productivity, vSaaS, DevTool, Robotics, Clean Energy, AgriTech, AI+ - Featured Companies: Rippling, Instacart, Hims & Hers, Lime, Ironclad, Astranis, Boom Supersonic, Rescale, Dialpad, Checkr

Harbinger Venture is a financial services company based out of 2880 Lakeside Dr, Santa Clara, California, United States.

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused exclusively on the private sector in developing countries. We utilize and leverage our products and services—as well as products and services of other institutions in the World Bank Group—to provide development solutions customized to meet clients’ needs. We apply our financial resources, technical expertise, global experience, and innovative thinking to help our partners overcome financial, operational, and political challenges. Clients view IFC as a provider and mobilizer of scarce capital, knowledge, and long-term partnerships that can help address critical constraints in areas such as finance, infrastructure, employee skills, and the regulatory environment. IFC is also a leading mobilizer of third-party resources for its projects. Our willingness to engage in difficult environments and our leadership in crowding-in private finance enable us to extend our footprint and have a development impact well beyond our direct resources. For more information, visit www.ifc.org. https://youtube.com/shorts/UWDx7dWuPgg?feature=share

B Current Impact Investment (B Current) is the first venture capital firm in Taiwan which focuses on Social Enterprises and Profit-with-Purpose Businesses. B Current was founded in 2014 with the intention of cultivating an ecosystem for social innovation. We partner with mainstream capitalists/enterprises, NPOs/NGOs, government departments and international communities to deliver continued support for social entrepreneurs. By unlocking investment capital and offering a mentoring network, B Current encourages more talents to address social problems in an innovative way. As a change advocate, we organize our work into four domains: sustainable living, healthcare, education innovation and place making.

Earthshot Labs is a platform for developing and financing nature restoration and conservation projects using carbon as the primary financing mechanism. Our mission is to restore nature at planetary scale.

Are you overwhelmed by supply chain complexities and bogged down by manual spreadsheet-driven processes that introduce risk? Is your customer service suffering? Too much of the wrong inventory and not enough of the right stuff? Its time to transform your business with the Firstshift AI-powered supply chain planning platform. Firstshifts innovative planning platform leverages generative AI to automate tedious tasks and accelerate actionable insights, to free up your valuable resources, allowing you to scale without compromising quality, overloading your team or incurring unnecessary risks. Experience greater confidence and faster decision-making that comes from new insights to drive your business forward. The Firstshift platform provides comprehensive supply chain planning and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) to harness big data and optimize inventory investments while achieving your customer service goals. No more risky guesswork or excess inventory that ties up your working capital. With the Firstshift digital supply chain platform, youll accelerate decision-making, unlock profitable growth opportunities, and efficiently scale your business. In todays tight labor market, it can be challenging to recruit and retain high-demand supply chain planning experts who can manage all aspects of your supply chain. Firstshifts Supply Chain Planning as a Service (SCPaaS) gives you the option to leverage our trusted experts in S&OP, demand, inventory, and supply planning to help accelerate business results, reduce operational expenditures, and achieve a tangible return on investment faster. Say goodbye to risky spreadsheets, rigid solutions, and long IT projects that fail to deliver results. Firstshift delivers a rapid return on investment and sustainable business results tuned to the latest market conditions. From intuitive onboarding to real-time visibility, Firstshift enables you to make confident decisions, scale operations, and drive profitable growth.

Socialtrait leverages advanced generative AI and community simulation technologies to provide rapid, cost-effective, and deep insights into consumer behaviour. By creating AI-based virtual communities, we integrate both qualitative and quantitative research, reducing recruitment time and eliminating sampling errors and research fatigue. Our platform constructs virtual communities mirroring specific demographic and psychographic profiles. These communities engage with product concepts through structured methodologies like in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and surveys, all moderated by AI. Real-time insights are extracted through sentiment analysis and empathy mapping, ensuring actionable feedback. Recognized by Berkeley Skydeck and backed by major Silicon Valley investment, Socialtrait is at the forefront of audience insights. With headquarters in San Francisco and team members across Australia, Europe, and Asia, we are shaping the future of audience insights through Generative AI.

Acorn Pacific Ventures is an early-stage investor based in San Mateo, California, focusing on B2B enterprise, supply chain, and health tech investment opportunities across North America and APAC regions.

UpHonest Capital is an early-stage venture capital based in Silicon Valley. We commit our investments to the most outstanding entrepreneurs and rapidly scaling early-stage startups, applying our considerable resources and networks to catalyze value creation. We are here to help and support game changers for the big greatness. - Stage: Angel to Series A - Investment Landscape: 500+ portfolios, 30 Unicorns - Industries: ConsumerTech, Enterprise, Deeptech - Sectors: New Brand, New Lifestyle, Creative Content, New E-Commerce, Productivity, vSaaS, DevTool, Robotics, Clean Energy, AgriTech, AI+ - Featured Companies: Rippling, Instacart, Hims & Hers, Lime, Ironclad, Astranis, Boom Supersonic, Rescale, Dialpad, Checkr