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Steve P.

Always looking for innovative technology at UMC Capital

📍 Taipei City, Taiwan🔄 Updated September 2026💼 24 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2026
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Oct 2024
UVeye is transforming vehicle inspections with AI-powered computer vision and proprietary hardware. Our systems deliver fast, automated scans that detect damage, mechanical issues, or safety threats in seconds—above, below, and around the vehicle. Founded in 2016 by Amir and Ohad Hever, UVeye operates at 700+ locations globally, including OEM plants, dealership service lanes, auctions, rental fleets, logistics centers, and security sites. We’re trusted by General Motors, Volvo Cars, Toyota Tsusho, CarMax, Hyundai Motors, Hertz, Amazon, and more. Backed by $380M in funding from top investors like Toyota Tsusho, CarMax, Hyundai Motors, Hanaco VC, and W.R. Berkley, UVeye is automating inspections across the vehicle lifecycle, improving accuracy, transparency, and road safety.
Investor
Sep 2023
Silicon Box is an advanced semiconductor packaging company, specializing in cutting-edge integration technology and manufacturing processes. We offer solutions that enable chiplet architecture, as well as high performance alternatives to traditional packaging schemes. Leveraging our proprietary technology, 30 years of multi-sectoral expertise, and relationships with best-in-class partners, we strive to solve the unique challenges of chiplet adoption in order to build the emergent technologies shaping the world around us today. Silicon Box was founded in 2021 by Dr. Byung Joon (BJ) Han, Dr. Sehat Sutardja and Weili Dai. Dr. Han is the inventor of many of the most advanced packaging solutions in today’s market, and his team at Silicon Box holds standing records for yield in advanced packaging technology at wafer level production. Dr. Sutardja introduced the concept of chiplets at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in 2015. He and Weili Dai founded Marvell Technology Group (NASDAQ: MRVL) in 1995, and ran the company for twenty years.
early stageSemiconductors
Series B Investor
Jun 2023
NoTraffic is the worlds leading mobility platform. A TIME100 Most Influential Company for 2022, NoTraffic is on a mission to digitize the foundation of transportation, to improve safety and traffic efficiency while reducing CO2 emissions. Deploying the platform transforms any traffic signal into a smart infrastructure capable of understanding the complete traffic picture and responding in real time to all road users including detection and segmentation of bikes, cars, buses, pedestrians, and emergency vehicles. Cities use the cloud dashboard to define policies such as transit priority corridors or bike & pedestrian safety. AI software intelligently implements these policies at each traffic signal, operating intersections in real-time to autonomously manage an entire city grid based on actual demand, customized service for every type of user to cut congestion, reduce emissions and prevent accidents. The platform natively integrates V2X tools to provide the infrastructure to manage current traffic and future mobility innovations. www.notraffic.tech
Investor
May 2023
Dream Big Semiconductor is an emerging semiconductor startup that is dedicated to providing comprehensive low cost, low latency and high throughput solutions for AI, Datacenters, 5G and Automotive Markets. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, USA. Dream Big Semiconductor has offices in different regions across the world for R&D cost optimization. Dream Big Semiconductor has also established strategic partnerships with global leaders in the ecosystem.
Seed Investor
Aug 2021
The information age relies on billions of devices converting signals between electricity and light waves. These integrated light circuits are the backbone of telecommunication infrastructures, data centers, sensors, and even secure quantum communications. Our devices set new benchmarks for performance, including extraordinary speed and efficiency, that will force industries to rethink and reimagine their current standards.
Series B Investor
Jul 2021
NeuroBlade is reinventing infrastructure for data analytics by setting a new standard for query processing speed and scale. Founded in 2018 and led by veterans of the systems, storage, and data analytics industries, NeuroBlade is rethinking processor design with its proven Compute For Analytics approach, built to maximize throughput at petabyte-scale so that queries can run multiple orders of magnitude faster. NeuroBlade is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Palo Alto, California, with operations in Taipei, Taiwan, and New York City. To learn more, visit www.neuroblade.com.  
Series A Investor
Jul 2021
Sonatus is accelerating vehicle software innovation and the transition towards software-defined vehicles. Our platforms and products serve as the key building blocks that allow automotive companies and their ecosystem to innovate faster and deliver continuous improvements in costs, capabilities, reliability, and user experience over the vehicle lifespan. Sonatus’ award-winning software platform is in mass production vehicles from Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis today and will grow to millions of cars by 2024. The company has raised more than $110 million USD with world-class automotive, technology, and venture investors including Foxconn, Hyundai Motor Group’s Kia Corporation, LG Electronics, Marvell, SAIC Capital, Translink Capital, UMC Capital, and Wanxiang Group Company. Sonatus is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA (Silicon Valley), with offices in Paris, Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo. Sonatus is a trademark of Sonatus, Inc. For more information visit www.sonatus.com.
Board Observer, Series A Investor
May 2021
Ramon.Space is making the final frontier possible by bringing Earth-like computing infrastructure to Space. The company equips satellites with storage, processing and connectivity capabilities to enable the next-generation of space applications and services. The core is an SW-empowered, low-power, reliable, and durable computing platform, enabling innovators to perform infinite data processing in space, providing much-needed real-time insights. From small satellites to deep space exploration, Ramon.Space's computing products ensure that missions are smart, adaptable, and future-proof.
Series A Investor
May 2021
Machine vision innovator SiLC Technologies is focused on enabling human-like perception across autonomous driving, robotics, smart cameras and more. SiLC is differentiated as being the only company to date to successfully integrate an FMCW imaging system on a cost-effective silicon platform. Founded in 2018 by silicon photonics industry veterans with decades of commercial product development and manufacturing experience, SiLC uses a proprietary silicon-based semiconductor fabrication process to manufacture its chips and standard, automated IC style assembly processes. The result? Robust, cost-effective, compact solutions that open the door for a new era of smarter automation.
Board Member, Series A Investor
Oct 2020
JSAB Technologies Limited is a high-tech company, specializing in the design, research and development (R&D), and sales of power semiconductor devices.
Board Observer
Jul 2020
Taranis is a leading precision agriculture intelligence platform that uses sophisticated computer vision, data science and deep learning algorithms to effectively monitor fields. Taranis offers a full-stack solution for high precision aerial surveillance imagery to prevent crop yield loss due to insects, crop Farmers lose 30-40% of their yield every season due to crop diseases, insects, and weeds. Our mission: Help growers maximize crop yield, improve productivity, and adopt sustainable practices in order to ensure prosperity, starting in our local communities and for the benefit of the world. Taranis crop intelligence solutions use deep agronomic expertise and the most advanced AI and submillimeter image technologies to do just that. We make an impact for over 100 agribusinesses, thousands of farmers, and in millions of acres around the world, and grow rapidly. Founded in 2015, Taranis raised over $100M from leading VC investors and is being led by a founding team with vast experience in both agriculture and technology.
mid stageFarming
Investor
Sep 2019
Appier is an AI-native Agentic AI as a Service (AaaS) company that empowers businesses to create value with cutting-edge AdTech and MarTech solutions. Guided by the vision of “Making AI Easy by Making Software Intelligent,” our mission is to help businesses turn Agentic AI into ROI. Founded in 2012, Appier is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Prime Market (Ticker: 4180) and operates in 17 cities worldwide, enabling over 2,000 leading companies to enhance marketing performance with the latest AI technology. As AI enablers for our customers in the AI Era, Appier delivers innovative solutions that drive measurable results.
Seed Investor
Jul 2019
BlueSpace.ai is a software company that was founded to solve the “black box” problem of perception and prediction in autonomous driving. Our team consists of AV industry veterans with an average 10+ years of experience each working in OEMs, world class research institutions, and autonomous driving companies. Collectively, we’ve had successful AV service launches in California, Texas, and Florida. Our software uses an innovative approach to perception and prediction that captures the full motion of any object. BlueSpace's revolutionary technology enables verifiable safety, high performance, and scalable deployment of any autonomous driving system that exists today.
Investor Series A
Jul 2019
rENIAC’s Data Engine accelerates and optimizes existing open source database implementations for data-centric applications like AI, ML, fraud prevention, payment processing, identity resolution and recommendation engines. Flexible and deployed in minutes on prem, hybrid or in the cloud, rENIAC can be implemented as a hardware-optimized cache, a transparent proxy for data acceleration or a supercharged storage engine. rENIAC combines the power of FPGAs with proprietary software to provide industry leading customers with reduced CPU usage and node count, increased performance, and consistent, predictable SLAs unattainable through a traditional database alone.
Board Member
Oct 2018
Glympse is the leading geo-location tracking platform that comes complete with built-in customer notifications and communications. We work with companies of all sizes who seek predictive visibility and location intelligence solutions by helping them capture and process data elements to visualize and intelligently trigger both internal and external events. Glympse was founded on the premise that location-sharing should be temporary, with the end user always in control to set time limits and geo-boundaries on that share of location. We’ve spent over a decade providing location-sharing experiences that strike a harmonious balance between easy, safe, useful, temporary, and private. We have mastered the nuances of building interactive experiences based on location data. We are proud to do things like automate updates to what a customer sees based on sophisticated arrival detection and geo-fencing logic, optimize battery life, and balance all of that with smooth UX/UI capabilities. Because everyone here at Glympse is a tech geek and gets excited about creating cutting-edge solutions, we applied that same approach to developing solutions that enable enterprise brands to deliver a smoother customer-first experience for when people, products and services are in motion. We offers a flexible geo-location tracking platform with enterprise-grade location SDKs, APIs, dashboards, and more to build your own location-based product or services solutions for Field Services, Fleet & Logistics, Product Delivery and Retail Arrival Notifications or use one of our two pre-packaged products, Glympse En Route for enterprise customers and Glympse PRO for small businesses.
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2026
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Apr 2026
Ferric provides solutions for integrated voltage regulation and power management. Ferrics chip-scale, Integrated Voltage Regulators (IVRs) achieve industry leading current density to enable dense in-package and on-board power system implementations. This technology provides major improvements in system energy efficiency, while dramatically reducing the size and cost of the power management circuitry.
2024
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Oct 2024
UVeye is transforming vehicle inspections with AI-powered computer vision and proprietary hardware. Our systems deliver fast, automated scans that detect damage, mechanical issues, or safety threats in seconds—above, below, and around the vehicle. Founded in 2016 by Amir and Ohad Hever, UVeye operates at 700+ locations globally, including OEM plants, dealership service lanes, auctions, rental fleets, logistics centers, and security sites. We’re trusted by General Motors, Volvo Cars, Toyota Tsusho, CarMax, Hyundai Motors, Hertz, Amazon, and more. Backed by $380M in funding from top investors like Toyota Tsusho, CarMax, Hyundai Motors, Hanaco VC, and W.R. Berkley, UVeye is automating inspections across the vehicle lifecycle, improving accuracy, transparency, and road safety.
2023
Investor
Sep 2023
Silicon Box is an advanced semiconductor packaging company, specializing in cutting-edge integration technology and manufacturing processes. We offer solutions that enable chiplet architecture, as well as high performance alternatives to traditional packaging schemes. Leveraging our proprietary technology, 30 years of multi-sectoral expertise, and relationships with best-in-class partners, we strive to solve the unique challenges of chiplet adoption in order to build the emergent technologies shaping the world around us today. Silicon Box was founded in 2021 by Dr. Byung Joon (BJ) Han, Dr. Sehat Sutardja and Weili Dai. Dr. Han is the inventor of many of the most advanced packaging solutions in today’s market, and his team at Silicon Box holds standing records for yield in advanced packaging technology at wafer level production. Dr. Sutardja introduced the concept of chiplets at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in 2015. He and Weili Dai founded Marvell Technology Group (NASDAQ: MRVL) in 1995, and ran the company for twenty years.
early stageSemiconductors
Series B Investor
Jun 2023
NoTraffic is the worlds leading mobility platform. A TIME100 Most Influential Company for 2022, NoTraffic is on a mission to digitize the foundation of transportation, to improve safety and traffic efficiency while reducing CO2 emissions. Deploying the platform transforms any traffic signal into a smart infrastructure capable of understanding the complete traffic picture and responding in real time to all road users including detection and segmentation of bikes, cars, buses, pedestrians, and emergency vehicles. Cities use the cloud dashboard to define policies such as transit priority corridors or bike & pedestrian safety. AI software intelligently implements these policies at each traffic signal, operating intersections in real-time to autonomously manage an entire city grid based on actual demand, customized service for every type of user to cut congestion, reduce emissions and prevent accidents. The platform natively integrates V2X tools to provide the infrastructure to manage current traffic and future mobility innovations. www.notraffic.tech
Investor
May 2023
Dream Big Semiconductor is an emerging semiconductor startup that is dedicated to providing comprehensive low cost, low latency and high throughput solutions for AI, Datacenters, 5G and Automotive Markets. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, USA. Dream Big Semiconductor has offices in different regions across the world for R&D cost optimization. Dream Big Semiconductor has also established strategic partnerships with global leaders in the ecosystem.
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