2023 Pitch Judge

David Hong

David Hong

General Manager
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David is Taiwan’s general manager at Plug and Play Tech Center and building the world's leading innovation platform with a mission to drive innovation by connecting entrepreneurs, corporations, and investors worldwide. He is also co-founder of King's College London Alumni Angel Network and National Taiwan University Electrical Engineering Alumni VC Network. He began his career with IBM Taiwan, GCG, APAC and New York’s Wall Street Business Unit within IBM Software Group and IBM Global Business Services’ Strategy and Change. He later joined UBS, Kymco Capital, a private equity arm for Kymco Motors and was special assistant to the CEO at Marketech focusing on executing corporate strategies and strategic investments in the semiconductor, smart cities and healthcare industries. David has a background in business development, technology management, finance management, strategy and operations, and specializes in corporate development and strategy, and investments in financial services, semiconductor, new materials, AI/robotics and mobility. He is also startup judge for 2022 Innovex @ Computex Taipei, and selection committee for National Science and Technology Council's 2022 Taiwan Innotech Expo, TIE Award, and Taoyuan City Government. David holds an Executive Master’s degree in Management from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School and SEAS, graduate degree in Competition Law from the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, Accounting from UCLA and underg

Plug and Play Tech Center (Taiwan)

PLUG AND PLAY is an innovation platform from Silicon Valley with over 50 locations globally and in Taiwan. We are part of Google and Paypal’s initial founding success story, and through these experiences we are able to recommend startups to our Corporate Partners, along with additional support services to deliver corporate innovation, and many other services to make our platform a one-stop-shop for innovation. Our investment to date includes 31 unicorns, 1600+ total investments and $12B in additional funding raised by our portfolio companies. We have the largest corporate network in the world with 500+ corporate partners where we delivers accelerations programs to accelerate 2,400+ startups globally each year and hosts 950+ dealflows for our corporate partners. Join our network and be part of our innovation discovery and unicorn journey.