WI Harper's Advantage

The venture capital industry includes many firms, each with different strengths. The challenge in the industry is to identify, evaluate and gain access to top tier investment opportunities since the highest returns are generated by the earliest investors in the market leaders. WI Harper succeeds by leveraging several key assets that enable us to uncover unique investment opportunities for our limited partners.

  • Extensive NetworkExtensive Network
    WI Harper’s 15-year history in the region has enabled WI Harper to develop very strong relationships with the Chinese and Taiwanese governments. Such relationships are absolutely essential when doing business in China and Taiwan due to the government’s strong presence in the TMT (technology, media and telecom), health care and clean technology sectors.

  • ChinaDomain Expertise in China
    WI Harper remains one of the only venture firms with strong, dedicated teams in the US, Mainland China and Taiwan. These teams provide value-added support to our portfolio companies by facilitating introductions to “cross-straits” and western strategic partners and customers, as well as access to global investors and capital markets. Our roster of executive relationships include senior executives at major technology, health care and clean tech players in the US, Taiwan and China. These experts collaborate with our investment team and portfolio alumni to create virtual transaction teams capable of identifying exceptional investment opportunities and delivering unique value to our portfolio companies.
  • Industry KnowledgeDeep Industry Knowledge
    WI Harper Group has invested in over 100 companies since inception and have built a reputation in the industry as a trusted and value-added venture capital partner for entrepreneurs. We have backed dozens of entrepreneurs and participated in practically every permutation of cross-straits and cross-border business development, including launching a Taiwanese health services provider into China (MJ Group), securing a US acquirer of a Hong Kong-based SaaS player (EditGrid), taking a Chinese company public on NASDAQ (Focus Media), and spinning out a Tsinghua University-based technology and moving the headquarters to the US (Cnano).