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CDIB Capital Group (“CDIB”) and TEN Capital jointly announced that the CDIB–TEN Capital Limited Partnership (the “Fund”), a dual-GP venture capital fund established by CDIB and TEN Capital, completed its final closing in December 2025, reaching a total fund size exceeding NTD 3.3 billion. The investor base includes multiple publicly listed semiconductor companies. The Fund focuses on the global semiconductor industry, with a particular emphasis on semiconductor startups in Silicon Valley and Taiwan, extending across semiconductor processes, software, and related services. The Fund aims to inject industry-driven growth momentum into deep-tech startups in Taiwan and globally, particularly in North America.

A key differentiator of the CDIB–TEN Capital Fund lies in its strong cross-border industry connectivity between Taiwan and the United States, as well as its rigorous technical evaluation capabilities. TEN Capital’s core team consists of founding members of the Tsing Hua Entrepreneur Network, bringing diverse expertise across semiconductors, chemical materials, and information software. CDIB, meanwhile, leverages over 65 years of industrial investment experience and an extensive Taiwan-based industry network, supported by comprehensive front, middle, and back office teams covering financial management, legal, and post-investment management functions. Together, these capabilities underpin a disciplined investment process and robust performance reporting framework. In addition, CDIB’s broader financial platform, provided by its parent company KGI Financial Holding, encompasses commercial banking, life insurance, and securities businesses, offering a fully integrated financial ecosystem to
support the Fund’s operations. Through this dual-GP structure, TEN Capital and CDIB have jointly built a “T-shaped advantage” that combines breadth and depth, enhancing the Fund’s competitiveness in investment strategy, industry linkage, and execution efficiency.

“The successful fundraising reflects strong market recognition of our long-term investment strategy. TEN Capital has previously invested in globally competitive startups such as Credo (NASDAQ: CRDO), a leader in high-speed SerDes solutions.” TEN Capital Chairman CJ Cheng commented. “By precisely identifying high-potential companies and leveraging deep semiconductor industry relationships and cross-border Taiwan–U.S. supply chain integration, TEN Capital helps portfolio companies accelerate technology commercialization and access capital markets. The CDIB–TEN Capital Fund will continue to replicate this proven and scalable value-creation model.”

CDIB President Melanie Nan stated that CDIB has long been committed to advancing industrial upgrading in Taiwan and expanding its deep-tech footprint, including investments in ASPEED (5274.TWO), a leading Taiwanese IC design company specializing in server BMC solutions. On the other hand, TEN Capital has demonstrated strong professionalism and strategic vision in the semiconductor and venture capital sectors. The complementary strengths of the two firms—spanning industry networks, technical evaluation, and cross-border investment execution—have enabled the Fund, since its inception, to establish a clear strategic focus and a solid operational foundation. CDIB looks forward to supporting Taiwan’s industries in strengthening their global competitiveness amid the accelerating global deep-tech transformation.

The Fund’s investment track record has already begun to take shape. In the first half of 2025, the Fund led the Series A financing of Omni Design, a leading U.S.-based provider of mixed-signal IP solutions, marking a key milestone under the dual-GP collaboration between TEN Capital and CDIB Capital. Kush Gulati, Founder of Omni Design, expressed his appreciation for the Fund’s lead investment and shared his vision for Omni Design to become a successful example of deep collaboration between the U.S. and Taiwan semiconductor ecosystems. The investment will accelerate the development of Omni Design’s Wideband Signal Processing™ technology, driving the next phase of innovation in AI data processing. Omni Design’s advanced-process semiconductor IP solutions have been adopted by multiple tier-one global customers, with applications spanning wireless communications, autonomous vehicles, satellite communications, and AI servers, demonstrating strong competitive positioning.

The CDIB–TEN Capital Fund has also invested in AI chip startup Rivos, which focuses on the design of RISC-V–based CPUs and parallel computing processors. Rivos is dedicated to delivering high-performance, low-power architectures tailored for modern AI and data stacks, and announced its acquisition by Meta in the second half of 2025.

In addition, the Fund has played an impact-investment role by serving as the lead investor in the 2025 fundraising round of ReTech Environmental Solutions Co., Ltd., a leading provider of water engineering and waste resource recycling system solutions, whose clients include several flagship Taiwanese technology companies.

According to McKinsey forecasts global semiconductor market growth of 6% to 8% annually, with market size projected to reach USD 1 trillion by 2030. Applications such as AI, cloud computing, and autonomous driving are reshaping global supply chains, and the complementary strengths of U.S. IC design and Taiwan’s foundry ecosystem make cross-border collaboration a decisive advantage. As the global semiconductor industry enters a golden decade, the CDIB–TEN Capital Fund will continue to target technology companies with clear competitive moats and commercially scalable business models, adhering to disciplined investment principles to deliver attractive and competitive returns for its investors.

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