Founder at Chibit
Andy Chiang is the founder of Chibit, a platform that helps corporate innovation, R&D, and M&A teams find active, relevant companies across global innovation ecosystems. He works with buyers who need short lists matched to a real mandate, not directory dumps, with particular focus on green economy, energy, and manufacturing across East Asia, North America, and Eastern Europe. Before Chibit, he spent over a decade in marketing, growth, and go-to-market for technology companies. He writes about operating leverage at Seeking Leverage and hosts Foreign Founders, a podcast and community for immigrant founders, operators, investors, and ecosystem partners. He is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Startup scouting platform vs database comparison: why M&A teams need vetted shortlists matched to mandates, not raw search indexes. Active companies in days.
Japan deep tech startups are gaining momentum in AI, robotics, semiconductors, and energy storage. Learn how corporate scouts can source active companies in this shifting ecosystem.
University spinouts are underused acquisition targets. Find them through TTOs, patent registries, and grant databases—before competitors do.
Eastern Europe is producing acquisition-ready manufacturing startups in automation, materials, and energy tech. Find active companies matched to your sourcing mandate.
Learn how corporate M&A teams build proprietary off-market sourcing pipelines in East Asia and Eastern Europe, where platform coverage is thin and cold outreach fails.
Chibit surfaces active, vetted companies matched to your M&A mandate. Start from a short list, not a directory of thousands.
Corporate deal sourcing strategy has shifted to continuous, signal-led discovery. Most M&A teams still miss 40–60% of relevant targets.
South Korea energy startups cluster in hydrogen, storage, and grid software. This guide names active companies, explains the ecosystem structure, and shows how to source them.
Songdo smart city startups, Incheon free economic zone innovation, and which pilots global corporates can actually run in Korea's most wired testbed.
Super-Gap 2026 funds 120 Korean deep tech startups across 12 industries. A corporate buyer's guide to sourcing acquisition targets in AI, robotics, energy, and marine tech.
Which East Asia manufacturing startup cities matter for corporate sourcing. Japan, South Korea, and what standard directories miss about these ecosystems.
Japan GX startups are largely invisible in standard directories. Corporate M&A and innovation teams can source active, funded GX-aligned companies using policy documents and direct research.
South Korea's M.AX program is seeding manufacturing AI startups most Western corporate development teams haven't mapped. Source them before competitors do.
How to source energy storage startups in Japan and Korea matched to your acquisition mandate: which corridor fits hardware, software, or systems mandates.
Find active Canadian cleantech startups concentrated in Alberta, Ontario, and BC. A sourcing map for corporate M&A and energy innovation teams targeting acquisition-ready companies.
Build a Perplexity AI agent for startup sourcing with live web search. Learn what it does well, where it fails, and when you need vetted sourcing instead.
Map Japan's active hydrogen startups across electrolyzers, green ammonia, and industrial heat. Find vetted companies the English-language databases miss.
Map the operators pushing real AI constraints and the physical ecosystems they depend on. Build sourcing pipelines based on frontier strategy, not sector tags.
AI infrastructure demand is reindustrializing America through data centers, power, and trades. How M&A teams source manufacturing and supply-chain acquisition targets in the AI boom.
How to assess whether government startup programs work as corporate sourcing channels. Framework for finding active companies matched to your M&A or innovation mandate.
How to find active startups from the Network School ecosystem using person-graph filters, shipping signals, and jurisdiction risk checks for corporate M&A teams.
Build a startup sourcing mandate template that defines sector, geography, capabilities, kill criteria, and activity signals. Includes a filled East Asia example.
Evaluate innovation districts by measuring corporate pilots, published outcomes, foreign on-ramps, and graduate companies. Skip the marketing vibes.
How to tell if a startup is still active before outreach. Run five concrete signals—hiring, filings, shipping, pilots, grants—to filter targets fast.
Profile of Network School's 3–6% acceptance rate, on-site population, demographics, and sector fit for corporate sourcing teams seeking acquisition or partnership targets.
Network School's first cohort drew 4,000+ applications for 128 slots. Breakdown of acceptance rates, geography, sector focus, and whether it's a sourcing node for your corporate mandate.
Network School is Balaji Srinivasan's residential network-state prototype. This guide covers its model, the Malaysia shutdown, and the Kazakhstan relocation.
Prospera ZEDE on Roatán runs its own common-law courts and flexible regulatory framework. Here is what corporate M&A and innovation teams need to evaluate.
A startup due diligence checklist for corporate M&A teams: 7 checks to run before shortlisting, covering mandate fit, operating proof, and kill flags.
How corporate M&A and innovation teams can source active hydrogen, battery, and grid-tech targets in the Japan–North America green-tech corridor.
Find active startups for acquisition by defining your mandate, filtering for current activity signals, and using corporate-focused tools built to source beyond founder databases.
How corporate M&A and innovation teams can identify active Austin energy and climate tech startups — beyond conference lists and directory noise.
Scout global startups effectively without drowning in directories. A practical guide for corporate innovation and M&A teams to find active, relevant targets.
How to tell if a startup is still active before you spend time on outreach. Signals, tools, and criteria that matter in M&A and corporate due diligence.
Why corporate R&D and M&A teams sourcing energy, materials, and manufacturing targets in Japan should weight Kansai at least as heavily as Tokyo.
Waterloo Region's startup ecosystem produces acquisition-ready deep tech at unusual density. Here's what foreign corporates need to know about sourcing here.
Map the University of Wyoming innovation ecosystem in Laramie: energy research, technology transfer, spinouts, and how corporate scouts should source.
Corporate M&A teams source startups for acquisition using directories, but miss 40–60% of relevant targets. Learn mandate-matched startup sourcing that surfaces active companies beyond Crunchbase.
Busan hosts Korea's densest cluster of maritime tech, port automation, and green shipping companies. Here's how to map it for M&A and innovation sourcing.
Fukuoka offers a national startup visa, city-backed acceleration, and direct access to Kyushu's automotive and semiconductor base. Here's how to evaluate it.
Estonia's digital public infrastructure shapes a distinct class of startups in govtech, cyber, and digital infrastructure. Here's what corporate innovation teams need to know about the Tallinn startup ecosystem.
Map Pittsburgh's robotics and advanced manufacturing ecosystem — CMU spinouts, NREC partnerships, and active pilot partners across logistics, inspection, and automation.
How corporate M&A and innovation teams can source industrial software, automation, and manufacturing startups from southern Poland's Kraków ecosystem.
