Global Venture Accelerator · EST. 2026

The launchpad for founders going global.

An elite program for high-growth founders scaling across international borders. We bridge regional innovation and global markets through the Founders Playbook, a curated community of serial entrepreneurs, and immersive expeditions to the world's leading tech hubs.

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Continents in our network

50+

Serial founder mentors

Tech-hub expeditions per cohort

Three pillars. One trajectory.

01 · Curriculum

The Founders Playbook

A signature curriculum forged from the playbooks of operators who have taken companies from regional wins to cross-border scale. Strategy, capital, GTM, and org design — every module tested at founder altitude.

02 · Community

A curated peer network

Small cohorts of vetted, high-growth founders. No noise, no spectators. Operator-to-operator relationships that compound long after the program ends.

03 · Expeditions

Ecosystem expeditions

Immersive on-the-ground weeks in Silicon Valley, Tokyo, Singapore, London and beyond. Closed-door meetings with operators, investors, and customers that would otherwise take years to reach.

We don't just teach global expansion — we facilitate it.

Every introduction, every session, every expedition is engineered around one outcome: turning local traction into global leverage. Access and network are the product — the curriculum is the entry ticket.

Global Reach

From Taiwan to the few cities that decide it.

The program exists to move founders across a border they cannot cross alone. The people, the judgement and the introductions sit in a handful of cities, and that is where we point.

TaipeiSilicon ValleyLos AngelesNew YorkTokyoSingaporeLondon

Taipei is where the first cohort runs. The rest is where it is headed.

Team

The people behind it.

Operators who have taken companies across borders themselves.

Tina Cheng

Managing Partner, GVA
Partner, Bonhope Capital

USTaiwanAPAC

Venture & PEBankingD2CGo-to-MarketHospitality

Tina Cheng

Serial entrepreneur and private equity investor. A 6X founder across the US and APEC, including the nightlife brand The Muse and a six-country group-buying site acquired by a Nasdaq-listed company for $65M. Previously Managing Director at a boutique investment bank and JP Morgan, managing over $1B in assets.

Education

CFA charterholder · MBA in Entrepreneurship & Finance, USC Marshall · BS in Civil Engineering, UCLA

Philip G. Chiu

D2C Partner, GVA
Founder & CEO, Beyond Media Global

USHKChinaAU

D2CHealthcareBankingHospitalityManufacturingAIMedia

Philip G. Chiu

American technology entrepreneur and AI executive with more than 20 years building enterprise software and AI platforms. Creator of the Adeqo Context Engine, an enterprise platform that reasons across marketing, CRM, finance and operations. Previously at Bloomberg LP, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Yahoo.

Education

Harvard Business School alumnus · BS in Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, with Honors in Mathematics & Computer Science

Vincent Wang

Program Director, GVA
Founding AO, EvoScale Capital

Taiwan

Venture & PEGo-to-MarketMediaD2C

Vincent Wang

Founder turned methodology coach and founding AO at EvoScale Capital, an operator-led fund. He has built and run his own ventures, and works with founders on turning what they are actually building into a version that holds up in front of capital. At GVA he runs the program itself.

Training

Design thinking seminars, Stanford d.school · Mentor, Design for Taiwan

David Lin

Defense Partner, GVA
Founder & CEO, ArLin Dynamics

USEU

DefenseGov ContractingInfrastructureManufacturingArchitectureGo-to-Market

David Lin

He works where defense, critical infrastructure and advanced manufacturing meet government contracting, connecting U.S. requirements with allied industrial capability across Europe and the Indo-Pacific. Founding Member and Director of the Trilateral Defense Innovation Cluster in Austria. A decade in the US Army as an aviator.

Education

Three master's degrees, The Catholic University of America: M.S. Architecture, M.C.R.P. City & Master Planning, M.S. Sustainable Design Science · Army Aviation Badge

Advisory Board

Terry Hsiao

Advisor, GVA
Managing Partner, Bonhope Capital

USChinaTaiwan

Entrepreneur, advisor and investor with extensive experience in the United States and the greater China region. He has founded multiple companies and taught Entrepreneurship and New Venture Funding at Marymount University and George Washington University. As Head of Strategy at Kaleyra he led the company's 2019 listing, and serves on the board of Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology.

Education

MS in Management of Technology, MIT Sloan · BSEE with Honors, Rutgers University

Venture & PEAIMedia

Cohort 2026

The next cohort is forming.

GVA runs by invitation and application. Tell us about your company, your ambition, and the markets you intend to own.