Our First Event: Startup Asia Singapore Launches with CEOs, Founders, and PARTY!

Finally! — Today we’re announcing Startup Asia Singapore, our first and very own tech startup event.

We have attended and blogged about many tech conferences across Asia and thought we could contribute to this continent with an event that has a bit of our own DNA: a startup event that is built by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs. One with an entrepreneurial attitude.

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Startup Asia will be totally focused on startups and entrepreneurship in Asia. Although we can’t promise to have hot babes at the event, one thing is for sure: there will be no boring powerpoint shows or one-man-show presentations.

Rather, you can expect to witness engaging one-to-one coffee chats and panels with entrepreneurs and investors who will share their journey and valuable experience picked up along the way. You can also expect some tough questions to be asked live on stage.

With our straightforward but friendly approach, we’re glad to announce, in alphabetical order, some of the key folks who will be joining us in the event:

• “All things Entrepreneurship in Singapore” — Coffee chat with Lim Kuo-yi, CEO at Infocomm Investment.
• “Building a Hardware startup in Singapore” — Coffee Chat with Lux Anantharaman, co-founder and CEO of iTwin.
• “From Ex-bankers to Entrepreneurs” – Coffee chat with Angeline Tham and Tian Qiuyan, Co-founders of Sold.sg
• “Raising Capital, Generating Revenue, and the God Damn Exits!” – Coffee Chat with Steven Goh, CEO and Co-founder, mig33.
• “Running LinkedIn Singapore like a Startup” — Coffee Chat with Arvind Rajan, Managing Director and VP, APAC and Japan at LinkedIn.
• “Starting up in Singapore: the Good and the Bad” — Discussion Panel — Zaki Mahomed (Game Ventures), Alvin Yap (TMG), Sanjay (Replaid), Saumil Nanavati (Chalkboard)

This is just a start to our list of speakers. We will have more to announce as we go along.

Besides chats with entrepreneurs and investors. We have also selected 10 to 15 fledging Asian startups to pitch their ideas to our audience of investors and entrepreneurs. Read on…

Startup Arena

What: Startup Arena is a competition in which 10 to 15 Startups will pitch and compete for US$10,000 in cash. Only one will be able to walk away with the check. The selected startups will only be unveiled at the Startup Asia event itself.

Who: We are looking for new and unknown startups in Asia to launch their new ventures at Startup Asia Singapore. Our staff will handpick them for Arena. If you’re interested, kindly fill in and submit the form to us here.