Deel Founders Table | Singapore Edition
Singapore is where Asia's most ambitious companies scale from.
The question isn't whether to go regional or global. It's whether your hiring, people and GTM infrastructure is moving fast enough to keep up.
On Thursday 5 November, we're bringing together a small group of Singapore's most ambitious founders for a morning built around the four conversations every scale-up hits on the path to global, and rarely has the space to work through properly.
No keynotes. No pitch deck. No vendor theatre. Just three focused peer roundtables, real founder stories, and facilitators who’ve lived both sides of this.
The three topics on the table
🌍 Market expansion: EOR vs. entities vs. contractors
When to start with EOR, when you need an entity, and how to decide at your stage.
💰 Pay, benchmarking and hiring
How to set pay across countries, benchmark roles locally, and explain pay differences without friction.
🤖 Using AI in day-to-day operations
Where AI actually works in recruiting, HR, and ops—and where it doesn’t.
Each table goes deep with a facilitator and peer benchmarks. Then we hear from local founders who’ve scaled globally. You’ll leave with frameworks, real data, and clarity on what the fastest scale-ups do differently.
Who is this for?
Founders, CEOs, senior HR/People leads at Singapore-based SaaS, AI, fintech scale-ups (Series A-C) hiring regionally.
Who’s in the room
Peers from ambitious Singapore scale-ups, plus facilitators who’ve lived global hiring from both sides:
Hugo Mas – APAC Director, SMB
Mansour Mbaye – APAC Director, SDR
Aaron Tan – SMB Manager, ASEAN
Plus founder speakers sharing their global expansion stories (announced soon).
Agenda
📍 Where: The Penthouse, Mandala Club
🗓️ When: Thursday 5 November 2026
🕒 Time: 9:00am - 11:30am
9:00–9:15 | Arrival + Coffee
9:15–10:15 | Roundtable Discussions
10:15–10:30 | Share-Back (Key insights from each table)
10:30–10:45 | Founder Fireside Chat
10:45 onwards | Networking +more food
Request your seat. Places are limited to keep the conversation small.
About Deel
Deel helps 35k+ companies, including Nike, Open AI & Klarna, on their global expansion, whether you want to hire worldwide without opening legal entities, streamline HR for your global team, or pay all types of workers anywhere with consolidated payroll, and they do it all with full compliance.