Compute & Capital: Founder Night
Compute & Capital: Founder Night
Tuesday, 6 October 2026 | 6:00 to 9:00 PM | 📍Upscale Venue in Central Singapore
An intimate, invite-only evening on how AI is reshaping company building, and where the machine economy goes next.
A fireside chat, then open networking. No panels, no pitches. Just a tightly curated room of high-calibre founders and investors, drinks and light bites, and the space to have real conversations.
Held on the sidelines of TOKEN2049 week and Singapore Grand Prix season, while the region's founders and investors are in town.
Agenda
6:00PM — Doors Open · Registration & Drinks
6:30PM — Welcome by WhatYouBuilding & Off the Record
6:45PM — Fireside Chat · OpenAI × Golden Gate Ventures moderated by Naman Tekriwal
7:45PM — Open Mingling
9:00PM — End
In conversation
Thomas Jeng, Head of Startups APAC, OpenAI. Thomas leads OpenAI's startup efforts across Asia-Pacific, working closely with founders and investors on how frontier models are adopted inside real companies.
Jeffrey Paine, Founding Partner, Golden Gate Ventures. Jeffrey will share Golden Gate's thesis on investing in AI, where they see the machine economy heading, and the patterns they see in the AI-native and AI-enabled companies that win.
Capacity is limited and all registrations are subject to approval. Register below and we will confirm your place shortly.
Host
WhatYouBuilding (WYB) is Hong Kong's largest founder community, bringing together over 500 founders, operators and investors through curated dinners, fireside sessions and flagship programming. Compute & Capital marks WYB's first Singapore edition, extending the community into a cross-border Hong Kong to Singapore network.
Off The Record is a tech podcast and event series hosted by Tanya Aggarwal, sitting at the intersection of AI, finance, and culture. Through candid, long-form conversations with founders, investors, and operators, the show brings listeners into the rooms where the next wave of technology is being built.
Supermomos is a verified in-real-life professional community for founders, investors, Fortune 1000 executives and technology operators. It convenes more than 35,000 members across New York, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, London and Singapore through curated dinners, summits and market-access programmes.
Presented by
Naman Tekriwal is the founder of What You Building, co-founder and COO of Breer, and a partner at Orange Juice Ventures.
Tanya Aggarwal is the co-founder and CEO of Continuum Labs, a stealth startup in robotics and host of the podcast, Off the Record.
Community partners
Orange Juice Ventures is a Asia-based venture studio working with startups on go-to-market strategy, lead generation and fundraising as they scale into new markets. Through OJV Educate, it also runs deep-tech China programmes for executives and partners with universities on their innovation programmes.
MLB4 (Make Life Better) is an early-stage fund backing deeptech and AI-native companies built by young founders across India, Southeast Asia, and the US. Beyond capital, founders get access to a mentor bench of operators, builders, and researchers who have already scaled what the company is setting out to do.
Registration and privacy
By registering, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal data by the hosts and Luma for the purposes of processing your registration, managing attendance, and sending you communications related to this and future events. Your data will be handled in accordance with Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA).
Your name, email, company and role may be shared with the hosts, speakers, partner organisations and community partners of this event for guest-list curation and follow-up purposes. This event will be photographed and may be filmed. By attending, you consent to the use of your image in event recaps, social media and future marketing materials. If you prefer not to be photographed, please let a member of the host team know on arrival.
Registration is non-transferable. The hosts reserve the right to decline or revoke any registration at their discretion.