Unfiltered: The AI Pitch Session
Co-organised by Openspace Capital and First Prompt, join us for a morning of pitching with the region's most promising AI founders. Get real-time feedback from experienced investors as they stress-test the business models, technical moats, and scalability of 10 elite AI startups. Proudly supported by Agora.
The Format: 3 Minutes Pitch + 5 Minutes Q&A
Founders will have exactly three minutes to pitch their vision to a panel of the industry’s most discerning investors and data experts as they prove their startup has what it takes to define the next decade of intelligence.
The Judging Panel:
We’ve assembled a cross-disciplinary panel representing the sharpest minds in venture capital and data science:
Ayu Tanoesoedibjo – Executive Director and Head of Indonesia, Openspace Capital
Chris Halim – Investor, Lightspeed
Yong Cheng Ong – Principal, Insignia Ventures Partners
Yiliang Zhao – Director, Head of Data Science, Openspace Capital
We look forward to hosting you!
Openspace Capital is a multi-strategy asset manager with a long-established specialist focus on our region. Since 2014, the platform has expanded from Early Stage to Growth Stage, Web3 (Ocular), Credit (Onyx) and Listed Equities (Orbit) investment strategies. The local teams are based across our 6 regional offices and bring investment and specialist expertise to their portfolio companies, including some of Southeast Asia’s largest venture-backed companies. By working collaboratively with the companies and founders, they aim to deliver meaningful and responsible returns to their investors.
First Prompt is the initiative bridging AI in APAC, working with the likes of OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Alibaba, AWS, Z.ai, Moonshot AI, Agora, Airwallex, Notion, Enterprise Singapore and more. With the gap between hype and reality wider than ever, we build the rooms where APAC's operators, businesses and AI pioneers converge, driving deeper conversations, broader adoption and regional ecosystem development. Besides our monthly community events and brokerage network, our flagship private forums bring 300 of APAC's top enterprise C-suite, startup builders, and defining voices together to reprogram the region's AI narrative.
Agora is the global leader in real-time engagement, providing developers with simple, flexible, and powerful APIs to embed real-time conversational AI, voice, video, interactive live streaming, and chat into their applications and IoT devices. Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, Agora is trusted by over 1,800 leading organizations across the globe to power best-in-class real-time experiences from social media and live shopping to education and telehealth.