Light DAO + SingularityNET Residency at Edge City India
Light DAO + SingularityNET Residency at Edge City India
Tech, Business & Leadership for the Benefit of Humanity
🌍 A Values-Driven Home Base Within Edge
Our Residency is a home base within Edge City India for founders, technologists, investors and other innovators committed to beneficial technology, conscious leadership, human sovereignty and business for good.
Light DAO is a global network of experienced founders, investors and innovators, with chapters in LA, SF, NYC, Lisbon and Taipei and more than 20,000 online followers. Our local salons are designed for people to build trusted relationships that often lead to collaborations, investments and new ventures.
Our Residency is ideal for leaders and innovators who want a smaller, values-driven community within Edge to connect, collaborate, invest, share their work and support one another.
🤖 Build & Partner with SingularityNET
In partnership with SingularityNET, the Residency offers direct access to one of the world’s most established Beneficial AGI ecosystems. SingularityNET has spent more than 20 years developing an open, decentralized approach to AGI designed for greater privacy, transparency and security, with lower compute costs.
For developers, founders and builders, this offers a rare opportunity to engage directly with SingularityNET leaders, explore how the technology could support what they are already building, or start something new using the platform.
Residency members can also explore strategic partnerships, receive hands-on support, and potentially qualify for grants supporting aligned projects.
🌴 Why Join the Light DAO + SingularityNET Residency?
🌍 Curated Introductions Beyond Edge India
Targeted introductions into Light DAO’s and SingularityNET’s global ecosystems
Potential connections with founders, investors, technologists and other leaders across our communities
Light DAO chapters in SF, LA, NYC, Lisbon & Taipei
Connections into SingularityNET’s global AGI network
🤝 Private Residency Curation, Support, Build & Collaboration
Residency-only gatherings curated for deeper connection, support and collaboration
Breakfast Connection Support sessions, small-group conversations and shared meals
Access to Light DAO leaders, advisors and investors, as well as SingularityNET's business and technical leaders
Hands-on build support for developers and founders working with the SingularityNET platform
Curated introductions to members of other Edge India residencies, where appropriate
🏖️ Live at the Heart of Edge India
Our Residency is based at Riva Resort, where much of the Edge India programming and social activity will take place
Easy access to official sessions, informal gatherings and the wider Edge community
✨ A Glimpse of Who You’ll Be Living & Building With
Just some of the founders, builders, investors and innovators already joining our Residency:
🧠 Leading Neuroscience & Psychedelic Medicine VC
Managing Partner of one of the world’s leading venture funds focused on neuroscience and psychedelic medicine. He has testified before Congress and is highly sought after by policymakers, researchers, investors and government leaders worldwide. He travels tirelessly to remote corners of the globe to identify and advance emerging innovations in neuroscience, mental health and human wellbeing.
🌱 Industry Leader Reimagining & Building the Future of Human Society
Systems thinker and regenerative developer reimagining growth at the intersection of culture, ecology and economy. Leads a 500-acre regenerative town project in Jaipur and hospitality projects transforming historic forts into boutique hotels and cultural districts. His work combines ancestral knowledge with modern tools to develop new models of regenerative development for the Global South.
🧬 Tech Entrepreneur Turned AI & Consciousness Researcher
Sold his first company at 17 and later worked across civic tech, Polkadot and Zcash ecosystems. He stepped away from entrepreneurship to study dharma and founded an AI research lab focused on alignment, consciousness and human values. He is now helping build a post-AGI research ecosystem in Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City, a new economic and innovation hub.
📈 Venture Investor & Enterprise Technology Leader
Managing Partner of a venture fund with 25 years across enterprise technology, innovation and emerging markets. She has helped bring 400+ products to market and led more than 20 M&A transactions. She is now deeply focused on how AI will reshape work and opportunity — and how leaders and investors can help ensure the AI revolution expands human potential rather than leaving people behind.
🎭 Future Entertainment & Creative-Space Entrepreneur
Founder of a legendary San Francisco entertainment venue and Future Factory, reimagining what physical spaces for work, creativity and entertainment can become. He is developing a global network blending AI, robotics, art, coworking, wellness, hospitality and community into entirely new immersive experiences. His vision pushes entertainment, creativity and human connection beyond today’s familiar models.
⚖️ Stanford Law–Trained International Business & Governance Leader
Founder and Managing Partner of her own law firm, with more than 35 years in commercial law, governance and international business. She has served on major corporate boards including Sony Pictures India and JW Marriott Delhi, while her firm practices before India’s Supreme Court and High Court of Delhi. She is deeply committed to and involved in sustainability, education and social-impact initiatives.
✨ Founder of a Global Consciousness Practice
Founder of a 30+ year global consciousness practice centered on energetic and meditative experiences, consciousness exploration and expanded states of awareness. It has touched more than 44,000 lives across 70+ countries and 14+ languages, with online programs regularly drawing thousands of participants. Its global community also gathers for live experiences across Europe, Australia, Brazil, the U.S. and beyond.
🤖 SingularityNET Leadership & Team
More than half a dozen SingularityNET leaders and team members will rotate through the Residency, with business and technical expertise available each week, including participation from their CTO. Residency members will have opportunities for direct conversations, strategic partnership discussions and hands-on support for builders interested in the Beneficial AGI ecosystem.
🤝 Hosted & Curated by Light DAO
Hosted by Light DAO founder Payam Safa and co-founder Ruby Yeh, bringing decades of entrepreneurial, fundraising and community-building experience. They will help curate strategic connections, conversations and opportunities throughout the Residency, across Light DAO’s global network and, where appropriate, within the broader Edge India community.
At its heart, Light DAO is about building friendships and collaborations grounded in mutual trust, shared values and a commitment to help each other grow and succeed.
Come experience our collaboration between Edge Cities, SingularityNET and Light DAO — where frontier ideas, deep community and real opportunities to build and collaborate come together in one Living Lab.
You may leave with a partnership, a prototype, a new collaborator, or an entirely new direction you had not imagined before joining this unique Society Incubator and the Light DAO + SingularityNET Residency
How to Join the Light DAO + SingularityNET Residency
Your Edge Pass includes the full Edge India experience — programming, coworking, wellness, community gatherings — plus the Light DAO + SingularityNET Residency
💰 Pricing
Edge India Pass
Prices increase weekly
2–3 weeks (same price): $1,850 – $2,000
1 week: $900 – $1,000
Day pass: $200 – $250
Indian citizens: 50% discount
🏖️ Our Beachfront 4-Star Resort
Our Light DAO + SingularityNET Residency will be based at Edge India’s central hotel.
Private room + breakfast: $90 - $100 per room/night
Lunch + dinner: approximately $15 - $40/day
Your choice — at the resort or anywhere in Goa
Private-room pricing is per room; couples or roommates share the same room rate.
Lunches, dinners and excursions are paid individually, giving you the flexibility to join our residency plans, other Edge activities, or your own plans in Goa.
✨ Join the Light DAO + SingularityNET Residency Now
Edge Cities are curated communities with an application and approval process.
Light DAO Owner Members and friends we already know:
Please RSVP here on Luma. You will automatically be approved to Edge India through our Residency.
If you are new to us:
Please RSVP here on Luma and complete the registration questions thoughtfully. Thank you.
Once approved through the Light DAO + SingularityNET Residency, you will not need to complete a separate Edge City application.
Ready to Join?
Choose one of the two ticket options above.
Once approved, we’ll send you:
the direct link to purchase your Edge ticket at the current lowest price
the resort reservation link
🌍✨ New to Edge Cities? Why Light DAO Chose to Be Here
Members of Light DAO’s leadership recently participated in Edge Esmeralda and came away feeling it was one of the most impressive, inspiring and transformative business gatherings we had ever experienced — because it was not a conference, retreat or summit.
It was a Society Incubator — an extraordinary integration of worlds that are rarely found in one place.
In a single day, you might:
🌅 Begin the morning with a tea ceremony, breathwork or yoga
🧠 Move into a talk with brilliant researchers, founders and investors on frontier science and emerging technology
💻 Spend a few hours building software, testing experimental health wearables, collaborating in a maker space, or creating in a media lab
🌿 Head into nature, join a wellness session, or get absorbed in a discussion on the latest in AI agents, fintech or longevity
🍽️ Continue the conversations over dinner late into the evening — or end the night with music, ecstatic dance or a calming sound bath
👨👩👧👦 For families, dedicated programs for kids and teens, starting at age 4, offer opportunities to play, learn, create and build within their own community
✨ Alongside all of this are deep conversations about consciousness, philosophy, society and human flourishing
It felt like stepping into a living laboratory for the future — a temporary village designed to explore and experiment with how we might live, work, learn, build and thrive differently.
It offered a glimpse of what the world could look like when innovation, human flourishing and community are developed together.
This is Edge City.
Edge Cities are 3–4 week Living Labs and Society Incubators — international popup villages where frontier technology, science, entrepreneurship, consciousness, culture, art, well-being and community are not separate tracks, but part of one shared environment.
Edge Cities have already taken place in Patagonia, Chiang Mai, Cape Town and Esmeralda, two hours north of San Francisco.
Edge Esmeralda — June 2026
850 residents from 60+ countries
Nearly 300 stayed for the full month
800+ sessions and experiments
Families came with 48 kids
What made it so extraordinary was being surrounded by brilliant, conscious innovators genuinely committed to advancing humanity — with enough time together for real relationships, collaborations and radical ideas to develop.
www.EdgeEsmeralda.com
That experience convinced us that Edge City offers something unusually valuable for the Light DAO community.
So in October, we’re taking our community to the next Edge City.
🌴 The Next Edge City: Goa, India
October 11 – November 1, 2026
💡 A Living Lab Created by Its Community
One of the things that makes Edge Cities especially unique and powerful is its unconference-style format. Much of the experience is created by the participants themselves — through the talks, demos, experiments and working groups they lead around the ideas and projects they care most about.
Light DAO will also host more intimate gatherings within our own Residency, led by our guests.
Once registered, Light DAO Owner Members are welcome to contact us with ideas you might like to lead or contribute to. We can’t guarantee a place in either the Light DAO or Edge programming, but we’d love to hear what you are most excited to share.
That participatory spirit is part of what makes Edge a true Living Lab: the community does not simply attend the experience — it helps create it.
What Makes Edge Cities a Unique Living Lab + Society Incubator
Hear Edge Cities co-founder Timour Kosters talk about the multidisciplinary, multigenerational and global vision behind Edge Cities — including its unconference format and experiments.
He shares how the experience stretches people’s sense of what is possible, helps them embody that expansion, and activates new collaborations and directions. In 1–3 weeks, many participants accelerate results that might otherwise have taken months or longer.
The Edge experience is designed around focused work, collaboration, wellness, community and time to enjoy Goa.