Aspire Startup Bootcamp - Singapore Edition
Aspire Startup Bootcamp is a selective, two-day program designed for founders ready to level up fast. Through hands-on clinics, expert-led sessions, and investor access, participants gain actionable frameworks to scale. Only high-potential, growth-minded founders like YOU are accepted, space is limited and the experience is designed to be practical and intensive.
Vetted Cohort: Highly-curated attendees/selection of high-potential founders
Hands-on Clinics: No passive stages. Just workstations, templates, and expert guidance.
Investor Access: Direct lines to pre-seed and seed-stage VCs looking for "Day-One" readiness.
Leave with more than inspiration. Leave with a vetted framework for scale.
Day 1: Unlocking Potential to Scale
Mon, 11 May
09:00 – Registration & Breakfast Networking
Fuel up and connect with fellow founders before we kick off.09:30 – Lean Canvas: Auditing Your Path to Scale
A high-intensity workshop to "clean the canvas." Perform a brutal stock-take of your current model and receive expert mentorship to pivot toward a stronger market position.
Workshop host: Finnley Lee
Startup & VC Partnerships Lead at Aspire
https://www.linkedin.com/in/finnleyleehuiyu/11:00 – Know Your Customer
12:30 – Lunch Break & Networking
14:00 – Don't F*ck Up Your Systems
Most early-stage startups fail not because the idea is bad, but because the operations are not in place. This workshop covers the non-negotiable systems every founder needs to build early: the right team structure and roles, revenue-focused decision-making, how to think about trad marketing in an AI world, how to deploy capital smartly (marketing, hiring, tools), and why having a Chief of Staff function matters before you think you need one. Leave with a checklist for building systems that can help you scale.
Workshop Host: Thomas Alexander
Co-founder of Open Sourced & OSV
CoS of Chat and Build
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-alexander/16:00 – The "Brutal" Pitch Audit Move past aesthetic slides to focus on what investors actually care about: the Problem, Solution, and Business Model. Work in peer-led "audit squads" to tear down your current pitch and identify weak links.
Speaker: Pratik Shah
Strategic Partnerships & Investor Relations, Plug & Play
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pratik-shah23/18:00 – Wrap up of Day 1
Day 2: Designing for the Future
Tues, 12 May
09:00 – Registration & Breakfast Networking
09:30 – The Tech Stack that Matters: sharing our best tools to build, sell, communicate, work!
As startup founders, we all design, build, market, sell (hopefully!), communicate and organize work. But which tool is the best for each use case? In this session, participants are invited to share what THEY use and can recommend to the rest of the group. As a prep work for this session, the facilitator will ask each participant to list what they use, don't use, would love to use, and are able to share on. We'll all come out of the session with more proven tools under our belt, with demos done by the participating founders.
Workshop Host: Martin Pasquier
3x founder, currently GTM @ Gnosis Business
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinpasquier/11:00 – Architecting Growth: Cloud Infrastructure
A deep dive with Cloud experts on building a robust, cost-effective infrastructure that scales effortlessly as your user base grows.12:30 – Lunch Break & Networking
14:00 – Building Out Your GTM and Crossborder Strategy
Cut through the noise and build a commercial strategy that actually works. This hands-on session covers the five pillars of go-to-market strategy and a practical framework for entering new international markets — without the common mistake of simply copy-pasting your domestic playbook. Attendees leave with a completed one-page GTM Canvas, a crossborder readiness score across four key pillars, and a concrete assumption to test within 30 days.
Workshop Host: James Sun
Founder, Mamba Partners
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamessun1/15:30 – Metrics That Matter: Data for Investors
Shift from "vanity metrics" to "sanity metrics." Learn exactly what VCs want to see in your data dashboard during due diligence.
Workshop Host: Osman Ahmed
Accelerating Asia
https://www.linkedin.com/in/osmansingapore/17:30 – Closing Remarks & Wrap Up
18:00 – Founder & Ecosystem "After-Hours" Mixer
20:00 – Final Event Close
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