Global GTM from Singapore: Making The Right Bets Early
There’s no single playbook for going global.
Some startups grow through community. Others through product, developer ecosystems, or partnerships. The hard part isn’t choosing a strategy, it’s knowing what’s actually working, what’s just noise, and when to double down.
Join us as we brings together operators and founders who’ve built and scaled across markets, using Singapore as a launchpad. In a short, focused fireside, we’ll unpack how early-stage teams:
Test different go-to-market motions across community, product, and developer-led growth
Recognise real signals vs vanity metrics
Prioritise what to scale, and what to kill early
Turn early traction into compounding global growth
Expect honest, operator-led insights, followed by a relaxed networking mixer with founders, builders, and ecosystem partners expanding into Singapore. Plus free credits from Z.ai, the world's first foundational model company to IPO and the creators of the frontier GLM model series!
Agenda
6:30 PM | Check-in & Welcome
7:00 PM | Fireside Chat: Making the Right Bets Early
7:30 PM | Networking Mixer & Drinks
9:30 PM | Event Concludes
About Our Partners
About Agora
Agora (NASDAQ: API) provides a real-time engagement platform enabling developers and businesses to build interactive applications and AI agents using voice, video, and conversational AI technologies. Agora powers more than 80 billion minutes of voice and video each month across over 3 billion devices globally.
About Antler
Antler is where founders come to go further, faster. Antler is the world’s most active early-stage investor, backing exceptional people at the very start of their journey and supporting them from inception to scale. Across 27 locations worldwide, including New York, San Francisco, London, Singapore and Sydney, the firm helps founders remove the barriers to building by connecting them with world-class peers, validating business models, and providing initial capital. To date, Antler has backed more than 1,600 startups globally across a wide range of industries and technologies with the goal of backing more than 6,400 by 2030.
About Airwallex for Startups
Combining Airwallex's powerful, cross-border financial infrastructure with perks, networks and expertise to transform your startup finances into a strategic lever for growth!
Open an Airwallex account today and immediately enjoy cashback, free FX, waived fees and more on your first S$110,000 plus :
Exclusive offers from ecosystem partners such as OpenAI, Manus, Nebius, deel, Notion, Google Cloud, HubSpot & more
Access to CFO Mentors to sharpen your runway planning, fundraising readiness and cross-border finance strategy
AI Sandbox track to co-build and test your ideas directly with Airwallex teams
About HubSpot for Startups
HubSpot is the AI-powered customer platform that unites your marketing, sales, and service teams in one place - so growing your business is easier than you think. HubSpot for Startups brings that same powerful platform within reach for early-stage founders, pairing exclusive discounts on HubSpot's tools with startup-focused education built to help you move fast and scale smart. Sound like what your startup needs? Apply today & get 90% off.
About Z.ai
Z.ai (Zhipu AI in China) is the world's first foundational model company to IPO, dedicated to the development of AGI to benefit humanity and already powering 12,000+ enterprises in China and 4 million+ startups and builders worldwide with our frontier GLM model series. Z.ai provides open source resources, API access to SOTA models, and Model-as-a-Service capabilities (from fine tuning to on-premise deployments) to generate long-term commercial value from AI. Our intelligence infrastructure further allows private entities and even government bodies to build their own Sovereign AI capabilities, securing independence in an agentic future.