Ventures After Hours (Get Roasted!)
Join us on 25th August for a Startup Pitch Roast, co-hosted with Aspire and Airfoil Studio!
This isn't your typical demo day. We’re bringing together founders, investors, and ecosystem leaders for a night of unfiltered, constructive feedback, sharp insights, and plenty of laughs. Whether you’re stepping up to the mic or taking notes from the audience, you’ll walk away knowing exactly what makes investors tune in.
Event Agenda:
6:00 - 6:30 PM: Registration 🗒️
6:30 - 6:45 PM: Welcoming Remarks 🎤
6:45 - 7:30 PM: Startup Pitch 🧠
7:30 - 8:45 PM: Networking 🍾
8:45 - 9:00 PM: Wrap up 👋🏻
ABOUT US:
Plug and Play APAC
Plug and Play is the ultimate innovation platform. Our mission is to build the world’s leading innovation platform and make innovation open to anyone, anywhere.
We do this by connecting entrepreneurs, corporations, and investors worldwide. Over the past 15 years, we have brought together 35,000+ startups, 500+ world-leading corporations, and hundreds of venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies across 20+ industries.
We are active in 70+ locations globally, including the U.S., China, France, Germany, South Africa, Singapore, Indonesia, Brazil, and more.
Aspire
Aspire is the all-in-one finance platform for modern businesses globally, helping over 50,000 companies save time and money with international payments, treasury, expense, payable, and receivable management solutions - accessible via a single, user-friendly account
Headquartered in Singapore, Aspire has 600+ employees across nine countries, clients in 30+ markets and is backed by global top tier VCs, including Sequoia, Lightspeed, Y-Combinator, Tencent and Paypal. In 2023, Aspire closed an oversubscribed US$100M Series C round and announced that it has achieved profitability.
Airfoil Studio
Airfoil is a brand and product design studio based across SF and Singapore. Over the last six years, we've designed for teams like Exa, Noon, Reducto, VAPI, Willow, Juicebox, David AI, Solana, Silicon Data, SF Compute, and 350+ others.
We pride ourselves on our collaboration model, in which clients work directly with senior designers and creative talent across branding, product/UI/UX design, web design, copywriting, motion graphics, and front-end engineering much the way they would with their own teammates. Our portfolio is available here.
HKSTP
Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP), established in 2001, has built a thriving innovation and technology (I&T) ecosystem in Hong Kong, supporting 14 unicorns, nurturing over 17,000 research talents, and hosting more than 2,400 technology companies from 26 countries and regions specializing in biomedicine, AI and robotics, fintech, and smart city development.
HKSTP is dedicated to positioning Hong Kong as an international I&T hub.