AI Founders & Global Scale 🚀🌍 Why AI companies get stuck when expanding？
An evening for AI founders on what actually breaks when scaling beyond the home market: GTM, growth, payments, and the messy parts most decks leave out.
AI companies are moving faster than ever, but going global is still hard.
From choosing the right market and building a repeatable GTM motion, to acquiring users across regions, setting up payment infrastructure, and scaling from early traction to global growth, many AI startups hit real bottlenecks when expanding beyond their home market.
Hosted by the Seamate founder community with Antom, this is a working evening for founders and operators in the middle of that problem: practical lessons, honest conversation, and a room worth staying late for.
Who Should Attend & What You’ll Get
This event is for AI founders, startup teams, growth leaders, GTM operators, business development professionals, investors, and builders exploring global expansion.
📈 You’ll get:
Practical insights on why AI companies get stuck when expanding globally
First-hand lessons on GTM, growth, user acquisition, and market entry
A closer look at how payments can support global expansion
Founder-to-founder conversations around scaling from 1 to 100
A chance to introduce yourself, your product, company, or idea during Open Mic
High-quality networking with founders, operators, and ecosystem partners
Agenda
17:00 - 17:20 | Check-in
17:20 - 17:40 | Featured Talk by Antom
17:40 - 18:00 | Roundtable: GTM, Growth & Global Expansion
18:00 - 18:30 | Open Mic
18:30 | Networking
Guest Speaker
Kevin Zhang ——Global GTM Director @ Antom
Kevin will share how payment infrastructure, user acquisition, and global market expansion can become a growth engine for AI companies scaling beyond their home market.
🌍Roundtable
After Kevin’s talk, invited guests will share practical perspectives on GTM, growth, global expansion, market entry, and scaling from 1 to 100.
We’ll discuss questions such as：
How to choose and enter the right global markets
What GTM looks like for AI companies expanding internationally
Growth lessons from early traction to repeatable acquisition
Common mistakes founders make when scaling across regions
How to think about partnerships, localization, and business development
Guest Speakers：
Join us for an evening of practical insights, honest founder conversations, and meaningful connections around AI, GTM, and global scale.
About Antom：
Antom is a global merchant payment and digitalisation platform that helps businesses of all sizes scale across borders. Through unified, industry-specific, and AI-driven solutions, Antom supports merchants across payments, growth, risk management, and digitalisation, enabling faster and simpler global expansion.
About Seamate：
Seamate is a community for founders, builders, and investors exploring AI, startups, and global markets. With 40k+ members across 10+ countries, Seamate brings together people who are building, scaling, and connecting across ecosystems.