​🧋 Boba Tech: After Dark

​An after-hours meetup for founders, investors, builders, and students in Taipei.

​Sip & Scale Taipei & ikigai Launchpad are bringing together founders, builders, investors, students, and friends from the ecosystem across APAC for a dinner and happy hour.

Continue conversations from Day 1 of the Boba Tech Summit, meet founders and investors you missed during the day, reconnect with friends in town, and get to know the people you’ll be spending Day 2 with.

​You’ll meet founders, operators, investors, students, and creators from Taiwan and abroad, including members of Sip & Scale, ikigai Launchpad, ASES Taipei, ASES Stanford, and other startup communities.

​📅 September 9, 2026
🕖 7:00 PM–10:00 PM

​About Sip & Scale

​Sip & Scale is a global community connecting ambitious founders, investors, builders, operators, and students across 35+ cities worldwide through curated, locally led events and programs.

​The community has worked with organizations including AWS, Tech Week by a16z, Toronto Tech Week, Waterloo Tech Week, Japan Fintech Week, Notion, Techstars, Antler, January Capital, and others to support founders and emerging talent worldwide.

​🔗 Sip & Scale: sipnscale.com

​About ikigai Launchpad

​ikigai Launchpad is a Taipei-based accelerator powered by 886 Studios in collaboration with Lifelike Capital.

​Built by the founders behind Twitch, Kabam, Guitar Hero, and other major technology and gaming companies, ikigai Launchpad supports early-stage startups with $100K USD in funding, hands-on mentorship from experienced founders, weekly office hours and workshops, and a community designed to help teams reach product-market fit and accelerate growth over a 10-week batch.

​Applications are now open for the Fall 2026 batch.

​🔗 ikigai Launchpad website
🔗 886 Studios website

​About Boba Tech Summit

​Boba Tech Summit is the Global Stage for Asia’s Next Generation of Founders, bringing together emerging founders with global investors, technology leaders, and founder communities.

The 2026 Summit takes place in Taipei on September 9–10, featuring speakers including Steve Chen (Co-Founder, YouTube), Kevin Lin (Co-Founder, Twitch), Thomas Jeng (APAC Head of Startups, OpenAI), Pua Khein-Seng (Co-Founder & CEO, Phison Electronics), Chris Yeh (Blitzscaling Ventures), Jamie Lin (AppWorks), and more.

Across two days of keynotes, founder and VC conversations, networking, and Gen Z Founder Demo Day, the summit will bring together 200 curated young founders, with eight teams taking the main stage to pitch to investors, founders, and startup leaders from Taiwan, Silicon Valley, and across Asia.

​🔗 Boba Tech Summit: bobatech.tw