PAX : 80 > SGD 35 for members; SGD 70 for non-members
VENUE : Trehaus — Funan Mall, 109 North Bridge Road, Level 7, Singapore 179097
Get ready and pumped for the second edition of CRIB x Launchpad Pitch Festival. Two of Singapore’s leading entrepreneur networking and support communities have come together to shine the light on funding for impact startups.
Our theme for the Pitch Festival is ‘Business For Good’. Selected startups will get the chance to present their business to a curated group of investors and win exciting prizes.
Join us for an exciting event with awesome networking – we will have angel investors, VCs and inspiring entrepreneurs in the room. Buy your ticket today!
Are you an impact entrepreneur looking for funding? Applications are now open! Scroll below for all the details.
Eligibility Criteria
Registered company in Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia or Australia
Early stage startup with less than USD 5 million in external funding
Team size is below 50 employees
Revenue generating or at least have a Minimum Valuable Product (MVP) ready for commercialisation
Creates verifiable impact in accordance with 1 or more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Timeline
Applications open – 03 Oct – 31 Oct
Announcement of finalists – 03 Nov
Pitch training of finalists – 03-20 Nov
Pitch event – 21 Nov
Programme Schedule
6:00 PM – Registration and networking
6:30 PM – Welcome note by Dr. Elaine Kim, co-founder, CRIB and CEO, Trehaus
6:35 PM – Welcome note by Chris Edwards, founder of Honeycombers and Launchpad
6:40 PM – Introduction to the pitch session by Edoria Ridzmann, Community Manager, Launchpad
6:45 PM – Pitch 1
7:00 PM – Pitch 2
7:15 PM – Pitch 3
7:30 PM – Pitch 4
7:45 PM – Pitch 5
8:00 PM – A quick chat with Chris and Elaine
8:10 PM – Announcement of results and vote of thanks
8:15 PM – Networking and dinner & drinks
9:00 PM – End of programme
Dinner and drinks will be served.
Tickets
CRIB and Launchpad Members – $35
Non-members – $70
Note: These tickets are to attend the event as a guest and get the opportunity to network with investors. There is no fee to apply for the pitch competition or for the selected finalists who will pitch during the event.
About Our Judges
Andrew Collins
Andrew Collins is the founder & Group CEO at Mailman, a multi-awarding winning global sports digital consultancy and agency. He is an entrepreneur with over 20 years’ experience in the media, marketing and technology sectors. Headquartered in Shanghai, Mailman has offices in London, Singapore and Los Angeles where the group serves the world’s leading sports organisations including FIFA, NFL, NBA, NHL, UFC, and others build a global media business.
In addition Andrew was a founder of Fanstang – China’s first Hollywood celebrity marketing agency with a technology platform delivering social media for over 100 global stars in China – as well as KAWO – China’s leading social media management software. In 2021 Mailman was acquired by Endeavor (NYSE: EDR) and Andrew now resides in Singapore.
Leon Toh
Leon Toh is the Managing Partner of Damson Capital, an impact investment firm in Singapore. Founded in 2015 and based in Singapore, Damson seeks to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through enterprise based solutions, with Asia as their primary focus. Leon sits on numerous boards in industries such as logistics, technology, biotechnology and renewable energy.
Previously, Leon was a management consultant with Accenture, the Vice President of Business Development of a Singapore FinTech company, a petrochemical price reporter with the Independent Chemical Information Service (ICIS) and conducted econometrics research in East Timor to study Seasonal Famine with Coffee Farming households.
Notably, Leon is the cofounder of Eden + Elie, employing autistic adults to be highly skilled artisans.
Michael Blakey
Michael isn’t your typical investor – he’s been in the trenches. He has hustled and has succeeded. Michael attributes his atypical journey to becoming a successful entrepreneur-turned-investor to having struggled for years in school, owing to his dyslexia. As a result, he was always on the lookout for ways to succeed outside of school. In turn, it is exactly this kind of differentiation and drive that he looks for in Founders as an investor today.
Since becoming an angel investor in 2000 through Avonmore Developments which he co-founded with his brother, Michael has invested in over 25 companies in the UK and achieved 7 successful exits. He’s also invested in 8 start-ups in Southeast Asia including Anchanto, PlusMargin and Nugit under the name of Cub Capital since 2013. Most recently, Michael has co-founded Cocoon Capital, an early stage fund, which is looking to invest in companies throughout SE Asia. As is his want the structure of Cocoon is very different than your typical fund, as his entrepreneurial spirit always wants him to challenge the status quo.
Percy Hung
Percy Hung is an entrepreneur and investor based in Singapore. He is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Choco Up, one of Asia Pacific’s largest revenue-based financing and growth platforms that offers fast-track, data-driven funding to fast-growing companies that require rapid capital deployment. Percy leads the sales, marketing and business strategy at Choco Up, aspiring to bring this innovative funding solution to the Asia Pacific.
Percy firmly believes in the power of technology to disrupt the outdated, complex and rigid financial system, making funding simple, transparent and truly growth-centric. Under his leadership and mission, Choco Up’s team is dedicated to making obtaining funding a quick, efficient and founder-friendly process.
As a serial entrepreneur with multi-sector experience in automotive, apparel and consumer tech, he gained great determination and the ability to stay agile and adapt. The knowledge he garnered from trial and error granted him insight into a key factor for successful start-up companies — funding.
Ryan Thoo
Ryan Thoo is VP and marketing lead at Antler. He is a growth leader who has taken a startup to unicorn status and IPO. He manages Antler’s brand and marketing performance as well as coach founders in early-stage growth and marketing. Previously, Ryan was Marketing Director at PropertyGuru, the leading Proptech company in Southeast Asia, where he led the organisation from Series B to market leadership.
Tianna Nguyen
Tianna Nguyen is a Director at Rigel Capital. She is an investment professional who has lived in the USA, Dubai, London, and Singapore and worked at global reputable firms such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Credit Suisse AG Singapore, Invesco, and J.P. Morgan & Co. Though she has worked across several industries on international deals, geographically her primary focus is on Southeast Asian markets; aside from Singapore, Tianna has also worked in Vietnam and Myanmar. Her work included Corporate Finance, M&A, and capital raising advisory, which has extended to several fundraising negotiations and projects with technology companies involving ESG, including impact investments. She studied at The Ohio State University for her Biology and Finance degrees. Tianna also received her Master’s Degrees from Harvard University and Hult International Business School; she is currently active with Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs as well as Harvard Global Women’s Empowerment.
Meet The Hosts
Dr. Elaine Kim
Co-founder of CRIB
Dr. Elaine Kim is a medical doctor and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and CEO of Trehaus, an early education business behind the leading, premium Trehaus School preschool brand, powered by an AI-enabled ed-tech platform that delivers the proprietary Littles’ Programme curriculum and teacher training in the research-and project/play-based “Trehaus Method” pedagogical framework. The Trehaus flagship spaces bring together preschool, office space/ business club with creche, so professional parents do not need to choose between career and family.
Prior to taking the helm at Trehaus, she was the CEO of CRIB, a social enterprise she co-founded to empower women to become successful entrepreneurs through networking, co-founder and investor/start-up matching and training and equipping of female founders. After a decade as a doctor caring for terminally ill patients, she continues her involvement in palliative care through her work with the Singapore Ministry of Health Ageing Planning Office and remains involved in various charitable causes, especially through the philanthropic arm CRIB Gives Back that she launched at the helm of CRIB.
She is married to venture capitalist John Kim of Amasia VC and they have 3 young children.
Chris Edwards
Founder of Honeycombers and Launchpad
Chris is a serial entrepreneur having started her first business in 2008 – a lifestyle media platform: Honeycombers. It was designed to inspire Singapore residents to live better lives. Chris had only been living and working in Singapore for two years, and found that she (and her peers) were only reading international media. She felt that many expats were disengaged with the local Singapore culture, nightlife and entertainment scene, and that many people felt Singapore was “boring” because of this disconnection.
With a background in marketing and publishing, Chris decided to fill the gap, and so she created a digital platform and a community that expats, as well as locals, would trust; that would engage and influence them, and unlock the best experiences in Singapore. Over the last 15 years, the Honeycombers platform has grown to become the leading digital brand in lifestyle content.
In January 2022, Chris launched Launchpad – an entrepreneurial community business group, designed to help small businesses thrive through community, peer mentoring and coaching. Chris now runs five companies across four countries and spends her time split between Singapore and Australia.