Kowloon Club x Antler x Aspire - From Technology to Application, Investing in the next tech frontier revolution
Bringing an AI product to life? The hard truth: the code is just the beginning.
Whether you're building agents, infra, or vertical tools — it’s distribution, adoption, and feedback loops that separate good ideas from great companies. And in Asia, that playbook is getting rewritten every quarter.
Join us for a candid, founder-forward morning of real talk on launching and scaling AI products in this region. No fluff. No theory. Just firsthand lessons from operators who’ve shipped, stumbled, iterated, and scaled across Southeast Asia.
打造AI产品？真相是：代码只是起点。
无论你是开发智能代理、基础设施还是垂直工具，真正的挑战在于分发、用户采纳和反馈循环——这些才是区分好点子和伟大公司的关键。在亚洲，这个剧本每季度都在重写。
加入我们，参加一场直言不讳、以创始人为核心的上午活动，聚焦在亚洲推出和扩展AI产品的实战经验。没有空话。没有理论。只有来自东南亚地区亲手开发、尝试、迭代和规模化的运营者的第一手经验。
What we'll unpack:
🔹 How to launch when your tech isn’t "ready" — and why that’s a good thing
🔹 Distribution hacks: what actually works in Asia vs what sounds good on a pitch deck
🔹 Aligning product with real-world GTM — and the moments founders usually miss
🔹 Lessons in failure: near-death moments and what they’d do differently
🔹 Tapping your unfair advantage: personal brands, ecosystems, and community leverage
我们将探讨：
🔹 技术尚未“完善”时如何推出产品——以及为何这是好事
🔹 分发技巧：在亚洲真正有效的方法 VS 听起来好听的PPT内容
🔹 将产品与现实世界的市场策略对齐——以及创始人常忽略的关键时刻
🔹 失败的教训：濒临崩溃的时刻及他们会做哪些不同的事情
🔹 挖掘你的独特优势：个人品牌、生态系统和社区杠杆作用
Speakers 演讲嘉宾:
🎤 Moderator: Peggy Tse, Committee Member @ Kowloon Club
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peggytse/
💬 Andy Du, Co-founder @ TrustAI https://www.linkedin.com/in/jize-du/
💬 Paco Chan, Co-founder @ Farmio, https://www.linkedin.com/in/chanpaco/
💬 Eugene Teo, Investment Manager @ Antler
https://www.linkedin.com/in/teo/
The flow 活动流程：
🥐 11:00–11:30am — Coffee, breakfast, and intros
💡 11:30–12:30pm — Panel: From AI Tech to GTM Reality
🤝 12:30–1:00pm — Mingling, meet other founders, swap GTM war stories
🥐 11:00–11:30 — 咖啡、早餐和介绍
💡 11:30–12:30 — 专题讨论：从AI技术到市场现实
🤝 12:30–1:00 — 交流环节，与其他创始人见面，分享市场战故事
🎟 Limited seats. Come for the insights. Stay for the energy.
Hosted in Chinese/Cantonese with breakout convos in English.
Open to founders, operators, and Kowloon Club members curious about the next wave of applied AI.
🎟 席位有限。来获取洞见，留下感受能量。
语言：活动以中文/粤语进行，分组讨论可用英语。
面向：对下一波应用AI感兴趣的创始人、运营者及九龙会成员。
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About Antler Southeast Asia
Antler is the investor backing the world's most driven founders, from day zero to greatness. As the most active early-stage VC globally, Antler has invested in more than 1,000 startups across 30 cities worldwide including Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Malaysia in Southeast Asia. Antler's global community backs people from the beginning with co-founder matching, deep business validation, and pre-seed capital. Besides being the earliest backer for startups, Antler is also a long-term capital partner that provides expansion support and scale-up funding to breakout companies from Series A onwards.
Antler是支持全球最具驱动力的创始人的投资机构，从零开始到卓越。作为全球最活跃的早期风险投资公司，Antler已在全球30个城市投资了超过1000家初创公司，包括东南亚的新加坡、印尼、越南和马来西亚。Antler的全球社区从一开始就为创始人提供支持，包括联合创始人匹配、深入的商业验证和种子前期资金。除了是最早的初创公司支持者，Antler还是长期资本合作伙伴，为从A轮起的突破性公司提供扩展支持和规模化融资。
About 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.
Aspire是一家面向全球现代企业的综合金融平台，帮助超过50,000家公司通过国际支付、资金管理、费用管理、应付账款和应收账款管理解决方案节省时间和金钱，所有这些都可通过一个用户友好的账户访问。
Aspire总部位于新加坡，拥有600多名员工，遍布九个国家，客户覆盖30多个市场，并得到全球顶级风险投资公司的支持，包括红杉资本、Lightspeed、Y-Combinator、腾讯和Paypal。2023年，Aspire完成了一轮超额认购的1亿美元C轮融资，并宣布已实现盈利。
About Kowloon Club
The Singapore Kowloon Club is a non-profit organization recognized by the Singapore government, with a 35-year history and over 1,000 members. It aims to unite the Hong Kong and other immigrant communities in Singapore. The Kowloon Club’s mission is to preserve and pass down Chinese culture and traditions while actively participating in local community charity and public welfare activities. Ms. Sim Ann, Senior Minister of State for National Development and Foreign Affairs of Singapore, serves as the Honorary Advisor of the Kowloon Club.
新加坡九龙会是一家新加坡政府认可的非营利组织，成立已有三十五年历史，拥有超过1000名会员，旨在团结香港及其他地区移民新加坡的社群。九龙会的使命是保留和传承中华文化与传统，积极参与本地社区的慈善和公益活动。新加坡国家发展部兼外交部高级政务部长沈颖女士是九龙会的名誉顾问。