Kick off SWITCH and Plug and Play’s APAC Summit week with us, co-hosted by Aspire and Gunderson Dettmer!

🇺🇸 Breaking into the US market: How can Southeast Asian startups compete and scale?

💡 Hear from people who have successfully entered the US market, alongside experts. Explore market entry strategies, go-to-market execution, fundraising, and legal considerations.

🤝 Connect with fellow founders, exchange insights, and discover opportunities to take your startup beyond Southeast Asia.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Event Agenda:

  • 6:00 - 6:30 PM: Registration 🗒️

  • 6:30 - 6:45 PM: Welcoming Remarks 🎤

  • 6:45 - 7:15 PM: Panel 🧠

  • 7:15 - 9:00 PM: Networking 🍾

  • 9:00 - 9:00 PM: Wrap up 👋🏻

Plug and Play​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, helping over 15,000 companies across Asia save time and money with international payments, expense management, payable management, and receivable management solutions - accessible via a single, user-friendly account.

Headquartered in Singapore, Aspire has over 600+ employees across five countries 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.

Gunderson Dettmer

With over 400 lawyers across 12 offices in key venture markets worldwide, Gunderson Dettmer is the preeminent international law firm with an exclusive focus on the innovation economy.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Gunderson’s Singapore office serves as the hub for its India and Southeast Asia practice, and is consistently recognized as the "most active venture capital law firm" in India and Southeast Asia by Pitchbook's Global League Tables, and top-ranked in The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, Chambers Asia-Pacific and the India Business Law Journal.