Fewer
meetings.

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Better
ones.

Circuit is a four-week, in-person residency for founders building in Southeast Asia. A small cohort. Thesis-matched investor meetings.

A residency built around the investor conversation.

Most accelerators broadcast founders to investors at the end. Circuit starts with the investor — their thesis, their stage, their hard no's — and matches forward from there. By the time you sit down on a Friday in Singapore, both sides have already decided the room is worth being in.

It's built for founders who are:

Most accelerators broadcast founders to investors at the end. Circuit starts with the investor — their thesis, their stage, their hard no's — and matches forward from there. By the time you sit down on a Friday in Singapore, both sides have already decided the room is worth being in.

It's built for founders who are:

Most accelerators broadcast founders to investors at the end. Circuit starts with the investor — their thesis, their stage, their hard no's — and matches forward from there. By the time you sit down on a Friday in Singapore, both sides have already decided the room is worth being in.

It's built for founders who are:

Building Base-native products for Southeast Asia — DeFi, payments, credit, identity, consumer.

Building Base-native products for Southeast Asia — DeFi, payments, credit, identity, consumer.

Already shipping, with enough traction to have a real conversation about it.

Already shipping, with enough traction to have a real conversation about it.

Looking for sharper investor alignment, not broader exposure.

"OC-X was an amazing opportunity to connect to fellow founders in the learning space and understand common challenges. It's helped us tremendously in shaping our go-to-market."

Jakob (Butter)

Founder and CEO

Four weeks.
A sharper company.

Circuit is not a curriculum. It's a residency. You'll live and work alongside a small cohort at The Network School in Malaysia — a live-in startup society at the heart of the region — and spend every Friday in Singapore with investors who've already opted into meeting you.

The work is practical. Traction snapshots. On-chain metrics. Cap table. Use of funds. The kind of materials an investor can actually underwrite against.

By the end, you should have:

  • A pitch that holds up to serious technical and financial questioning.

  • A tighter read on your own market who's actually going to pay, and why Base matters to it.

  • A short list of investors who understand your company, not a long list of maybes.

  • A second-meeting rate that reflects real fit, not calendar density.

What’s Included

What’s Included

What’s Included

Residency at The Network School. Live-in, Monday to Thursday, alongside the full cohort and the NewCampus and Base teams on the ground.

Weekly investor days in Singapore. Three to four thesis-matched 1:1s per Friday at Coinbase Singapore, One-North. Every meeting is opt-in on both sides.

Pre-meeting briefings. You'll know who you're meeting, what they back, and why we think it's a fit — before you walk in.

Decision-ready materials. We'll help you assemble traction snapshot, on-chain metrics, cap table, and use of funds in a format investors can actually read.

Tracked follow-up. Every meeting has a clear next step — second meeting, diligence call, partner intro, or a clean pass. No ghosting.

Access to the Base and NewCampus network. Small and meaningful. Not as a generic broadcast.

What the four weeks look like

Circuit is structured around weekly momentum — not a static curriculum.

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Who this is for

We take a small cohort each round. Not because of prestige — because the matching only works at small numbers.

A curated investor day assumes the investor's time is respected. That means fewer founders, and a higher bar.

You should apply if you are:

  • Building on Base, or credibly planning to.

  • Based in — or building for — Southeast Asia.

  • Past the idea stage. Something is live, even if small.

  • Actively raising, or planning to within one to two quarters.

  • Able to spend four weeks in-person at The Network School.

You probably shouldn't apply if you are:

  • Pre-product or pre-team.

  • Looking for a generic accelerator curriculum.

  • Not sure why Base matters to what you're building.

  • Not planning to raise in the near term.

Weekly Focus

Weekly Focus

Weekly Focus

Before you arrive

Investor-match profile finalised. Deck and data room pressure-tested. Week 1 Friday meetings locked in before you land.

Before you arrive

Investor-match profile finalised. Deck and data room pressure-tested. Week 1 Friday meetings locked in before you land.

Positioning

Who you're building for. Why Base. Why now. The sharpest version of your one-liner.

Positioning

Who you're building for. Why Base. Why now. The sharpest version of your one-liner.

Traction and economics

On-chain metrics. Unit economics. What you can and can't defend under scrutiny.

Traction and economics

On-chain metrics. Unit economics. What you can and can't defend under scrutiny.

Investor fit

Thesis-mapping against the matched investor list. Tightening the ask, the use of funds, the round structure.

Investor fit

Thesis-mapping against the matched investor list. Tightening the ask, the use of funds, the round structure.

Closing conversations

Sharpening second-meeting materials, diligence-ready data rooms, and the decisions that actually move a round.

Closing conversations

Sharpening second-meeting materials, diligence-ready data rooms, and the decisions that actually move a round.

Post-residency

Follow-ups tracked for four weeks. Second meetings, diligence, partner intros — through to a clear outcome.

Post-residency

Follow-ups tracked for four weeks. Second meetings, diligence, partner intros — through to a clear outcome.

Apply to join Circuit

A demo day gives you a stage. Circuit gives you a conversation. Several of them, matched in advance, with investors who've read a real memo about your company before they walk in.

By the end of the residency, you should have:

  • Investor relationships built on substance, not on a five-minute pitch.

  • A clearer answer to the two questions every serious investor asks: why this, why you, why now and why Base, why Southeast Asia, why this round.

  • A working short list of capital that actually maps to your stage and thesis.

  • A sharper company than the one that arrived in Malaysia four weeks earlier.

Apply to join Southeast Asia's premier fundraising-first residency

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