🌍 Pitch for Purpose 2025
Where Ideas Meet Impact

The NUS Social Impact Catalyst (SIC) invites aspiring changemakers to showcase their boldest solutions for a better world. Join us for two evenings of inspiration, mentorship, and purpose-driven innovation.

📅 Mentorship Guidance: Thursday, 7 November | 6:00–9:00 PM
🎤 Pitching Day: Tuesday, 12 November | 6:00–9:00 PM
📍 Venue: I³ Building, National University of Singapore

🏆 Attractive Prizes:
🥇 1st Place – S$1,000 project grant
🥈 2nd Place – S$500 project grant
1st and 2nd place fast tract to NUS Hult Prize in Jan 2026

💡 Participation Fee:
• Free for SIC Members
• S$5 per participant for non-members
🍽️ Dinner will be provided

✨ Open to all participants with at least 1 NUS student.
📜 Terms & Conditions apply.
Contact @Baicen or @BooperDooperSike for any queries.

🔗 Register now: https://forms.gle/2mKyvXyfqBTU6jET9

[BLOCK71 Dinner Club: Off the Record with Keith Yap]

What does it take to quit a stable job and go all in on your own media business?

Join us for an evening with Keith Yap, Host of The Front Row Podcast and media entrepreneur. Formerly a civil servant at Enterprise Singapore, Keith now curates thoughtful, off-the-record conversations with some of Asia’s most influential business leaders, politicians and scholars. His podcast has featured esteemed guests such as Kee Lock Chua (CEO of Vertex Holdings), Magnus Grimeland (Founder and CEO of Antler) and Minister Ong Ye Kung.

A graduate of Yale-NUS and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Keith has a vision that Singapore can become the intellectual capital of Southeast Asia.

📅 Tuesday, 4 November 2025
🕠 5:45 PM to 7:30 PM
📍 The Hangar, Level 3, I3 Building, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
🍛 Dinner provided
🎟 Open to all NUS students. Limited slots available.

👉 RSVP by 3 November 2025 to secure your seat: https://luma.com/8qce3r3j

Hi everyone! One of our BLOCK71 startups is looking for an intern (paid)! Do check it out if you are interested :)

🚀 NUS N-House Pitch Night 2025 is here!
Join us for an evening of ideas, innovation, and inspiration as emerging founders from N-House showcase the startups they’ve been building this semester.

📅 Date: 14 November 2025 (Friday)
⏰ Time: 6.00 – 9.30 PM (Refreshments 6–7 PM, pitches start at 7 PM)
📍 Venue: Enterprise Singapore, 230 Victoria Street, #09-00, Bugis Junction Towers

Come connect with student entrepreneurs, mentors, and ecosystem partners driving the next wave of innovation at NUS.

🔗 Sign-up closes 10 November 2025, 11:59 PM
https://forms.gle/43UsgWuage8pJhJn8

For enquiries:
Glenn Quah (@glennquahh) | Valerie Wong (@valeriewongjq)

Hi everyone! One of our BLOCK71 startups has a job posting! Do check it out or send it to anyone who may be interested!

[BLOCK71 Dinner Club: Off the Record with Jozua Pung]

What’s it really like to balance being both a VC and a founder?

Join us for an intimate dinner with Jozua Pung, Venture Capitalist at Genting Ventures and founder of Bareborn, a men’s personal care brand built to simplify overcomplicated skincare routines.

At Genting Ventures, Jozua invests in startups across the Genting Group's interests in gaming, entertainment, leisure, hospitality and more. Previously, he was part of Monk’s Hill Ventures, where he supported more than 40 portfolio companies. A graduate of SMU’s MBA programme, Jozua also serves as an advisor to Protégé Ventures.

Expect candid insights into what it means to back founders by day and be one by night.

📅 Thursday, 4 December 2025
🕠 5:45 PM to 7:30 PM
📍 The Hangar, Level 3, I3 Building (21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace)
🍛 Dinner provided
🎟 Open to all NUS students. Limited slots available.

👉 RSVP by 3 December 2025 to secure your seat: https://luma.com/0vb59at4

🍴BLOCK71 Lunch Club: Epic Disruption with Scott D. Anthony

Struggling to keep up with market shifts? Join us for a power-fuelling lunch session with Scott D. Anthony to learn how to harness disruption’s patterns and ignite your startup’s next breakthrough.

And yes — it’s that Scott.
✨ Professor, Dartmouth College (Tuck School of Business)
✨ #5 Thinkers50 Global Management Thinker
✨ Former Global Managing Partner, Innosight

He’s flying in to break down the biggest ideas from his new book Epic Disruptions — and give founders a practical playbook to ride the next wave instead of being crushed by it.

If you’re building in 2025, you cannot miss this.

📍 BLOCK71 Singapore
🕛 9 Dec, 11.30AM–1PM
🍽️ Lunch included

Limited seats. Save your seat now: https://luma.com/xdxn49ob

[On behalf of January Capital]

January Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in high growth technology companies across the Asia-Pacific region. They have recently launched TheFirst: Fellows, a new initiative aimed at connecting student founders in APAC with the global startup ecosystem.

About the programme
The First Fellows Programme is a 6-day capstone immersion in the United States. Selected fellows will have the opportunity to gain exposure to the Bay Area startup ecosystem through curated networking sessions, office visits, VC workshops, demo days and meetings with early-stage APAC founders who are building in San Francisco.

🔗 More details and applications:
https://first.january.capital/fellows?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=official_launch

🚀 Bellman Foundry is hiring interns!
We’re building real robotics systems that let robots use lifts and move autonomously across floors. If you want hands-on experience working with production-grade tech — join us.

🔥 Open Roles:
🧑‍💻 Software Developer Intern
– ESP32 / C++ / ROS 2 / Kotlin / Typescript
– Work on firmware, robotware & cloudware

🔧 Hardware Engineering Intern
– PCB design (24V + relays), field deployments
– ESP32 firmware, hardware debugging & iteration

💼 Tech Sales Intern
– Hotel outreach, proposals, LOIs
– Pitch decks, branding, marketing assets

📍 On-site in NUS
📨 Apply or ask questions: @Guoyanggg

Demo:
https://youtu.be/tptWubtwGa0


www.bellmanfoundry.com

🚀 ASEAN Future Catalyst Fellowship 2026: Women in Tech for Impact 🌏
10 Weeks | Fully Online | For Youth Across ASEAN

Explore entrepreneurship as a career path — and create real impact with technology! 💡

Join a 10-week online fellowship featuring interactive workshops, hands-on learning, and 3 rounds of personalized mentorship from 30+ mentors across ASEAN.

👩‍💻 Build a tech MVP (no-code or low-code)
🌱 Develop a business model tackling a UN SDGs
💬 Gain career & startup mentorship from over 30 mentors in ASEAN
🌍 Learn VC insights, leadership & LinkedIn branding

🕒 Just 3 hours every Saturday — learn, build, and grow with a community of changemakers.

🎯 End by pitching your idea in our regional online demo day!

🔗 Find our more: socialimpactcatalyst.org/sg/fellowship
Sign Up Here: https://forms.gle/cjzvpJB8acJVetRY6

🚀 Hult Prize NUS Campus Qualifier is back!
Got a world-changing idea? This is your chance to turn it into a real social enterprise and compete for USD $1,000,000 in funding. 🌍✨

This year, the Hult Prize NUS Campus Qualifier is proudly brought to you by NUS Social Impact Catalyst (SIC) and NUS Enterprise, in collaboration with Hult Prize. Cash prizes are up for grabs, and the top 3 teams will automatically qualify for the National Hult Prize.

Form a team (2–4 pax), submit your pitch deck by 18 Jan, 23:59, and stand a chance to make it to the Top 15, receive mentorship, and pitch your way to Nationals 🏆. For more information, please refer to this handbook

If you do not have a team yet, we can help you join a team through this team formation telegram group😊

Sign up here: click this link to join!

For queries: @Baicen or @BooperDooperSike

On behalf of NUS Entrepreneurship Society, we would like to introduce UNICON 2026!

Taking place on 16-17 January 2026, UNICON stands at the forefront of innovation and entrepreneurship, embracing the tagline “Innovating Beyond Borders.”
The mission of this event is to cultivate innovation, inspire creativity, and promote entrepreneurship within the vibrant community.

We anticipate 500 participants over two dynamic days, including students, startup founders, venture capitalists, and industry leaders.

Highlights:
✨Panel discussions & master classes
✨TigerLaunch Venture Capitalist competition
✨Startup Carnival

Speakers and Judges:
✨Technology Industry leaders from Antler, GoTo, KeyAI, NETS and more
✨10 VC founders & Investors
✨ Topics discussed: FinTech, Investor-Business Relations, Venture Capitalist Industry, Scaling your business and more

Early bird: $10 (until 31 December)
General: $15

Sign up link: https://unicon2026.eventbrite.sg/ Telegram channel: https://t.me/+TElFpv-Va3piZjI1

🚀 Korea–SG Pitch Challenge 🇰🇷🇸🇬
📅 13–14 January 2025
📍 Greenhouse, Level 4, SMU Connexion
Join an exciting 2-day in-person pitch challenge where you’ll collaborate with Korean students to build and pitch innovative business ideas!
✨ What to expect
* Team up with students from Korea & Singapore
* Co-create problem statements, solutions, and pitch real startup ideas
* Mentorship and coaching from experienced entrepreneurs and VCs
* Learn directly from successful startup founders
* A supportive environment designed to guide young startup founders on what makes a company truly investible
* Cultural exchange and networking with like-minded peers
🏛 Mentors, Coaches & Judges
* Gobi Ventures
* Altara Ventures
* Granite Asia
* OpenSpace
* Tri-Rec
🏆 Prize
* Winning team takes home SGD 500
📝 Register here
👉 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf2RFkgrrjzcg6Y9ie2nEnLUz7EFVFhi9p_tnQnhePO0RKKtA/viewform

🚀 Student Founder Pitch Night @ BLOCK71

An evening spotlighting student-led and youth-led startups building in Singapore.

Join us for a fast-paced pitch night featuring live startup pitches, candid feedback from experienced founders & investors, and relaxed, high-signal networking with fellow builders.

What to expect:
🎤 Live pitches from student & youth founders
💬 Practical, honest feedback from operators & investors
🤝 High-signal networking (no fluff)
🍽️ Food & drinks

📍 i3 Building, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, NUS Enterprise
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏰ 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM (SGT)

👥 Open to students, founders, builders, operators, investors — and anyone curious about early-stage startups.

🔗 https://luma.com/6kh14jwj

🪐 Founders Across Campus

We're bringing together young founders or entrepreneurs who are currently building a project across campuses to learn, connect, and collaborate.

If you're a founder/builder looking to meet others beyond your university, you'll wanna be here.

📅 21 Jan (Wed) | 6:30 – 9:00 PM
📍 StartupX Space
🍴 F&B by Student Founders

Sign up today! Limited to 80 seats.
🔗 https://luma.com/lnfgf8p1

Who's coming?
✦ NUS Entrepreneurship Society
✦ NTU Entrepreneurship Society
✦ SMU Start-up Society
✦ SUTD SEVEN
✦ Sip & Scale x The Collective x StartupX

🚀 Hult Prize NUS Campus Qualifier - Win up to $10K cash grant + Nationals spot! (5 days left)

Got a world-changing idea? This is your chance to turn it into a real social enterprise and compete for USD $1,000,000 in funding. 🌍✨

This year, the Hult Prize NUS Campus Qualifier is proudly brought to you by NUS SIC and NUS Enterprise, in collaboration with Hult Prize.

👥 Team formation:
Form a team (2–4 pax), present ventures that address at least one United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

📅 Submission deadline:
Register and submit your pitch deck by 25 Jan 2026, 23:59, and receive mentorship, and pitch your way to Nationals 🏆.

*Please refer to this handbook for more details

🤝 Need a team? Join a team through this team formation telegram group😊

Sign up by filling 3 forms: 1.Registration link

2.Pitch Deck submission on Nus Enterprise form

3. Register on hult prize portal

For queries: reach out to @Baicen or @laupunsu

🚨 IDEAS. PITCHES. STARTUPS. 🚨

Think you’ve got the next big thing — or even just the start of one?
🔥 N-Hacks is where ideas stop living in your head and start becoming real.

This isn’t just another event. It’s a high-energy mini ideathon where you’ll pitch your idea, get honest feedback, sharpen your thinking, and learn how founders actually think. Whether your idea is half-formed or almost launch-ready, this is the place to test it.

✨ PLUS — hear directly from NOC alumni and N-House founders as they share their startup journeys.

💡 Come curious.
🗣️ Pitch boldly.
🚀 Leave inspired (and maybe with your next startup idea).

🗓 24 January 2026 (Saturday)
⏰ 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
📍 i3 SR3

Think you’ve got the next big thing?
Pitch it at N-Hacks and get the feedback you need. 💥

SUBMIT FORM BY FRIDAY 23/01 2359HR.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScINPUnN6mdSrB04nKJuvaINRz7NzmsYzhTwiNenP2ob3xcZw/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=110540167276481072400