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28/10/2026

A business might start in one market, but its ambitions often go much further.

For our latest OOH campaign, we're putting the spotlight on some of the businesses using Aspire, sharing their experiences in their own words.

If you're passing through Tanjong Pagar MRT this month, keep an eye out for Aspire. We're here for businesses beyond borders.

19/10/2026

Early traction can feel like proof you've found product-market fit. But what happens when those first customers don't come back?

We spoke with Megan Chau from our FoundersXchange community about why early traction doesn't always mean product-market fit. Sometimes, the hardest part is recognising that customers aren't coming back and being willing to rethink what you're building.

For more perspectives like this, join the community of 900+ global founders and VCs: https://v3g9n29zg3j.typeform.com/to/M91nleVS?utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin

08/10/2026

Founders are biased towards speed. With AI, that's exactly where the risk sits.

Adriel Yong, Co-Founder and COO of Clouted, on testing a hundred new tools a week, why you should be careful about what you give access to, and why some mistakes with company data can't be undone.

For more perspectives like this, join the FoundersXchange community of 900+ global founders and VCs: https://v3g9n29zg3j.typeform.com/to/M91nleVS?utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin

06/10/2026

Founders pitch investors all the time. On 14 October, we’re turning the tables.
Together with our ecosystem partner Hatch, we're putting the VCs in the hot seat at the Aspire Reverse Pitch: Deep Tech Edition.

Ritesh Toshniwal from ThinKuvate, Andrew Khan from Moringa Ventures, Kynan Lam from Tin Men Capital, and Jia Hong Shaw from Elev8.vc will be pitching to founders. They'll share what they look for in a deep tech startup, what signals get them interested, and what makes them pass.

If you're building in deep tech, come through: https://luma.com/xkw9j73w?utm_source=Linkedin

02/10/2026

Is the AI boom paying off?

We just released the latest edition of Aspire AI Signals, looking at how Singapore-HQed businesses are actually spending on AI, and what happens as that investment grows.

Here are the standout takeaways:
📌 Overall AI spend is up 4.6x year-on-year
📌 Anthropic leads OpenAI on spend roughly two to one
📌 Average monthly AI spend among paying businesses has tripled over the past year
📌 Businesses with higher AI spend also recorded more than double the cash inflows of closely matched peers

It doesn't prove AI caused that growth. But as questions grow around whether the money pouring into AI is translating into real economic value, it gives us an important signal from businesses actually making that investment.

That's what AI Signals will keep tracking.

Read the insights: https://lnkd.in/gmt3M6SK

01/10/2026

Agentic commerce is coming faster than most expect. When AI agents can discover, decide, and pay on behalf of a business, the trust layer underneath those transactions becomes everything.

Aspire is now part of 's Agentic Ready program, giving us a validated, production-grade foundation for agent-initiated payments, bringing together tokens, identity, risk, and controls from the start.

This sits right at the intersection of where we're already building. Bringing AI into finance in a way that's fast for the business and safe by design.

30/09/2026

Pivot fast, or the market moves without you.

We spoke to Albert Lam, Co-Founder of Novelte Robotics, from our FoundersXchange community, on building for a market that wasn't ready yet, and why hesitating costs founders more than picking the wrong direction.

For more perspectives like this, join the community of 900+ global founders and VCs: https://v3g9n29zg3j.typeform.com/to/M91nleVS?utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin

29/09/2026

Most people navigating big personal decisions like fertility are doing it without a map.

We caught up with Anna Vanessa Haotanto, Founder and CEO of Zora Health, on why she sees that gap as an infrastructure problem, and what she's building to close it.

Read the full story: https://aspirefoundersxchange.substack.com/p/the-empathetic-architect-how-anna?utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin

28/09/2026

Over the last 5 years, Aspire's Senior Product Lead, Samuel Cha, has built a product practice defined by knowing why something matters, communicating it clearly, and staying open to change.

Marking the milestone, he shares five things he's learnt after 5 years at Aspire ↓

Join the A-team: https://aspireapp.com/careers?utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin

24/09/2026

AI is making consumers smarter than the companies trying to sell to them. Not every founder sees that as a threat.

We caught up with Joe Lu ✈️, CEO and Co-founder of HeyMax, on why he's betting the future of consumer loyalty on giving value back rather than extracting it.

Read the full story on our Substack. Link in bio.

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