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Regional Climate Innovations Challenge 2023
We are happy to join the alliance to support innovative climate startups to scale across Southeast Asia. Registration for the 2023 edition closes on May 26!
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National Green Treasure Hunt
Scratchbac started out as a social network by SUTD students to take care of stray cats before turning into a network for neighbours to help one another during covid. We are pleased to announce that Quest Ventures (early investors in Carousell) have joined Mistletoe as the early investors of this helpful member of the Audacity…
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Reflections on Young Co-Innovation
Audacity gave out over 50 impact internships and fellowships in the past year. These are some reflections from a few of them Dakshitaa: Audacity has been a wonderful platform that unites people with passion and purpose together. My greatest takeaway from being in Audacity is to live a more community-centric life. There is an old…
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Year End 2022
What a year 2022 turned out to be. Singapore made the pivotal opening up from covid on April 26 (was it just 7.5 months ago?), and since then the world has lurched into a major war, a global energy crisis and a global economic recession. Our natural environment and social democracy is teetering on the…
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Devcon VI – Bogota 2022
Ambrose, Gavin, Jeremy, Shan and Shuen from the Audacity community were invited by the Ethereum Foundation to attend Devcon VI on October in South America. Thanks to the pandemic, this is the first time this annual convention was held in 3 years. What you know about Devcon VI before coming here, and what kind of…
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Vietnam Reflections
On the 7th of September, I was able to join Shuen (Co-Founder of Terraformers) on my first trip to Vietnam. My 18-day long trip was kind of unexpected since the decision of me going was only made two weeks earlier. Our first stop in one of the fastest-growing economies in the world was Ho Chi…
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Jakarta – The Big Durian
Indonesia has a population 270 million, making it the 4th largest nation and 10th largest economy in the world. With 37 million people and tracking to become the world’s largest city within a decade, the capital Jakarta is nicknamed The Big Durian by its residents. With approximately 50% of Indonesia’s population being under 30 years…
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Climate and Equity Internship Introduction
This weekend Audacity’s new interns met to attend a orientation workshop lead by Scratchbac’s founder Jerry, and I have been fortunate to share that experience with them. After a short briefing about Audacity itself from ShuenHwee (cofounder of Terraformers), the start-ups Woodsol, Scratchbac, Terraformers, HEA, ClubAgenda and Ulam introduced themselves to us. Then we started…
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Vietnam – The Rising Tiger
I was joined by Rong in Vietnam for a few days in mid-August, to attend Blockchain Connect by JobHopin. We took the opportunity to also meet with different start-up founders and ecosystem builders in Ho Chi Minh City. The blockchain connect event was a huge success with people coming from all over Vietnam, gathering in…