Before you arrive
Investor-match profile finalised. Deck and data room pressure-tested. Week 1 Friday meetings locked in before you land.
Fewer meetings.
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:
- Building Base-native products for Southeast Asia — DeFi, payments, credit, identity, consumer.
- 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.”
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
- 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.
— 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
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.
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.
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 why this, why you, why now. 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.