Is Entrepreneurship for me?

Have you ever wondered if you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? Join us on to find out!

This event is perfect for those who are curious about the world of entrepreneurship and want to learn more about what it takes to succeed in this exciting field.

Our expert speaker, Boon Chew, angel investor and mobile app company owner and Elise Tan will share their experiences, insights, and tips to help you determine if entrepreneurship is the right path for you.

This is an open mic session - We welcome questions from the audience too.

Don't miss this opportunity to explore your potential and discover if entrepreneurship is your calling!

Register now and take the first step towards realizing your dreams!

Our Speakers

Boon Chew

Boon is an active angel investor and the Founder of Tappollo Media, a technology venture studio based in New York. Under Boon's leadership, Tappollo Media has established a notable presence in the tech industry, collaborating with high-profile clients like Discovery Channel, WeWork, and Walmart. The studio has been instrumental in propelling more than $2B+ worth of startups across various sectors, including education, healthcare, food and beverage, media, gaming, and e-commerce. Startups he worked with include iHeart, Makespace and SEVENROOMS - the restaurant reservation platform also used by MBS, has since raised $70m. Boon's team also helped create the world's first friendship and dating app for the Autism community, which has recently received funding from the TechStars program.

​Boon brings a wealth of experience from his previous roles. Before founding Tappollo, he honed his skills as a game developer at renowned companies like Vivendi Universal and Microsoft and contributed his expertise as a web developer at Amazon. His creative flair is evident in the engaging games and interactive apps he developed for industry giants such as Hasbro, Nintendo, Nickelodeon, Disney, Nike, and EA.

Elise Tan

Elise is founder of Asia Startup Network, a community of 3,000+ entrepreneurs, investors and partners. ASN began firstly with Mentor For Hope in 2020, an impactful mentoring initiative initially supported by the Temasek Foundation under the OSCAR grant. The initiative founded by Elise and Janet Neo facilitated 525 mentoring hours for 300 founders adversely affected by the COVID crisis, connecting them with invaluable insights from 250 investors, partners, and experts.

In 2021, together with Andrew Tan, organised Makan For Hope Festival (with zero budget), a series of 30 virtual roundtables featuring VC managing partners and founders from notable startups like PropertyGuru, Shopback, and Carousell. The festival drew participation from 500 attendees.

Elise started her venture journey by co-leading the Singapore chapter of Startup Leadership Program, a non-profit accelerator program. Their augural paid program saw 25 fellows who participating. Then, she joined NUS Enterprise as an investment manager, where she helped secure the initial funding for Shopback, ran the first SMRT x NUS hackathon and managed a portfolio of incubated tech startups.

After her INSEAD MBA she started the fundraising team at Entrepreneur First in Singapore, to help over 40 startups in securing an avg. seed round of $1.4 M within 6 to 9 months from graduation. She also established a network of > 2,000 investors around SE Asia, India and USA. Subsequently, she brought her expertise to Longhash Ventures, a web3 vc and accelerator, where she served as the VP for fundraising.

As an active connector, she has made over 100s of investor (VCs, family offices and strategic angels) introductions to over 200 startups across various verticals.

Back in school, she served in several leadership capacity - the President for INSEAD Entrepreneurship Club and Vice President for Chemical Engineering Students' Society at NUS.

She is an advisor to the NUS Angels Ventures, SE Asia's first student run angel investment network and other organisations. She is also an alumna of NUS Overseas College program.