Founder-adjacent roles at companies between Series A and pre-IPO. We place students with the founders, chiefs of staff and early operators building companies in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore and Bangkok, and we handle the visa paperwork, the housing and the introductions.
A startup placement puts you next to a founder, a chief of staff or an early operator, at a company past survival and before bureaucracy, where one person is still visible.
We place students in chief-of-staff and founder's-office work, growth and go-to-market, product and engineering at early teams, and operations inside the first business systems. Every seat is arranged after a call about what you can already carry and what you want to learn.
You write the first version of a process, ship the feature that closes a deal, sit in on a board call, and leave with a reference from a founder and a working sense of how a company grows.
You won't sit through a graduate scheme in startup clothing. The placement is built around something you own, a launch, a system or a hire, scoped so you can finish it and hand it off in the time you have.
No particular degree. What matters is initiative and staying power.
We find that out on a call. We don't ask for a transcript.
Every seat is arranged after the call. These are the shapes the work usually takes, not open positions.
Board prep, hiring, whatever is on fire this week. You leave knowing how a company actually runs.
Channels, partnerships, the launch plan, the first hundred sales calls. Measurable inside the placement.
A small product team where what you build reaches users the same week.
Finance, hiring, suppliers, the first version of an internal tool.
Sourcing, founder calls and market memos inside an early-stage fund.
Say so on the call. The five above are the shapes we usually find, not a menu.
Hong Kong has a smaller, sharper startup scene: fintech, climate, B2B software, often founded by people who raised in Singapore and build between the two.
Shanghai is consumer and B2B product companies moving fast. Good if you want to see a company at full pace and can keep up.
Singapore is the startup capital of Southeast Asia, and where many of the region's larger companies and their investors are based.
Bangkok is a younger ecosystem where founders do more themselves. An intern's surface area is wide.
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