Cohort 1 just wrapped — see what 10 founders built in one week
June 8-12, 2026 - Singapore
BuildWeek
Build something realA 5-day, non-residential build sprint for students who want to lock in, make visible progress, and leave with a clearer next step.
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Why Build Week
You probably have something you have been meaning to build.
Maybe it is an idea, a project, a half-built prototype, or a startup concept you keep saying you will work on soon. Between school, distractions, and endless planning, it can be hard to actually make progress.
The sprint
Focused environment, young builders, clear output.
Over 5 days, you will set mini milestones, track your progress, get mentorship, and keep moving toward something you can show by the end of the week.
The mentorship
Guidance From Startup Mentors Who've Been There.
Throughout the sprint, mentors with years of experience supporting startups will review your progress, answer questions, and help you refine ideas, avoid common pitfalls, and keep moving toward something clearer, stronger, and ready to share.
What happened
They came with something unfinished.
Build Week is a 5-day sprint for early-stage founders, compressing weeks of decision-making into five days of focused execution, accountability, and mentorship.
Builders spent the week doing the real work: defining the problem, shipping a first version, talking to real users, refining what mattered, and presenting to the room. Workshops and mentor office hours covered ICP sharpening, go-to-market strategy, and business model clarity — pushing founders to test assumptions, validate opportunities, and make real progress on their ventures.
The goal wasn't a polished pitch. It was giving each founder the focus, structure, and peer accountability to move on something they genuinely cared about.
The week closed with a founder showcase, where participants shared key learnings and next steps. The resulting products spanned creative tools, nutrition, sports performance, food discovery, early-career hiring, and human connection — different starting points, same drive to get moving.
What they built
Meet the builders who showed the work.
Ten young founders walked in with 10 very different problems. Over the week, each one narrowed a broad idea into something specific enough to test, built a first version, and put it in front of real users to see what held up. Here are the ideas they chose to carry forward.
10 founders / 9 ventures
John
Eat2
A food review app, 80% built and looking for its first users.
Lewis
Smart insoles for soccer
Hardware already in manufacturing, with 4 pilots lined up.
Jenell
[Project name TBD]
Post-op, post-discharge care packs, currently gathering feedback pre-monetisation.
Jarran
Intent
A search app for loneliness, near TestFlight launch.
Mervell
Netty
A QR icebreaker tool
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Ashley
Bridge Creatives
A creative agency with real customers, now shaping a tech platform.
Xinyu Liu
Li Mei Yuan
A birds nest D2C brand, coming out of a family distribution business.
Ryan & Harish
Merit
A portfolio platform for internships — MVP live with 10 students and 3 recruiters.
Nichole
Phases
A voice-only social app, launched with 200 users.
The week in pictures
Event pictures
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Inside the sprint
Five days. One rhythm: focus, build, iterate, ship.
Each day narrowed the gap between an idea in someone's head and work another person could see, use, question, or respond to.
Get precise about the problem, the user, and what is actually worth building.
Ship the first ugly version — a working skeleton beats another day of planning.
Get out of your own head, speak to real users, and let evidence change the direction.
Improve the part that matters most and decide what the next 30 days should unlock.
Put the work in front of mentors and peers. Share the progress, not just the pitch.
Organised by
Two communities creating room to build.
Asia's launchpad for young founders.
Wavesparks helps ambitious young people turn early ideas into real ventures through accelerator programmes, mentorship, founder communities, and pathways to capital and opportunity.
A private network for high-agency operators.
Altitude replaces passive theory with rigorous simulations, world-class mentors, exclusive opportunities, and a community built to help ambitious talent execute.
The next step
The week ended. The building didn't.
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