Recap: GBM x Qwen x Julius Baer and GBM x HSBC

Two days after a packed GBM in Kuala Lumpur, the SEA Tour landed in Singapore for a same-day double header.

On April 8, GBM x Qwen x Julius Baer opened the afternoon from 4–6pm, bringing together 40+ builders, founders, and finance professionals at Julius Baer, a leading Swiss private banking group. The conversations covered where AI is starting to show up across private banking, compliance, cybersecurity, data infrastructure, and enterprise workflows.

Just one hour later, GBM x HSBC filled the evening from 7–9pm with 50+ founders, engineers, and enterprise leaders at HSBC Innovation Banking SG, the part of HSBC focused on supporting startups, scaleups, investors, and innovation-led companies.

Across two rooms and more than 90 attendees, the day showed exactly why the GBM SEA Tour has been gaining momentum: builders are moving fast, and financial institutions are paying close attention.

A massive thank you to Qwen, especially David Yam and Jason Lin; Julius Baer, especially Jonathan Chan, Ryan Lou, and Wee Kiat Goh; and HSBC Innovation Banking SG, especially Wen Yang E, Christina Lee, and Neetal Nema, for opening the doors and showing up for the builder community.

KL packed out. Singapore packed out twice in one day. The SEA Tour was not slowing down

Spotted builders in the trenches — GBM x Qwen x Julius Baer:

🔹 | BPOptima: Decision infrastructure for regulated financial operations. | Ask: Model partners and regulated deployments

🔹 | Vector: Agentic platform for professional investors. | Ask: Enterprise partners and early adopters among EAMs, boutique funds, and family offices

🔹 | Lailai & Aegis: Sovereign, air-gapped AI platforms providing frontier-grade tactical intelligence on-device for military and law enforcement. | Ask: Partners, government customers, and sovereign AI capability

🔹 | TraceCtrl: Security observability and control for agentic AI. | Ask: Early adopters and honest feedback

🔹 | Mind Integration Company: Brain signals to AI intent — the first native brain-to-model input layer. | Ask: Funding

🔹 | NEBULA iXDR: A fully autonomous cyber defense platform for enterprises. | Ask: Seed funding

🔹 | Subtrac: Agentic AI solution for recurring payments. | Ask: Funding, hiring, and grants

🔹 | BustleFeed: A digital arena for bot and human social interaction. | Ask: Funding and enterprise partners

🔹 | Corgi Labs: AI-powered risk intelligence for private banking. | Ask: Pilots, collaboration, and partnerships

🔹 | Ara Research: An AI collections autopilot that uses autonomous agents to negotiate debt repayment and increase throughput for B2C lenders. | Ask: Partnerships

🔹 | Kubegrade: Kubernetes Day-2 operations execution layer. | Ask: Funding and partners

🔹 | RegXperience: Compliance workflows for financial services. | Ask: Pilot users, GRC practitioners, and FSI compliance teams

🔹 | Konafin: An AI operating system for trackable, audit-compliant F&B imports from SME producers. | Ask: Pilot buyers in Singapore and Dubai, technical partnerships, and regulatory and trade advisors

🔹 | HADRIAN by Vantalab: An AI-powered pentesting platform using guardrail-free LLMs to identify and report web vulnerabilities. | Ask: Grants, funding, and enterprise partners

🔹 | ChickenDuck: An AI tutoring copilot that automates Mandarin lesson capture and SRS flashcard generation. | Ask: Brand awareness, partnerships, and pilot customers

🔹 | GOV AI: Control plane for enterprise AI governance. | Ask: Collaboration

🔹 | FlintxAI: A confidential computing platform for secure AI deployment and automated KYC in sensitive financial sectors.

🔹 | VersaFleet: An agentic AI transport management system optimizing last-mile logistics for FMCG brands. | Ask: Self-hosted LLM or API consumption

Spotted builders in the trenches — GBM x HSBC:

🔹 | Veracia: Verification-first legal AI for disputes and arbitration that adversarially stress-tests every argument. | Ask: Funding, enterprise partners, and grants

🔹 | Dify: An LLMOps platform accelerating complex agentic workflow deployment by up to 85%. | Ask: Hiring tech talent

🔹 | Tachikoma: An orchestration layer that turns fragmented AI agents into a single, living company context. | Ask: Seed investors and credits

🔹 | LegalOS: The operational foundation that standardizes and unifies structured legal data for AI adoption. | Ask: Seed-stage funding, design partners, law firm pilots, and enterprise or legal ecosystem introductions

🔹 | AmSolar: An autonomous AI control system that optimizes real-time energy costs for Solar PV and BESS. | Ask: Funding and enterprise partners

🔹 | SAM: An autonomous software development platform that follows TDD and SDLC to scale apps beyond vibe coding. | Ask: Funding, partners, and customer referrals

🔹 | Clairva: Building the data layer for world models through licensed, structured video datasets from the Global South. | Ask: Funding, enterprise partners, and grants

🔹 | A wealth-first AI operating layer that turns portfolio signals into personalized, adaptive client interfaces. | Ask: Builders, design partners, and enterprise collaborators

🔹 Wu Daniel | Cekap AI: SEA-native intelligence for Tier 1 AML compliance, reducing false positives through localized context. | Ask: HSBC 3-month challenge

🔹 | Torchcast AI: A high-stakes forecasting AI that provides calibrated probabilities with full reasoning traces. | Ask: Enterprise design partners

🔹 Fabian Tan | TheLibrarian.io: A WhatsApp AI assistant helping mobile-centric professionals manage emails and schedules on the go. | Ask: Partnerships with mobile-centric professionals

🔹 Loganatha | Speakapp AI: A unified digital engagement platform enabling continuous care and learning for individuals with special needs. | Ask: AI development partners, global outreach, and grants

🔹 Marc Huang | Speech Token: An agentic, voice-first AI tutor providing gamified, pedagogy-based language coaching for ages 7–18.

🔹 Harsh B. | Pyrotechnics: A voice-first multi-agent AI platform that unifies fragmented communication channels across teams. | Ask: Enterprise partners and POC opportunities

🔹 | Traveloogi: An AI commerce layer that unifies travel, insurance, and automotive services into a single revenue engine. | Ask: Strategic partners, pilot customers, clients, strategic investors, and market expansion

🔹 | Neuroflix: An AI-generated, video-first knowledge intelligence layer designed to measure and maximize employee retention. | Ask: Funding and GTM partners

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Two Singapore meetups in one day made one thing clear: the builder community is moving fast, and enterprise interest is catching up just as quickly.

A huge thank you again to Qwen, Julius Baer, HSBC Innovation Banking SG, and every builder who showed up, pitched, asked questions, shared what they are building, and kept the conversations going across both rooms.

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