About us
You don't need a registered company, a funding round, or a polished pitch deck to belong here. You just need to be serious about building something.
The Singapore Youth Entrepreneurs Alliance is the entry point into Singapore's longest-running entrepreneur community for young people, students, and anyone at the very beginning of their entrepreneurial journey.
What this group is
SYEA is the youth-facing arm of the Singapore Entrepreneurs Network (SEN), a community that has been running since 2005 with over 20,000 members across Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Taiwan. Events listed in this group are SEN events, which means you are walking into a room of real operators: working founders, SME owners, corporate professionals making the leap, and experienced entrepreneurs who have been through it.
That is not an accident. The fastest way to learn how business actually works is not in a classroom or a youth seminar. It is by sitting across from someone who has been doing it for ten years and asking them a direct question.
Who shows up at events
The room is deliberately mixed; that is SEN's defining quality. You will meet people at every stage: students still figuring out their first idea, founders who launched last month, operators who have been running businesses for decades, and investors who have seen it all. Age is not a barrier in either direction. The only thing that matters is that you are genuinely here to learn, build, or connect.
What to expect
Free entry. No agenda. No speeches. No pitching. Show up, buy a drink, and start a conversation. SEN events are known for being direct, diverse, and free of the performance culture that dominates most networking events in Singapore. People disagree here. People speak honestly. That is why it has lasted twenty years.
Our community standard
This community runs on one principle: honest conversation between real people doing real work. Claims are welcome. Fabrications are not. If you state credentials, be prepared to substantiate them.
Ground rules
- Buy something at the venue. There is no entrance fee, but we are guests of the venue. Purchase a drink or a meal.
- No hard selling. Network freely, but do not force others to sit through your pitch.
- Basic decency. Disagree openly but respectfully.
About SEN
In 2002, Nicholas Chan was one of eight co-founders of Project:Senso, a pioneer entrepreneur gathering in Singapore. Nicholas subsequently spun off the Singapore Entrepreneurs Network in 2005; the networking events were working, people kept coming back, and he decided they deserved a permanent home and a life of their own. Two decades on, SEN counts over 20,000 members and chapters across the region. One of Singapore's longest-running entrepreneur communities, still free to attend, still independent, still run by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs.
Upcoming events
37
Past events
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