What happens when frontier innovation meets Asia’s real economy?

Earlier this week, our Founder & Managing Partner Michael Gryseels joined a closed-door Founders’ Roundtable Lunch, “Shaping the APAC Green Energy Narrative,” alongside Tan Wooi Leong , PMP (SJ Group) and Fei Xiaojing (The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet), bringing together founders building across energy storage, hydrogen, advanced materials, and natural systems.

In the discussion, Michael emphasized a central point: the next phase of the energy transition will be shaped less by capital and more by how systems actually perform.

Across Asia, large-scale investment in energy and compute infrastructure is already underway. But as demand rises from electrification, urban growth, and advanced computing, the real limits are reliability, power quality, efficiency, and integration with live industrial systems.

Thank you to BLOCK71 and NUS Enterprise teams for convening a thoughtful conversation between founders and leaders at the frontier of this shift.

Innovation often starts with the promise of new capability. System performance shows what they can really do as they scale.

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