Boba Tech: After Dark
About this event
🧋 Boba Tech: After Dark
An after-hours meetup for founders, investors, builders, and students in Taipei.
Sip & Scale Taipei & ikigai Launchpad are bringing together founders, builders, investors, students, and friends from the ecosystem across APAC for a dinner and happy hour.
Continue conversations from Day 1 of the Boba Tech Summit, meet founders and investors you missed during the day, reconnect with friends in town, and get to know the people you’ll be spending Day 2 with.
You’ll meet founders, operators, investors, students, and creators from Taiwan and abroad, including members of Sip & Scale, ikigai Launchpad, ASES Taipei, ASES Stanford, and other startup communities.
📅 September 9, 2026
🕖 7:00 PM–10:00 PM
About Sip & Scale
Sip & Scale is a global community connecting ambitious founders, investors, builders, operators, and students across 35+ cities worldwide through curated, locally led events and programs.
The community has worked with organizations including AWS, Tech Week by a16z, Toronto Tech Week, Waterloo Tech Week, Japan Fintech Week, Notion, Techstars, Antler, January Capital, and others to support founders and emerging talent worldwide.
🔗 Sip & Scale: sipnscale.com
About ikigai Launchpad
ikigai Launchpad is a Taipei-based accelerator powered by 886 Studios in collaboration with Lifelike Capital.
Built by the founders behind Twitch, Kabam, Guitar Hero, and other major technology and gaming companies, ikigai Launchpad supports early-stage startups with $100K USD in funding, hands-on mentorship from experienced founders, weekly office hours and workshops, and a community designed to help teams reach product-market fit and accelerate growth over a 10-week batch.
Applications are now open for the Fall 2026 batch.
🔗 ikigai Launchpad website
🔗 886 Studios website
About Boba Tech Summit
Boba Tech Summit is the Global Stage for Asia’s Next Generation of Founders, bringing together emerging founders with global investors, technology leaders, and founder com