SpaceTech & Startups by What You Building & ContraVC
Thursday, 22 Oct | 6:00 PM | 📍 Hong Kong Island
An intimate evening for founders and investors curious about the next frontier of company building: space.
We are bringing together a curated group of founders, investors and operators for a fireside chat with one of Asia's most closely watched spacetech startups, followed by open networking over drinks.
Featuring:
Edward Ge, Founder and CEO, Exosat
Exosat is a Singapore-based startup building thousands of low-cost satellites to give enterprises and governments sovereign infrastructure for communications and compute.
Edward is a second-time spacetech founder. He previously co-founded Aethero, which grew to millions in sales to customers including Blue Origin and the U.S. Air Force, and has early engineering hires joining from SpaceX and Planet. Exosat recently graduated from Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, where it is the first YC space company based in Asia, with an oversubscribed USD 11M seed round.
Mahesh Harilela, Family Council Convenor, Harilela Group; Co-Founder, SpaceHK
Mahesh is a member of the renowned Harilela family, whose group spans hospitality, real estate, finance, and more. As Family Council Convenor, he leads family governance and supports the development of the family office, while driving the group's expansion into renewable energy, advanced technology, and the NewSpace economy.
He co-founded SpaceHK, a policy initiative positioning Hong Kong as a space hub and a bridge between China's aerospace ecosystem and countries seeking satellite technology, financing, and regulatory expertise.
The evening
6:00 PM: Arrival and drinks
6:45 PM: Fireside chat with Edward and Mahesh on building sovereign satellite infrastructure from Asia, raising for deep tech, and where the space economy goes next
7:30 PM: Open networking
Who this is for?
Founders building in spacetech, deep tech and frontier infrastructure, and the investors backing them. Curious generalis