Brinc is a venture capital and accelerator firm that empowers game changers to help solve some of the world's biggest challenges. Email: [email protected]
Brinc and @Ripple are proud to launch the Hong Kong Financial Innovation Program (HFIP), a first-of-its-kind accelerator powered by the XRP Ledger, designed to shape the future of finance in Asia.
We're excited to announce the applications for Hong Kong Financial Innovation Program are now open. This program is designed for early-stage startups building the future of payments and financial infrastructure.
Whether you're working on cross-border payments, settlement rails, stablecoin infrastructure, or payment-adjacent solutions, we want to hear from you.
What's on offer:
-Mentorship from leading operators and investors
-Introductions to global corporates and institutional partners
-Opportunity to apply for non-dilutive grant funding
We're actively sourcing startups at the pre-seed to Series A stage, with a strong focus on teams building out of Hong Kong and across Asia.
Applications are open now. If you're building the infrastructure that will power global payments, this program was built for you!
Apply via the link below.
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Ideas were shared. Connections were made. The future was discussed.๐ฅ
Here's a look back at our latest PlanX event and the incredible founders, experts, and ecosystem partners who joined us.
Watch the recap below ๐
#FutureOfWork#invest#brinc#accelerator
๐ข CRE-UP 2026 ์ฐธ๊ฐ๊ธฐ์ ๋ชจ์ง OPEN!
๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๊ธฐ์ ํํธ๋์ ์ง์ ํ์ ํ๋ฉฐ
ํด์ธ ์์ฅ ์ง์ถ๊ณผ ์ค์ PoC๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝํํ
๋ฏธ๋์ดยท์ฝํ ์ธ ์คํํธ์ ์ ์ฐพ์ต๋๋ค ๐
Notion, ElevenLabs, e27, Tatler ๋ฑ
๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ํํธ๋์ ํจ๊ปํ๋
์ค์ ํ ์คํ์ด๋ ธ๋ฒ ์ด์ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ!
๐ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๊ธฐ์ ๊ณผ์ PoC ํ์
๐ 1:1 ๋ง์ถคํ ๋ฉํ ๋ง ๋ฐ ์ปจ์คํ
๐ ํฌ์ยทVC ๋คํธ์ํน ๋ฐ IR ๊ธฐํ
๐ ์ฐ์๊ธฐ์ ํ์ ์ง์ ๋ฐ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ฐ๊ณ
๐ ๋ชจ์ง ๋์
โ ๋ฏธ๋์ดยท์ฝํ ์ธ ๋ถ์ผ ์คํํธ์
โ ์ฐฝ์ 7๋ ์ด๋ด ๊ธฐ์
โ ๊ตญ์ธ์ฒญ ์ ์ข ์ฝ๋ 940306 ๋๋ 921505 ํ์ ๋ณด์
โ MVP ์ด์ ๋ณด์ ๋ฐ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์ง์ถ ๊ฐ๋ฅ ๊ธฐ์
๐ ๋ชจ์ง๊ธฐ๊ฐ
2026.05.20(์) ~ 06.11(๋ชฉ) 17:00
๐ ์ ์ฒญ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ
CRE-UP 2026 ๊ณต์ ํํ์ด์ง ์จ๋ผ์ธ ์ ์ฒญ
https://t.co/mtpD3NDMbG
๐ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๋ฌด๋์์
๋ค์ ์ฑ์ฅ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค์ด๊ฐ ์คํํธ์ ์ ๋ง์ ๊ด์ฌ๊ณผ ์ฐธ์ฌ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค.
#CREUP #CREUP2026 #์คํ์ด๋ ธ๋ฒ ์ด์ #์คํํธ์ #๋ฏธ๋์ด์คํํธ์ #์ฝํ ์ธ ์คํํธ์
#๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ์ง์ถ #PoC #์คํํธ์ ์ง์์ฌ์ #์ก์ ๋ฌ๋ ์ดํ #ํฌ์์ฐ๊ณ
#๋ฐฉ์ก๋ฏธ๋์ดํต์ ์์ํ #ํ๊ตญ์ ํ์งํฅํํ #RAPA #Brinc
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๐ข Applications for CRE-UP 2026 Are Now Open!
We are looking for media and content startups ready to collaborate directly with global corporate partners, validate their solutions through real-world PoCs, and expand into international markets ๐
Join a hands-on open innovation program with global partners including Notion, ElevenLabs, e27, Tatler, and more!
๐ PoC collaboration opportunities with global companies
๐ 1:1 tailored mentoring and consulting
๐ Investor, VC networking, and IR opportunities
๐ Follow-on support and business development opportunities for outstanding teams
๐ Eligibility
โ Media & content startups
โ Companies founded within the last 7 years
โ Must hold Korean industry codes 940306 or 921505
โ Companies with an MVP and global expansion potential
๐ Application Period
May 20, 2026 (Wed) โ June 11, 2026 (Thu) 17:00 KST
๐ How to Apply
Apply online through the official CRE-UP 2026 website
https://t.co/mtpD3NDMbG
๐ We look forward to supporting startups ready to take their next step on the global stage.
#CREUP #CREUP2026 #OpenInnovation #Startup #MediaStartup #ContentStartup
#GlobalExpansion #PoC #StartupProgram #Acceleration #VCNetworking
#RAPA #Brinc
The best startups donโt show up in forms.
They show up through trusted people.
Weโre expanding the Brinc Scout Network across AI, fintech, biotech, and Web3 ecosystems.
If founders bring opportunities to you before they hit the market,youโre exactly what weโre looking for.
-Early access.
-Ecosystem credibility.
-Finderโs fees for successful referrals.
Apply now โ [https://t.co/dwvgoWnBtX]
#Brinc #Startups #VC #Web3 #AI
Fundraising conversations do not start with a pitch deck.
They start with how a company is structured, positioned, and understood by investors.
On May 14 at @InnovHubDIFC , hear directly from:
โข Bashar Aboudoud- UpRound by Brinc
โข Vera Futorjanski-Veritas Ventures Global
โข Suhail Mirza- Al Tamimi & Co
โข Haya Barqawi- Al Tamimi & Co
A practical session by @Ignyte_AE for founders covering investor expectations, legal structuring, fundraising conversations, and the mistakes that can create problems later.
If you are building, raising, or preparing for your next stage of growth, this conversation is built for you.
Venue: DIFC Innovation Hub
Date: 14 May 2026
Time: 12:30 PM- 1:30 PM
Register today ๐
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The best startups donโt apply. Theyโre introduced.
Weโre expanding the Brinc Scout Network across fintech, biotech, AI & Web3.
If you hear about builders before theyโre on anyoneโs radar, we want you.
Early access. Recognition. Credibility. Successful Referral Fees.
Apply: [https://t.co/ZMHZjQ8OON]
More advice isnโt what founders need.
Thereโs already too much of it.
Threads. Playbooks. Opinions.
But when it comes to real decisions,
most founders are still left guessing.
Thatโs the gap.
So weโre opening this up.
Live AMA with Brinc.
No fluff. Just real answers on:
โข Fundraising
โข Scaling
โข Market expansion
For those who join:
โข Curated investor list
โข 55 questions investors actually ask
โข Access to Brincโs ecosystem
Date: April 30
Time: 5pm GST
Ask what you want. Get direct answers.
Click here to join. ( https://t.co/wuyg3rKPxz )
Most events give you conversations.
Very few give you clarity.
Road to PlanX was built for the latter.
No panels. No fluff.
Just founders, operators, and investors getting into what actually matters, fundraising, growth, and real next steps.
In collaboration with the Entrepreneur, @InnovHubDIFC and @planxconf .
Hereโs a glimpse inside ๐
We'll be back in May with a bigger room and sharper conversations! Details will be out soon!
LAB is accelerating product momentum !
Prediction markets + mobile trading, all in one stack
โข Integrating with @dflow + @Kalshi
โข Trade real-world probabilities directly in LAB
โข One terminal: spot, perps, and prediction markets
And next: @LABtrade_ Mobile App enabling full trading + analytics, anywhere
Brinc is proud to back the next generation of trading infrastructure !
#invest #lab #brinc #momentum #community
Markets are uncertain. Capital is cautious. Fundraising timelines are stretching.
But startups donโt get to pause.
They still have to build, hire, ship and raise in the middle of all this.
On April 8, Levi Lewandowski and Ajinkya Tanpure (CEO CrossVal) will be joined by fellow operators, including Zohare H , to break down what actually matters when markets shift,
From financial preparedness to founder resilience, and what investors are really looking for right now.
Expect practical frameworks you can apply immediately and real conversations with founders navigating the same headwinds.
Venue: AstroLabs, JLT Dubai
Time: 5:00 โ 6:30 PM GST
If youโll be there, donโt forget to register ๐
https://t.co/zXLtwogLoe
Excited to see @Surf_Liquid launching on Polygon ๐
Surf is powered by our portfolio company zkCross Network, providing the cross-chain execution and automation infrastructure behind the product.
A strong example of an AI-powered DeFi savings protocol built on zkCross, showcasing real AI + DeFi use cases live in production ๐
We did not pick @0xPolygon randomly.
We picked the chain where stablecoins are already the default behaviour.
โ $3B+ stablecoins on-chain
โ $15B+ quarterly stablecoin transfers
โ Fast finality, low fees at retail scale
Surf 4.0 is launching on Polygon on Thursday.
With:
โ @MorphoLabs as the default lending venue
โ @lifiprotocol and @debridge for cross-chain routing
Same Surf model: user-owned vaults, non-custodial design, automation inside strict rules.
This is Surf 4.0โs first ecosystem launch and our first real distribution unlock.
Announcing Road to PlanX: Wealth.
Most founders struggle with:
Getting investor attention
Positioning their story
Scaling beyond survival
This session breaks it down:
What MENA investors actually look for
Real fundraising frameworks
How to turn personal brand into leverage
Built for founders who want practical, applicable insights.
Place and Date: Dubai | April 16
Curated spots
Apply now โ https://t.co/w0hO4iHVxa
Our CRO, @YAboudaoud will be speaking at Abu Dhabi Tech Tuesdays ๐
Heโll be sharing insights from the frontlines of building and scaling ventures at Brinc, while connecting with founders, investors, and operators shaping whatโs next.
Abu Dhabiโs tech scene is scaling fast backed by serious capital, long-term vision, and global ambition.
Itโs quickly becoming a hub where founders donโt just build startups, they build category leaders.
If youโre in Abu Dhabi, it would be great to see you there.
Join here:
[ https://t.co/nvQwfdPFGT ]
Vaults shouldnโt be optional, they should be standard.
Big move from our portfolio company @GetSwarmed. With the new Vaults SDK, developers on OpenClaw can finally ditch plaintext env risks and secure keys the way they shouldโve always been handled: encrypted, isolated, and production-ready.
This is how Web3 infra matures.๐