We are Innovation Catalysts

We enable corporations to address Southeast Asia's challenges today and opportunities for tomorrow's collaborations with startups and communities. 

Champions for Open Innovation 

Padang means green, open field in Malay. It is also the name of an important historical landmark in the heart of Singapore, our home base. We bring people and organizations together to solve problems and develop opportunities. We create the environments for their creativity and innovation to emerge and flourish.

The Padang & Co story started with Singapore’s first major public hackathon, UP Singapore, in 2012. That means in 2022, we celebrate ten years of Open Innovation in Singapore. UP Singapore grew to become Singapore's largest community of professional, talented, and passionate citizens, who came together to tackle a wide range of urban challenges. Indeed, it was a movement to help make Singapore more liveable, competitive, and sustainable.

Our Focus Areas

To catalyze ecosystem collaborations, we curate thematic communities that change the way we innovate to drive sustainable growth and impact toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

• Food & Agriculture
• Smarter Cities
• Health
• Sustainability

We support large corporations in their digital transformation

• Explore: Become more innovation ready with awareness and skills
• Engage: Match with corporate and ecosystem partners, startups
• Experiment: Ideate and co-create solution; experiment and learn
• Execute: Pilot the solution and scale-up

We expand your innovation capabilities and capacity

Accelerate your corporation’s digital transformation to drive culture change and future-proof your business. We can help you discover emerging technologies, engage with a Community of Interest, experiment with startups, implement solutions with scale-ups, and transform with new skills and talents.

For each type of activity, we manage a rigorous, tried-and-tested process from requirements gathering to designing the mechanics of the competition, from programming the workshops to attracting the right types of participants. If and where required, the process and the program modules can be run virtually using a suite of online tools and guided by our purpose-designed protocols.

As a pioneer in Open Innovation, Padang & Co has deep experience to help you mix and match these activities to your needs along your innovation journey. Think of it as "Innovation-as-a-Service”.