Imagine building an unicorn company...
but you can only sell to people in Florida.
This is where many founders from Asia find themselves — trapped in what we called the “Pacific Triangle”: a self-reinforcing cycle where a shrinking domestic market forces early stage investors to be more conservative due to the lower likelihood of startups generating scalable revenues.
In order to secure funding from their home ecosystem, founders are pushed to de-risk through imitating and building “proven” tech.
However this effectively renders these startups uncompetitive on the global market and cuts off the possibility to expand overseas, capture scalable revenue, and generate venture style returns.
The lack of venture style return translates to lower willingness for investors to invest in early stage startups and creates this loop:
Small Market → No Scale → No Exit → Less Funding → No Overseas Expansion → Small Market (repeat until you become a SME in 5-10 years)
But what if there was another way?
The “Pacific Triangle”
What if you started building for the world on day 1? What if you could build in the largest startup ecosystem in the world?
What? How? Where do I start?
We hear you, we hear you. We assembled a team of seasoned pioneers who have done this before to help others do this.
Together, we pioneered a proprietary landing process to help startups from Asia land in the US with engineering precision.
Unlike traditional programs, LANDED is focused on US landing. We don’t believe in cohort quotas or vanity metrics. We work with a small number of high-conviction teams we believe we can move the needle for. We believe global expansion doesn’t have to start with guesswork—it can start with LANDED.