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886 Studios is a venture firm bridging Silicon Valley experience and Taiwan know-how.

11/08/2026

Thinking about applying or already working on your application?

Bring your lunch and join us online for a casual AMA with the ikigai Launchpad partners & team.

This is your chance to:

- Meet the ikigai Launchpad mentors and team
- Learn how the program works and what we look for in founders
- Ask questions about the application process, funding, the program experience, and what to expect
- Get a feel for whether ikigai Launchpad is the right fit for you

Whether you’ve already applied or are still deciding, come say hi, meet the people behind the program, and ask us anything

- 📅 Date: Thursday, August 13, 2026
- 🕧 Time: 12:30–1:30 PM (Taipei time)
- 💻 Location: Online

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10/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out to our ‘ikigai vibe build’ event last week!

We want to host more casual events like this where builders can meet, cowork, exchange ideas, and share what they’re building.

Follow our Luma calendar to stay updated on the next one. Link in bio.

30/07/2026

Hope everyone’s having a good summer so far!

We’re hosting ‘ikigai vibe build’ next week.

Come by after work, grab a drink, meet other builders, and spend a few hours building with AI (free OpenAI Codex tokens for everyone that comes to build).

Whether you’re a founder, engineer, designer, student, or just curious, we’d love to have you there

Date: 8/6 (next Wednesday)

Link in bio. Limited spots.

ps, first round of acceptances for ikigai Launchpad Fall 2026 close this Friday (7/31). Get your apps in.

10/07/2026

📣 We’re now accepting applications for the Fall 2026 batch of ikigai Launchpad, open to ambitious founders anywhere!

ikigai gives early-stage founders $100K USD in funding and mentorship from people who’ve done this before, so you can move faster than you could on your own.

If you’re building and want the founders of Twitch & Guitar Hero in your corner, apply TODAY!

‼️ Spots are limited, and our first round of acceptances closes July 31st.

Link to apply in bio!

02/06/2026

ikigai Launchpad S26 retreat day 2!

> breakfast at bnb 🍳
> Kavalan tour & DIY whiskey 🥃
> DIY pizza 🍕

28/05/2026

ikigai Launchpad S26 retreat day 1!

12/05/2026

calling all founders, builders, students, and ai-curious folks!!!

we are hosting a one-day vibe coding hackathon in Taipei next month!

bring a laptop, an idea, and build! you do not need to be a developer, just build something with AI tools and demo it at the end of the day.

we will end the hackthon with 2-minute demos from every team and the best projects will be rewarded with a prize!

*all participants will get Codex credits to use throughout the event, courtesy from our friends over at OpenAI.

link in bio!

27/03/2026

Congrats to ikigai alumni, Jimmy Huang, for launching PicPet globally and for getting into a16z Speedrun!

PicPet is an app where you raise a digital pet by sending your friends photos.

It went #1 in Taiwan and is now available EVERYWHERE!

Go try it out with your friends!!

02/02/2026

"Sell painkillers, not vitamins." -- Gabriel

Big thank you to Gabriel B., Co-Founder & CTO of (YC S22) for being the first speaker of our Founder Files session for

Gabriel is in Taipei for a few weeks, and we were lucky to get his time to share his story and lessons learned for founders - from leaving Yale, joining early startups, bootstrapping ideas, building (and killing) products, all the way to eventually starting a company with his college friend.

13/01/2026

"The risk is not in the technology side, the risk is that even if you have a great product, maybe there's no one to try it or no one to use it." That's why it's important to test what people want before you build it in order to figure out product-market fit.

Apply to ikigai Launchpad today to find your 🔍

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No. 2, Section 4, Nanjing E Road
Taipei
105

Website

https://www.886studios.com/, https://withikigai.com/

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