Singapore Sprint — Sept–Nov 2026

Every elder, a galaxy.
Every conversation, a constellation.

A tech-assisted platform for low-friction intergenerational connection — built to reach the 1% of the world aged 85 and above, within five years, before their stories are gone.

Founded by April Swando Hu  ·  Yale BSc EE  ·  Stanford MBA

1% Of the world is 85+
5 yrs Our working window
70M Chinese diaspora, our first example
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Why Now
A window closing daily
Only 1% of people live past 85.  This generation — WWII survivors, witnesses of decolonisation, keepers of dying languages — holds irreplaceable lived memory.  When they go, it goes with them.
WWII Generation

The irreplaceable generation

Those aged 85+ — just 1% of the world — lived through WWII, decolonization, and the pre-digital era as first-generation diaspora.  Their stories exist nowhere else.

A Quiet Diaspora

70 million, largely undocumented

The global Chinese diaspora — our first example community — has almost no authentic story archive, at a moment when the world needs to understand itself better.  Other diasporas, geographies, and communities follow via Chapters.

Languages Disappearing

One lost every two weeks

We work to preserve voice, gesture, poetry, proverb, and heritage wisdom before they disappear.

What Is Treasures Bowl?
A low-friction, video-first intergenerational connection platform

Treasures Bowl pairs TB Storytellers with three kinds of Listeners — TB Kin, TB Youth, and TB Friend.  Matches happen through family or, for TB Youth and TB Friend, through schools and community partners.  Every conversation is captured on video, and — with ongoing, revocable consent — may be shared with family or, later, licensed to institutions.

A TB Matchmaker is a community builder — often a recent retiree — who bridges Storyteller and Listener, especially those who are not related.  The Matchmaker recruits, pairs, accompanies the first meeting, and follows up as a bridge to community.

The platform is device-agnostic: mobile, iPad, and laptop modalities are all supported. Elder comfort determines the standard.

Sovereignty isn’t a feature — it’s the foundation: Storytellers, and co-creating Listeners, retain absolute, revocable control of their own data.

聚 Gather

Storyteller and Listener meet and talk.

耀 Shine

The conversation is captured on video.

傳 Radiate

Shared with family first — and beyond, with consent.

User Flow

Training

Listener completes the program

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Meet Storyteller

Paired for first session

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Guided conversation

Smartphone or iPad, translation support, image prompts

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2–3 sessions

Builds depth over time

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Co-create the video

Share/host if mutually agreed

Singapore 2026
Singapore Sprint
A live trial of the Treasures Bowl prototype, with priority focus on TB Youth and Grandchild connections.  300 connections across TB Kin, TB Youth, and TB Friend, in Singapore and Chinese diaspora communities, September–November 2026.
TB Youth · Priority Track

Become a TB Youth Listener

Train, then interview an 85+ Storyteller matched to you.  SGD 50 scholarship per interview being trialed — accept it, gift it to another Listener or Storyteller, or decline.

Apply as TB Youth
TB Kin

Capture Your Family Elder

A guided, self-funded conversation with the elder in your own family — no Matchmaker required to start. Grandchild connections are a particular priority for us.

Start with Your Own Family
TB Friend · 18+

Become a TB Friend

Not related, not youth — just willing to listen.  Vouched through a community partner, no dedicated Matchmaker needed.  No incentive; pure mission contribution.

Become a TB Friend
TB Matchmaker

Become a TB Matchmaker

A community builder, often a recent retiree, who recruits Storytellers, trains Listeners, and bridges the generations — especially where Storyteller and Listener are not related.

Become a TB Matchmaker
TB Steward or Chapter

Anchor a Community

Anchor Treasures Bowl in your diaspora or community, or license a full TB Chapter.  Terms confirmed in 2027, after the Singapore Sprint.

Express Interest
Equity Roles · Singapore

Founding Team

Actively recruiting a Founding CEO (priority #1), Fractional CFO (financial model, investor reporting, licensing & royalty structure), and CTO — all mission-aligned, equity-bearing roles.

Enquire About Roles

The Sprint runs September – November 2026 in Singapore, targeting an estimated 30–45 connections per month toward a total of 300 — with pace shaped by the pioneering TB Storytellers, Listeners, Matchmakers, and founding management and engineering team who step forward.  This sprint becomes the foundation for the 2027 Chapter model, carrying the methodology to other regions and peoples, securing funding from government bodies, and building toward a self-sustaining social enterprise.

Founder
Treasures Bowl

April Swando Hu

Founder & Executive Chair  ·  不忘初心

  • Yale University — BSc Electrical Engineering
  • Stanford Graduate School of Business — MBA
  • Certified Integral Coach
  • Chair & President, Yale International Alliance
  • Founder, Zigen Fund
  • 5× Edu-Tech Entrepreneur

The most impactful assignment at Youth Leaders Davos was always the same: “Go home and interview your oldest living relative.”  Over the past year, more than 10 youth completed structured family interviews through the programme — and the responses that came back changed young people permanently, while reminding elders that their stories mattered.

Treasures Bowl is what happens when that assignment becomes a platform.  April knows what a good story conversation looks like — and she is building the methodology to make it repeatable at scale, with an eye toward testing Treasures Bowl at Youth Leaders Davos 2027.

She is building Treasures Bowl in Singapore from September 2026, with a network spanning Hong Kong, Europe, and the Chinese diaspora globally.  The founding team is being assembled now.

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