Seamate (出海同学会)
Seamate (出海同学会, roughly “Going-Global Study Group”) is an industry community initiated by Grand View Capital (大观资本) for Chinese companies expanding overseas. The website frames its mission as “let Seamate help Seamate” — connecting founders of global-bound companies, heads of internationalization at large companies, specialized funds, and industry researchers through closed-door discussion and deep networking.
Format and content
Per the site’s own description, Seamate has held more than 100 deep exchange sessions since 2018, with over 2,000 people contributing insights. Formats include offline events (in China and abroad), online closed-door sessions, and livestreams. After each discussion the community publishes writeup articles and maintains a Feishu-hosted knowledge base of accumulated content and globalization resources. Current events and writeups live at seamate.cn.
Discussion in the show
At the end of Weekly #005’s chapter “ModRetro、AI Passport 与 ESP32 改造” (ModRetro, AI Passport, and ESP32 mods), Yang Pan mentions attending a closed-door online Seamate session during the October holiday (paragraph in the Chinese transcript). In the following chapter, “小硬件成为 Personal Agent 的物理外挂” (small hardware as the physical peripheral of personal agents), he reports that conversations with hardware founders over the same holiday showed some of them “accepting” a role building hardware peripherals for big-platform personal agents (paragraph). The show does not introduce the community itself.
Frequently asked questions
What is Seamate (出海同学会)?
Seamate is an industry community for companies going global, initiated by Grand View Capital; it organizes closed-door discussions, deep networking, and online sessions for global-bound founders and practitioners, per its website.
Who runs Seamate?
The site states that the community was initiated by Grand View Capital (大观资本).
How can I follow or join Seamate events?
Event introductions, past writeups, and the knowledge base are available at seamate.cn; for how to take part, read the current instructions on the site.