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Everything you need to cover WhereTheFuture: awards, coverage, a press kit built from our live fact sheet, and a direct line to the press desk.

As featured in

  • The Monsoon Dispatch
  • Saigon Circuit
  • Archipelago Tech Review
  • Classroom Forward

01Awards

Recognition, stamped by year.

Prizes, lists, and accelerators that have backed the work, newest first.

  • 2026

    Finalist

    Global Classroom Moonshot Award

    Shortlisted for the Council of 2045 and the 1% Future Pledge as models for giving learners real power.

  • 2025

    Named to the list

    Asia Learning Frontier 50

    An annual list of the 50 most promising learning companies across Asia.

  • 2025

    Named

    The Monsoon Dispatch “30 Founders to Watch”

    Awarded to Lâm Khánh Linh

    Recognized for building a company around student agency and real-world pilots.

  • 2024

    Winner

    Riverlight Prize for Learning Futures

    Awarded for the Mekong Delta 2045 Portal and the sponge-lane rain gardens that came out of it.

  • 2024

    Gold — Future Skills

    Tidemark EdTech Grand Prix

    Top honor in the Future Skills category, judged on learning evidence from partner schools.

  • 2023

    Cohort 4

    Ferrylight Accelerator

    A twelve-week program for first-time founders in the Mekong Delta. WTF joined weeks after incorporation and left with its first paying schools.

02Coverage

Headlines.

What reporters have written about the company, newest first.

  1. Saigon Circuit

    Inside the teenage council with a veto over an AI company

    “Nine students, one binding veto, and a board seat. The chair was 13 when she typed the question that named the company.”

  2. The Monsoon Dispatch

    WhereTheFuture closes US$2.5M Pre-Series A led by Lumacrest Capital

    “Forty cents of every dollar goes to world-building and AI safety — an allocation the founders say is not up for debate.”

  3. Archipelago Tech Review

    The Vietnamese startup testing its future worlds in Jakarta and Manila

    “Jakarta Floats is the first Portal built outside Vietnam, and local teachers rewrote half of it before a single student logged in.”

  4. The Monsoon Dispatch

    Lâm Khánh Linh wants 13-year-olds in the room where cities decide

    “Linh does not talk about engagement. She talks about rain gardens, bus routes, and who gets a say in 2045.”

  5. Classroom Forward

    Why Mekong Delta teachers keep asking for “the flood game”

    “Teachers describe a rare thing in a classroom: students arguing about drainage budgets after the bell has rung.”

  6. Archipelago Tech Review

    WhereTheFuture raises US$1.2M seed led by Mekong Horizon Ventures to put students inside climate simulations

    “The pitch is unusual for edtech: the company reports how many student ideas were built in the real world before it reports usage.”

  7. Classroom Forward

    Science teacher turned founder raises US$150K to let students rehearse the future

    “WhereTheFuture is betting that the best way to teach climate science is to let students run a city that is losing to the water.”

  8. Saigon Circuit

    Cần Thơ eighth-graders turned a flooded lane into a sponge — and the internet noticed

    “Forty seconds, one phone camera, and a class of 13-year-olds explaining drainage better than most consultants.”

03Press kit

Press kit.

Boilerplate, facts, and logos, free to use in coverage of WhereTheFuture.

Boilerplate

WhereTheFuture (WTF) is a venture-backed education company that lets students visit the future before they live in it. In science-grounded simulated worlds called Portals, students take real roles — engineer, farmer, mayor, nurse — and watch the consequences of their choices play out. The best student solutions become funded pilots in real cities. Founded in Cần Thơ, Vietnam, in March 2023, WhereTheFuture is headquartered in Singapore and operates from Ho Chi Minh City, with pilots in Indonesia and the Philippines.

Fact sheet

Founded
Mar 2023, Cần Thơ, Vietnam
Headquarters
Singapore
Legal entities
  • WhereTheFuture Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)
  • WhereTheFuture Vietnam Co., Ltd. (Ho Chi Minh City)
Founders
  • Lâm Khánh Linh, Co-founder & CEO
  • Đặng Minh Khôi, Co-founder & CTO
  • Trần Mai Phương, Co-founder & Chief World Builder
Offices
  • Singapore
  • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  • Cần Thơ, Vietnam
  • Hà Nội, Vietnam
Total raised
US$3.85M across 3 rounds
Latest round
Pre-Series A, US$2.5M, Apr 2026, led by Lumacrest Capital
Website
wherethefuture.org
Traction, as of Sep 2026
  • 68,000Students
  • 140Partner schools
  • 3Countries
  • 14Provinces and cities in Vietnam
  • 1.2MFuture hours played
  • 37Student solutions piloted in the real world
  • US$850KAnnual recurring revenue
  • 124%Net revenue retention
  • 71Teacher NPS
  • 46Team

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