Da Nang Venture and Angel Summit (DAVAS)

DAVAS is the Da Nang Venture and Angel Summit, a three-day event in the Vietnamese coastal city of Da Nang. It has run since 2024 and is organised by the city's Department of Science and Technology under the direction of the Da Nang City People's Committee, which makes it a government-led event rather than a commercial conference.

Who attends

The summit brings together roughly fifty selected domestic and international startups with venture capital funds, angel investors and industry specialists. More than fifty exhibition stands run alongside the programme.

The badge on this listing marks it as a founders and executives event. That is deliberate. The organiser states that anyone interested in innovative startups may attend, so there is no accreditation gate and no wealth threshold. Family investors are named in the target audience, but they form part of a wide startup ecosystem crowd rather than a screened investor group.

Anyone expecting the vetted, quiet environment of a family office forum should adjust expectations. This is a public innovation event with a government sponsor.

How access works

Registration is open through a form on the summit site, and the organiser publishes no ticket price. Companies wanting to sponsor or partner are asked to contact the organisers directly, and the summit page mentions preferential terms for those that do.

The government sponsorship shapes the economics. City-run innovation events in Vietnam are usually free or close to it for attendees, since the point is attracting investment into the region rather than making money on tickets. Confirm current terms with the organiser rather than assuming either way.

What attendees get

The core of the programme is investment pitching with one-to-one matchmaking between investors and startups, which is the part worth planning around. Alongside it sit a startup and innovation exhibition, technology connection sessions, a Web3 builders' summit and a golf tournament.

For a family office, the case is narrow but real. Vietnam has one of the faster-growing startup markets in Southeast Asia and far less investor competition than Singapore or Indonesia. An event where the city government has pre-selected fifty companies and will arrange meetings with them is an efficient way to see that market without building a local presence first.

The caveat is equally clear. This is early-stage venture in a frontier market, the deal sizes are small, and the summit is designed to attract capital into Da Nang rather than to serve investors. Go for the deal flow, not for the peer network.