public source · not yet founder-confirmed · 2026-08 · 🇸🇬 Singapore · F&B · founding team
Craft spirits that sold out at a fair before they had a shop
A Singapore spirits brand bootstrapped with a couple of thousand dollars, broke even within a year, and sold out on day one of a two-week boutique fair.
- Business
- Craft spirits brand (Clumzy)
- Founder
- Clumzy's founders (as named in the article)
- Started
- 2022
- Start-up capital
- a couple of thousand dollars (founders' words, per the article)
- Revenue
- S$1M reached (headline figure; period not stated)
- Team
- —
Numbers are ranges or the figure the source published; we never publish a founder's documents.
Source, pinpointed
Vulcan Post — S'porean spirits brand Clumzy hit S$1M by being different
press profile · 2026-08
Cross-check: no second public source found yet; a Starter Story or press snippet is added when one exists.
First customers — the part nobody publishes
Channel: Events and fairs (direct)
Per Vulcan Post's 2026 profile: the first run sold out on the first day of the Boutiques Singapore event in 2022, and the brand paid for itself within a year. The article is the source; we have not yet confirmed the ranges with the founders.
Would it work in…
The same idea, other markets — our read from the database's country filters, not a forecast.
- Kuala Lumpur — maybe — licensing for spirits is the hurdle, not demand
- Manila — likely — craft-gin fairs exist and sell out
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