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PlayTown
Founder's Pitch Retail Sophisticated
Pre-launch · Opens 2H 2027 · Rawang, Selangor

Real Moments.
Real Bonds.

PlayTown Rawang · Malaysia's first integrated family play & sports campus
Most family venues entertain one member at a time.
PlayTown engages the whole family at the same time.
— Ken Ong, founder of PlayTown Ventures. PlayTown started at a kitchen table — built by parents, for parents.
A Malay family at PlayTown Rawang at dusk — father carrying his daughter on his shoulders, mother walking alongside, the Twin Towers playground busy with multi-ethnic Malaysian families
A Saturday in Rawang Where ordinary days become memories.
187,100sq ft
Integrated campus · 4 zones
130,000
Families within 30 min
RM 40
Blended spend per visit
RM 7m
Raise open · closes 30 Nov 2026
Read the story

Most family destinations split families into different experiences. The children play. The parents wait. The day passes. And somehow nobody remembers it a month later.

Disney does something different. It puts everyone — parents, children, grandparents — into the same emotional moment at the same time. That is why families remember Disney trips forever.

PlayTown brings that same principle into ordinary Malaysian weekends. Disney creates memories through shared emotional peaks. PlayTown creates them through shared active experiences — affordable, weekly, within an hour's drive.

The founder discovery

We didn't predict this. We watched it.

Six years running MetaHub showed the same pattern at every tournament, league and camp: parents came, siblings came, grandparents came — and the venue served only the player. PlayTown's question: what if it served everyone who came through the gate?

THE FAMILY MULTIPLIER
The leagues drag them in.
The campus keeps them there.
Traditional venues monetize the participant. PlayTown monetizes the 80% who arrived because of the programming — and stay because of the campus.
Disney proves the psychology. MetaHub proves the local demand. PlayTown is the productized solution.
The 60-second pitch

PlayTown in four blocks.

▦ Product
187,100 sq ft integrated family campus — Malaysia's first. Four zones, one gate, RM 40 blended spend per visit (admission RM 29 + F&B RM 7 + retail RM 4).
⊘ Problem
Most venues entertain one family member at a time. Disney, Genting and Sunway deliver the shared version at RM 800+, once a year. Nobody delivers it at weekly-visit economics.
◷ Market
130,000 families within 30 minutes (~600k people, DOSM Census 2020) in Malaysia's highest-income state. FEC growing 7–11%/yr.
TAMRM 22.5BMalaysia arts, entertainment & recreation (DOSM 2023)
SAM~RM 2.0BPlayTown's 4 sub-segments
SOM~RM 95M~RM 35M primary + ~RM 60M accessible
Rawang is Site 1: Sites 4–6 owned by Y8 + 30 royalty sites at maturity. SOM and catchment are Issuer estimates, not independently verified.
⚡ Traction
Opens 2H 2027. RM 7m raise — RM 6m ordinary shares (min RM 4m) + RM 1m RPS — one MyStartr ECF campaign, closes 30 Nov 2026. Listing path: LEAP Y3 → ACE Y5. Lowyat Group bundles memberships into 600–1,000 new homes/year.
What is PlayTown

A recreation campus, not a theme park.

187,100 sq ft in Bandar Tasik Puteri, Rawang — children play, parents play, nobody waits.

Four zones, one gate, ~RM 40 per visit — not a RM 200 once-a-year occasion. Built for the 95% of weekends that aren't special — but should be.

Outdoor PlaygroundTwin Towers · sand-play · climbing
Splash ParkLotus cannons · cream wave EPDM
Indoor Soft PlayKampung-themed · rain anchor
Sports5× pickleball · mini football
Moments worth keeping

The energy state we're building for.

Three scenes from the target venue. Outdoor, splash, evening. Same family, one weekend.

A Malay father and son playing football on the mini soccer pitch at PlayTown Rawang, mother and daughter cheering from the sideline
Sports · Mini Pitch

Dad strikes. Son strikes back.

A Chinese-Malaysian mother laughing as her drenched daughter runs to her at PlayTown's Splash Park
Splash · Pulau

The moment you both get soaked.

A Malay multi-generational family sharing a meal on the amphitheatre steps at PlayTown Rawang while a live band plays at golden hour
F&B · Amphi

Day ends, the band starts.

Who's building this

A team of parents. Building for our own families.

What we wanted as parents and couldn't find. Ken brings the operator track record; Esther brings the child-development discipline. Our own kids are the first focus group.

Founder & CEO

Ken Ong

Second-time recreation operator · Founded MetaHub in 2019 (operational today)

A few years ago I was in Disneyland Hong Kong with my then-two-year-old. It was night. The fireworks show was building. The music — and I'm a Disney fan, I know every song — hit a swell, and I looked down at my child asleep in my arms, and I realised I'd never felt this kind of bond before. Not the daily kind. The kind you don't forget. That moment is why we built PlayTown.

MetaHub's hard lesson: in asset-heavy recreation, strong revenue and EBITDA can still leave thin PAT once depreciation lands. Hence PlayTown's 4-engine architecture — Rawang facility, F&B/retail, multi-site royalty, events — so PAT compounds after the flagship depreciates. Leads capital structuring, Lowyat negotiations and end-to-end execution.

Chief Marketing Officer

Esther Wong

Child development · family safety · regulatory expertise

Child-development credentialing, family-safety design and the under-14 regulatory framework. Owns the membership programme and the loyalty data spine behind the cross-site stored-value flywheel. Every design decision passes a real-parent veto.

Strategic Landlord
Lowyat Group
RM 6m upfront site infrastructure · 600–1,000 new residential units/year bundled with PlayTown memberships
Project Director
Pembinaan LNS Sdn Bhd
CIDB G6 contractor · 30+ years construction experience · direct in-house build control
Continue your journey

Which investor are you?

Retail leads with vision and returns. Sophisticated leads with the cap table, the model and the listing path.

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I'm a retail investor

The vision, the venue, the returns. Entry from RM 2,500 via MyStartr ECF.
See the retail path →
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I'm a sophisticated investor

The financial model, the 4-engine architecture, the LEAP → ACE Transfer of Listing path, the risk analysis.
See the sophisticated path →
PlayTown

Real Moments. Real Bonds.

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PlayTown Ventures Sdn Bhd · Bandar Tasik Puteri, Rawang, Selangor, Malaysia. This page is intended for invited investors and partners. Not an offer or solicitation. Past performance not indicative of future results. Investment in early-stage / ECF ventures carries substantial risk including loss of principal.