AI Startup Ecosystem

🚀 AI Startup Ecosystem

650+ AI startups in Singapore — the world's #3 AI hub.

650+

AI startups

Global AI hub rank

68%

SEA AI funding share

$8.4B+

Total VC raised

Unicorns

S$1.6B+

Government AI commitment

🦄 Unicorns

Company	Sector	Raised	Valuation	Status
Grab ↗	Super App / Logistics AI	$12B+	$20.2B	Listed (NASDAQ)
Trax ↗	Retail Computer Vision	$1.14B	$2.4B	Active
Advance Intelligence ↗	FinTech AI / BNPL	$620M	$2B	Active
Biofourmis ↗	Digital Health AI	$463.6M	$1.3B	Active
Nium ↗	Payments AI	$312M	$1.4B	Active
PatSnap ↗	Patent / IP AI	$300M+	$1B	Active
Carro ↗	Automotive AI	$1.01B	$1B+	Active
Sygnum ↗	Digital Assets / AI Banking	$58M+	$1B+	Active (Jan 2025)
Near ↗	Location Intelligence AI	$234M	—	Active

📂 By Vertical

🏦 FinTech

ADVANCE.AI ↗

AI-driven digital identity verification and risk management

💰 $200M

Aspire ↗

AI-driven financial platform for SMEs

💰 $300M+

Endowus ↗

AUM $7B+

AI robo-advisory

💰 $90M+

Tookitaki ↗

AI anti-money laundering compliance

💰 $35M+

CredoLab ↗

AI credit scoring using alternative data

💰 $12M+

Transparently.AI ↗

AI financial fraud detection

🏛️ Franklin Templeton

🏥 Healthcare

Biofourmis ↗

Unicorn

AI platform for remote patient monitoring

💰 $463.6M

Qritive ↗

AI digital pathology diagnostics

💰 $7.5M+

Engine Bio ↗

CRISPR + ML diagnostics platform

💰 $10M+

Bot MD ↗

AI assistant for clinicians

🏛️ SGInnovate

Nanyang Biologics

Planned $1.5B SPAC listing

AI drug discovery

💼 Enterprise SaaS

Trax ↗

Singapore's most funded AI company

Retail AI computer vision

💰 $1.07B

Near ↗

Location intelligence AI platform

💰 $234M

ViSenze ↗

AI visual search

💰 $34M

WIZ.AI ↗

AI customer service tuned for Singlish dialects

💰 $10M+

Level3AI

Enterprise AI agents

💰 $13M (Seed, 2026.1) 🏛️ Lightspeed

⚙️ AI Infrastructure

Aicadium

Acquired by Temasek

MLOps platform

Datature ↗

No-code computer vision platform

🏛️ SGInnovate

Sentient.io ↗

ASEAN-focused AI API microservices

💰 $7M

Mindverse AI

Sovereign AI infrastructure

💰 $5M

Jan ↗

25,000 GitHub stars

Offline local AI assistant (open source)

Galatek

AI automation for life sciences and semiconductors

💰 $30M Series A (2025.12)

🤖 Robotics & Autonomous Vehicles

Eureka Robotics ↗

AI-driven precision vision robotics

💰 $10.5M Series A 🏛️ B Capital

Augmentus ↗

No-code robotics programming

🏛️ Applied Ventures

Botsync ↗

Autonomous mobile robots

🏛️ SGInnovate

Moovita ↗

Autonomous-vehicle mobility

💰 $5M+

🏆 Notable Exits & Acquisitions

Company	Description	Acquirer	Amount	Year	Note
Manus	AI agent platform	Meta	$2B+	2025	Singapore's largest AI acquisition
AIDA Technologies	AI decision engine	Acquired	—	—	SGInnovate portfolio company
Musiio	AI music tagging	SoundCloud	—	2022
Pencil	AI ad-creative generation	Brandtech Group	—	2022
TabSquare	AI restaurant management	Olo	—	—

💰 Investor Ecosystem

SGInnovate

Government deep-tech investor

Track record: 167 investments, 25 exits

Focus: AI, quantum, blockchain

Temasek

Sovereign wealth fund

Track record: 60 deals in 2025

Focus: AI infrastructure, data centres

GIC

Sovereign wealth fund

Track record: 42 deals in 2025

Focus: AI infrastructure

Antler

Early-stage VC

Track record: Most active early-stage investor; 14 AI deals in 2025

Focus: AI startups

Vertex Ventures

VC (Temasek)

Track record: —

Focus: Southeast Asian tech

Monk's Hill Ventures

Track record: —

Focus: Southeast Asian tech

⚠️ Data current to 2026-02-17; some figures are estimates. Funding amounts are drawn from public reporting and actual numbers may differ. Updates and corrections welcome.