Startups & Investment
AI startups, venture capital and sovereign capital — from local startups to GIC/Temasek bets on frontier AI.
Singapore is Southeast Asia’s hub for AI startups and capital: innovation density per capita is exceptionally high, home to AI companies such as Trax, ADVANCE.AI, Tookitaki, ViSenze and Biofourmis alongside unicorns and listed firms, and it draws a sizeable share of the region’s tech funding. The government props this up through EDB, Startup SG and various funds, while an open market and talent pool pull global players in — the startup ecosystem is the most direct way Singapore turns AI strategy into economic upside.
This hub gathers every parliamentary and policy debate on AI startups and investment, the related programmes, and the ecosystem data — from funding, exits and unicorns to vertical sectors and the investor network — so you can move from here into the full startup-ecosystem map that sgai tracks.
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Timeline 6
- 2026-08-11 Meta–Manus Deal Unwound: Manus Returns to Independent Operations
- 2026-07-08 Temasek Review Adds an AI Strategy Chapter: 10–15% AI Exposure Target by 2031
- 2026-05-28 Anthropic's $65B Series H: GIC co-leads, Temasek takes first stake
- 2026-04-27 China Blocks Meta–Manus Acquisition: A Red Line Against "Singapore Washing"
- 2026-03-31 Temasek joins OpenAI's $122B raise
- 2026-02-12 GIC co-leads Anthropic's $30B Series G with Coatue
Tracker 1
Startup 46
- Grab
- Trax
- Advance Intelligence
- Biofourmis
- Nium
- PatSnap
- Carro
- Sygnum
- Near
- ADVANCE.AI
- Aspire
- Endowus
- Tookitaki
- CredoLab
- Transparently.AI
- Biofourmis
- Qritive
- Engine Bio
- Bot MD
- Nanyang Biologics
- Trax
- Near
- ViSenze
- WIZ.AI
- Level3AI
- Aicadium
- Datature
- Sentient.io
- Mindverse AI
- Jan
- Galatek
- Eureka Robotics
- Augmentus
- Botsync
- Moovita
- Manus
- AIDA Technologies
- Musiio
- Pencil
- TabSquare
- SGInnovate
- Temasek
- GIC
- Antler
- Vertex Ventures
- Monk's Hill Ventures