AI Startup Ecosystem
A directory of Singapore AI-native, AI-enabled, and adjacent capital ecosystem entities, with growing profiles for companies, projects, exits, and investors.
Scale Signals
Unicorns And Listed-Scale Companies
Unicorn
Grab
AI-enabledSuper app / Logistics and platform algorithms
- Raised
- $12B+
- Valuation
- $20.2B
- Status
- Listed (NASDAQ)
Unicorn
Trax
Core AIRetail Computer Vision
- Raised
- $1.14B
- Valuation
- $2.4B
- Status
- Active
Unicorn
Advance Intelligence
Core AIFinTech AI / BNPL
- Raised
- $620M
- Valuation
- $2B
- Status
- Active
Unicorn
Biofourmis
Core AIDigital Health AI
- Raised
- $463.6M
- Valuation
- $1.3B
- Status
- Active
Unicorn
Nium
AdjacentCross-border payments infrastructure
- Raised
- $312M
- Valuation
- $1.4B
- Status
- Active
Unicorn
PatSnap
Core AIPatent / IP AI
- Raised
- $300M+
- Valuation
- $1B
- Status
- Active
Unicorn
Carro
AI-enabledUsed-car marketplace and auto-finance platform (AI-enabled)
- Raised
- $1.01B
- Valuation
- $1B+
- Status
- Active
Unicorn
Sygnum
AdjacentDigital asset banking
- Raised
- $58M+
- Valuation
- $1B+
- Status
- Active (Jan 2025)
Unicorn
Near
Core AILocation Intelligence AI
- Raised
- $234M
- Valuation
- —
- Status
- Active
Vertical Map
By Vertical
🏦 FinTech
6 entitiesADVANCE.AI
Core AIAI-driven digital identity verification and risk management
Aspire
AI-enabledSME finance platform (AI-enabled)
Endowus
AUM $7B+ AI-enabledAI robo-advisory
Tookitaki
Core AIAI anti-money laundering compliance
CredoLab
Core AIAI credit scoring using alternative data
Transparently.AI
Core AIAI financial fraud detection
🏥 Healthcare
5 entitiesBiofourmis
Unicorn Core AIAI platform for remote patient monitoring
Qritive
Core AIAI digital pathology diagnostics
Engine Bio
Core AICRISPR + ML diagnostics platform
Bot MD
Core AIAI assistant for clinicians
Nanyang Biologics
Planned $1.5B SPAC listing Weak / verifyAI drug discovery
💼 Enterprise SaaS
5 entitiesTrax
Singapore's most funded AI company Core AIRetail AI computer vision
Near
Core AILocation intelligence AI platform
ViSenze
Core AIAI visual search
WIZ.AI
Core AIAI customer service tuned for Singlish dialects
Level3AI
Weak / verifyEnterprise AI agents
⚙️ AI Infrastructure
6 entitiesAicadium
Acquired by Temasek Core AIMLOps platform
Datature
Core AINo-code computer vision platform
Sentient.io
Core AIASEAN-focused AI API microservices
Mindverse AI
Weak / verifySovereign AI infrastructure
Jan
25,000 GitHub stars Core AIOffline local AI assistant (open source)
Galatek
Weak / verifyAI automation for life sciences and semiconductors
🤖 Robotics & Autonomous Vehicles
4 entitiesEureka Robotics
Core AIAI-driven precision vision robotics
Augmentus
Core AINo-code robotics programming
Botsync
Core AIAutonomous mobile robots
Moovita
Core AIAutonomous-vehicle mobility
Exit Signals
Notable Exits And Acquisitions
2025
Manus
Core AIAI agent platform (operated by Butterfly Effect)
- Acquirer
- Meta (blocked by China NDRC)
- Amount
- $2B (blocked)
Acquisition announced December 2025; blocked by China's NDRC on 27 April 2026 on national-security grounds — the first foreign acquisition vetoed in the AI sector, citing three red lines: technology sovereignty, data sovereignty, and national security. Singapore's "AI offshore transit hub" strategy was, for the first time, explicitly red-lined by a source-country regulator.
Year pending
AIDA Technologies
Core AIAI decision engine
- Acquirer
- Acquired
- Amount
- —
SGInnovate portfolio company
2022
Musiio
Core AIAI music tagging
- Acquirer
- SoundCloud
- Amount
- —
2022
Pencil
Core AIAI ad-creative generation
- Acquirer
- Brandtech Group
- Amount
- —
Year pending
TabSquare
AI-enabledAI restaurant management
- Acquirer
- Olo
- Amount
- —
Capital Network
Investor Ecosystem
SGInnovate
Track record: 167 investments, 25 exits
Focus: AI, quantum, blockchain
Temasek
Track record: 60 deals in 2025
Focus: AI infrastructure, data centres
Notable AI deals: Took stakes in OpenAI ($122B round) and Anthropic (Series H) in 2026; joined the BlackRock/MGX/Microsoft/Nvidia-launched AI Infrastructure Partnership in 2025
GIC
Track record: 42 deals in 2025
Focus: AI infrastructure
Notable AI deals: Invested in Anthropic across three consecutive rounds (Series F/G/H, co-leading Series G with Coatue); formed a >$15B data centre JV with Equinix and CPP
Antler
Track record: Most active early-stage investor; 14 AI deals in 2025
Focus: AI startups
Vertex Ventures
Track record: —
Focus: Southeast Asian tech
Monk's Hill Ventures
Track record: —
Focus: Southeast Asian tech
Aggregate statistics were re-baselined on 2026-07-05, each pinned to a single named source: the AI company count and total VC raised are from Tracxn (as of May 2026: 548 companies, US$1.9B cumulative); the SEA AI funding share is estimated from the e-Conomy SEA 2025 report by Google, Temasek and Bain (Singapore US$1.31B of the region's US$2.3B+ in the 12 months to June 2025); the government AI commitment sums announcements since 2024 (over S$1B at Budget 2024, up to S$150M for the Enterprise Compute Initiative at Budget 2025, and over S$1B for the National AI R&D Plan announced in January 2026); the AI hub rank is from the Tortoise Global AI Index 2025; the unicorn count is the number of profiles curated on this page. Entity profiles were organized on 2026-05-04. Funding amounts follow public reporting and actual numbers may differ.