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Deploys autonomous AI-driven systems for customer engagement and hyper-personalization in highly regulated or complex industries such as finance and healthcare.

Vietnam's leading logistics AI. vRoute optimization platform. Winner 2019 Startup World Cup ($1M prize). AI route planning for supply chains.

Singapore-based edge agentic AI company that emerged as one of the region's largest single raises in mid-2026. Focus on agentic AI workloads at the edge. Deal announced 13 July 2026.

AI-powered invoice financing marketplace for SMEs. ML credit risk models for trade receivables. Serves 10,000+ Philippine SMEs.

Regional digital marketing and data agency using AI for customer acquisition, engagement, and retention. Platforms integrate predictive analytics, behavioural segmentation, and AI-driven media targeting for brands in retail, finance, and telco across ASEAN.

AI platform for fintech: embedded finance, credit decisioning, fraud detection, identity intelligence. Serves banks across SEA. Products: Advance AI, BNPL brand Atome.

World's largest drone operations company by reach. AI-powered inspection, surveying, precision agriculture. 70+ countries. LIDAR + CV + AI analytics platform.

Founded in 2014 by Dato' Kamarul Azlan, Aerodyne is a world-leading drone-tech and data company combining drone services, AI-powered data analytics, and digital transformation across 35+ countries. Ranked #1 globally by Drone Industry Insights in 2021 and 2022 for drone service providers and remote sensing. Operates AI pipelines for infrastructure inspection, precision agriculture, and geospatial intelligence.

Decentralized GPU cloud for AI and gaming. Enterprise-grade compute via distributed network. Backed by Framework Ventures and others.

Launched May 2024, AI Hay is a Vietnamese-language generative AI knowledge platform combining Q&A, search, and social networking. Achieved over 15 million downloads and 100 million questions processed per month. Raised a US$10M Series A in July 2025 to expand into educational and entertainment applications and AI companions for daily Vietnamese life.

AI platform for consumer packaged goods R&D. Predicts food and beverage trends. Helps brands like Givaudan and Nestle launch products faster.

Builds real-time, explainable fact-checking technology across multimedia formats via its flagship product Facticity.AI, recognised in TIME's Best Inventions 2024–2025. Also develops the Multi-Spectral Reality Detector (MSRD), claimed to be the world's first contactless system for assessing truthfulness using physiological and behavioural signals.

Singapore startup whose flagship product Facticity.AI delivers real-time, explainable fact-checking across multimedia formats, recognised by TIME's Best Inventions 2024–2025. Also offers the Multi-Spectral Reality Detector (MSRD), claimed as the world's first contactless truthfulness-assessment system using physiological and behavioural signals.

National AI program. Created SEA-LION LLM family (MIT license). Runs 100 Experiments, AI Apprenticeship Programme, AI Safety Red-Teaming Challenge. Secretariat for National AI Strategy 2.0.

Industrial AI solutions. Energy optimization, predictive maintenance. Backed by Sembcorp. Operates in utilities, manufacturing sectors.

Kuala Lumpur-based company applying machine learning to predict and contain infectious disease outbreaks up to three months in advance. Has partnered with governments and health ministries across Southeast Asia and beyond. Recognised under Malaysia's National AI Roadmap as a pragmatic industry innovator in public health AI.

Indonesian AI venture partnered with Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison to deploy large-model-powered solutions targeting tourism, the knowledge economy, and sustainable agriculture at national scale.

Digital banking and BNPL platform. AI credit scoring for underbanked. 10M+ users. Bank Neo Commerce subsidiary. Operates in ID, PH, MY.

AI-powered corporate travel aggregation platform that optimizes booking efficiency and cost control by unifying fragmented travel data across enterprise organizations.

Automates application security testing and automatically fixes software security vulnerabilities, accelerating secure software delivery cycles for engineering teams.

AI-powered fish supply chain platform. Connects 150,000+ fishermen to buyers. Quality grading AI, price optimization, logistics routing. Tech for Blue Economy.

Vietnam-built enterprise management platform with AI layer. HRM, CRM, task management for SMEs. 8,000+ corporate clients. Localised for Vietnamese business context.

Myanmar-founded AI-powered HR platform serving hundreds of companies across Myanmar, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Helps SMEs automate HR processes, improve decision-making, and boost employee engagement—addressing a gap in emerging-market workforce tools.

Synthetic data generation platform that helps enterprises unlock privacy-safe data for AI model training and analytics. Addresses regulatory constraints on data sharing, particularly relevant in Singapore and SEA's evolving PDPA landscape.

Builds physical AI systems focused on agricultural harvesting automation, targeting labour-shortage challenges in Southeast Asian and broader tropical farming contexts.

AI-powered remote patient monitoring and digital therapeutics. FDA-authorized products. Used in 50+ countries. Predictive care platform.

AI-powered insurance technology platform. Connects insurers, distributors, and customers. Operates in 30+ markets. Unicorn.

AI-powered supply chain for food and beverage in Vietnam. Demand forecasting, ordering automation for restaurants and convenience stores.

Designs autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) carrying 500 kg–1 tonne for warehouse, factory, and logistics environments, paired with a vendor-agnostic orchestration platform. Series A in January 2026 targets expanded deployments across SEA and international markets.

AI-powered talent acquisition platform for Malaysia and SEA. JD generation, resume parsing, bias-free shortlisting.

AI-powered construction management SaaS for SME contractors. 50,000+ users across TH, PH, MY, VN. Predictive project management.

Indonesian e-commerce platform. AI for warung (kiosk) digitization. BukaMitra B2B platform. Listed on IDX 2021.

Philippines' national AI research center. Implements NAS Roadmap 2.0. Coordinates AI readiness, policy, and multilingual AI for Filipino languages.

Classifieds marketplace across SEA. AI-powered price recommendations, fraud detection, image search. 250M+ listings. Unicorn.

Southeast Asia's largest integrated automotive e-commerce platform. AI pricing, inspection, financing. Unicorn. Operates MY, ID, TH, SG.

Focuses on document and data automation—AI that reads, extracts, and structures information from invoices, contracts, and handwritten forms. Used by major banks and insurance providers across Asia. Expanding into healthcare and government services.

Vietnam's second largest IT conglomerate. C-OCR document AI. CATI-VLM achieved top-12 global ranking in 2025 Robust Reading Competition. Major government AI deployments.

CMC's AI division built C-OCR, processing thousands of official Vietnamese government documents daily. Its CATI-VLM vision-language model achieved a top-12 global ranking at the 2025 Robust Reading Competition, outperforming major tech companies.

Human-in-the-loop robot supervision. Teleoperation and remote management for autonomous robots. Used by major logistics clients in SEA.

Commonwealth AI Centre of Excellence hosted in Singapore. Bridges Commonwealth nations on AI governance, safety, talent development.

AI-powered construction cost estimating agent that automates quantity surveying and tender preparation workflows, reducing estimation time for contractors and developers.

Behavioral analytics for credit scoring using smartphone metadata. Serves banks and fintechs in SEA, India, MENA. Alternative credit data platform.

AI-powered document intelligence for Southeast Asian languages. Malay, Indonesian, and English document understanding platform.

Indonesia's leading digital wallet. 180M+ users. AI for KYC, fraud detection, AML. Backed by Ant Group and SoftBank. BCA strategic partnership.

No-code computer vision development platform. Annotation, training, deployment in one. Used by enterprises and research labs across SEA.

AI data annotation and MLOps services. Backs Thai AI startup ecosystem. Builds ML platforms for enterprises. Data labeling for automotive and medical AI.

AI-powered agricultural platform connecting Indonesian smallholder farmers with inputs, financing, and market access. Uses data analytics and ML to improve crop planning, yield prediction, and supply chain traceability for food security.

Most AI-advanced bank in SEA. 2,000+ ML models in production. AI-powered virtual bank digibank. Named World's Best Bank by Euromoney 4x.

Developer of the Philippines' first real-time indoor navigation and geo-marketing platform. Uses AI for wayfinding in malls, airports, hospitals, and large venues, combined with hyper-local marketing tools for venue operators. Featured at GITEX AI Asia 2026.

AI-powered cognitive enhancement wearable (FRENZ headband). EEG-based sleep and focus optimization. Founded by RMIT Vietnam alumni.

AI-powered aquaculture platform. Smart feeder hardware + AI feed optimization. 200,000+ fish and shrimp farmers. Largest agritech in Indonesia.

AI English pronunciation coach app. ASR and NLP for accent correction. 20M+ users in 100+ countries. Best-in-class speech recognition for non-native English.

AI-powered roleplay simulation platform enabling enterprises to scale soft-skills training at 50% lower cost and 60% faster time-to-competency. Targets frontline teams across banking, retail, and customer service.

CPF and SRS investment platform. AI portfolio optimization. Institutional-grade funds for retail investors. Licensed MAS investment adviser.

Enterprise AI search for legal, financial, and government sectors. Hybrid retrieval with generative summarization.

Philippine freight-tech startup using AI to automate customs documentation and freight forwarding workflows, replacing highly manual paper-based processes. Recognised under the Philippines National AI Strategy Roadmap 2.0. Serves freight forwarders and importers/exporters across the Asia-Pacific, dramatically reducing processing times for trade documents.

Philippine startup integrating IoT sensors with AI-powered nutrient dosing, irrigation, and climate control systems for greenhouse farmers. Helps optimise crop yields and build more sustainable food production — exhibited at GITEX AI Asia 2026.

Raised US$1 million in March 2025 to expand R&D and enter broader Southeast Asian markets. Provides AI-powered customer experience intelligence tools for enterprise clients, helping businesses analyse and act on CX data at scale.

AI-powered experience management platform that helps businesses turn customers into loyal advocates by surfacing actionable insights from all customer touchpoints.

Hanoi-based risk assessment platform that processes loan applications significantly faster than traditional systems while achieving lower default rates through linguistic and behavioural ML models adapted for the Vietnamese market.

AI-powered health and fitness app for Indonesia. Personalized diet and workout plans. Bahasa Indonesia content-first.

Develops an AI virtual try-on platform for clothing and accessories. Users upload images to visualise outfits with realistic fabric rendering across diverse clothing styles. Provides API integration for e-commerce platforms. One of Vietnam's few applied generative AI plays targeting the fashion and retail verticals.

Tech-first logistics unicorn. AI route optimization, automated sorting, demand prediction. Profitable. 2M+ parcels/day. Expanding regionally.

Vietnam's largest IT company. FPT AI Factory ($400M investment, Apr 2025). akaBot RPA platform. AI for banking, manufacturing. 50,000+ employees.

Vietnam's emerging domestic chip design player under FPT Corporation, developing AI inference chips targeting IoT and edge-AI applications. Benefits from the US-Vietnam semiconductor partnership expanded in 2025, including technology transfer and workforce training.

Premier voice recognition provider for banking and insurance across the Philippines and Indonesia. Developed proprietary speech-to-text and TTS supporting 12 Southeast Asian languages, treating code-switching as a core feature rather than an edge case.

Southeast Asia's largest SME digital lending platform. $4B+ in loans disbursed. AI underwriting across SG, MY, ID, TH, VN. Licensed in all 5 markets.

Big data and AI analytics for enterprises. GIANT platform. Retail, government, finance verticals. Malaysia-listed. Founder Ivan Teh prominent AI advocate.

Philippines leading e-wallet. 93M+ users. AI credit scoring (GScore), fraud detection, personalized offers. Processes $40B+ transactions/year. Backed by Ant Group.

Develops metahuman AI-powered virtual influencers for brand marketing, delivering culturally nuanced, scalable interactions tailored to Southeast Asian audiences. Its platform allows brands to create digital personas capable of engaging audiences in a personal and measurable way, bridging AI with the creator economy.

Singapore-based AI longevity company that signed a joint research agreement with Chugai Pharmaceutical (Roche) in July 2025 targeting age-related therapies in a deal valued at $1B+. Applies AI to biological aging clocks and drug target discovery.

Singapore sovereign wealth fund actively investing in global AI companies and ASEAN AI infrastructure. Key capital behind ASEAN AI ambitions.

Malaysian enterprise AI platform that won the Talent Innovation Award at ITEC 2025. Focuses on AI-driven talent and workforce solutions for mid-to-large enterprises in Malaysia, showcasing Malaysia's growing strength in applied enterprise AI.

Cyberjaya-based vertical AI startup that auto-processes WhatsApp-based construction site communications, converting scattered chat threads into structured progress reports, defect logs, and actionable tasks. Targets SEA's fragmented, multi-billion-ringgit construction sector.

Indonesia's super app. AI in ride-hailing, payments (GoPay), food delivery, logistics. 2M+ driver partners. ML demand forecasting, dynamic pricing, fraud prevention.

Pioneering a fully autonomous agentic AI marketing department offering CMO-as-a-service, enabling businesses to execute integrated marketing strategies in minutes through AI agents.

On-demand expert tutoring platform. AI-assisted STEM learning. Founded by Vietnamese-Americans. Strong Silicon Valley-Vietnam bridge.

Builds Singapore government digital services. AI in Smart Nation platform: Singpass, LifeSG, Workfare. Runs PAIR (Public AI Research) initiative.

47M monthly transacting users across 8 countries. AI pricing, fraud detection, logistics optimization. Autonomous vehicle rollout with WeRide. GrabAI platform for merchants.

Filipino AI startup developing an automated evaluation platform for handwritten and digital student assessments. Reduces teacher grading workload while providing real-time learning insights. Represented the Philippines at GITEX AI Asia 2026 in Singapore.

AI-powered e-commerce enablement for brands. Shopee, Lazada, TikTok Shop management. Demand forecasting. One of Philippines' largest D2C AI platforms.

B2B platform for Philippines' 1M+ sari-sari stores. AI demand forecasting, inventory optimization, credit scoring for micro-retailers. Backed by 500 Global.

Chinese EV maker with heavy AI investment in Thailand. Local R&D center. AI-powered ADAS, voice assistant for Thai market.

AI-powered telehealth platform. 20,000+ doctors. AI symptom checker, prescription automation, insurance integration. Operates in Indonesia and Thailand.

Vietnamese manufacturer of cloud and AI-based smart security cameras equipped with neural processing units. Features include NIST-tested facial recognition, licence plate recognition, crowd analytics, high-definition video, timekeeping, and two-way voice communication. Targets smart building and enterprise security deployments.

Vietnamese AI startup building facial recognition and people-counting solutions for retail, hospitality, and office security use cases. Listed among top emerging AI companies in Vietnam by Tracxn as of 2026.

Singapore-based generative AI startup co-founded by ex-NTU/SMU professor Steven Hoi, focused on building multimodal foundation models for image and video generation targeting consumer and enterprise applications.

Thai enterprise AI provider specializing in identity verification, OCR, and document processing solutions for banking, insurance, and government clients across Southeast Asia.

API-based insurance and financial product distribution platform. AI risk assessment for embedded insurance. Backed by Z Venture Capital.

Malaysia's first home-grown large language model, now being piloted by Malaysian digital banks. Part of the country's push toward sovereign AI capability and domestic LLM development under its national AI agenda.

AI platform for Philippine local governments. Automated permits, license processing, citizen service bots in Filipino and regional dialects.

Singapore government agency overseeing AI governance, AI Verify testing framework, Digital AI Safety ecosystem, and ASEAN AI safety cooperation.

AI-driven financial product comparison platform. ML personalization for loans, insurance, credit cards. Partners with 30+ Malaysian banks.

Vietnamese-built super app combining payments, messaging, and AI assistant. Targets domestic market as alternative to foreign super apps.

Autonomous process-engineering software that acts as an AI manufacturing engineer — converting technical drawings into production-ready decisions and optimizing operations on the factory floor.

AI-first mental health and wellbeing platform. Therapy matching, self-help modules, EAP for enterprises. 3.5M+ users. SGD origin, ID market expansion.

AI-powered legal knowledge management for law firms and in-house teams. Knowledge graph for case law retrieval across jurisdictions.

Conglomerate-backed AI R&D. AI for chicken supply chain, 7-Eleven inventory, CP Fresh Mart. One of Thailand's largest AI deployments.

Malaysian AI-powered financial comparison and CRM technology company operating RinggitPlus and KreditMart. Uses machine learning to match consumers with financial products (loans, credit cards, insurance) and automates application processing via XpressApply.

AI-powered financial product comparison and digital banking. RinggitPlus brand. 5M+ Malaysian users. ML models for credit matching.

AI-powered investment research and robo-advisory. Fundamental analysis automation. Used by Thai retail investors for stock selection.

Technology arm of KBank. AI credit scoring, chatbot (KAIA), document AI. Open API banking. Runs Kampus digital talent program.

Indonesia's leading conversational AI platform. Chatbot for Telkom, Unilever, Bank BRI. Bahasa Indonesia NLP specialist. Government service bots.

AI-powered POS and business management for 150,000+ Vietnamese SMEs. Inventory forecasting, sales analytics, loyalty AI.

Tech-enabled BPO and remote staffing with AI operations layer. 10,000+ remote workers. Serving global AI companies needing ASEAN talent.

AI-powered traceability and sustainability platform for agricultural supply chains. Used by Nestlé, Unilever, Barry Callebaut. Deforestation monitoring via satellite AI.

AI-powered telehealth platform for the Philippines. 24/7 doctor consultations via app. AI symptom checker and triage. 4M+ consultations completed.

AI-powered BNPL and instant credit for e-commerce. ML underwriting for 10M+ users. Partners with Shopee, Tokopedia. Expanding to Vietnam and Thailand.

On-demand delivery platform. AI dispatch, pricing, routing. 35+ cities across SEA and beyond. Profitable since 2020.

Uses AI-driven radar imaging and satellite data to transform raw earth-observation feeds into asset-level intelligence for climate monitoring and insurance risk underwriting.

Builds an AI gateway for enterprises to securely manage, route, monitor, and control AI traffic across multiple LLM providers. Addresses the critical enterprise need for AI observability and cost governance.

Adaptive AI logistics platform purpose-built for Southeast Asia's infrastructure variability—accounting for ferry schedules between islands, weather unpredictability, and unreliable local couriers. Focuses on cross-border last-mile logistics optimisation across ASEAN.

Computer vision platform that turns existing CCTV camera feeds into actionable business intelligence — covering retail analytics, workplace safety, and loss prevention. Deployed across retail chains and enterprise clients in SEA.

Malaysian AI storage and infrastructure startup offering an aiDAPTIV+ platform as a localised alternative to hyperscaler dependence. Achieved break-even in under one year and posted RM4M profit in 2025. Positioned as a preferred local partner under Malaysia's MyDIGITAL blueprint.

Bangkok-based AI recruitment platform providing applicant tracking, AI-driven candidate sourcing, and HR workflow automation for SMEs and enterprises across Southeast Asia and globally.

Philippines digital bank and e-wallet. AI-powered credit, savings, insurance. Maya Bank licensed. 50M+ registered users.

Malaysia's digital economy lead agency. Hosts AI Malaysia (AIMI). Led AI Malaysia Summit 2025. Manages Digital Free Trade Zone. Key conduit for foreign AI investment.

Co-founded by Hokiman Kurniawan, Meeting.ai automates meeting notes and transcriptions from platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and in-person recordings. Designed for organisations wanting to automatically capture institutional knowledge from meetings and reduce manual note-taking overhead.

Builders of MaLLaM (Malay LLM). Open-source Malaya NLP library. Core Malay language AI infrastructure for Malaysia. Community-driven.

Founded in 2022 by Felix Tao, Mindverse AI builds AI-native web experiences and personal productivity tools. Products include MindOS Studio for personalized chat-powered websites and Mebot, a productivity companion that learns and memorises user preferences and thought patterns over time.

Vietnam's leading e-wallet with 40M+ users. AI-powered credit scoring, fraud detection, personalized offers. Series E valued at $2B+.

Malaysia's national innovation catalyst leading the AI Sandbox programme targeting 900 AI startups by 2026. Accelerates R&D commercialization and facilitates international partnerships via global showcases.

Malaysia's national innovation agency running an AI Sandbox programme targeting 900 AI startups by 2026. Accelerates R&D-to-market pathways and represented Malaysian AI innovation at Expo Osaka 2025 to attract international partnerships.

Malaysia e-government services conglomerate. AI for government document processing, identity verification. COVID-19 digital vaccination registry operator.

Malaysia's National AI Office. Launched ILMU sovereign LLM (Aug 2025). Oversees AI Roadmap implementation. Key node in ASEAN AI Safety Network.

Human-centred, AI-enhanced digital health platform for employee wellness. Helps organisations predict, prevent, and manage cardiometabolic and mental health conditions including diabetes, heart disease, anxiety, and depression using evidence-based digital programmes.

NVIDIA's sole contract manufacturer in Southeast Asia. Assembles AI servers for the region. Revenue jumped 723% YoY (2025). Core enabler of Malaysia's AI infrastructure buildout.

Robotics-based hull inspection and cleaning services using AI and robotics to reduce maritime fuel consumption and carbon emissions. Operates in 50+ ports and anchorages globally, having serviced 600+ large vessels. Mission-oriented around achieving net zero before 2050.

Thailand-based AI proptech company approaching its 3-year milestone, expanding from early AI adoption into a full industry-connector role in Thailand's real estate market. Bridges buyers, agents, and developers through AI-assisted property discovery and market intelligence.

An East Ventures portfolio company that has revolutionised hospital information systems through an AI-powered platform, cutting administrative tasks by up to 90% and enabling rapid diagnostics within seconds even in remote areas. Deployed across 80+ districts and cities, 85% of which are in underserved regions of Indonesia.

AI-powered trade finance platform for SMEs. ML credit risk models for supply chain finance. Partners with Malaysian banks.

AI-powered last-mile delivery across SEA. Route optimization, demand forecasting. 7 countries, 2.5M deliveries/day. Near-unicorn.

Computer vision for government and enterprise. Facial recognition, traffic management, smart city. Government of Indonesia partner. 10M+ faces processed.

National Science & Technology Development Agency. Pathumma LLM developer. NVIDIA partnership. AI Center of Excellence initiative.

Develops AI alignment infrastructure and domain-aligned models to improve reliability in specialized enterprise agent workflows. Part of Antler's 2025 AI Disrupt cohort and showcased again at Antler's June 2026 Asia demo day.

AI-native search infrastructure company building the retrieval layer for the LLM era. Delivers world-class search services to developers and enterprises with industry-leading 62ms P50 latency and support for 1M+ QPS, powering next-gen agentic AI workflows.

Olam uses AI across agricultural supply chain: crop prediction, logistics, commodity trading. Spearheads responsible AI for global food security.

A fully open-source Thai-language AI project created and maintained by the Thai developer community, led by Kobkrit Viriyayudhakorn (also founder of iApp Technology and president of AIEAT). 100% free with no usage fees; model weights, training data, and code are all publicly disclosed. Ideal for academic research, government prototyping, and SME experimentation. Has over 20 academic papers in AI supporting its research pedigree.

Thai open-source large language model initiative promoted under Thailand's 2022–2027 AI policy to build sovereign Thai-language AI capabilities. Supports Thai SMEs and public-sector digital services with localised generative AI.

Government-backed open-source Thai-language generative AI initiative under Thailand's national AI policy (2022–2027). Promotes Thai-language AI tooling for SMEs and public-sector use. Driven by collaboration between NECTEC and the Thai NLP community.

Thailand's open-source Thai-language LLM initiative supported under Thailand's focused AI policy (2022–2027). Builds and releases Thai-centric foundational models to support local SMEs, government services, and the broader Thai-language AI ecosystem.

Payments and fintech infrastructure for Asia. OmiseGo. AI fraud detection and payment routing. Operates in TH, JP, SG.

Singapore-based startup building intuitive AI-native solutions that enhance enterprise productivity and organisational intelligence. Co-founded by Haochuan Guo (CTO), with a focus on applied agentic AI for knowledge work.

Builds AI-powered chatbot and conversational banking solutions for financial institutions in Southeast Asia. Focuses on compliance-grade, enterprise conversational AI tailored for the ASEAN financial sector.

AI-powered intellectual property and R&D intelligence platform. Serves pharma, manufacturing, tech companies globally. 10,000+ enterprise clients.

Stripe for the Philippines. AI fraud detection, smart payment routing. YC-backed. 50,000+ merchants. API-first payments for Philippine SMEs.

Generative AI for digital ad creative. Predicts ad performance before launch. Clients include Facebook, TikTok advertisers globally. $1B+ ad spend managed.

AI research center attached to Phenikaa University. NLP, computer vision, robotics. Publishing internationally. Talent pipeline for Vietnamese AI ecosystem.

AI-powered infographic and visual communication tool. GenAI design generation. 11M+ users globally. Profitable Malaysian-built SaaS.

AI-powered fashion commerce platform. Personalization engine, demand forecasting, visual search. Thailand-born, SEA-wide.

Provides AI-driven predictive analytics for container shipping and logistics, giving cargo owners and freight forwarders real-time vessel ETA predictions and supply chain visibility. Part of Google for Startups Accelerator SEA cohort.

Indonesian open-finance API platform using AI to enable banks and lenders to access verified income and cash-flow data for credit underwriting. In mid-2025 partnered with CredAble to co-build working capital tech for Indonesian banks.

Indonesia's leading digital identity and e-signature platform. AI-powered KYC, biometric verification. 45M+ registered users. Bank Indonesia licensed.

Known for high-accuracy speech recognition and natural language understanding tailored to Indonesian languages. Serves enterprise clients in transcription, virtual assistants, and more. One of the few deep-tech NLP labs focusing exclusively on Indonesia's diverse language landscape.

Provides customised natural language processing tools in Indonesian, including speech recognition, text classification, sentiment analysis, opinion extraction, and emotion analysis via APIs. One of Indonesia's few deep-NLP native companies building Indonesian-language foundational speech and text models for enterprise clients.

AI logistics and shipping platform for Philippine e-commerce. Smart parcel tracking, automated sorting, rate optimization. ShippingCart cross-border brand.

Singapore-based AI-powered gig marketplace founded by three SMU graduates that matches users with skilled 'Heroes' for tasks spanning content creation, logistics, and event support. Has surpassed 450,000 users across Singapore, the Philippines, and the US.

AI-powered recommerce platform for refurbished electronics. Operates in SG, MY, AU, NZ. Category leader in sustainable tech retail.

Kuala Lumpur-based AI conversation management platform that consolidates customer interactions across WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok into a single business dashboard. Growing quietly into one of SEA's most successful B2B conversation platforms.

AI-powered real estate platform for Vietnam. Automated property valuation, AI matching, virtual tours. Category leader in Vietnamese proptech.

Satellite-native AI startup applying hyper-multispectral imagery and machine learning to automate site selection for solar farms, wind power, and hyperscale data centres. Also delivers real-time climate-change early-warning analytics for environmental decision-makers.

Indonesia's first profitable EdTech startup. Roboguru AI homework solver with photo search. 22M+ users. Expanded to Vietnam (KienGuru) and Thailand (StartDee).

Singapore-based frontier AI research organisation betting on smarter architectures over larger models. Its Hierarchical Recurrent Modelling (HRM) work has drawn early attention as Southeast Asia's entry point into foundational AI research.

Southeast Asia's entry into frontier AI architecture research, focusing on Hierarchical Reasoning Models (HRM) and pursuing smarter model architectures rather than brute-force scale. Has drawn significant academic and industry attention.

Tech venture arm of Siam Commercial Bank. Built Typhoon LLM (Apache 2.0). Invests in AI fintech startups. SCBX digital transformation engine.

Customer experience outsourcing with deep AI integration. AI-powered contact centre analytics. 3,000+ employees. Malaysian-listed tech company.

Shopee + Garena + SeaMoney. Sailor LLM via SEA AI Lab (SUTD). Deep AI integration in commerce, gaming, payments. FY2025 revenue +33% YoY. First profitable year.

Southeast Asia Languages in One Network — an open-source family of large language models for all 11 major Southeast Asian languages, developed by AI Singapore. Promotes inclusive AI and cultural innovation across ASEAN. Designed for researchers, government bodies, and startups that need locally relevant, multilingual foundation model access without dependence on US or Chinese frontier models.

Philippines-based NLP startup building Filipino-language AI models and text analytics tools. Part of the CAIR-led ecosystem addressing local challenges in agriculture, fintech, and climate resilience.

Philippine NLP startup building Filipino and regional-language AI models for sentiment analysis, text classification, and language understanding. Featured under the Philippines' National AI Strategy Roadmap 2.0 (2024) as a key local innovator. Addresses the gap in Tagalog and regional Philippine language AI tools for enterprise and government clients.

AI solutions and consulting for Thai enterprises. Computer vision, NLP, predictive analytics. Major clients include Grab Thailand and CP Group.

AI-powered home services marketplace. Intelligent job matching, pricing, quality control. Category leader in Malaysia and expanding SEA.

Applies AI-powered decision intelligence to global maritime operations, helping shipping operators optimize routing, cargo planning, and operational efficiency.

Thailand-based fintech using its proprietary AiTHENA platform for AI-powered credit underwriting and lending decisions, targeting underserved borrowers with alternative data-based scoring models.

Core banking and financial services software. AI-powered digital banking transformation for SEA banks. Powers 40%+ of top 20 ASEAN banks.

Singtel and NCS (IT services arm) deploying AI across telecom ops, smart city, enterprise. Runs Optus AI in Australia. AISG partner.

Malaysian fabless semiconductor startup designing custom AI inference chips targeting edge deployments in SEA's manufacturing and IoT sectors. Part of Malaysia's push for AI sovereignty and indigenous chip development capability.

AI-powered omnichannel conversation platform for sales and customer engagement, unifying WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok interactions in one dashboard. Operates across Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brazil, and the UAE.

Robo-advisory platform. AI-driven asset allocation. Licensed in SG, MY, MENA. 80,000+ clients. Acquired by Abu Dhabi-based holding company 2024.

Open source Firebase alternative. Backend-as-a-service with Postgres. AI-native with vector database (pgvector). 1M+ developers. $220M raised Sep 2025.

Helps companies accelerate AI deployment by providing data labelling, annotation, and quality-assurance services via a hybrid automation + skilled remote team model. Operates across Southeast Asia, serving startups, enterprises, and research labs building complex AI systems.

An East Ventures-backed credit analytics startup offering AI-based solutions for automatically extracting, reading, and analysing credit documents. Its AI assistant generates borrower summaries and supports rapid property collateral assessments including market value estimation and asset mapping, with encrypted data handling.

AI-powered robo-advisory and wealth management. Multi-asset portfolios. 100K+ customers. Latest round Sep 2025 at $52.5M.

AI-augmented content production and BPO. Largest animation studio in Philippines pivoting to AI content. Klook, Globe Telecom clients.

Conversational AI platform for enterprises. Malay and English chatbot solutions for banks, telcos. Partners with Celcom and RHB.

AI-native project management and collaboration platform. AI agents for task automation, note-taking, brainstorming. Used by 500K+ teams globally.

Uses generative AI to support field teams in construction, maintenance, and utilities. Pulls data from on-site sensors and worker reports to generate predictive maintenance schedules, checklists, and real-time suggested solutions.

Singapore state investor deploying into global AI companies. Key backer of AI infrastructure plays. Co-author of e-Conomy SEA report (with Google, Bain).

Myanmar-based fintech-AI startup building alternative credit scoring models using mobile usage patterns, utility payments, and social connections — specifically targeting the unbanked population. Positioned to become core risk-assessment infrastructure for Myanmar's digital finance wave.

Merged with TikTok Shop to form Indonesia's largest e-commerce entity. AI recommendation, demand forecasting, fraud detection. 100M+ monthly active users.

AI-powered anti-money laundering platform for banks. AMLS and FRAML products. Clients include CIMB, Taishin. Federated learning for financial crime detection.

Uses machine learning to detect accounting manipulation and financial statement fraud in publicly listed companies across Asia. Helps institutional investors, auditors, and regulators assess corporate governance risk at scale.

Southeast Asia's travel super app. AI pricing, personalization, fraud. 50M+ app downloads. Expanding into financial services.

World's leading retail shelf intelligence platform. Computer vision tracks stock levels globally. Backed by Softbank, CUHK. Top-funded SG AI startup (OECD Jan 2025).

AI governance and model risk management for Vietnamese banks. AISG partner. Aligns with Vietnam AI Law (Dec 2025) compliance requirements.

AI credit decisioning for 2B unbanked people. Telco and social data for alternative credit scoring. Operates in Vietnam, Indonesia, India.

One of Southeast Asia's rare indigenous foundation model initiatives. Builds Thai-language large language models to support Thai SMEs, enterprises, and public services. Represents a key regional attempt to establish local leadership in foundation AI rather than relying on Western or Chinese models.

Develops Thai-language large language models (Typhoon series) aimed at powering Thailand's sovereign AI ecosystem. Aligns with Thailand's national AI policy (2022–2027) to promote Thai-language AI and support SMEs. One of the few purpose-built ASEAN-language foundation model projects.

Enterprise-grade Thai-language LLM developed by SCB 10X, the innovation arm of Siam Commercial Bank. Comparable in capability to GPT-3.5 for Thai-language tasks, open-sourced and self-hostable. Optimised on local Thai exams, legal, and financial corpora. Provides an API and enterprise support tier, making it a critical sovereign AI asset for Thai organisations.

AI-powered carbon accounting and supply chain emissions tracking platform for enterprises. Automates Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions data collection and reporting, helping companies meet ESG disclosure requirements across ASEAN and beyond.

Vietnamese AgriTech AI company combining low-cost IoT sensors with satellite imagery for crop monitoring. Originally designed for rice paddies, its platform has been adapted for palm oil and rubber plantations across Indonesia and Malaysia.

Vietnam's state-backed innovation hub accelerating AI startup formation and R&D investment. A co-organiser of the Google for Startups Accelerator: Southeast Asia programme launching August 2026, and a key node driving Vietnam's standalone AI law implementation.

AI division of Vietnam's largest telco. Speech recognition, biometrics, NLP for 100M+ subscribers. Viettel AI Centre. Deep government partnerships.

Vietnam's most advanced AI research lab. PhoGPT LLM. Vintern multimodal models. Autonomous vehicle AI for VinFast. World-class vision and NLP research team.

AI for medical imaging and healthcare. VinDr platform: chest X-ray, mammography, spinal, liver AI. World-leading cancer detection models.

Spin-off from Vingroup focused on AI-powered diagnostic imaging (DrAid platform). NVIDIA expanded its Vietnam commitment through VinBrain's acquisition in December 2024 and an AI R&D collaboration with the Vietnamese government, underscoring its clinical-grade imaging capabilities.

Pioneered diagnostic imaging AI optimised for rural clinic conditions—designed to operate with poor internet connectivity and limited on-site expertise. TB screening AI achieved 94% accuracy in rural Philippines, addressing critical radiologist shortages in underserved areas.

Focuses on AI compliance, governance, and regulatory workflow automation for Thai and regional enterprises navigating evolving AI legislation and PDPA data-protection requirements.

Visual search and product discovery AI for retail. Powers visual search for global retailers. Acquired by Farfetch then Snap. Original team still in Singapore.

Vietnam's first and largest tech unicorn. Zalo platform (77M users). VNG Cloud / GreenNode AI infrastructure. Zalo AI: NLP, voice, recommendation engines.

AI-powered digitization of Indonesia's 4M informal kiosks (warungs). Smart display, inventory AI, B2B ordering. Category leader in ultra-bottom-of-pyramid retail tech.

Industrial estate and data center developer. Partners with hyperscalers. Positioned as Thailand's AI infrastructure backbone for $2.7B DC investment wave.

Builds multilingual voice agents tuned for Southeast Asian speech patterns and code-switching across English, Bahasa Indonesia, and Tagalog. Flagship product Talkbot is used by banks, telcos, and e-commerce platforms. Partnered with Agora for regional expansion.

Enterprise automation platform. AI-powered workflow automation and integration. 5,000+ enterprise clients. Unicorn valued at $5.7B.

Payments infrastructure for SEA. AI-powered fraud detection, smart routing. Serves Grab, Traveloka, Wish. ID, PH, MY, SG, TH markets.

AI R&D arm of VNG. Speech recognition, NLP, recommendation for Zalo's 77M users. Builds Vietnamese language models. VLSP competition organizer.