Regional AI Startup Intelligence
APAC AI Startup Landscape
Track APAC AI startups across Korea, Japan, Singapore, India, China, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia.
Companies tracked: 1,270Market: APACUpdated: August 11, 2026
APAC Market Snapshot
1,270
tracked companies
8
category clusters
8
funding signals surfaced
APAC is under-mapped relative to the US, which makes region-specific startup discovery a real wedge for investors and corporate strategy teams.
Representative Companies
A crawler-visible market map sample from the AI Market Watch database.
| Company | Category | Funding | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| KushoAI Bengaluru, Karnataka, India / San Francisco, California, USA | AI Developer Tools | $600K | AI-native infrastructure for software maintenance — autonomous agents that live in CI/CD pipelines to handle testing, healing, and monitoring continuously. |
| DataAlliance Seoul, South Korea | AI Infrastructure | $2.2M+ | A distributed GPU sharing economy platform (GCUBE) that aggregates and monetizes idle computing resources from various sources to provide affordable high-performance AI infrastructure. |
| DFree Tokyo, Japan | AI in Healthcare | $29M | World's first wearable excretion prediction device using ultrasonic sensors and AI to predict urination and defecation timing |
| JJG Aero Bengaluru, India | AI in Supply Chain / Logistics | $42.0M | A premier Tier-1 aerospace manufacturer specializing in high-precision machined components and sub-assemblies, now integrating AI-driven intelligence to optimize manufacturing and supply chain operations. |
| Hunar Bengaluru and Gurugram, India | AI in HR & Talent | $1.78M | An AI-driven recruitment and workforce management platform designed to automate high-volume frontline hiring through conversational AI, Voice AI, and WhatsApp integration. |
| Fabulate Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Level 9, 64 York St) | AI in Marketing | AU$7.4M | AI-powered influencer/creator marketing platform helping brands discover, manage and measure creator marketing campaigns across APAC. |
| Ringg AI Bengaluru, India | Voice / Speech AI | $6.64M | A no-code, multilingual multichannel AI agent platform that lets enterprises deploy production-grade agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for complex real-time conversations in 20+ languages. |
| AvenuesAI Gandhinagar, India | AI in Fintech | $199,000,000 | An AI-native fintech and transaction infrastructure company providing global payment orchestration, fraud prevention, and digital commerce solutions. |
| AheadForm Shanghai, China | Robotics / Embodied AI | >$100M | AheadForm (Shouxing Technology) develops hyper-realistic bionic humanoid robot heads and emotional interaction systems designed to solve the 'Uncanny Valley' effect through AI-driven facial expressions and empathetic co-expression. |
| BharatGen Mumbai, Maharashtra, India | Foundation Models / LLMs | $155M | India's first government-backed sovereign multimodal AI initiative developing multilingual LLMs for 22 Indian languages |
| StratSync Singapore, Singapore | AI Agents | $125K | AI-powered revenue risk management platform that uses multi-agent AI to detect margin risks across ERP, CRM, spreadsheets, PDFs, emails and messaging apps like WhatsApp. |
| Octobotics Noida, India | Robotics / Embodied AI | $1.1M | AI-enabled robotic platforms designed for autonomous non-destructive testing (NDT) and maintenance in hazardous industrial environments like maritime and oil & gas. |
| MEQ Solutions Reservoir, Australia | AI in Agriculture | ~$29.5M | An Australian agtech company providing AI-powered imaging and spectral analysis tools for objective, real-time measurement of red meat quality and yield. |
| Fluent Commerce Sydney, Australia | AI in Supply Chain / Logistics | $71.9M | A cloud-native, distributed order management system (OMS) designed to provide global retailers with real-time inventory visibility and flexible omnichannel fulfillment. |
| Miko Mumbai, India | Robotics / Embodied AI | $86.3M total (confirmed rounds only) | Miko creates AI-powered companion robots for children that provide interactive and educational experiences through conversational learning. |
| Vyuhaa Med Data Hyderabad, Telangana, India | AI in Healthcare | $150K | A deep-tech startup developing AI-powered digital pathology and edge-computing diagnostic solutions for healthcare and agriculture. |
| Perfios Bangalore, India | AI in Fintech | $464.0M | A leading B2B SaaS fintech platform that provides AI-driven real-time credit decisioning, data aggregation, and automated financial analysis for financial institutions. |
| FADU Technology (Fadu Inc.) Seoul, South Korea | AI Chips / Semiconductors | $62.3M | South Korean fabless semiconductor company designing high-performance SSD/NVMe flash storage controllers for data centers and AI infrastructure. |
| DreamVid Shenzhen, China | Generative Media (Image / Video) | Undisclosed (Parent-funded) | A comprehensive AI-driven video creation platform that enables users to generate high-quality, watermark-free videos from text and images using advanced multi-model integration. |
| FiveX Busan, South Korea | AI in Retail / E-commerce | $110K | Busan-based fashion collaboration platform (FIXE) that produces limited-edition 'wearable art' collections for artists, celebrities, brands and cultural IP, with NFC authenticity verification and AI fan curation. |