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: 935Market: APACUpdated: June 9, 2026
APAC Market Snapshot
935
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GoSats Bengaluru, India | AI in Fintech | $14.7M | An AI-led asset-based rewards platform that enables users to earn Bitcoin and Gold as cashback for everyday shopping and financial transactions. |
| The Tarzan Way Noida, India | AI | ₹2 crore (approx $240K USD) | An AI-powered travel tech platform that enables users to craft hyper-personalized and authentic holiday experiences across the globe in seconds. |
| Deep Fusion AI Gyeongsan, South Korea | Autonomous Vehicles | $3.0M+ | A software-defined 4D imaging radar perception AI that delivers LiDAR-level spatial awareness and object recognition through a proprietary deep learning architecture. |
| Landeed Hyderabad, India | AI in Fintech | $15.6 million | Landeed is the AI-native digital infrastructure for property intelligence, verification, and transactions in India. |
| HITS Seoul, South Korea | AI in Healthcare | $8.6M | An integrated AI-driven drug discovery SaaS platform that digitalizes the entire pharmaceutical R&D process through high-performance virtual simulations and predictive modeling. |
| Populix Jakarta, Indonesia | AI in Marketing | $14.2M | Populix is an AI-powered consumer insights platform connecting businesses with diverse and vetted respondents across Indonesia and Southeast Asia. |
| Raise Financial Services Mumbai, India | AI in Fintech | $142M | A technology-led financial services company building a super app for investing and trading. |
| SpeakX.ai Gurugram, India | AI in Education | $23.3 million | An AI-powered language learning platform that provides a personalized and immersive experience for learning English through conversational AI technology |
| Korea IT Masters Seoul, South Korea | AI | $725,000 | An AI strategy and ICT consulting firm that provides field-oriented, practical implementation services for generative AI, digital transformation, and large-scale information strategy planning (ISP/ISMP). |
| Kapiva Mumbai, India | AI in Healthcare | Over $100 million | Kapiva is a modern Ayurvedic nutrition brand that provides food-based, natural and authentic products to help improve the lifestyle of millennial India. |
| AInnovation Beijing, China | AI Agents | $132M | AInnovation is an enterprise AI solutions provider that focuses on developing and delivering AI-driven products and solutions to empower businesses, with a primary focus on the 'AI+Manufacturing' sector. |
| STAN Bengaluru, India | AI in Media / Gaming / Entertainment | $15.7 million | STAN is a social platform for gamers and creators to connect, engage, and monetize their communities. |
| Kult App Mumbai, Maharashtra, India | AI in Retail / E-commerce | ~$24.8M total (all rounds) | AI-powered beauty e-commerce app that offers personalized skincare and beauty recommendations using AI-driven skin analysis technology. |
| Cent Bengaluru, India | AI in Healthcare | $5.0M | An AI-powered preventive healthcare intelligence platform focused on early detection of cancer, cardiac, neurological, and metabolic (CCNM) diseases before symptoms appear, using multi-modal imaging, biomarkers, and AI synthesis. |
| Blackpearl Group Wellington, New Zealand and Phoenix, Arizona, USA | AI in Marketing | Publicly listed on the NZX (2022) and ASX (2025). Raised approximately NZ$26.9M across two capital raises in FY2026, plus refinanced NZ$5M BNZ facility to March 2028. Total capital raised since listing exceeds NZ$50M. | An AI-powered data intelligence company that develops and sells a suite of solutions to identify anonymous website visitors and convert them into actionable, high-intent sales leads. |
| Spintly Margao, India | AI Agents | $13.9M | A wireless, cloud-based access control platform that enables smartphone-based door unlocking using BLE-Mesh technology, eliminating the need for key cards and extensive wiring infrastructure. |
| Infiheal Mumbai, India | AI in Healthcare | Undisclosed | An AI-driven mental health and wellness platform providing clinically validated, 24/7 anonymous support through specialized AI coaches for therapy and relationship counseling. |
| Alethea AI Singapore | AI Agents | $16.2 million | Alethea AI is a research and development studio building at the intersection of Generative AI and Blockchain. It has developed the AI Protocol for creating decentralized, intelligent, and interactive NFTs (iNFTs) or 'Sovereign AI Agents'. Its flagship product is CharacterGPT, a multimodal AI system for generating AI characters from text descriptions. |
| DeepSeek AI Hangzhou, China | Foundation Models / LLMs | Privately funded by parent company High-Flyer Quant. No external VC funding raised as of July 2025. First external funding round in negotiation as of May 2026. | An efficient, open source-focused AI startup pioneering cost-effective generative AI models that rival the capabilities of industry leaders at a fraction of the cost. |
| Sarvam AI Bengaluru, India | AI Infrastructure | $391.3M | India's full-stack sovereign AI platform building generative AI solutions optimized for India's linguistic diversity, with voice-first, multilingual capabilities supporting 22 Indian languages for population-scale applications. |