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: 845Market: APACUpdated: May 11, 2026
APAC Market Snapshot
845
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birdfy Shenzhen, China | Computer Vision | Undisclosed (Bootstrapped via parent company) | AI-powered smart birdwatching platform offering camera-equipped feeders, baths, and nest boxes with real-time species recognition, cloud storage, and a unified mobile app. |
| MoveAWheeL Daejeon, South Korea | AI in Government / Public Sector | ₩2.5B - ₩3.0B (Cumulative est.) | An AI-powered road safety solution that utilizes non-contact acoustic sensors to detect road surface hazards like black ice, flooding, and potholes in real-time. |
| Baixing Intelligent Technology Shanghai, China | AI Agents | Pre-Series A | A vertical AI agent company providing customizable AI foreign trade employees for Chinese SMEs going global. |
| Kris@Work Bengaluru, India | AI Agents | $3.0M | AI-native Go-To-Market execution platform that serves as a unified system of work and insights for enterprise revenue teams, providing real-time intelligence, end-to-end automation, and guided execution in a single intelligent interface. |
| Wishlink Gurugram, India | AI in Marketing | $27.5M | A creator commerce platform that enables content creators to monetize their organic content through personalized multi-brand digital storefronts, automated product link sharing, and commission-based earnings across social media platforms. |
| Meesho Bengaluru, India | AI | $1.36B | Meesho is a zero-commission social commerce platform enabling entrepreneurs to sell products via social media networks, primarily targeting tier 2+ cities in India with ultra-low order values. |
| AI Spera Seoul, South Korea | AI in Cybersecurity | $17.5M | An AI-powered Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) and Attack Surface Management (ASM) platform that tracks and analyzes global IP addresses and domains to identify cyber threats from an attacker's perspective. |
| TableCheck Tokyo, Japan | AI in Retail / E-commerce | Not disclosed | AI-powered restaurant reservation and guest experience platform for hospitality operators worldwide. |
| CloudExtel Mumbai, India | AI Infrastructure | $100M+ (Macquarie Capital majority stake) + ₹400 crore in debt funding | CloudExtel is India's leading Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider offering shared neutral-host digital infrastructure for telecom operators, ISPs, data centers, enterprises, and content providers |
| Volcengine Beijing, China | AI Infrastructure | Undisclosed | ByteDance's cloud and AI services platform, powering enterprise AI with the Doubao large model family and cloud infrastructure. |
| Panfeng Intelligent Hangzhou, China | AI Agents | ¥20.0M+ | Moras is a commercial 'Agentic AI' platform that automates the entire business loop—from trend insight and product selection to video creation and performance analysis—to help content creators and e-commerce merchants maximize monetization. |
| Aetech Incheon, South Korea | AI in Climate / Energy | $9.0M | Aetech (에이트테크) provides AI-powered robotic solutions designed to automate the waste sorting process, significantly increasing recycling efficiency and transforming traditional Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) into smart, unmanned factories. |
| 4baseCare Bengaluru, India | AI in Healthcare | ~$19M (₹158Cr+) | A precision oncology startup developing AI-powered genomic tests and personalized diagnostic solutions specifically optimized for the Asian population. |
| 4AI Systems Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia | Computer Vision | Not disclosed (subsidiary of 4Tel with project-based funding) | AI-powered vision perception systems for rail networks that enhance safety and operational efficiency through real-time hazard detection and object classification |
| Modusign Seoul, South Korea | AI in Legal | $23.7M | A comprehensive AI-driven Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platform that digitizes and automates the entire legal process from drafting and signing to storage and risk analysis. |
| EcoEx Delhi, India | AI in Climate / Energy | $4 million | EcoEx is a digital marketplace for plastic waste management, focusing on the exchange of plastic credit certificates. |
| Fourth Paradigm Beijing, China | AI Infrastructure | $1.07B | Fourth Paradigm is a pioneer and leader in enterprise AI, offering platform-centric artificial intelligence solutions to enterprises. |
| Cambricon Technologies Beijing, China | AI Chips / Semiconductors | over $1B | Cambricon is a Chinese technology company that specializes in the research and development of artificial intelligence (AI) chips and related software solutions. |
| EdgeCortix Tokyo, Japan | AI Infrastructure | $110M+ | EdgeCortix develops energy-efficient AI semiconductors and accelerators for edge computing, focusing on low-power AI inference and machine learning workloads. |
| ixigo Gurgaon, India | AI Search / Retrieval | $242.6M | An AI-powered travel platform for booking flights, trains, buses, and hotels, targeted at the Indian market. |