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: 1,446Market: APACUpdated: September 27, 2026
APAC Market Snapshot
1,446
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nexiva Chennai, India | AI Agents | Undisclosed founder funding; ₹40 crore deployed in R&D. ₹130 crore is a planned investment through 2028, not a completed funding round. | An Agentic AI platform that speaks, listens, and resolves like human agents, providing voice-first omnichannel sales and support. |
| Finarkein Analytics Pune, India | AI in Fintech | $5.8M | Finarkein provides a data analytics platform that helps BFSI companies build intelligent, data-driven solutions leveraging India's digital public infrastructure. |
| JOOMIDANG Jeonju, South Korea | AI in Analytics & BI | $3.9M | An AI-driven FoodTech platform that digitizes flavor profiles of traditional Korean liquor (K-Liquor) to provide scientifically optimized food pairing recommendations and brewery consulting services. |
| Arya.ag Noida, India, with operations across multiple districts. | AI in Agriculture | Over $200 million. | Arya.ag is a grain commerce platform connecting farmers and buyers, offering farmgate storage, financing, and transparent commerce solutions. |
| Vaani Research Labs Bengaluru, India | Voice / Speech AI | $400,000 | An infrastructure-first platform to build & deploy human-like, production-grade Voice AI agents. |
| Ziyouliangji (Shanghai) Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. Shanghai, China | Generative Media (Image / Video) | Undisclosed | Chinese AI startup building a proprietary Chinese-language music foundation model and AI music creation platform called Hitto (音潮/YinChao) |
| Avataar Bengaluru, India (HQ); San Francisco, CA, USA (office) | AI Agents | $55.5M | Avataar is an agentic AI platform company that delivers AI-native transformation for enterprises through domain-specialized autonomous agents. |
| Lucio Bengaluru, India; New York, United States | AI in Legal | $5 million | Lucio is an AI-powered legal assistant that helps law firms, in-house teams, and researchers efficiently extract, analyze, and manage legal documents. |
| TBX Mumbai, India | AI in Fintech | $30M | TransBnk is a transaction banking platform that provides a suite of solutions to help businesses manage their finances and operations. |
| Pharus Diagnostics Los Angeles, California, USA. Originally spun out from Hsinchu, Taiwan-based Quark Biosciences. | AI in Healthcare | Not publicly disclosed | AI-powered liquid biopsy tests for early cancer detection and comprehensive patient journey management using microRNA (miRNA) biomarkers. |
| MONTEE AI Shanghai, China | AI in Education | 10M+ RMB (千万级) | Developer of the world's first doll-interactive AI story machine for children aged 3-8, combining NFC-enabled plush toys with cloud-based LLMs |
| Wit & Chai Group Pune, India | AI in Marketing | Undisclosed | A creative marketing agency specializing in branding, digital marketing, and influencer campaigns. |
| Black Sesame Technologies Wuhan, China | AI Chips / Semiconductors | $846M | A leading provider of automotive-grade computing SoCs (System-on-Chip) and AI-based solutions, specializing in high-performance chips for autonomous driving and smart cockpit integration. |
| Graas 8 Craig Road, Outram, Singapore | AI Agents | $49 million | Graas is an AI-native eCommerce company creating the next layer of infrastructure where autonomous agents solve growth problems in sales, marketing, and operations. |
| Qingxing Heterogeneous Beijing, China (R&D center in Shanghai) | Foundation Models / LLMs | $14M | Tsinghua-spinout building quantum-inspired AI models (QGP technology) that use simulated quantum computation during training but run efficient inference on standard classical GPUs. |
| Othor AI Bangalore, India | AI in Analytics & BI | $80,000 | Othor AI offers a fast, simple, and secure business intelligence tool that helps users navigate the ever-changing business landscape. It provides AI-powered vertical insight agents that deliver real-time, actionable insights across key business areas like sales, finance, and marketing. |
| CoRover.ai Bengaluru, India | AI Agents | $4.96M | A generative AI-powered conversational AI platform to build multi-lingual and multi-modal (video, voice, text) virtual assistants for enterprises. |
| AIONA Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan | AI in Manufacturing | $1.21M | AIONA builds REVY, an AI agent that automates and supports manufacturing design workflows by digitizing veteran engineers' tacit design knowledge. |
| Orkbe Bengaluru, India | AI in HR & Talent | $500K | An AI-powered 'hiring engine' and career ecosystem that matches candidates to jobs in under 1000 seconds by analyzing human potential, emotional strengths, and market fit beyond traditional keywords. |
| KGeN Bengaluru, India | AI in Media / Gaming / Entertainment | $43.5 million | KGeN is building a decentralized and verified distribution protocol to connect gamers, developers, and consumer apps in a fairer and more rewarding ecosystem. |