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: 1,542Market: APACUpdated: November 11, 2026
APAC Market Snapshot
1,542
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenSolar Sydney, Australia | AI in Climate / Energy | US$45 million | A free end-to-end solar design and sales software platform for solar professionals. |
| AI² Robotics Shenzhen, Guangdong, China | Robotics / Embodied AI | $878M | AGI-native general-purpose robotics company developing wheeled humanoid robots powered by proprietary Vision-Language-Action foundation models for industrial and commercial applications. |
| Black Lake Technologies Shanghai, China | AI in Manufacturing | $257M | Industrial AI agent platform that integrates AI across the full production lifecycle, serving nearly 40,000 factories worldwide with cloud-based manufacturing collaboration and AI-driven decision-making tools. |
| Intangles Lab Pvt. Ltd. Pune, Maharashtra, India | AI in Supply Chain / Logistics | $52.8M | A digital twin and predictive diagnostics platform for fleets and industrial assets that monitors asset health, benchmarks performance and predicts remaining useful life and failures. |
| Insilico Medicine Hong Kong, China | AI in Healthcare | $500M+ (including $293M IPO in Dec 2025) | A clinical-stage generative AI company that utilizes an end-to-end platform to accelerate drug discovery, from target identification and molecular design to clinical trial outcome prediction. |
| Medical AI Seoul, South Korea | AI in Healthcare | $11.3M | A specialized medical AI developer focused on transforming standard 10-second ECG signals into powerful diagnostic tools for cardiovascular diseases using proprietary deep learning algorithms. |
| LayerX Inc. Tokyo, Japan | AI in Fintech | $192.2M | An AI-powered SaaS platform that automates back-office operations for enterprises. |
| SelectStar Seoul, South Korea | AI Infrastructure | ~$31M (43.4 billion KRW cumulative) | AI data and reliability verification platform that provides high-quality training data construction and AI model evaluation services |
| DAIM Technology Seoul, South Korea | Robotics / Embodied AI | $25.4M | Daim Research provides a 'Physical AI' and robot brain solution that orchestrates large-scale autonomous robot fleets for high-tech manufacturing and logistics sectors. |
| Upstage Yongin-si, South Korea | Foundation Models / LLMs | Approximately $270M | A leading AI technology company specializing in 'Purpose-Built' Large Language Models (Solar) and high-precision Document AI solutions for enterprise digital transformation. |
| Cinnamon Tokyo, Japan | AI in Productivity | $44.1M | An enterprise AI company specializing in Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) and Generative AI (LLM) solutions designed to automate complex white-collar tasks and enhance knowledge utilization. |
| Redbrick Seoul, South Korea | AI in Media / Gaming / Entertainment | $17.5M | An enterprise AI transformation company offering AI workspace, cloud infrastructure, and AI education services, alongside its software creation and education products. |
| Optimind Nagoya, Japan | AI in Supply Chain / Logistics | $22.0M | A cloud-based AI route optimization platform specializing in 'last-mile' delivery that automates complex vehicle routing and scheduling to improve logistics efficiency. |
| Robot Era Beijing, China | Robotics / Embodied AI | ~¥1.03B (~$150M) total | Robot Era develops embodied AI models and humanoid robots focused on advanced dexterity and task execution, including the ERA-42 model for five-fingered hand control and XHand for object manipulation. |
| Enhans San Francisco, USA | AI in Retail / E-commerce | $7.74M | An 'Agentic AI' operating system (AgentOS, formerly CommerceOS) that utilizes Large Action Models (LAM) to automate complex decision-making and operational workflows across retail, manufacturing, healthcare, finance and defense. |
| Neta Shanghai, China | Generative Media (Image / Video) | $11.4M | AI-native content community and world-building platform that enables users to create, customize, and interact with AI-generated characters, comics, videos, and immersive virtual worlds. |
| Galbot Beijing, China | Robotics / Embodied AI | $800.0M | Developer of general-purpose embodied AI robots, specifically the 'Galbot G1', which combines a humanoid upper body with a wheeled-legged base for versatile, autonomous manipulation in unstructured environments. |
| MakinaRocks Seoul, South Korea | AI Infrastructure | $64.3M | A leading Industrial AI company providing an enterprise-grade MLOps platform and specialized AI solutions to optimize manufacturing processes and machine operations through data-driven intelligence. |
| Exosystems Seongnam, South Korea | AI in Healthcare | $5.5M | An AI-powered digital healthcare platform providing neuromuscular diagnosis and personalized rehabilitation solutions using wearable sensors and proprietary digital biomarkers. |
| PaXini (帕西尼感知科技) Shenzhen, Guangdong, China | Robotics / Embodied AI | Over ¥4.0B | China's leading embodied AI company specializing in multi-dimensional tactile sensing technology, dexterous hands, and humanoid robots for industrial and commercial applications. |