Top 10 Rising AI Companies in Singapore Worth Your Attention

Singapore has become one of Asia’s busiest hubs for AI investment and hiring. A growing number of AI companies in Singapore are now shaping how banks, healthcare providers, and logistics networks put AI to work.

Not every one of them was built here, though.

OpenAI is opening its first Applied AI Lab outside the United States in Singapore and plans to create more than 200 Singapore-based technical roles over the next few years to staff it.

Databricks is hiring for the same kind of role locally, embedding forward-deployed engineers directly with strategic customers to build and deploy custom applications. That’s what AI hiring in Singapore looks like right now, with global players moving in fast.

This list covers AI vendors and platforms only, giving you a shortlist of companies worth evaluating.

How we picked these AI companies in Singapore

Two criteria decide who makes this list.

• AI as the core product. The company’s core product or service has to be built on AI, whether that’s machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, or generative AI. AI can’t be a marketing footnote on an unrelated product.
• An active presence in Singapore. The company was founded and is headquartered here, or it has built up meaningful local operations.

You’ll see every entry below labeled as one or the other, with a few sitting in between.

AI companies in Singapore split into groups that answer very different questions if you’re comparing them. Treat a global platform with a local sales office the same way as a company built from the ground up in Singapore, and you miss that difference entirely.

This also isn’t a vendor directory. You won’t find pricing data, review scores, or hourly rates here, and it isn’t a job board either. What you get is a reference list of companies doing AI work in Singapore.

The 10 companies at a glance

These ten AI companies in Singapore are split into four clear groups, so you can see at a glance who’s a local builder and who’s just passing through.

• Founded and still headquartered in Singapore. The local companies that started and grew right in Singapore.
• Moved into Singapore. Companies that are founded elsewhere and relocated their headquarters here.
• Founded in Singapore, no longer run from there. Companies that started here but have since moved on or changed hands.
• Multinational, Singapore office only. Companies that kept their global headquarters elsewhere and run a Singapore office on top of it.

1. Nium

Nium is a straightforward case. It launched in Singapore in 2014, originally as the consumer remittance platform Instarem, before rebranding to Nium in 2019. It’s still headquartered there today, building the infrastructure banks, fintechs, and marketplaces use to move money across borders.

The company now processes more than $60 billion in payments annually for over 1,000 customers, with real-time payouts available in more than 100 markets, according to Nium. It applies AI to fraud detection and risk monitoring inside that payment flow, which is what keeps a cross-border transfer from taking days to clear if you’re moving money between markets.

2. Trax

Trax is a 2010 Singapore startup that turned into a global retail analytics company without moving its headquarters. Along the way, it raised a $640 million round backed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and BlackRock.

If you know Trax for computer vision that reads shelf photos to check whether items are in stock and correctly placed, that product no longer belongs to Trax. Gemspring Capital acquired that business in February 2026 and merged it into a company called FORM.

Trax Ltd. still operates out of Singapore, now focused on Shopkick (shopper engagement), Survey (merchandising and activation), and LenzTech, its remaining AI and big-data unit. A Singapore-founded AI company doesn’t necessarily keep doing the same AI work it started with.

3. Patsnap

Patsnap launched in Singapore in 2007 and still runs its headquarters there today, even though a large share of its R&D and customer base sits in China. It’s an AI-powered platform for patent search and innovation intelligence, used by more than 15,000 innovators worldwide, according to Patsnap.

The AI layer is natural language processing applied to patent and research databases, which is what lets a team search prior art in plain language instead of Boolean query strings.

4. ViSenze

ViSenze started life inside NExT, a joint research center run by the National University of Singapore and Tsinghua University, and spun out as its own company in 2012, according to NUS Enterprise. That academic origin is part of why it’s a genuinely Singapore-built AI company, not just a Singapore-registered one.

Retailers including Rakuten, Uniqlo, Zalora, and Urban Outfitters use its visual search technology, which lets shoppers search by image instead of keywords.

In August 2025, ViSenze was acquired by Nasdaq-listed Rezolve AI, and Singapore now serves as Rezolve’s Asia-Pacific headquarters. It’s no longer an independent company, but its Singapore-born team and technology still work here, just under new ownership.

5. ADVANCE.AI

ADVANCE.AI launched in Singapore in 2016. It’s part of the Singapore-headquartered Advance Intelligence Group, which raised over $400 million from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Warburg Pincus in 2021. It builds identity checks and fraud tools for banks, fintechs, and e-commerce platforms handling high transaction volumes.

The AI does the heavy lifting on facial recognition and KYC verification at the point of onboarding, the step where fraud is cheapest to catch and most expensive to miss, whether you’re the bank or the platform relying on it.

6. Chemin

Chemin is the newest entry here. TDCX Group founded it in Singapore in 2025 by folding its recently acquired data-labeling platform SUPA into what became Chemin. It focuses on AI enablement work that other companies here quietly depend on, including LLM fine-tuning, multi-modal data transformation, and data annotation performed by a distributed network of engineers and domain experts.

“AI company” covers more than customer-facing products. Some of the more interesting AI companies in Singapore are the ones making other AI companies’ models usable in the first place.

7. Grab

Grab is the least clean case here, which is exactly why an accurate label matters more than a vague one. It started as MyTeksi in Malaysia in 2012. Singapore’s Temasek backed the company’s first big funding round in 2014, and Grab moved its headquarters to Singapore that same year. It’s been a Singapore company by headquarters, not by birth, ever since.

Grab now runs AI across ride-hailing dispatch, delivery demand forecasting, and fraud detection in its financial services arm, at a scale most other companies here don’t operate at. It ended 2025 with 47 million monthly transacting users and 129 million transacting at least once a year across Southeast Asia.

8. Biofourmis

Biofourmis is Grab’s mirror image. The company was founded in Singapore in 2015. It then moved its global headquarters to Boston in 2019 after raising $35 million, to be closer to major healthcare markets and talent. It still keeps a Singapore office, but the company no longer runs its operations from Singapore.

Its Biovitals platform uses AI-driven predictive analytics on biosensor data to flag early warning signs in patients with chronic conditions for hospitals and healthcare providers doing remote patient monitoring.

9. Snap Inc.

Snap is the cleanest multinational case here. It keeps its headquarters in Santa Monica, California, with a Singapore office supporting regional product development, and it has no meaningful claim to being a Singapore company beyond that office.

Its relevant AI work is My AI, a chatbot inside Snapchat that now runs on a mix of models from OpenAI and Google, plus the AI and augmented-reality models powering Snapchat’s filters and lenses. Snap is also rolling Perplexity’s answer engine into Snapchat’s chat interface in 2026. A US company builds and runs that consumer AI product, distributing it to users in Singapore and everywhere else Snapchat operates.

10. Smartly

Smartly keeps its headquarters in Helsinki, with a Singapore presence supporting Asia-Pacific advertising clients. Like Snap, it’s included here because of genuine local operations, not because of where it was founded.

The company’s platform uses AI to automate ad creative production and optimize ad-buying decisions across channels, which is the kind of AI work that shows up in a marketing budget line, not a product roadmap.

Government AI initiatives aren’t companies

AI Singapore and Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) are government-backed bodies, not vendors. They show up often for this topic, but neither one sells an AI product. AI Singapore funds research, runs talent programs like the AI Apprenticeship Programme, and coordinates national AI strategy.

The EDB works on investment and policy instead. It publishes research on Singapore’s AI ecosystem and works to attract company investment into the country. Confusing either one with a private AI vendor is an easy mistake that you should avoid.

Where Eastgate fits

Eastgate Software is the company publishing this list, and it isn’t in the ranked ten above on purpose.

If your team is trying to move an AI system past the demo stage and into production, that’s the specific problem Eastgate’s AI and intelligent automation practice works on. We cover model integration, automation pipelines, and the delivery discipline needed to run AI reliably instead of just prototyping it.

A second opinion helps when you’re evaluating how to build or scale an AI product. Eastgate offers a free consultation to talk through the approach before you commit budget to it.

Final thoughts

The name on the list matters less than the reason it’s there. Some of these companies are genuinely part of Singapore’s AI ecosystem. Others are simply staffing up because the country has become the technology hub of the world.

Next time you see a “top AI companies in Singapore” list, ask one question. Is the company founded and headquartered here, or just keeping an office? That answer tells you whether you’re looking at Singapore’s AI industry or just its real estate.