Startups
Coverage of Asia's most promising AI and tech startups.
Smart Glasses Maker Even Realities Hits $1B Valuation With $150M Round Led by Meituan and Tencent
Shenzhen-based Even Realities, founded by ex-Apple engineers, has become a unicorn on a camera-free, display-first bet against Meta's smart glasses playbook.
Tripo AI Raises $150M Series A3 as 3D Foundation Models Push Toward Interactive Worlds
Beijing-based Vast's Tripo AI has stacked a $150 million Series A3 on top of nearly $200 million raised in June, funding Project Eden and a roadmap from 3D asset generation to persistent world models.
China's Zeroth Raises $74M Pre-Series A Led by Ant Group With 30,000 Robot Orders in Hand
Home robotics startup Zeroth has closed a $73.6 million pre-Series A led by Ant Group, reporting 600% revenue growth and plans to expand its M1 and W1 robots to North America and Europe this fall.
Keyfactor Lands $1B+ to Secure the AI and Post-Quantum Enterprise
Summit Partners led the megaround for the machine-identity firm, betting that agentic AI, shrinking certificate lifespans, and quantum threats create urgent demand for trust infrastructure.
Oratomic Banks $300M to Race Straight to a Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer
The Caltech-founded startup says its neutral-atom architecture can reach commercial utility with just 20,000 qubits — and drew Khosla's largest initial check since OpenAI.
SambaNova Raises $1B at $11B Valuation as Investors Bankroll Nvidia's Challengers
General Atlantic led the Series F first close just five months after the AI chipmaker's last megaround — and landed JPMorgan Chase as an inference customer.
Kaon AI Raises $60M to Build Personalized Story Worlds With FlowGPT and Emochi
B Capital, Redpoint Ace, Goodwater and DCM back the consumer AI startup betting that generative entertainment — not productivity — is the next breakout category.
Prime Intellect Raises $130M Series A at $1B Valuation to Help Enterprises Build Their Own Agents
Radical Ventures leads the round, with Nvidia, Intel and Dell's venture arms — plus a who's-who of AI founders — backing the agent-infrastructure startup.
Singapore's Quiet AI Deal Week: NeuBird's $19.3M Leads a Spate of Early-Stage Rounds
Temasek-backed Xora Innovation leads an oversubscribed round for agentic-operations platform NeuBird, while Muun AI and OnSite land seed checks — a snapshot of Southeast Asia's grounded AI thesis.
Bespoke Labs Raises $40M to Build the Training Grounds for Reliable AI Agents
Wing VC leads the round for the startup building reinforcement learning environments that teach agents to survive long-horizon work — with Anthropic employees among the backers.
JAPAN AI Closes ¥1.9 Billion Series B to Push AI Agents Into Corporate Japan
JAFCO, Nissay Capital, FCE and Resona Capital back the Tokyo firm's push to expand AI agent capabilities for Japan's corporate digital transformation wave.
Thrive Holdings Raises $2 Billion to Buy and Rewire Services Firms With AI
SoftBank, Altimeter and D1 back Josh Kushner's one-year-old holding company in its bet that AI can transform accounting, IT and professional services roll-ups.