Startups
Coverage of Asia's most promising AI and tech startups.
CORE Biomedicine Raises $21M Across Boston, Tokyo and Suzhou for AI-Guided Precision Oncology
The cross-border biotech — co-led by UTokyo's innovation fund and backed by an AMED grant and an Eisai licensing deal — is targeting the biological pathways that define cancer cell identity, not just its genome.
Fish Audio Reels In $52M Seed a Year After Starting in a Bedroom — With $21M ARR and 8M Users
The voice-AI startup, founded by a former Nvidia researcher and lifelong VTuber, already powers OpenAI, HeyGen and LiveKit — and can clone a voice from five seconds of audio in roughly fifteen.
LimX Dynamics Raises $200M at $2.2B Valuation to Push Humanoid Autonomy Past the Demo
The Shenzhen robotics maker's raise — one of the largest in China's humanoid wave — targets the hard part everyone's demo videos skip: autonomous execution of complex, unscripted tasks.
Paper Raises $34M Series A From Accel and ICONIQ to Build Design Tools for the Agent Era
The design platform startup, which grew ARR 25x after launching its desktop app, is betting that AI coding agents need a design canvas as much as human engineers do.
China's PsiBot Nears $100M Round at $1.48B Valuation as Chery Bets on Embodied AI
The Beijing world-model startup is finalizing funding led by carmaker Chery Automobile, becoming one of more than twenty Chinese embodied AI companies to cross the unicorn line in 2026.
Singapore's Ropedia Raises $30M to Build the Data Layer for Physical AI
The NTU-linked startup has closed a $30 million pre-Series A to scale its wearable-powered data platform, betting that robots need real-world experience — not internet video — to learn manipulation.
Asia Startup Funding Hits Multiyear Peak: $42.8B in Q2, Led by China and AI
Crunchbase data shows Asia's strongest quarter in over three years, with Chinese tech giants pouring capital into consumer AI interfaces and megarounds concentrating the gains.
Corgi Reportedly Raises Again at $4B — Its Third Round in Eight Weeks
The AI-native insurance startup's valuation has roughly doubled since its $106M B1 round in May, as investors chase one of the fastest markups in the current cycle.
Sila Raises $300M to Expand Moses Lake Plant Toward World's Largest Anode Facility
Bucking the EV slowdown, the silicon-anode maker landed backing from Atreides and Sutter Hill to scale Titan Silicon production — with supply deals spanning Mercedes-Benz and Panasonic.
Shenzhen's Even Realities Hits $1B Valuation as Meituan and Tencent Bet on Camera-Free Smart Glasses
Founded by ex-Apple engineers, three-year-old Even Realities raised a $150M pre-Series B led by Meituan and Tencent — becoming a unicorn with a contrarian pitch: display-first smart glasses with no camera at all.
Fireworks AI Raises $1.5B at $17.5B Valuation as Enterprises Chase Cheaper, Specialized Models
Nvidia-backed inference platform Fireworks AI closed a $1.5 billion Series D led by Atreides, Index and TCV, crossing $1 billion in annualized revenue — with 95% of its 40 trillion daily tokens now coming from customized models.
Glow Raises $180M Series A to Secure the Endpoint Nobody Owns: AI Agents
Endpoint security startup Glow landed a $180 million Series A from Sequoia, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, Redpoint, Index and Lux — one of the largest Series A rounds ever, built on the thesis that AI agents are the new attack surface.