Acrab Inc., a Singapore-headquartered frontier tech company, has announced it has secured more than US$350 million in cumulative financing since its founding in 2024, as it looks to establish itself as a foundational infrastructure provider for the next generation of agentic AI.
The company, which had previously operated in stealth, said the financing was raised across multiple rounds and includes participation from global venture capital firms and strategic industry investors. Vertex, the global venture platform backed by Singapore state investor Temasek, was among the earliest backers through its Vertex Ventures SEA & India and Vertex Growth funds, and has continued to increase its commitment as Acrab reached key technological milestones.
The announcement also marks the commercial debut of GΞLIX, Acrab’s first-generation compute platform designed to support local LLM inference and agentic AI workloads at the edge. The company said GΞLIX has been validated in demanding real-world deployment environments and is progressing toward first industry adoption and mass production.
Acrab’s full-stack architecture spans AI silicon, local LLM inference, operating systems, multi-modal human-machine interface (HMI), and agent orchestration technologies. The company positions its approach around heterogeneous computing — specifically, the coordinated interaction between central processing units (CPUs) and neural processing units (NPUs) — which it describes as central to the performance demands of agentic AI systems.
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“CPUs are becoming increasingly important as AI systems evolve into heterogeneous computing environments, where execution depends not only on NPU performance, but on the seamless coordination between CPUs and NPUs,” said Dr. Ken Phua, CEO of Acrab. “Delivering this new generation of agentic experiences calls for a fundamentally new compute foundation.”
Phua brings extensive experience from the semiconductor sector, including a career at Arm UK, where he led Asia Applications Engineering and co-led global IP strategies, before serving as co-CEO of Arm China.
Vertex’s Kee Lock Chua, CEO of Vertex Holdings, said the firm’s conviction in Acrab rests on a belief that the next wave of AI will run at the edge rather than in the cloud. “Our confidence has only deepened as the team has translated that thesis into a validated platform, and we’ve increased our commitment at every step,” he said.
Acrab’s target markets span personal AI PCs, home hub devices, in-vehicle intelligence, industrial operations, and general robotics — environments the company believes will increasingly require private-by-design, context-aware computing that can carry out tasks in real time without relying on cloud infrastructure.
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The broader thesis underpinning Acrab’s strategy is a distinction between generative AI, which responds to prompts, and agentic AI, which the company characterises as systems capable of inferring intent, co-ordinating tools, and executing tasks on behalf of users — a shift that demands a new class of compute infrastructure.
Acrab said it will use the new capital to accelerate platform development, expand partnerships with global technology firms, and strengthen its presence in key international markets.
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