Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem is entering a phase of disciplined capital deployment, cross-border expansion and measurable productivity gains — a shift that was on full display as AppWorks Demo Day #31 made its first-ever landing at the MVCA Conference 2025 in Kuala Lumpur.
The showcase featured eight high-traction startups from Malaysia and Singapore, each tackling deeply entrenched regional inefficiencies across mobility, alternative investing, SME payments, logistics automation, robots-as-a-service and narrative intelligence.
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The eight ventures are:
- Parkit (Malaysia): A mobility infrastructure operator digitising Malaysia’s fragmented parking ecosystem. Parkit works with property owners, transport operators and enterprises to reduce congestion, optimise utilisation and integrate digital payments at scale.
- Carching (Malaysia): A mobile out-of-home advertising platform that transforms cars into measurable, trackable media assets. Carching enables hyper-targeted campaigns backed by driver-level data analytics.
- Plandora (Malaysia): A travel-tech startup using AI-generated “creator twins” to replicate influencer expertise. It delivers personalised, trustworthy itineraries at scale for Southeast Asia’s booming travel economy.
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- Singular (Malaysia): A Web3-enabled private markets platform offering fractionalised access to elite global private equity deals, widening participation for mass affluent investors and retail allocators.
- Farmio (Singapore): An AI-led operating system for Asia’s food supply chains, digitising procurement, logistics and quality control for growers, distributors and F&B buyers.
- Fluid (Singapore): A B2B payments and embedded credit platform automating reconciliation, collections and underwriting for SMEs facing cash flow volatility across Southeast Asia.
- Hivebotics (Singapore): A robotics company deploying AI-powered commercial cleaning robots for labour-constrained industries, including airports, malls, transit and facilities management.
- Alpha Story (Singapore): A strategic storytelling and narrative intelligence firm helping tech companies, funds and startups craft investor-ready narratives and forecast narrative risks.
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