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Singapore’s AI moment: 24 startups lead the next wave of innovation under Meta’s Llama incubator

Singapore’s AI ecosystem just got a significant boost, and it’s powered by collaboration.

Through Meta’s Llama Incubator Programme, created with support from IMDA, GovTech, EnterpriseSG, AI Singapore, SGInnovate, and key partners e27 and Deloitte, a new wave of startups is turning frontier AI into market-ready innovation.

This initiative–Meta’s first in Asia-Pacific–goes beyond training models. It’s about building an ecosystem where startups and SMEs can experiment, deploy, and scale AI responsibly, driving real-world impact across industries.

Also Read: Meta accelerates AI innovation in Singapore with Llama Incubator program demo day

Meet the 24 startups and SMEs at the forefront of Singapore’s AI future: from early-stage disruptors to emerging scale-ups redefining what it means to innovate with intelligence.

Opsis Emotion AI

Opsis specialises in facial, voice, ocular, body language and rPPG vital signals with LLMs for real-time emotional insights. Its proprietary healthcare data delivers accurate and scalable mental health.

Founding year Funding Investors
2017 Not funded NA

AidMi

AidMi builds an AI-powered clinical assistant that helps doctors deliver better care before, during, and between visits. It automates pre-consult assessments, tracks patient symptoms between appointments, and offers clinicians actionable insights through smart dashboards.

Founding year Funding Investors
2024 Not funded NA

ConnectingDNA

ConnectingDNA provides DNA-wellness digital infrastructure for personalised health, lifestyle, and brand optimisation. Its mission is to empower individuals and wellness providers to make smarter, faster, and safer health decisions using the power of their DNA.

Founding year Funding Investors
2021 US$550,000 Undisclosed

Introdex

Introdex is an AI-powered sales platform that uses the largest warm connections network to help B2B companies get warm introductions to their pipeline leads.

Founding year Funding Investors
2023 Undisclosed Antler

Morpheus Labs

Morpheus Labs is an AI-powered, low-code implementation and integration platform that simplifies the process of building and deploying blockchain projects. The platform helps businesses and developers build, test, and launch applications, Web3, and AI solutions with greater speed and efficiency.

Founding year Funding Investors
2017 Undisclosed Rhapsody Ventures,
Bansea

SOMIN

SOMONITOR is a platform for digital marketers that analyses competitor content to reveal communication gaps, identifies blind spots and recommends top-performing marketing strategies and content.

Founding year Funding Investors
2022 Undisclosed Tembusu Partners,
OKS Group,
Plug and Play APAC,
Investible

Smobler

Smobler is a next-gen game and frontier tech builder at the intersection of AI, blockchain, and immersive storytelling. It is a portfolio company of Animoca Brands, The Sandbox, and Brinc and is backed by Enterprise Singapore and IMDA.

Founding year Funding Investors
2024 US$1.2 million Brinc,
ENJINSTARTER,
The Sandbox,
Tribe

CREX

CREX helps hotels build a premium guest experience through sustainability actions that genuinely drive conversions. It transforms their sustainability data into structured, AI-ready trust signals that set hotels apart, support their affiliate booking pathways, and connect them seamlessly to sustainability solution providers for measurable impact.

Founding year Funding Investors
2022 Unknown Unknown

Addlly AI

Addlly AI offers brand-trained AI marketing agents and GEO tools to help global teams create, scale, and optimise content for AI-first platforms like ChatGPT and Perplexity. Its AI Agents create high-quality, multilingual content across blogs, social posts, product descriptions, newsletters, ads, and more, at scale, and always in your brand voice.

Founding year Funding Investors
2023 US$900,000 Undisclosed

Smart-Wares

It delivers intelligent AI-powered applications and software consultancy services that help businesses streamline operations, enhance decision-making, and drive digital transformation. It specialises in developing intelligent, AI-powered applications designed to transform operations across diverse industries, complemented by comprehensive software consultancy services.

Founding year Funding Investors
2023 Unknown Unknown

Bitcomputing

Opencord.AI is an autonomous marketing assistant that helps SMEs scale without increasing headcount. It runs nonstop across multiple platforms and languages, engaging leads, optimising ROI, and delivering precision marketing campaigns. By automating repetitive tasks, Opencord.AI saves businesses significant costs while boosting reach and efficiency.

Founding year Funding Investors
2023 Unknown Unknown

Sustainable Living Lab

Sustainable Living Lab (SL2) is a sustainability consultancy and innovation lab. We specialise in creating and implementing rapidly evolving, impactful solutions. Our expertise lies in leveraging technology, as a tool for sustainability, with a strong emphasis on a community-driven approach to implementation.

Founding year Funding Investors
2012 Undisclosed Undisclosed

Glee Trees (Gleematic)

Gleematic AI is software for robotic process automation. It automates business operations by emulating mouse/keyboard strokes, text analytics, and machine learning.

Founding year Funding Investors
2016 Undisclosed 500 Global,
XNode,
Plug and Play APAC,
GTR Ventures

Straits Interactive

Straits Interactive is an edutech company that specialises in Gen AI, data governance and data protection. It helps organisations convert their knowledge into AI Assets safely and securely.

Founding year Funding Investors
2013 Unknown Unknown

IntentAI

IntentAI helps large, regulated enterprises take GenAI projects from proof of concept to full production. Its enterprise GenAI platform makes it easy to build, integrate, scale and maintain AI Agent workflows with strong governance, omnichannel support, and flexible deployment (cloud or on-premise).

Founding year Funding Investors
2018 Undisclosed Tembusu Partners

i-Sprint Innovations

i-Sprint provides identity and access management (IAM) and mobile app protection and is used by enterprises to combat cyber threats with bank-grade security solutions.

Founding year Funding Investors
2000 US$9.9 million Beijing Huasheng Tiancheng Technology,
Automated Systems Holdings,
Bull Capital Partners,
iD TechVentures

SmsDome

SmsDome is a mobile and multi-channel marketing solutions company specialising in connecting B2B and B2C clients. The company positions itself as a mobile marketer and has served various industries, including government agencies, healthcare, education, retail, and F&B.

Founding year Funding Investors
2007 Unknown Unknown

AgriG8

AgriG8 is an agri-fintech platform connecting financial institutions with Southeast Asian rice farmers. The platform aims to solve the problem of smallholder farmers’ reliance on high-interest informal loans (around 40 per cent per annum) and the financial challenges of adopting sustainable farming practices.

Founding year Funding Investors
2021 Undisclosed Better Bite,
The Trendlines Group

Explico

Explico is an assessment-based learning platform using AI and machine learning that identifies users’ academic strengths and weaknesses to structure their learning needs.

Founding year Funding Investors
2019 US$1.4 million Astonic Ventures,
Mavistutorial,
SAP,
SuperCharger Ventures

Good Bards

Good Bards is a marketing OS powered by agentic AI. The platform simplifies complex workflows, accelerates campaign deployment, and enables context-aware customer engagement.

Founding year Funding Investors
2023 Unknown Unknown

Scarlett Panda

Scarlett Panda aims to reimagine how children read in the age of screens. Today’s kids spend more than six hours a day on digital devices but less than fifteen minutes reading for fun. It bridges that gap by combining storytelling, personalisation, and safe generative AI – transforming screens from passive entertainment into active imagination.

Founding year Funding Investors
2023 Undisclosed Iterative

UIB Holdings

UIB has created a conversational AI platform with cognitive IoT capabilities. The platform, UnificationEngine, facilitates frictionless onboarding and seamless communications between humans, IT systems, and machines, such as connected appliances (smart homes), smart cities and smart factories (Industry 4.0).

Founding year Funding Investors
2014 Undisclosed Free Electrons,
Plug and Play APAC

MyRepublic

MyRepublic is a telecommunications provider aiming to redefine connectivity in the digital age. Through a continuous drive for innovation, the company delivers broadband and mobile solutions that exceed conventional expectations.

Founding year Funding Investors
211 US$150 million

CraveFX

CraveFX is a Singapore-based creative technology studio that brings stories to life through animation, visual effects, motion graphics, and interactive experiences. CraveFX’s designers, animators, developers, and technologists collaborate to deliver visually compelling and emotionally resonant experiences that span commercial, educational, and cultural domains.

Founding year Funding Investors
2013 Unknown Unknown

Data courtesy: Tracxn.

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