The GenAI Fund Startups portfolio highlights how generative and agentic AI are being applied across banking, healthcare, finance, mobility, and retail in practical, enterprise-ready ways. Each selected company secured paid proof-of-concept projects and is undergoing active investment review by the GenAI Fund.
This signals a strong focus on solutions that already demonstrate commercial traction and real customer demand. The approach helps founders avoid early-stage pitfalls such as slow onboarding cycles, unclear market fit, and unstable revenue streams.
Blaze AI stands out within the GenAI Fund Startups for building high-quality, affordable voice AI optimized specifically for Southeast Asian languages. Co-founded by Trung Huynh, formerly at Google and Palantir, the platform handles text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and speaker diarization with exceptional accuracy for regional dialects.
Global AI providers often overlook linguistic diversity in Southeast Asia, leading to poor accuracy for local users. Blaze fills that gap by ensuring enterprises get reliable voice AI without compromising cultural or language nuance.
Life AI brings a scientific edge to the GenAI Fund Startups through its decentralized science platform aimed at advancing genomics and precision healthcare. Co-founded by Dr. Tuan Cao, a former Google engineering leader with a Cornell PhD, the platform applies AI to large-scale medical datasets to accelerate discovery.
Its DeSci model supports open collaboration among researchers while enabling personalized healthcare insights for Southeast Asian populations. This helps bridge a research gap where genetic datasets from the region have traditionally been overlooked in global medical studies.
Ourteam strengthens the talent segment among the GenAI Fund Startups as Asia’s leading AI recruiting platform. Co-founder Yew Wai Kong brings deep experience from companies like Groupon, Fave, and OVO.
The AI screens candidates automatically, reducing review time by half while improving match quality and fairness. In Southeast Asia, where companies face massive applicant volumes and talent shortages, this offers a meaningful advantage. It also reduces manual screening bias, helping enterprises build more equitable hiring pipelines.
Presight focuses on enterprise-grade analytics within the GenAI Fund Startups, offering an AI data analyst that delivers trustworthy, hallucination-free insights. The company was co-founded by Ben Pham, a former Microsoft Data Scientist who understands the risks of unreliable AI outputs in regulated industries.
Presight connects directly to existing data warehouses and maintains strict governance controls. This ensures enterprises in sectors like finance and healthcare receive accurate analytics without the risk of AI-generated errors that could lead to operational or regulatory failures.
Revve AI adds strong automation capabilities to the GenAI Fund Startups, building human-like AI voice and chat agents aimed at high-volume industries such as finance and consumer services. Co-founder Trung Vu is a Y Combinator alum who previously sold a startup to Niantic.
Revve’s agents help organizations handle thousands of customer interactions without increasing headcount. With rising labor costs and demand for 24/7 support across Southeast Asia, Revve’s model offers an efficient path to scaling revenue while preserving service quality.
Tribee completes the GenAI Fund Startups cohort as a behavioral AI platform designed for frontline sales teams. Co-founded by Paweł Górski, who has over a decade of experience in engagement technologies, Tribee boosts frontline performance by providing real-time coaching and analytics.
Many enterprises see sales productivity increase by more than 30 percent within the first year. This direct impact on revenue makes Tribee one of the most ROI-focused companies in the cohort, appealing to enterprises prioritizing measurable business outcomes.
The FastTrack AI Accelerator supporting the GenAI Fund Startups offers each company up to $1 million in GPU and cloud credits, access to technical specialists, and enterprise proof-of-concept opportunities across more than 100 large companies in Asia.
The GenAI Open Innovation network has facilitated more than 300 curated business connections since late 2024, becoming a critical bridge between AI builders and enterprise adopters. Its proprietary AI matchmaking system helps startups reach decision-makers faster, reducing long enterprise sales cycles.
Looking ahead, GenAI Fund Partner Kai Yong Kang states that Cohort 1 GenAI Fund Startups are expected to launch pilot projects with their enterprise partners within three months. This fast-paced co-development model helps the fund identify breakout companies early, allowing them to deploy capital and support at the right moment.
Kang noted that applications for FastTrack Cohort 2 are now open, inviting global AI startups to scale in collaboration with major Southeast Asian enterprises. The next cohort aims to attract companies ready for rapid market expansion rather than early experimentation.
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