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Singtel Innov8

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Overview

Singtel Innov8, the venture capital arm of the Singtel Group, invests in and partners with innovative tech start-ups worldwide. It has a fund size of US$250 million and its own set of decision making, approval and funding processes. Beyond funding, Singtel Innov8 is a gateway for start-ups to tap on the resources and expertise of the Singtel Group, while enabling the Group to gain access to emerging technologies. Singtel Innov8 focuses its investments on technologies and solutions that can lead to quantum changes in network capabilities, next generation devices, digital services and enablers to enhance customer experience. Headquartered in Singapore, Singtel Innov8 also has offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv.

Total investments
109
Lead investments
23
Investments · 12mo
9
Active investors
9

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Whale

    Participated · Series C · Jul 2026

    Whale builds an AI Operating System (AIOS) for enterprise operations based on its proprietary Business World Model (BWM), which interprets camera, sensor, and audio signals similar to how LLMs process text. Its product suite includes SpaceSight (physical space intelligence), Echo (voice and audio intelligence), Lume (content distribution), Alivia (workflow automation and intelligent agents), Harbor (knowledge management and compliance), and Novus (AI infrastructure and governance). Whale serves more than 1,600 enterprises in 45+ countries and manages over 600,000 edge AI nodes globally across industries including retail, automotive, F&B, manufacturing, and financial services. Headquartered in Singapore, the company is scaling deployments across North America and APAC with plans for MENA and Europe. Whale recently raised a Series C round that now totals $100 million, which it says will fund global expansion, team growth, deeper partnerships, and expanded platform integrations.

  • QIZ Security

    Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

    QIZ Security provides continuous cryptographic posture and PQC management across complex enterprise environments, offering discovery, inventory, risk modeling, remediation, and governance capabilities to enable crypto-agility. The platform is designed as an end-to-end operating layer for enterprise cryptography across hybrid and complex infrastructures. QIZ says it has supported more than 100 organizations and that its team brings more than six years of hands-on PQC experience. The company reports early traction in financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, and critical infrastructure and is building strategic partnerships with firms including Cisco, AWS, Google, CrowdStrike, Deloitte, EY, and IBM. Founded by Ben Volkow, Lenny Ridel, and Dr. Itan Barmes, QIZ is scaling product and go-to-market efforts to meet accelerating demand as enterprises prepare for the post-quantum transition.

  • Armada

    Participated · Series B · May 2026

    Armada builds and delivers modular AI infrastructure — including Galleon manufacturing systems, Leviathan megawatt-scale modular data centers, and Triton portable units — for high-density training, inference, sovereign neo-cloud and multi-tenant compute environments. The company has documented rapid commercial traction, reporting 540% customer bookings growth in FY25–26 and a 2000% bookings increase in Q1 FY27 year-over-year. Armada has supported defense and commercial deployments, including a rapid Triton field deployment for a defense ally, a U.S. Navy edge deployment during a multinational exercise, a WinDC renewable-energy-backed AI factory deployment in Australia, and trials with Aker BP for offshore rig use. Armada is expanding manufacturing capacity with Galleon Forge One, a planned up-to-400,000-square-foot factory in Arizona expected to create about 500 jobs, enabled by a framework agreement and investment from Johnson Controls. The company has built an ecosystem and marketplace with partners including Microsoft, NVIDIA, Palantir and Dell Technologies to accelerate customer deployments and maintain control over sensitive data and models. Armada has raised capital totaling nearly half a billion dollars to date and is using that funding to scale production, meet accelerating global demand, and support new initiatives.

  • Selector

    Participated · Equity · Feb 2026

    Selector offers a unified observability and network intelligence solution that integrates large language models, knowledge graphs, and causal reasoning to deliver real-time root-cause analysis, predictive maintenance, and automated remediation. The platform replaces siloed monitoring tools with a single pane of glass, giving operations teams contextual insights across cloud, network, and application layers. In 2025 the company’s cumulative annual recurring revenue reached 230 % of 2024 levels, marking its fourth consecutive year of doubling ARR, and new ARR booked jumped to 370 % of 2024. Approximately 80 % of its customers are Fortune 1000 firms, including three new Fortune 20 customers in manufacturing and healthcare. Selector has expanded globally via cloud marketplaces, regional partners, and an initial push into Japan. The firm recently secured eight foundational U.S. patents covering LLM training, causal inference, and network path intelligence, and it plans to launch an enhanced Agentic ChatOps capability for multi-turn reasoning. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Selector is backed by a roster of telecom and enterprise-focused investors.

  • WIZ.AI

    Participated · Series B · Nov 2025

    WIZ.AI develops enterprise-grade voice agents that leverage large language models to handle customer interactions across multiple channels with natural, locally accented speech. Its platform emphasizes strong security and elastic scalability so large organizations can rapidly adjust usage as demand shifts. The company is now accelerating work on an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) platform and building comprehensive AI Partner Solutions tailored to Southeast Asian markets. Fresh capital will also support strategic expansion into additional emerging markets. By refining models to understand complex local dialects and cultures, WIZ.AI aims to set a new standard for enterprise customer communication. The startup has attracted backing from leading regional and global investors, underscoring confidence in its technology and market position. Its most recent Series B round brought in more than US$10 million to fund these growth initiatives.

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