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[Hosun Chung @hosun_chung]

Meta paid over $2 billion for a Singapore AI company. Beijing ordered the deal unwound.

Eight months on, Manus is independent again, and 24 more AI companies are building around it.

Here's the AI map of Singapore, all 25:

Frontier & Infrastructure:
- DayOne: $2B+ Series C led by Coatue
- @Acrab_Ai: $130M Series B in August
- @Sapient_Int: 27M-parameter reasoning model, $22M seed

Agents & Automation:
- @ManusAI: $100M ARR eight months after launch
- Level3AI: $13M seed led by Lightspeed
- Galatek: ~$30M Series A for lab automation

GTM & Revenue:
- https://t.co/bPHQYUKSPk: Series B led by SMBC, 100M+ AI calls a month
- @sleekflow_io: 7,000+ businesses in 70 countries
- @graas_ai: $17M Series B led by LemmaTree
- @lev8ai: AI prospecting agents, $6M seed

Health & Science:
- @holmusk: NeuroBlu dataset past 46M patients
- Gero: up to ~$250M Chugai (Roche) deal
- Nanyang Biologics: ~$1.5B Nasdaq SPAC merger approved in August, not yet closed
- @botmdio: 20,000+ doctors use it
- @qritive: prostate pathology AI, HSA-cleared
- Respiree: $11.6M Series A, FDA-cleared

Fintech & RegTech:
- @advance_ai: $2B+ valuation, $149M into Atome in May
- @tookitaki: 100B+ transactions monitored
- @_SilentEight: $40M Series B, HSBC is a client
- @AiTransparently: forensic accounting AI backed by Franklin Templeton

Industrial, IP & Creative:
- @Patsnap: past $100M ARR, unicorn since 2021
- SixSense: $8.5M Series A led by Peak XV's Surge
- @eurekarobotics: $10.5M Series A, robots for Toyota
- @augmentustech: $11M led by Woori Venture Partners
- @TopviewAIhq: $8.4M Series A, AI video ads for L'Oreal

Three things stood out:

1. The density is absurd. 15 of the 25 sit inside one 2 km circle. Level3AI and Silent Eight share 18 Cross Street.

2. The second hub is 7 km west. https://t.co/bPHQYUKSPk, Bot MD and Qritive sit inside BLOCK71. Downtown builds fintech and agents. one-north builds health and physical AI.

3. The GTM layer is Singaporean. https://t.co/bPHQYUKSPk makes the calls. SleekFlow runs the WhatsApp chats. Graas reads the commerce data. Lev8 finds the prospects. If you sell into Southeast Asia, part of your buyer's stack was built here.

One more thing. Trax, once a ~$2B Singapore unicorn, now runs from Boston. https://t.co/AdOE5N94V4 moved to Ohio. ViSenze went to Rezolve. And Manus has already been bought and unbought once.

Singapore's AI companies have raised $9.3B, most of Southeast Asia's total. How many of these 25 are still here in 2028?

Which Singapore AI company did I miss? 🤔

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