Singtel Innov8

Singtel Innov8 is the corporate venture capital arm of the Singtel Group, investing in and partnering with early-stage technology startups worldwide. Based in Singapore with offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, it leverages the resources and expertise of the Singtel Group to help startups scale and access new markets. The firm focuses on technologies that can drive meaningful change in networks, next-generation devices, digital services, and customer experience. By connecting startups to Singtel’s regional footprint, which spans 21 countries in Asia, Australia and Africa and serves hundreds of millions of mobile customers, Singtel Innov8 supports strategic collaborations that align with Singtel Group’s business needs while enabling startups to grow beyond their home markets.

Edgar Hardless

CEO and Founder

Michael Kim

Senior Director of Investments

Sharan Makhija

Director, Investments

Tian-Chong Ng

CEO

Gil Prashker

Country Director, Israel

Kum Tho Wan

Managing Director, APAC

Past deals in Internet of Things

Monogoto

Series A in 2024
Monogoto provides a cloud-based cellular network and API-driven Infrastructure-as-a-Service that enables enterprises to integrate cellular connectivity with their existing IT infrastructure. The platform supports IoT, private LTE, and 5G use cases with edge-to-cloud security, comprehensive network event auditing, anomaly detection, and automated alerts. It offers an enterprise-friendly, zero CAPEX, as-a-Service model and global reach, with public connectivity in many countries and options for roaming across private and public networks. The solution supports on-premise local breakout for private networks and private wireless broadband, helping organizations achieve secure, scalable cellular connectivity with centralized management and roaming capabilities worldwide.

DataMesh

Series B in 2024
DataMesh specializes in digital twin and mixed reality solutions, transforming industries through real-time data integration with immersive 3D environments. Its flagship platform, FactVerse, enables precise simulations, effective training, and efficient maintenance workflows across manufacturing, construction, and facility management sectors.

Synadia Communications

Series B in 2024
Synadia Communications develops and maintains NATS.io, an open-source messaging system designed for cloud-native applications, microservices architectures, IoT, and other distributed systems. Founded in 2017, the company offers commercial support, consulting services, and training around its technology.

AI-LINK

Series A in 2024
AI-LINK is a digital infrastructure provider specializing in industrial sites and 5G edge cloud services. The company develops advanced 5G networks and mobile edge computing platforms, offering a comprehensive range of 5G solutions that include terminals, base stations, and cloud services. By catering to various sectors such as transportation, real estate, education, industry, and tourism, AI-LINK enables businesses to enhance their communication infrastructure and leverage the benefits of advanced connectivity.

AI-LINK

Venture Round in 2022
AI-LINK is a digital infrastructure provider specializing in industrial sites and 5G edge cloud services. The company develops advanced 5G networks and mobile edge computing platforms, offering a comprehensive range of 5G solutions that include terminals, base stations, and cloud services. By catering to various sectors such as transportation, real estate, education, industry, and tourism, AI-LINK enables businesses to enhance their communication infrastructure and leverage the benefits of advanced connectivity.

DataMesh

Series B in 2022
DataMesh specializes in digital twin and mixed reality solutions, transforming industries through real-time data integration with immersive 3D environments. Its flagship platform, FactVerse, enables precise simulations, effective training, and efficient maintenance workflows across manufacturing, construction, and facility management sectors.

Monogoto

Seed Round in 2021
Monogoto provides a cloud-based cellular network and API-driven Infrastructure-as-a-Service that enables enterprises to integrate cellular connectivity with their existing IT infrastructure. The platform supports IoT, private LTE, and 5G use cases with edge-to-cloud security, comprehensive network event auditing, anomaly detection, and automated alerts. It offers an enterprise-friendly, zero CAPEX, as-a-Service model and global reach, with public connectivity in many countries and options for roaming across private and public networks. The solution supports on-premise local breakout for private networks and private wireless broadband, helping organizations achieve secure, scalable cellular connectivity with centralized management and roaming capabilities worldwide.

Myriota

Series B in 2020
Myriota Pty. Ltd. is an Australian company based in Adelaide that specializes in developing low-power micro transmitters for satellite connectivity, primarily targeting the Internet of Things (IoT) market. Founded in 2015, Myriota's technology enables secure data transmission by using its low-power modules, which can be seamlessly integrated into various IoT devices. These devices send small packets of data to low Earth orbit satellites and ground stations, facilitating remote communication and monitoring. The firm's solutions cater to a diverse range of applications, including data-driven agriculture, resource asset management in sectors like oil and gas, mining, environmental monitoring, and defense. Myriota's innovations aim to enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, and support data-driven decision-making across multiple industries.

LOKI

Convertible Note in 2019
LOKI Inc. is a technology company based in Izmir, Turkey, founded in 2017, specializing in cybersecurity solutions for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The company has developed a cloud-based platform that provides a secure software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure, allowing users to manage and protect their networks without requiring technical expertise. LOKI's solution integrates various security features, including antivirus, anti-spam, web filtering, firewall, and intrusion prevention systems, all designed to detect and eliminate cyber threats. By offering a unified threat management system, LOKI enables clients to ensure safe and secure internet access while effectively managing their network traffic.

Myriota

Series A in 2018
Myriota Pty. Ltd. is an Australian company based in Adelaide that specializes in developing low-power micro transmitters for satellite connectivity, primarily targeting the Internet of Things (IoT) market. Founded in 2015, Myriota's technology enables secure data transmission by using its low-power modules, which can be seamlessly integrated into various IoT devices. These devices send small packets of data to low Earth orbit satellites and ground stations, facilitating remote communication and monitoring. The firm's solutions cater to a diverse range of applications, including data-driven agriculture, resource asset management in sectors like oil and gas, mining, environmental monitoring, and defense. Myriota's innovations aim to enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, and support data-driven decision-making across multiple industries.

August Home

Series B in 2015
August Home Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing smart home access products, primarily through its flagship offering, the August Smart Lock. Founded in 2012 by designer Yves Behar and technology expert Jason Johnson, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. August Home's products utilize encrypted locking technology, allowing users to replace traditional keys with smartphones. This innovation enables homeowners to create virtual keys for various individuals such as house cleaners, dog walkers, and guests, and to manage access durations remotely via smartphones and computers. The company also features August Pro, a division focused on supporting professional smart home installers. August Home operates as a subsidiary of ASSA ABLOY AB, further enhancing its capabilities in the smart home market.

Ninja Blocks

Venture Round in 2014
Ninja Blocks is the creator of the Ninja Sphere, the missing brain for your _smart_ devices. Ninja Sphere learns from your behaviour, identifies your preferences, and manages your devices so you don't have to. The Ninja Sphere incorporates a gesture interface and micro-location technology that accurately locates radios within the home. It is backwards compatible with the Ninja Block, a popular device and platform that supports 100s of third-party devices. Ninja's should be effective and invisible as should the interface to your home.

August Home

Debt Financing in 2014
August Home Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing smart home access products, primarily through its flagship offering, the August Smart Lock. Founded in 2012 by designer Yves Behar and technology expert Jason Johnson, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. August Home's products utilize encrypted locking technology, allowing users to replace traditional keys with smartphones. This innovation enables homeowners to create virtual keys for various individuals such as house cleaners, dog walkers, and guests, and to manage access durations remotely via smartphones and computers. The company also features August Pro, a division focused on supporting professional smart home installers. August Home operates as a subsidiary of ASSA ABLOY AB, further enhancing its capabilities in the smart home market.

Guavus

Debt Financing in 2014
Guavus is a provider of advanced big data analytics applications that address complex data challenges for Fortune 500 enterprises. The company specializes in real-time analytics, enabling businesses to efficiently manage and analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured data. Guavus's applications are designed to improve service assurance and enhance customer experience management, particularly in the context of the Internet of Things. By integrating operational and business support systems, Guavus allows customers to optimize network capacity planning and enhance service operations. Its operational intelligence solutions can process over two trillion transactions daily, effectively correlating and analyzing data from diverse sources to help organizations become more efficient, profitable, and competitive.

Neura

Venture Round in 2014
Neura, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing software development kits and artificial intelligence tools aimed at enhancing the performance of mobile applications and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with a research and development center in Herzliya, Israel, Neura's platform establishes logical connections between users' devices and their environments, enabling it to predict user needs and make relevant suggestions. The company's offerings cater to various sectors, including health and wellness, retail and e-commerce, food delivery, media and entertainment, transportation and mobility, travel and hospitality, finance and insurance, lifestyle and dating, and gaming. Neura's AI-driven insights facilitate improved customer engagement and retention for leading mobile brands through advanced campaign segmentation and triggering.

Ruckus Wireless

Series G in 2012
Ruckus Wireless, Inc., based in Sunnyvale, California, is a leading provider of advanced wireless systems tailored for the expanding mobile Internet infrastructure market. The company specializes in a diverse range of "Smart Wi-Fi" products designed for mobile carriers, broadband service providers, and corporate enterprises, serving over 48,000 end-customers globally. Ruckus addresses critical Wi-Fi capacity and coverage challenges driven by the increasing traffic on wireless networks, largely due to the widespread use of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. With a focus on innovation, Ruckus has developed patented technologies, including adaptive antenna arrays that enhance signal range, improve data rates, and minimize interference. This technology ensures the reliable delivery of multimedia content and services over standard Wi-Fi networks, enabling seamless connectivity for users.

Jasper Technologies

Series D in 2012
Jasper Technologies, Inc. specializes in providing a cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) platform that enables businesses to launch, manage, and monetize IoT services globally. The company offers its Control Center, an automated connectivity management platform that allows users to oversee connected devices, including low power and low usage devices, as well as to manage connected car services. Additionally, Jasper Technologies provides Control Center for Mobile Enterprise, which facilitates mobility management for employee mobile devices. The company serves a diverse range of sectors, including agriculture, connected cars, smart homes and buildings, healthcare, industrial equipment, retail, smart cities, and transportation and logistics. Founded in 2004 as Jasper Wireless, the company rebranded to Jasper Technologies in May 2014 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with operations in Alpharetta, Georgia. As of March 2016, Jasper Technologies operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems.

Whale

Whale provides an omnichannel marketing platform that transforms marketing operations, digitalizes store operations and unifies offline & online brand experiences leveraging AI + IoT + Big Data to “Connect Brands with Customer”. Founded in 2017, Whale has since empowered 1000+ global FMCG, F&B, Fashion and Automotive brands including P&G, Unilever, Starbucks, UNIQLO, ARMANI, Watsons, Xiaomi, Midea, Lotus, POP MART etc. with over 150,000 stores across APAC, enabling brands to embrace the full potential of digital transformation. Equipped with AI capabilities, patented ReID technology and enterprise-grade security, Whale platforms comprising of Space Data Platform (SDP), Whale Marketing Cloud (WMC), Whale Open Platform (WOP) and Whale Analytics, serve as the end-to-end digitalization engine that enables brands to seamlessly engage with each customer. Whale is backed by Temasek Holding, NIO Capital, Source Code Capital, Linear Capital, Alpha Commune, BAI Capital and The Jiangmen, with 6 offices across Singapore, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen.
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