{"id":626349,"date":"2026-10-10T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626349\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T12:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T12:00:31","slug":"sgs-onebyzero-secures-20m-in-jungle-ventures-led-series-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626349\/","title":{"rendered":"SG’s OneByZero secures $20m in Jungle Ventures-led Series A"},"content":{"rendered":"

Singapore-based enterprise artificial intelligence company OneByZero<\/a> has announced that it has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round anchored by Jungle Ventures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The round marks OneByZero\u2019s first external funding as it seeks to expand its AI deployment business across Asia Pacific, per the announcement.<\/p>\n

The company said it has spent the past three years deploying AI systems for large enterprises in regulated sectors including financial services, telecommunications and retail.<\/p>\n

The funding will support expansion of its engineering teams, entry into Japan and the development of its NEO AI deployment platform and AI Coworkers, OneByZero said.<\/p>\n

It will also be used to expand operations in the nine markets where OneByZero currently operates, including Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, the US and Vietnam.<\/p>\n

The company also plans to establish a local team in Japan and expand into conglomerates, healthcare and the public sector.<\/p>\n

OneByZero claims its revenue has more than doubled annually over the past three years.<\/p>\n

Its AI deployments have helped some enterprises automate more than 90% of customer-facing interactions, while its systems have delivered cost savings and cut the time required for complex data modernisation projects by as much as 50%, it pointed out.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s NEO platform serves as the control layer for these deployments, providing governance and a record of agent activity, it added.<\/p>\n

OneByZero said it will also invest in NEO and develop industry-specific templates, including tools that allow enterprises to build AI applications using open-weight and smaller language models.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery enterprise can now get access to powerful AI,\u201d said Niket Vaidya, CEO and co-founder of OneByZero. \u201cThe value comes when it runs inside the systems that run the business, under the company\u2019s own rules, and gets better every week.\u201d<\/p>\n

The startup\u2019s funding comes as Southeast Asia\u2019s venture capital market is contending with a structural gap in follow-on funding, even as headline funding values show signs of recovery driven by a handful of mega-deals, investors said at DealStreetAsia\u2019s Asia PE-VC Summit in Singapore<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A report by Kickstart Ventures and DealStreetAsia shows venture capital funding for Southeast Asian startups jumped to $7.25 billion across 217 deals in the first half of 2026, up from $3.5 billion in H2 2025.<\/p>\n

However, total transactions fell 7% to a multi-year low, with the recovery driven largely by a single $4.5 billion Series C round for Singapore-based DayOne. Excluding DayOne, regional funding fell 21% half-on-half to $2.75 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singapore-based enterprise artificial intelligence company OneByZero has announced that it has raised $20 million in a Series A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[138,336,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-626349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}