Singapore-based AI Startup Akro Raises USD 700,000 Pre-Seed to Automate Data Workflows in Regulated Industries

Singapore, 30 June 2026 – Akro AI Pte Ltd (“Akro”) today announced a USD 700,000 Pre-Seed funding round led by Amigos Venture Capital, including participation from strategic angel investors across financial services, healthcare and consumer technology, to automate data workflows in regulated industries.

In regulated industries, critical work still depends on unstructured documents and fragmented knowledge, leaving teams to spend days manually extracting, validating and reporting information.

Akro automates that work. Its proprietary AI models read scanned documents, handwriting and messy forms, extracting them more accurately than frontier AI models and existing document intelligence solutions. It learns about the business and runs data workflows end-to-end. Instead of a single general-purpose model, Akro uses a network of specialised models that run faster at a fraction of the cost, with complete data privacy.

Within its first year, Akro progressed from an early prototype to production deployments with government and enterprise customers, including defence, financial services and logistics organisations, and scaled the team from two to eight people. Akro has also signed a strategic partnership with ti&m to extend its reach in APAC and EMEA.

“In regulated industries, information is fragmented, documents are inconsistent and mistakes carry real consequences. That's why organisations still rely on armies of people to process information manually,” said Marcus Quek, Co-Founder & CEO of Akro. “This funding will go towards expanding our engineering team to accelerate product development and purchasing more AI hardware to deepen our research efforts.”

Mattias Rejman, Co-Founder & General Partner of Amigos Venture Capital, said: “What stood out to us was the founders themselves: their conviction, technical depth and pace of execution. The traction Akro has built in just one year speaks to their ability, and we are proud to lead this round and partner with them on this journey.”

For more information, please visit https://akro.ai.

About Akro

Headquartered in Singapore, Akro turns documents, records and institutional knowledge into automated workflows for regulated industries. Its on-premise AI workspace gives government and enterprise teams precision, privacy and explainability when handling their most sensitive information. Akro was founded in 2025 by Marcus Quek (CEO) and Brian Tang (CTO).

About Amigos Venture Capital

Amigos Venture Capital is a boutique seed and early-stage fund backing exceptional founders in connectivity infrastructure, telecom, fintech and applied AI. The fund invests globally, partnering with founders wherever they build, and brings more than 100 years of combined operating experience to help its portfolio companies beyond capital. Notable investments include Telgea, Glide Identity and Stacuity.

Contacts

Name: Marcus Quek, Co-Founder & CEO, Akro
Email: media@akro.ai