Singapore captures 91.7% of Southeast Asia robotics funding

Most of the total regional investment came from a single funding round.

Singapore accounted for 91.7% of Southeast Asia’s all-time robotics funding, according to a report from private-market data platform Tracxn.

Robotics companies in the city-state raised $986m across 58 funding rounds.

Singapore was home to 108 of the 242 robotics companies tracked across the region. Of these, 37 had secured institutional funding.

The city-state’s most-funded robotics companies were Sharpa, which raised $670m, followed by Fourier Intelligence with $83m and Neptune Robotics with $69.5m.

Across Southeast Asia, robotics companies raised $1.1b in all-time equity funding. Only 51 of the 242 tracked companies had received institutional investment.

Annual funding reached a record $696m in 2026 year to date, rising from $52m in 2025 and $10.2m in 2021.

However, the increase was driven primarily by Sharpa’s $670m Series D round in August. The transaction accounted for most of the year’s funding and exceeded the sector’s combined investment before 2026.

Deal activity remained limited, with six funding rounds recorded in 2026 year to date, compared with three in 2025 and 10 in 2021.

The sector also remained concentrated at the early stages. Only 22 companies had reached Series A or later, whilst nine had reached Series B, five had reached Series C and three had reached Series D or beyond.

No Southeast Asian robotics company had achieved unicorn status or completed an initial public offering.

The region recorded only one acquisition: Light Ray Holdings’ purchase of kitchen robotics company Zimplistic, which developed Rotimatic, in October 2020. The acquisition price was not disclosed.

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