Acti, a Singapore-based company describing itself as the world’s first agentic keyboard, has raised $5.3 million in a seed round led by the United States-based BITKRAFT Ventures.

In a statement on Tuesday, Acti said it can transform the keyboard into an AI-powered context layer that works across every application a user opens. The funding will go toward engineering and AI hiring, deepening Acti’s on-device intelligence, and growing its Skill ecosystem and developer community.

The company’s longer-term ambition is to build a secure, user-owned, on-device personal context layer for the AI agent era, where the more a user interacts with Acti, the more it understands their habits, preferred apps, and recurring tasks, storing that knowledge on-device and under user control rather than inside any single platform.

Rather than requiring users to switch to a standalone AI app and re-explain context, Acti integrates AI directly into the keyboard through programmable Skill Keys. Any key can be assigned a Skill, for example, long-pressing one key to translate a message or another to fire off a meeting link, without any coding knowledge.

Users can describe their demand through a Skill Builder and Acti assembles the function accordingly. Early access users created more than 1,000 Skills in under two weeks.

Jonathan Huang, Partner at BITKRAFT Ventures, said the team can grasp the next phase of human-computer interaction, describing Acti as driving an architectural shift by reinventing the one interface every app depends on and turning it into the layer every AI agent will need.

Young Wang, CEO and founder of Acti, said today’s AI agents are fundamentally limited because user context stays fragmented across separate apps. Acti’s cross-app presence allows it to build a context layer that genuinely belongs to the user rather than any platform, the executive added.

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