Deepgram, the US real-time artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure company, announced Tuesday plans to establish its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, deepening its commitment to a region where the company is already seeing strong demand for production-grade Voice AI.
Deepgram said in a statement it has appointed Sriram Ved as Vice President and General Manager for Asia Pacific (APAC) who will lead the company’s regional strategy and oversee its customer, partner, and go-to-market expansion.
From Singapore, the company plans to bring regional leadership, customer support, partnerships, and commercial operations closer to customers across the region, build on its existing speech-to-text expertise and support across Asian languages, and expand its low-latency inference footprint.
The move follows a strategic investment from EDBI, an arm of SG Growth Capital, the investment platform of EDB and Enterprise Singapore, as part of an extension to Deepgram’s $130 million Series C funding.
EDBI will also support Deepgram as it establishes a presence in Singapore and builds commercial relationships and regional operations across APAC.
It is noted that the firm saw a 96 percent year-over-year increase in API requests across APAC.
The firm currently serves customers across more than 20 markets in the region, including Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The firm is moving forward with plans to open its Singapore office as part of its long-term investment in the region.
Deepgram plans to deepen its regional investment in three core areas – customer and partner support; Asian-language capabilities and low-latency, flexible deployment.
The firm plans to expand its regional leadership, customer support, partnerships, and commercial operations, bringing these teams and capabilities closer to customers across APAC.
It also targets to build on its existing speech-to-text support for all four of Singapore’s official languages: English, Mandarin Chinese, Malay, and Tamil, while deepening its expertise in Asian languages, accents, and speech patterns, including multilingual interactions, code-switching, and specialized terminology.
Deepgram’s broader speech-to-text portfolio currently supports Japanese, Hindi, Thai, Cantonese, and several Indic languages and regional variants.
The firm also eyes work toward a broader low-latency inference footprint across APAC while continuing to offer cloud, virtual private cloud, self-hosted, and on-premises deployments that help enterprises meet regional requirements around privacy, data control, and data residency.
“APAC is one of the most promising markets for Voice AI right now. You have huge demand, incredible linguistic diversity, and companies moving quickly from experimenting with AI to putting it into production,
“Singapore puts us closer to the customers and partners building that future, and gives us a strong base to help make Voice AI work across the complexity of the region,” said Scott Stephenson, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Deepgram.
Sriram Ved, Vice President and General Manager for APAC at Deepgram, said Voice AI is already live in production across APAC, from contact centers and financial services to healthcare and telecommunications.
“We’re also seeing a new generation of AI companies building for the region and turning to Deepgram for the voice infrastructure underneath their products,
“They need technology that works where real conversations happen: across noise, accents, languages, and massive volumes, without sacrificing speed or reliability. That’s what Deepgram was built to do,” he added.
Meanwhile, EDBI’s investment in Deepgram reflects a shared ambition to build advanced AI capabilities from Singapore while supporting the company’s growth across APAC.
“Voice AI is becoming critical infrastructure for enterprises across Asia. The companies developing these technologies need to be close to the markets, languages, and deployment realities they serve。 Deepgram’s decision to anchor its APAC headquarters here reflects a long-term commitment to building from Singapore，
“At EDBI, we partner with companies like Deepgram to establish and scale meaningful capabilities here, and we look forward to its continued contribution to Singapore’s AI ecosystem,” said Yeung Chia Li, Senior Partner at EDBI.
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