Acrab, a Singapore-headquartered technology company building agentic AI compute infrastructure, has received over $350 million in cumulative financing throughout its early development.

In a statement on Wednesday, Acrab said with the new capital, it plans to accelerate platform development, deepen research in agentic compute systems, expand collaborations with global technology partners, and strengthen its presence in key international markets.

Vertex, the global venture platform backed by Temasek, was among the earliest investors in Acrab through its Vertex Ventures SEA & India and Vertex Growth funds. Vertex continued to increase its investment as the Acrab achieved critical technological milestones, the AI company added.

Ken Phua, CEO of Acrab, previously held leadership roles at Arm UK and served as co-CEO of Arm China.  CPUs are becoming increasingly important as AI systems evolve into heterogeneous computing environments, the executive added. As a result, delivering agentic AI experiences requires a fundamentally new compute foundation.

Kee Lock Chua, CEO of Vertex Holdings, said Vertex backed Acrab in its earliest days on the conviction that the next wave of AI will run at the edge rather than in the cloud, and that its confidence has deepened as Acrab translated that thesis into a validated platform.

Founded in 2024, Acrab develops a full-stack compute architecture spanning AI silicon, local LLM inference, operating systems, multi-modality human-machine interfaces, and agent orchestration technologies. Its first-generation compute platform, GΞLIX, is designed to support local LLMs for agentic AI workloads, and has been validated in demanding real-world deployment environments as it moves toward its first industry adoption and mass production.

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