Investor relations
Bootstrapped to USD 2.4M ARR. Now raising to take the seat while it is empty.
AIVO Asia builds agentic customer engagement AI for Southeast Asian businesses. Two products, voice and messaging, sold separately. Four countries. No external capital to date and cashflow positive since we started.
Where the business is today.
Run-rate as at April 2026. Cashflow positive. Singapore incorporated as AIVO Asia Pte. Ltd.
Why Southeast Asia, why now
Demand, capital and policy all point at Singapore.
Three structural tailwinds, each independently verifiable, that make this window time-bound rather than open-ended.
SME AI adoption growth in one year
Singapore SME adoption moved from 4.2% to 14.5% on IMDA's own figures. Customer service is the second most automated function, which makes this the median use case rather than a niche one.
Call centre costs across the region grow 8 to 12% a year, and agent attrition in financial services and property runs above 30%. The buy case gets stronger every year on its own.
Of regional AI venture capital lands in Singapore
Southeast Asian AI startup funding grew 217% year on year, H1 2025 against H1 2024, on the Google, Temasek and Bain e-Conomy SEA report. More than 680 AI startups in the region raised roughly USD 2.3B in the twelve months to June 2025.
495 of them are based in Singapore. So is AIVO.
Government co-funding on an approved solution
The Productivity Solutions Grant covers half the cost of an IMDA pre-approved solution, capped at SGD 30,000. Budget 2026's Enterprise Innovation Scheme adds an enhanced deduction on qualifying AI spend.
The practical effect is that a buyer's cost is cut structurally, not by discounting. That shows up in customer acquisition cost.
IMDA SME digitalisation statistics; Google, Temasek and Bain e-Conomy SEA 2025; DealStreetAsia Q1 2026; IMDA Productivity Solutions Grant scheme terms; Singapore Budget 2026.
Competitive position
The Southeast Asia native seat is still empty.
Three regional conversational AI peers have priced in the last eighteen months. None of them target the same wedge.
WIZ.AI is enterprise only, Amity is acquisition-led and Thai anchored, SleekFlow is Hong Kong based messaging. Nobody is running a Southeast Asia native go-to-market that covers both voice and messaging for the SME and mid-market buyer.
Competitive data is drawn from public announcements and third-party databases.
Distribution
Contracted access to more than 25,000 licensed agents.
AIVO holds master service agreements with three of Singapore's largest agent-distributed businesses across insurance and real estate. Combined addressable population is above 25,000 licensed agents. Current penetration is under 1%.
Three master service agreements
Signed in Q1 2026 with agent-distributed businesses in insurance and real estate. Distribution is contracted rather than prospective.
25,000+ licensed agents
Each agent is an individually addressable buyer of a customer engagement product, reached through a channel that is already agreed.
Under 1% today
The growth path here is depth inside contracted channels rather than new logo acquisition, which is why incremental customer acquisition cost stays low.
The team
Operator led. Built before it was funded.
Technology entrepreneur with more than ten years building digital platforms across Southeast Asia. Previously co-founded CityKey in Ho Chi Minh City and a fintech that partnered with JDB Bank Laos on one of Asia's first approved crypto-linked debit cards. Bootstrapped AIVO Asia to its current run-rate without external capital.
Leads product engineering and platform architecture across Aivobot, AISE and the integration layer. Prior engineering experience at IBM informs the focus on enterprise scalability, reliability and integration with customer backend systems.
Previously Team Lead for IBM Cloud Sales, Digital Inbound. Consultative selling and cloud deployment for SME and mid-market customers. Two-time IBM 100% Club achiever. Leads the business consultant team build and the customer acquisition motion.
Creative director with more than twenty years in commercials and branded content, LA trained, with 60+ projects across Southeast Asia for brands including Pepsi, Unilever, P&G and regional telcos. Leads brand, creative direction and demand generation.
Strategic advisors
VP Regional Growth at Manabie. Previously venture capital at Burda Principal Investments and Alvarez & Marsal Transaction Advisory, with more than 100 diligence deals across Southeast Asia.
The rest is in the deck.
Round terms, unit economics, cohort detail, the distribution partners by name and the operating plan are not published here. They go out under NDA to investors we are in conversation with.
Investor materials
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- Company profile and product overview
- Round structure and use of proceeds
- Unit economics and payback by channel
- Distribution partners, named
- Comparable transactions and pricing context
- Eighteen month operating plan
This page is for information only. It does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, and it is not investment advice. Figures are management estimates and are unaudited.
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