🚀 FastTrack AI Accelerator — Cohort 1 Announcement

Powered by GenAI Fund | Accelerated by NVIDIA Inception Program

After receiving over 300 applications globally, we’re thrilled to announce the first cohort of 6 startups (Blaze AI, Life AI, ourteam, Presight, Revve AI and Tribee) selected for the FastTrack AI Accelerator, a program designed to fast-track the most promising AI startups toward enterprise adoption, scalable impact, and investment-readiness.

This program powered by GenAI Fund and accelerated by NVIDIA Inception Program — provides selected startups with:

Access to GPU resources, technical support by NVIDIA experts and other cloud provider resources
Enterprise PoC opportunities curated through the GenAI Open Innovation network
Investment evaluation and funding opportunities from GenAI Fund and partners

🌏 Snapshot from the Applications

The diversity of submissions highlights how rapidly AI innovation is scaling across Southeast Asia.

🌏 Where They’re From
AI innovation is accelerating across Southeast Asia — with Singapore (27%), Vietnam (23%), Malaysia (9%), and Indonesia (6%) leading the pack. Beyond ASEAN, we also saw strong participation from the U.S. (11%) and India (8%), underscoring Southeast Asia’s rising role as a global AI hub.

🏭 What They’re Solving
The top three industries driving AI adoption are Finance (43%), Healthcare (37%), and Retail (35%), followed by Manufacturing (28%), Logistics (24%), and Education (24%). These are all data-intensive sectors where Generative AI can deliver measurable impact fast.

🤖 How They’re Using AI
Across verticals, the hottest use cases include Conversational AI for customer support (23%), internal GenAI assistants & workflow chatbots (22%), AI-powered sales enablement (20%), and marketing automation (12%) — signaling a clear shift toward Agentic AI and AI copilots that enhance how teams sell, support, and operate.

💼 Who They Sell To
Nearly 92% of startups are B2B-focused, emphasizing enterprise adoption and PoC execution over consumer-facing applications — proving that real AI traction today happens inside the enterprise.

💰 Who’s Building
A majority, 54%, are bootstrapped, followed by 27% at Seed and 21% at Angel stage — reflecting a wave of early-stage founders building fast, lean, and globally ambitious AI startups across the region.

🏆 Congratulations to the First Cohort

All six selected startups have successfully secured Proof-of-Concept (PoC) projects with enterprise partners through the program and are now under active investment consideration by GenAI Fund.

Let’s meet our Cohort 1 trailblazers 👇

🔊 Blaze AI — High-quality Voice AI Made Affordable for Southeast Asia

Blaze AI is a cutting-edge Voice AI platform designed for South East Asia. It offers high quality and affordable text-to-speech, speech-to-text, speaker diarization and other Voice AI models that bring SOTA conversational AI to the region. Blaze AI is founded by world-class researchers and engineers with experience from Google Research and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

🧬 Life AI — The Intelligence Layer of Human Health

LIFE AI is a pioneering decentralized science (DeSci) platform revolutionizing healthcare by accelerating the development of personalized, data-driven medical solutions. By providing researchers with clean, labeled, and organized genetic profiles, LIFE AI reduces the time-to-market for genomics-based AI applications and enables breakthroughs in precision medicine. The platform empowers individuals and communities worldwide through a decentralized approach to scientific discovery and personalized healthcare.

💼 ourteam — The Top AI Recruiter in Asia

ourteam is the top AI recruiter in Asia, helping enterprises screen every candidate and hire the best talent fast. ourteam works with 50+ clients across Southeast Asia to standardize first-round screening, deliver shortlists in hours, and improve hiring quality and fairness at scale. Human-like AI interviews and structured screening surface the best fits with role-aware insights, multilingual coverage, and a branded experience that plugs into your ATS and workflows—yielding up to 70% faster shortlists and 50% less review time, saving tens of thousands of dollars while improving signal and candidate experience.

📊 Presight — The AI Data Analyst for Enterprises

Presight is the AI Data Analyst for Enterprises — built for trust, control, and scale. Running on verified business metrics defined by teams, it ensures zero hall ucinvations and full governance. Operating directly on existing data warehouses without moving data, Presight delivers accurate, compliant, and secure insights — turning enterprise data into confident, actionable intelligence.

🤖 Revve AI — Scaling Revenue, Not Teams

Revve AI develops enterprise-grade voice and chat agents that help businesses convert more customers and automate operations with human-like precision. Built for regulated and high-volume industries such as financial services and consumer brands, Revve’s proprietary models support a wide range of languages and can be deployed securely on-premise or in air-gapped environments. By combining advanced AI technology with deep industry expertise, Revve turns generative AI into practical, compliant, and measurable business outcomes.

🏪 Tribee — AI-enabled Insights and Data-driven Coaching for Frontline Sales Teams

Tribee is a smart sales platform that helps frontline teams in Financial Services, General Trade, Retail, and F&B improve performance. Using behavioral AI, Tribee learns from real customer interactions to find what drives sales — and delivers those insights to staff through actionable daily coaching, KPI progress updates, and motivation. Clients see 32% better performance within the first year, with measurable results in the first three months.

🌐 What’s Next: FastTrack Cohort 2

Applications are now open for the second cohort!
As we expand our reach, the FastTrack Accelerator now works with over 70 enterprises across the region, providing even more opportunities for AI startups to deploy real-world solutions, gain traction, and secure funding.

If you’re building the future of AI — this is your moment to FastTrack your growth.

👉Apply now: https://genaifund.ai/fasttrack-ai-accelerator/

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