Acrab

Acrab is a Singapore headquartered company, founded in 2024, building compute infrastructure for agentic AI at the edge. It emerged from stealth having raised over three hundred fifty million dollars in cumulative financing, an unusually large sum for its stage, led by early and repeated backing from Vertex, the Temasek backed global venture platform. Its distinguishing bet, shared by its investors, is that the next wave of AI will run at the edge rather than in the cloud, and that delivering agentic experiences therefore requires a fundamentally new compute foundation.

Unlike the software vendors that make up most of this index, Acrab is a full stack hardware and software compute platform. Its architecture spans its own AI silicon, local large language model inference, operating system technology, multimodal human machine interfaces, and agent orchestration, giving it a broader technical scope than chip design alone. CEO Dr. Ken Phua, a veteran of Arm UK and Arm China, frames the company's thesis around the CPU returning to the center of the AI era, where execution depends on seamless coordination between CPUs and NPUs in heterogeneous computing environments. Its first generation compute platform, called GELIX, is designed to run local LLMs for agentic AI workloads and, the company says, has been validated in demanding real world deployment environments as it moves toward first industry adoption and mass production. Notably, the company did not disclose customers, deployment sites, manufacturing partners, or production timelines, so much of the platform's real world footprint remains unproven publicly.

Acrab fits organizations that need agentic AI to run locally and privately on device or at the edge, where data residency and low latency matter more than cloud scale. As a hardware centric, pre mass production platform, it is a weaker fit for buyers needing available software today, and its place in this index is as a compute layer beneath agentic applications rather than an agent platform itself.