QAI Ventures has launched its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore and announced the creation of a QuantumAI Accelerator Program and Venture Building Program, in partnership with Enterprise Singapore (EnterpriseSG). The expansion is intended to leverage Singapore’s S$300 million National Quantum Strategy by building a “lab-to-IPO” pipeline for deep-tech startups at the intersection of quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
The two core programs are designed to accelerate the commercialization of cutting-edge research. The Venture Building Program, slated to begin in 2026, aims to translate local Singaporean research and Intellectual Property (IP) into market-ready solutions, with the quantitative goal of registering seven new ventures in Singapore by 2027. This program complements the five-month QuantumAI Accelerator, which scouts and scales global startups through direct mentorship.
Technical development and enterprise relevance were showcased during the accompanying GenQ Global Quantum Hackathon, a partner event of SWITCH 2025. The winning team addressed a financial sector challenge by developing an approach for post-hoc credit card fraud detection using Interpretable Quantum Graph Neural Networks for DBS Bank. This activity highlights the accelerator’s focus on high-impact use cases in finance, energy, and life sciences, with hardware support from partners including Microsoft, IonQ, Quantinuum, and IQM.
The strategic expansion reinforces Singapore’s position as a regional gateway for global startups and a hub for corporate quantum readiness. This model supports portfolio companies like Marine Biologics, which exclusively partners with Molecular Quantum Solutions (MQS) to use MQS’s Cebule™ physics engine—which integrates quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, and graph neural networks—to accelerate sustainable biomaterials discovery.
Read the full announcement on the Accelerator launch here, the Asia-Pacific headquarters opening here, and the related portfolio news here.
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