A Scottish-founded AI firm is opening a Singapore base as the region races to adopt the technology to gain global competitive advantage across a range of market sectors.
Tomoro AI is launching its Asia Pacific headquarters to scale up AI among large enterprises in finance, healthcare, consumer goods, media and beyond.
The company is now aiming to add 30+ AI engineers, solution designers and researchers in Singapore over the next 12 months, with further roles opening as regional demand grows.
In May last year, the firm, which works closely with OpenAI, raised £4 million investment to build a world class AI team in Edinburgh. In the 12 months since that announcement they have quadrupled employees across the firm, which also has a London base, and increased monthly revenue by more than 10 times.
“Our growth in Scotland over the last 12 months has been a core part of our overall 1000% monthly revenue growth as a business and given us the strength to move further afield, initially focusing on the APAC region from our new Singapore base”, said Ed Broussard, co-founder and managing director.
He added: “Enterprises in Asia-Pacific are racing to embed AI deeply into their core operations. Our priority is to ensure they achieve this swiftly, safely, and at scale – combining local talent with our proven accelerators and benefiting from our close alliance with OpenAI. Singapore positions us perfectly to help ambitious companies across the region turn their AI vision into measurable competitive advantage.”
Tomoro prides itself on being able to deploy the technology in an enterprise business within 12 weeks – from concept to delivery. In one case it launched an AI support agent to 110 million users in that timeframe.
Its clients include Supercell, the makers of leading games like Brawl Stars and Clash of Clans, and Fidelity International, one of the largest asset managers in the world. The firm has worked on a range of deployments, including AI basketball commentary and drug discovery to investment research, logistics management, and high-volume customer chatbots.
“We loved Singapore, this was clearly the natural launch-pad for our APAC growth” said Albert Phelps, Co-founder of Tomoro. “Within 48 hours of touching down in Singapore it was obvious that it has world-class AI talent and deeply ambitious clients – the core components that are needed to build industry changing AI solutions.”
In Singapore, the company will collaborate with local universities and industry bodies on research and upskilling programmes aligned with Singapore’s National AI Strategy.
“We loved Singapore, this was clearly the natural launch pad for our APAC growth,” added Albert Phelps, co-founder of Tomoro. “Within 48 hours of touching down in Singapore it was obvious that it has world-class AI talent and deeply ambitious clients – the core components that are needed to build industry changing AI solutions.”
Oliver Jay, managing director, international, at OpenAI, said: “Tomoro’s launch in Singapore comes at a critical time when demand for advanced AI is growing rapidly across Asia. We’ve worked closely with Tomoro in Europe and the US to deploy our frontier models into real-world enterprise applications, and we’re excited to see them help businesses across Asia unlock new levels of productivity, innovation, and creativity through AI.”
Soo Haw Yun, vice president, global enterprise, Singapore Economic Development Board, said: “Tomoro’s decision to establish its APAC headquarters and expand their engineering footprint here reflects Singapore’s attractiveness as a global business and AI hub. The APAC headquarters will strengthen our AI ecosystem, foster collaborations with companies to build innovative AI capabilities and accelerate AI adoption.”
