[SINGAPORE] From construction site monitoring systems to robot restroom cleaners, these five companies show how tech can make work easier and more effective, efficient and safe.
They are among 15 finalists of this year’s Emerging Enterprise Awards. Established in 2008, the awards recognise startups and young businesses across Singapore and Asia, providing resources to boost their growth.
Such high-performing businesses have an enterprising mindset, consistently pursue growth and are always on the lookout for new markets.
This year’s awards are co-presented by The Business Times and OCBC, and supported by Mastercard; Rajah & Tann Asia; RSM Singapore; Agency for Science, Technology and Research; Enterprise Singapore; and Paia from CBRE.
Keeping an eye on heavy industries with AI
Ailytics uses AI solutions to monitor sites and provide insights, improving safety and productivity
Ailytics leverages existing camera infrastructure to deliver real-time actionable insights, providing vision artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that help companies in heavy industries enhance their safety, productivity and security.
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In heavy industries, operations often involve high-risk activities, near misses and unsafe behaviours. Traditional manual monitoring methods such as site walks or watching multiple camera feeds are tedious, costly and prone to human error.
Our solution monitors these environments 24/7, providing real-time visibility into what’s happening on-site. Operations teams can thus quickly identify risks, improve situational awareness and make data-driven decisions to enhance overall operational excellence.
We are constantly innovating by staying at the forefront of agentic AI research and exploring how cutting-edge technology can be applied to meet our customers’ evolving needs.
Internally, we also focus on innovation through automation of internal workflows, by using AI-driven tools for coding and process optimisation to boost both productivity and efficiency across the organisation.
We currently operate in nine countries, with a strong focus on the Middle East and Australia, and have plans to expand into the United States soon.
For fundraising, we plan to raise a Series A round in 2026, and are open to strategic investors who can help us expand our reach within major industrial sectors and new geographies.
Our long-term vision is to become a global leader in video analytics for heavy industries, empowering organisations to enhance the safety, productivity and security of their operations, while making advanced AI solutions accessible and affordable to all.
Protecting Hong Kong, from industrial sites to homes
With its various detection and monitoring systems, AT-Vibe Technology hopes to create a safer society
AT-Vibe Technology’s mission is to build a smarter and safer city by stopping accidents before they happen, through our various detection, analysis and monitoring systems.
We focus on two areas. In public and industrial safety, we protect critical infrastructure and construction sites.
Our over-height vehicle detection system has eliminated bridge collisions in its deployment areas, while our AI video analysis system proactively detects 39 different safety hazards to prevent incidents.
We have also solved the problem of monitoring in remote areas with no network. Our Edge Intelligence Hub, deployed across 70 per cent of Hong Kong’s refuse transfer stations, performs all analytics locally, providing full safety coverage completely offline.
For community and home care under our Smart Love brand, our fall-detection and vitals-monitoring radars provide 24/7 oversight using privacy-protecting radar technology. This is complemented by smartwatches and SOS buttons. When an alert is triggered, our call centre ensures help is dispatched.
Hong Kong’s challenges, mirrored in many ageing societies, were our catalyst: Nearly 100 deaths occur annually from bridge collisions, with about another 20 on construction sites; on top of this, more than 41 per cent of elderly accidents happen at home.
Our work addresses critical, life-threatening gaps in urban safety. This isn’t just business; it’s a social imperative.
Our immediate focus is on scaling our proven solutions: expanding the retail presence of our Smart Love products and recruiting service partners for our home-care platform. To fuel this growth and market expansion, we are preparing for our next fundraising round.
For the long term, we want to build an interconnected fabric of safety, and a city that is not only smart and safe, but truly strong and supportive for everyone.
One-stop platform for smooth construction projects
DigitalBuild’s unified platform speeds up approvals, simplifies compliance, and strengthens collaboration
Often, construction projects experience delays and cost overruns due to the lack of real-time visibility into progress during the construction phase. Globally, construction remains one of the least digitalised industries.
Issues such as poor visibility, weak accountability and difficulty in tracking real-time progress make it tough for contractors and developers to manage their projects efficiently.
DigitalBuild was created to solve these issues. Our easy-to-use digital platform is designed to help construction companies manage their entire workflow more efficiently in one place.
We want to empower project stakeholders with a unified platform that speeds up approvals, simplifies compliance and strengthens collaboration, so projects are delivered on time, within budget, and with safety and good quality.
One of DigitalBuild’s key innovations is its AI-powered predictive analytics engine. It uses data points gathered from current and past projects to estimate how long a project will take, the resources needed and where potential delays or cost increases might occur.
By moving away from manual processes, companies typically achieve up to 20 per cent time savings and 5 per cent cost savings.
Started in Singapore, DigitalBuild has now expanded overseas, leveraging existing clients who bring us along when they run international projects.
Through a memorandum of understanding with BCA International (BCAI), we have successfully established a presence in Dubai and India, tapping into bigger markets with high construction activity. The next phase focuses on scaling in growth regions, especially India, the Middle East and South-east Asia.
We are investing in research and development (R&D), focusing on automating more processes, making the platform fully customisable and real-time. We want to be the leading digital construction solution in the Middle East and India.
We are transforming how construction projects are run. By digitalising and simplifying complex processes, we help companies save time, cut costs, improve safety and run projects with better control, turning a traditionally manual industry into a smart, efficient and future-ready one.
Robots for squeaky clean restrooms
Hivebotics is addressing the global sanitation and manpower crisis with robots
Hivebotics develops Abluo, a next-generation autonomous restroom-cleaning robot that combines steam-based disinfection, AI-driven 3D perception and modular end-effectors – devices attached at the end of robotic arms – to handle complex cleaning tasks traditionally performed by humans.
Unlike conventional cleaning machines, Abluo operates in tight restroom environments, detecting, steaming and drying 3D fixtures such as toilets, urinals and sinks autonomously.
It can function alongside human staff, integrate with facility management systems and generate digital cleaning logs for hygiene compliance.
The company’s mission is to automate hygiene infrastructure for large facilities – from airports and hospitals to commercial buildings – where chronic labour shortages and rising sanitation standards demand smarter solutions.
Founded in Singapore in 2022 by robotics engineers from the National University of Singapore, Hivebotics has deployed robots across Singapore, Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi and the US.
Our pilot programmes have rapidly converted into purchase orders with major facility management firms and airports.
We plan to expand our operations through a subscription-based “robotics-as-a-service” model, enabling cleaning contractors and facility owners to deploy robots without large upfront costs.
We partner global distributors, technology integrators, and cleaning original equipment manufacturers. We are now looking to deepen collaborations in East Asia, the Middle East and North America.
Hivebotics is currently preparing its Series A fundraising round, to scale manufacturing and international deployment. Our vision is to become the world’s top provider of 3D commercial facility cleaning robots by 2028.
Banking on solutions for banks
Bumi Amartha Teknologi Mandiri wields data and automation for financial institutions’ reporting, compliance and analytics needs
Bumi Amartha Teknologi Mandiri (Amartek) is an Indonesian technology company built on the simple belief that financial institutions can become more resilient, compliant and future-ready through smarter use of data and technology.
Amartek helps to bridge the gap between finance, risk, international financial reporting standards (IFRS), regulatory standards and digital innovation.
We are a system integrator that provides domain and advisory expertise, delivering digital transformation, data management, AI-driven analytics, and finance, risk and regulatory solutions that modernise how banks and enterprises operate.
Our flagship product, Amartha Regulatory Reporting & Analytics (ARRA), empowers financial institutions to manage their regulatory reporting, IFRS compliance, and profitability analytics with automation and precision.
Our mission is to stand out as Indonesia’s leading digital service provider and go-to talent hub.
Many of our leaders come from banking and Big Four consulting backgrounds, where they saw how complex systems and changing regulations and standards could hold organisations back.
That experience inspired our focus in helping clients turn complexity into clarity through innovation.
Innovation at Amartek combines technology and people. We enhance ARRA with AI, automation, and data intelligence to drive agility and smarter decisions, while empowering our teams to learn, collaborate, and continuously improve.
Looking ahead, we are expanding across South-east Asia and beyond, taking our ARRA platform and integration solutions into new markets.
We are also deepening our capabilities in automation, data governance and advanced analytics, while preparing the company for a future initial public offering, reflecting our commitment to long-term innovation, growth and impact.
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