Wavemaker Partners

Today marks an exciting new chapter for Eazy Digital. Eazy Digital has officially joined forces with Igloo, Southeast Asia's leading full-stack insurtech company. This partnership brings together Eazy Digital's expertise in agent and broker digitalization with Igloo's AI-powered insurance technology platform. Together, we are strengthening our ability to help insurers modernise operations, accelerate product innovation, and deliver better experiences for customers and distribution partners across Asia. As part of this milestone, our Founder and CEO, Harprem Doowa, will take on the role of Country Head of Igloo Thailand and Head of Tech Solutions, APAC, leading the next phase of growth for both businesses. To our customers and partners, it is business as usual, with even greater opportunities ahead. By combining our technology, talent, and regional reach, we are better positioned than ever to support the evolving needs of the insurance industry. Thank you to our clients, partners, investors, and team for your trust and support throughout the Eazy Digital journey. We look forward to building the future of insurance together. Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/eMSWzi78 #insurtech #insurance #digitaltransformation #eazydigital #igloo

Today marks a major milestone for us. I'm incredibly proud to share that ChemT Biotechnology has raised US$5 million within 18 months of launch, including a recently closed US$4 million Seed round led by Wavemaker Partners. 🎉 🎉 AI4S wasn't new. AI for healthcare wasn't new. Yet one of the most important parts of the life sciences value chain - #biomanufacturing - remained highly dependent on trial-and-error experimentation. Manufacturing doesn't sound particularly sexy, does it? Yet it sits behind many of the medicines that save lives every day. What fascinated us was the challenge itself: Cells don't speak human language. Understanding how they behave, respond to interventions, and ultimately can be guided toward better outcomes is an incredibly interesting AI problem. Eighteen months ago, ChemT was little more than an idea, a small team, and a conviction. Today, that conviction has grown into global partnerships, customers, revenue-generating products, and US$5 million in funding to accelerate the next phase of growth. 🚀 We're deeply grateful to our team, customers, investors, and partners for believing in our vision. This is only the beginning. If you’d like to sign up for our upcoming product release, please click here: https://lnkd.in/gx6A2ujy Read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/gQVbJnDX #ChemTBiotechnology #Biomanufacturing #AIinBiotech #Biologics #TechBio #FundingNews #VirtualCell Wavemaker Partners SEEDS Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health Draper University Temasek Life Sciences Accelerator Ling Wu Jie Sun Nicholas Gascoigne Charlie Cooney KhengNam Lee Weichang Zhou Anita Maheswar Shambhavi Mehra Loo De En Keow Woon Toh Yuehan Cao Cheng Kai liew Yue Guo Life Science Incubator BLOCK71 Global NUS Enterprise Singapore Management University Gabrielle Tan Lay Khim NUS Graduate Research Innovation Programme (GRIP) BioTools Innovator Arben Ventures AIN Ventures https://www.chemtbio.com/

Two and a half years ago, my co-founders and I made a bet: that the future of AI shouldn't run on a single model, a single chip, or a single cloud — and that someone needed to build the neutral layer that makes the alternative real. Today we're announcing our $20M Series A, co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures, with BMW i Ventures, Kickstart Ventures, Panache Ventures, and Wavemaker Ventures. The mission: AI Independence. Right now, AI is concentrating. A few labs control the models. Even fewer companies control the compute. The ecosystem calls itself open but still funnels power, pricing, and access through bottlenecks the rest of us don't get to choose. Open-source is the only real check on that — and it only works if the infrastructure to run it actually exists. So we built it. The unglamorous parts. The scheduling. The hot-loading. The decoding optimizations. The 30,000-model catalog that nobody asked for at first — and that everyone now relies on. We are key contributors to RWKV, an open-source architecture that challenges transformer dominance. Through Recursal Labs we keep pushing the open frontier. We don't just serve open AI — we advance the science that makes it better. What this round means: → We can move faster on the open-source agent runtime — so builders can ship the next generation of AI apps without depending on closed APIs. → We can take our enterprise work into more regions, more clouds, more jurisdictions. Sovereignty isn't a feature; it's the architecture. → We can prove out the fully open hardware stack with AMD — production AI shouldn't depend on any single vendor's compute. The investor mix here matters. AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures co-leading. BMW i Ventures, Kickstart Ventures, Panache Ventures, Wavemaker Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital alongside. Hardware capital, sovereign capital, mobility and industrial capital — all betting that the next decade of AI runs on infrastructure that's open from model to metal. Thank you to our investors for backing the harder version of this story. To our team across San Francisco, Toronto, Singapore, and Europe — you make every good model usable. To every builder, model creator, and enterprise running on Featherless — you're the reason this matters. THE FUTURE CAN’T BE BLOCKED. Any Model. Anywhere. Anyone. Yours. Watch the film and read the full story. Link in the comments. We're hiring. DM me.