OneByZero raises $20m to run AI agents inside Asian enterprises

OneByZero raises $20m to run AI agents inside Asian enterprises

5 October 2026: OneByZero (OBZ), a Singapore company that builds AI agents and runs them inside large organisations' own systems, has raised US$20 million in a Series A led by Jungle Ventures. It is the company's first outside funding, and the announcement names no other investors.

OneByZero sells a mix of software and people. Its NEO platform governs and orchestrates agents, which the company calls AI Coworkers, that run in the customer's environment under rules the customer sets, with a human able to step in. It says it builds and deploys on Amazon Web Services. Alongside the platform it sends forward-deployed engineers to work inside client teams. Its agents handle sales, customer operations, data engineering, recruiting and financial-services processes.

The company says it has spent three years deploying AI at large, heavily regulated organisations, mostly in financial services and telecommunications, and that it works in Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam. Niket Vaidya is chief executive and co-founder, and Vibhore Kumar, chief technology officer, is the other co-founder.

The money has four stated uses: more forward-deployed engineers in those nine markets, a local team in Japan, a move beyond finance and telecoms into conglomerates, healthcare and the public sector, and more work on NEO.

For a buyer the open question is the balance between platform and people. A deployment that leans on the vendor's engineers costs more and is harder to run without them, and the company's track record so far sits in two sectors.

Company profile on TrustList: OneByZero

Sources

• OneByZero: OneByZero raises US$20 million Series A led by Jungle Ventures, 5 October 2026
• FinSMEs: OneByZero raises USD20M in Series A funding, 5 October 2026