NextGen Tech 30 2025: Asia’s Growth-Stage Champions Redefining Global Innovation

Singapore, 16 September 2025 — The NextGen Tech 30 has returned with its second edition, expanding beyond ASEAN to spotlight 30 of Asia’s most ambitious growth-stage companies. From robotics to generative AI, from digital finance to sustainable energy, these companies are not just scaling fast — they are reimagining how the world works, consumes, and connects.

Spearheaded by Granite Asia with 16 strategic partners, NextGen Tech 30 is the region’s first initiative dedicated to recognising and elevating the next wave of global category leaders.

Asia’s Innovation Vanguard

·       The 2025 cohort spans 10+ countries and regions, led by Singapore (9), Mainland China (8), Japan (4), Malaysia (2), India (3), Korea (2), and Hong Kong (2).

·       By sector, Enterprise Solutions dominate (14 companies), followed by Automation (9) and Consumer AI (7) — showing how technology is embedding into the core of industries while also reshaping consumer experiences.

·       Over half of the honourees generate revenue outside their home markets, underscoring their global competitiveness and resilience.

Trends Shaping Asia’s Innovation Story

This year’s NextGen Tech 30 highlights the powerful themes driving Asia’s innovation economy. Sustainability and automation are accelerating, with robotics applied to reduce carbon emissions in global trade. Trust in enterprise AI is emerging as a decisive factor, as platforms enable safe, localized deployment of generative AI in regulated industries. Human-centric robotics is gaining ground, blending automation with empathy to transform consumer experience. On the consumer front, AI is reimagining entertainment and education for mass markets, while digital infrastructure is enabling borderless connectivity across economies. Finally, productivity and workflow transformation is reshaping how individuals and enterprises capture and act on information.

Together, these stories show how Asia’s growth-stage champions are reshaping industries, meeting global demands, and laying the foundations of the next innovation wave.

Celebrating Momentum & Resilience

For the first time, the initiative introduced the Momentum Award, recognising five companies from the 2024 list that have consistently performed and continued their strong trajectory. These honourees exemplify the resilience and sustained growth that define Asia’s most promising scale-ups, while underscoring the importance of long-term, patient capital in helping innovation leaders scale responsibly.

Momentum Award 2025 Recipients:

·       Bolttech

·       PingCAP

·       Thunes

·       Toku

·       Univers

A Ceremony of Global Ambition

The 2025 honourees were announced at the Singapore Exchange (SGX) in a gong-striking ceremony attended by distinguished investors, ecosystem partners, and featuring remarks from Boon Chye Loh, CEO of SGX Group; Chuan Teck Lee, Chairman of Enterprise Singapore; and Guest of Honour Piyush Gupta, Chairman of Singapore Management University.

The celebration highlighted not only the region’s most dynamic companies, but also the capital partnerships that enable them to scale from local champions to global leaders. By convening founders, sovereign funds, and global allocators in one arena, the ceremony underscored Granite Asia’s mission to close the capital loop in Asia — from investment to exit to reinvestment — to sustain the region’s innovation economy.

The 2025 NextGen Tech 30 Companies

(by alphabetical order)

• Adaps Photonics (China)
• AlphaESS (China)
• Aquaria (China)
• Billion Connect (Singapore)
• Centific (United States/India)
• Cloudsway (Singapore)
• DP Technology (China)
• fileAI (Singapore)
• Groove X (Japan)
• Hacobu (Japan)
• HC Scientific (China)
• Hydroleap (Singapore)
• Kuku FM (India)
• KUN (Hong Kong)
• LionsBot (Singapore)
• Manentia (India)
• Moka (China)
• Neptune Robotics (Singapore)
• Notta (Japan)
• NSW (Malaysia)
• PolicyStreet (Malaysia)
• Polyverse Entertainment (Hong Kong)
• Silicon Box (Singapore)
• SynaXG (Singapore)
• SyntheticGestalt (Japan)
• Tezign (China)
• Toss Bank (Korea)
• UMU (China)
• Whale (Singapore)
• Wrtn (Korea)

About NextGen Tech 30:

NextGen Tech 30 is Asia’s first regional initiative spearheaded by Granite Asia dedicated to recognising and elevating growth-stage companies transforming the economy.

Visit the NextGen Tech 30 website for more information on how to submit nominations and eligibility criteria.

https://nextgen.graniteasia.com/