Deepgram to Establish APAC Headquarters in Singapore

Deepgram, a real-time artificial intelligence infrastructure company underpinning voice AI, plans to establish its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore and has appointed Sriram Ved, a former executive at Salesforce, as vice president and general manager for APAC.

The move follows a strategic investment from EDBI, an arm of SG Growth Capital as part of Deepgram's $130 million Series C funding.

Deepgram plans to deepen its regional APAC investment in the following three core areas:

• Customer and partner support: Expand its regional leadership, customer support, partnerships, and commercial operations, bringing these teams and capabilities closer to customers across APAC.
• Asian-language capabilities: Build on existing speech-to-text support for all four of Singapore's official languages: English, Mandarin Chinese, Malay, and Tamil, while deepening its expertise in Asian languages, accents, and speech patterns, including multilingual interactions, code-switching, and specialized terminology. Deepgram's broader speech-to-text portfolio currently supports Japanese, Hindi, Thai, Cantonese, and several Indic languages and regional variants.
• Low-latency, flexible deployment: Work toward a broader low-latency inference footprint across APAC while continuing to offer cloud, virtual private cloud, self-hosted, and on-premises deployments.

"APAC is one of the most promising markets for voice AI right now," said Scott Stephenson, CEO and co-founder of Deepgram, in a statement. "You have huge demand, incredible linguistic diversity, and companies moving quickly from experimenting with AI to putting it into production. Singapore puts us closer to the customers and partners building that future and gives us a strong base to help make voice AI work across the complexity of the region."

"Voice AI is already live in production across APAC, from contact centers and financial services to healthcare and telecommunications," Ved said in a statement. "We're also seeing a new generation of AI companies building for the region and turning to Deepgram for the voice infrastructure underneath their products. They need technology that works where real conversations happen: across noise, accents, languages, and massive volumes, without sacrificing speed or reliability. Thats what Deepgram was built to do."

"Voice AI is becoming critical infrastructure for enterprises across Asia. The companies developing these technologies need to be close to the markets, languages, and deployment realities they serve. Deepgram's decision to anchor its APAC headquarters here reflects a long-term commitment to building from Singapore. At EDBI, we partner with companies like Deepgram to establish and scale meaningful capabilities here, and we look forward to its continued contribution to Singapore's AI ecosystem," said Yeung Chia Li, senior partner at EDBI, in a statement.