Acrab

Acrab is a Singapore-headquartered technology company developing the foundational compute infrastructure for agentic AI. Founded in 2024, the company emerged from stealth in June 2026, announcing it had secured over $350 million in cumulative financing to advance its hardware and software platform. Acrab is backed by prominent investors, including Vertex Ventures SEA & India and Vertex Growth, the venture capital platform of Temasek. The company is led by CEO Dr. Ken Phua, whose career in the semiconductor industry includes significant leadership roles at Arm UK and as co-CEO of Arm China. This deep expertise in CPU architecture and heterogeneous computing directly informs Acrab's strategy, which posits that CPUs are becoming increasingly critical in coordinating the complex workloads of modern AI systems. Acrab addresses the market shift from generative AI, which provides answers, to agentic AI, which performs actions. These systems are designed to understand context, coordinate tools, and execute tasks in real-time on behalf of users, requiring a new compute layer that operates locally at the edge rather than in the cloud. The company is building a full-stack compute architecture to meet this demand, encompassing AI silicon, local Large Language Model (LLM) inference, a proprietary operating system, multi-modality human-machine interfaces, and agent orchestration technologies. The company's first-generation compute platform, GΞLIX, is designed to run local LLMs to empower agentic AI workloads. It has been validated in demanding real-world environments and is advancing toward its first industry adoptions and mass production. Acrab's business model focuses on providing this foundational compute platform to partners in sectors such as personal AI PCs, home hubs, in-vehicle intelligence, industrial operations, and general robotics. Keywords: Agentic AI, edge computing, compute infrastructure, AI silicon, semiconductor design, full-stack AI, GΞLIX platform, local LLM, heterogeneous computing, agent orchestration, Ken Phua, Vertex Ventures, Temasek, AI hardware, edge devices, AI chips, CPU architecture, NPU, Singapore, in-vehicle intelligence, industrial automation, personal AI PCs, robotics compute