Deepgram to establish APAC headquarters in Singapore after EDBI investment

Deepgram is set to establish its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore following a strategic investment from EDBI, accelerating the voice AI infrastructure company’s regional operations and computing capacity. The dedicated Singapore hub will house regional leadership, customer support, strategic partnerships and commercial operations serving the broader APAC market.

To lead this expansion, the company has appointed former Salesforce executive Sriram Ved as Vice President and General Manager for APAC, placing him in charge of regional strategy alongside customer, partner and go-to-market development. This regional push comes amidst significant commercial momentum, with Deepgram recording a 96% year-on-year increase in API requests across APAC. The platform currently serves enterprise customers in more than 20 regional markets, spanning Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam.

Singapore becomes Deepgram’s regional base

The fresh capital from EDBI forms part of an extension to Deepgram’s US$130 million Series C funding round. As an investment arm of SG Growth Capital, which operates under EDB and Enterprise Singapore, EDBI will actively support Deepgram as it establishes its operational footprint in Singapore and builds key commercial relationships throughout the wider APAC region.

Alongside its corporate expansion, Deepgram is widening its engineering focus on Asian languages, local accents and varied speech patterns. Its speech-to-text technology already supports Singapore’s four official languages of English, Mandarin Chinese, Malay and Tamil, together with Japanese, Hindi, Thai, Cantonese and multiple Indic languages and regional variants. Ongoing development will place particular emphasis on handling complex multilingual conversations, code-switching and sector-specific terminology, ensuring speech recognition models perform accurately when speakers alternate between languages or use specialised industry vocabulary.

“APAC is one of the most promising markets for Voice AI right now,” said Scott Stephenson, CEO and co-founder of Deepgram. “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.”

Regional infrastructure targets production deployments

To support customers deploying voice AI in high-volume, customer-facing environments, Deepgram is expanding its low-latency computing footprint across APAC. Key sectors adopting the technology include contact centres, financial services, healthcare, telecommunications and commerce. Live deployments within these demanding sectors require systems that can accurately process speech across diverse languages, heavy accents and background noise while meeting strict standards for latency, cost efficiency, privacy and data control.

To address these governance and data sovereignty mandates, Deepgram provides flexible deployment options covering cloud, virtual private cloud, self-hosted and on-premises architectures. This technical flexibility allows organisations to retain full control over where their data resides and how it is processed. According to Ved, demand for these capabilities is surging among both established enterprises and an emerging wave of regional AI startups.

“Voice AI is already live in production across APAC, from contact centres and financial services to healthcare and telecommunications,” said Ved. “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. That’s what Deepgram was built to do.”

EDBI backs expansion from Singapore

EDBI continues to assist Deepgram in establishing its Singapore operations and scaling its broader commercial presence throughout APAC. “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.

Globally, Deepgram’s platform is utilised by more than 200,000 developers and 1,400 organisations, having processed over 50,000 years of audio and transcribed more than one trillion words. The company is now actively progressing its plans to establish the Singapore office as the cornerstone of its regional growth.