Best Virtual Reality Companies in Singapore
The 57 best Virtual Reality companies in Singapore in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Neurotrend.
Singapore's Virtual Reality sector is small by funding standards, and that's exactly what makes the numbers worth reading carefully. This directory ranks Virtual Reality companies in Singapore by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum, tracking 57 firms against a global market the VR industry projects will expand at roughly 29.5% CAGR. Total disclosed funding across the cohort sits at $4M. No unicorns. Neurotrend leads the field at $2M raised, with Smobler Studios and ACKTEC Technologies each at $1M. So where's the growth story? It's in the coverage trajectory and the application breadth, not the cheque sizes.
Hot themes right now include digital health consultation, analytics tooling, and immersive formats like virtual debates and cooking experiences, which tells you the market's pulling VR toward utility, not just entertainment. Meta's acquisition of Within showed what consolidation looks like at the global tier, and Singapore's founders are building into that same demand wave from a much earlier position. I'd watch how affordability pressures reshape which verticals survive. Investors like Entrepreneur First and Seeds Capital are the names backing this cohort, and if you're mapping the Singapore pipeline, the funding floor here is real, if modest.
Our analysis of 50 Virtual Reality companies
$3.3b in tracked funding; 88% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2019.
Ranked: Best Virtual Reality companies in Singapore
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neurotrend Developer of software and algorithm to uncover consumers perception | $2M | 91 mo ago | Seed | — | 2017 | — | — |
| 2 | Smobler Studios Developer of digital experiences across gaming, blockchain, AI, and immersive storytelling | $1M | 46 mo ago | Seed | Loretta Chen Founder & CEO | 2021 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowjQuery+7 | — |
| 3 | ACKTEC Technologies Provider of an AI-based learning platform and learning management system | $1M | 63 mo ago | Seed | Ho Weiwei Co-Founder | 2015 | — | — |
| 4 | Immerzen Labs 3D Audio technology for virtual environment | — | 100 mo ago | Deadpooled | Lokesh Dhakar Co-Founder & CEO | 2016 | — | — |
| 5 | Lemnis Technologies Provider of VR headsets to alleviate motion sickness | — | 102 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2017 | — | — |
| 6 | VRcollab Provider of cloud and VR-based multi-user tools for BIM applications | — | 111 mo ago | Seed | Yiwei Gong Co-Founder & CTO | 2016 | — | — |
| 7 | RunSocial 3D fitness mobile app | — | 145 mo ago | Series A | Chow Yale | 2010 | — | — |
| 8 | 3Dhive Provider of VR-based simulation platform for various training applications | — | — | Unfunded | Siddharth Jain Founder | 2015 | — | — |
Top 7 Virtual Reality companies in Singapore
#1
Seed · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2021$1.2Mraised▾
Developer of digital experiences across gaming, blockchain, AI, and immersive storytelling. It builds on-chain and off-chain games and designs immersive digital environments using AR, VR, and digital twins. The company also produces phygital events, merging in-real-life presence with digital innovation. It creates custom tools that integrate blockchain and AI across industries.
- Sep 2022Seed$1.2M
#2
Seed · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2015 · 40 employees$1Mraised▾
Provider of an AI-based learning platform and learning management system. It provides learning materials based on interactive animations, virtual reality, augmented reality, the Internet of Things, and 3D content. It also provides AI virtual assistance and AI predictive analytics. It also provides educational design, media, education development, technology, assessment, and interactivity. It has products that include"ACKTEC Learn" which provides a learning platform, "ACKTEC Class" which provides a learning management system, and "KQwest" which provides an online training marketplace.
- Mar 2021Seed$1M
#3
Seed · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2017 · 5 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Neurotrend provides software and algorithm to uncover consumers perception. Their technology is able to scientifically identify and improve on emotions, attention, memory, and interest on various platforms like commercials, print, packaging, film, website and many more.
- Nov 2018Seed$1.5M
#4
Deadpooled · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2016—raised▾
Immerzen is working on technology for 3D audio that will increase the sense of immersion in a virtual environment. The startup claims to be using technology like advanced signal processing and machine learning to replicate a natural sense of hearing. As of Mar'17, the company is working with AR and VR content creators in Singapore to test the technology. The company is a part of Entrepreneur First Singapore’s first cohort.
- Mar 2018Seed—
- Mar 2017Seed—
#5
Acquired · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2017 · 9 employees—raised▾
Provider of VR headsets to alleviate motion sickness. It's offering claims to alleviate the motion sickness that majority users feel when trying VR. The company has completed a proof-of-concept trial of the tech and is working with a manufacturer to produce the first VR headset based on it.
- Jan 2018Seed—
- Mar 2017Seed—
#6
Seed · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2016 · 9 employees—raised▾
Provider of cloud and VR-based multi-user tools for BIM applications. The system enables multi-user features where a group of architects can work together along with their clients. It has sketching tools, a tool to export coordination reports, and a solution to export Revit 3D models, plans, and views in VR. Its features include intuitive controls, workflow planning, collaboration, and integration with common data environment(CDE) systems.
- Mar 2017Seed—
#7
Series A · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2010 · 11 employees—raised▾
Based in Singapore, Runsocial is a mobile based application for users to to socialize their treadmill workout. Its "mixed reality" technology tracks and displays in real time, each runner's avatar running inside the HD videos. The videos sync to the runner's speed as well as accurately show the positions of others running nearby.
- 2014Series A—
Funding & investor landscape
AWS EdStart1 roundsNotable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Virtual Reality coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on AR / VR / Metaverse is moving in Singapore
A read on the academic research around AR / VR / Metaverse — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 417 Singapore-affiliated papers.
- Nanyang Technological University108
- National University of Singapore100
- University of Malaya67
- Singapore University of Technology and Design28
- Singapore Institute of Technology25
- Human–computer interaction1→35
- Augmented reality1→17
- Rendering (computer graphics)1→7
- Computer vision1→5
- Virtual reality6→108
- Human–computer interaction5→57
- Augmented reality3→45
- Mixed reality1→10
- Intervention (counseling)1→7
- Augmented reality1→4
- Field (mathematics)1→4
Where ar vr is researched across Singapore
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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