Deepgram, a real-time AI infrastructure company, has announced plans to establish its Asia-Pacific (APAC) headquarters in Singapore. The company has appointed Sriram Ved as Vice President and General Manager for APAC to lead regional strategy and oversee customer, partner, and go-to-market expansion.
Deepgram reported a 96% year-over-year increase in API requests across APAC and currently serves customers in more than 20 regional markets, including Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam. From its Singapore base, the company plans to locate regional leadership, customer support, partnerships, and commercial operations closer to its client base, while expanding its Asian-language speech-to-text capabilities and low-latency inference footprint.
The expansion follows a strategic investment from EDBI, an arm of SG Growth Capital (the investment platform of the Economic Development Board and Enterprise Singapore), as part of an extension to Deepgram’s US$130 million Series C funding. EDBI will support Deepgram as it establishes its Singapore presence and develops regional commercial operations.
Enterprises in APAC are increasingly deploying voice AI in customer-facing operations across contact centres, financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, and commerce. As these deployments scale, organisations require infrastructure capable of handling regional languages, accents, and background noise while adhering to latency, cost, privacy, and data control requirements.
Deepgram plans to focus its regional investment on three primary areas:
- Customer and partner support: Expanding regional leadership, customer support, partnerships, and commercial operations across APAC.
- Asian-language capabilities: Enhancing speech-to-text support for Singapore’s official languages (English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil) and expanding capabilities for broader Asian languages, accents, code-switching, and specialised terminology. The portfolio currently supports Japanese, Hindi, Thai, Cantonese, and several Indic languages.
- Low-latency, flexible deployment: Expanding its low-latency inference footprint across APAC while continuing to offer cloud, virtual private cloud, self-hosted, and on-premises deployment options to assist enterprises with privacy and data residency requirements.
“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.”
“Voice AI is already live in production across APAC, from contact centres and financial services to healthcare and telecommunications,” said Sriram Ved, Vice President and General Manager for APAC at Deepgram. “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.”
