Paradigm has reportedly raised a $1.2 billion AI fund, signaling a major expansion beyond crypto and intensifying competition for early AI deals.

Singapore-based Akro AI has reportedly raised a $700,000 pre-seed round, according to Tech in Asia and DealStreetAsia deal coverage. Publicly available source evidence is thin, leaving key details such as investors, product scope, and timing unclear. Even so, the deal stands out as another data point in Southeast Asia’s early-stage AI funding market, where smaller rounds increasingly matter for builders testing narrow enterprise use cases before larger capital commitments arrive.

Omen AI has raised a $31 million Series A to expand a sensor system that monitors the health of liquid cooling fluids in data centers, aiming to catch bacterial contamination and component wear before they force expensive rack shutdowns. The startup is repositioning from heavy equipment fluid monitoring into AI infrastructure at a moment when hotter, denser GPU deployments are making cooling reliability a larger operational risk.