FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific Announces 2026 Cohort

HONG KONG, September 10, 2026 – The FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific, run by Accenture in collaboration with Hong Kong Cyberport, today announced the eight technology companies selected for its 2026 program.

Now in its 13th year, the FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific has become one of the region’s leading financial innovation platforms, helping high-potential technology companies engage directly with major financial institutions, validate their solutions and accelerate enterprise adoption across banking, insurance and capital markets.

This year’s cohort reflects the emergence of artificial intelligence as a foundational layer across financial services. From AI-powered operating models and investment intelligence to trusted data infrastructure, climate resilience and healthcare-finance innovation, the selected companies are helping institutions transform how they make decisions, manage risk and deliver value in an increasingly digital economy.

Marco Tsui, Managing Director, Hong Kong Client Group, Accenture Greater China, said: “Financial institutions across Asia-Pacific are moving from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale adoption. This year’s cohort reflects that shift, bringing together companies that are helping organizations unlock value from data, build trusted AI capabilities and create more intelligent, adaptive operating models. We are excited to support these innovators as they scale their solutions and drive impact across the financial services ecosystem.”

Simon Chan, Chairman of Cyberport, said: “As AI adoption accelerates across the financial services industry, closer collaboration between technology innovators and financial institutions is becoming increasingly important. We are pleased to see this year’s cohort applying AI, trusted data and emerging technologies to address industry challenges and unlock new opportunities. Cyberport, as Hong Kong’s digital tech hub and AI accelerator, gathers over 500 leading companies and start-ups specializing in AI and data science, as well as more than 400 FinTech companies forming Hong Kong’s largest FinTech community. Through continued collaborations with Accenture and other industry stakeholders, we look forward to supporting these innovators as they scale their solutions and drive impact across the financial services ecosystem.”

The 2026 FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific participants are:

• AIVI Technologies (Hong Kong SAR, China) – AIVI builds an agentic AI intelligence layer for institutional finance. Its proprietary data refinery transforms chaotic text into predictive signals and deployable quant models for capital markets and banking.
• Betterdata AI (Singapore) – Betterdata AI helps financial institutions deploy synthetic data as a core enterprise capability, enabling secure access to high-quality data across business units, applications and AI initiatives at scale, without exposing sensitive information.
• Crayon Data (Singapore) – Crayon Data is an enterprise AI company specializing in BFSI. Its Tangram platform packages deep banking expertise into 227+ production agents, spanning Operations & Controls, Data & Entity, and Customer Experience & Value suites, deployable in 120 days.
• fileAI (Singapore) – fileAI transforms complex enterprise files into trusted, governed intelligence for AI workflows and autonomous operations.
• Hyperlayer (United Kingdom) – Hyperlayer is a programmable banking platform enabling financial institutions to design, launch and govern products rapidly, adding intelligence and personalization above existing core systems without transformation risk or disruption.
• LinqAlpha (United States) – LinqAlpha is building an AI-native operating system for global markets. Our multi-agent research system helps 50+ banks, hedge funds, and asset managers uncover insights, accelerate research, and generate alpha.
• Mazecare (Hong Kong SAR, China) – Mazecare is an AI-native clinic & hospital operating system embedding real-time claims adjudication at the point of care, bridging the gap between providers & insurers while improving outcomes for patients.
• WeavAir (Hong Kong SAR, China) – WeavAir delivers a predictive environmental intelligence platform, fusing satellite and continuous real-time data to automate strict regulatory compliance, accelerate energy transition financing, and power high-accuracy climate insurance underwriting.

Note: Company descriptions are supplied by participating startups and published as provided.

Supporting the Next Wave of Financial Services Innovation

 Over the next 12 weeks, participating companies will work alongside executives from leading financial institutions to validate enterprise use cases, refine their go-to-market strategies and explore commercial partnerships. As organizations across the region accelerate AI adoption and modernization efforts, the program provides a unique environment for startups and industry leaders to collaborate on solutions that address emerging opportunities and challenges across financial services.

The program culminates in Demo Day, where participants will present their solutions to an audience of industry leaders, investors, regulators and media.

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About the FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific

The Accenture FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific is a leading accelerator that connects high-potential technology companies with financial institutions to advance innovation across banking, insurance and capital markets. Since its launch in 2014, the program has supported more than 100 startups that have collectively raised over US$1.3 billion in funding and completed more than 570 proof-of-concepts. Run by Accenture in collaboration with Hong Kong Cyberport and the world’s leading financial institution partners, the Lab helps emerging technology companies accelerate growth through mentorship, industry access and enterprise collaboration. Learn more at www.fintechinnovationlab.com.

About Hong Kong Cyberport

Wholly owned by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government, Cyberport is Hong Kong’s digital tech hub and AI accelerator, with a vision to empower industry digitalisation and intelligent transformation, to promote digital economy and AI development, and to foster Hong Kong to be an international AI, innovation and technology (I&T) hub. Cyberport gathers over 2,400 companies, including 30 listed companies and 10 unicorns. One-third of onsite companies’ founders come from 28 countries and regions, while Cyberport companies have expanded to over 35 global markets.

Cyberport, with Hong Kong’s largest AI Supercomputing Centre and AI Lab as the engine, has been building the AI ecosystem with industry-leading AI companies and over 500 AI and data science start-ups. Through development of tech clusters, namely AI, data science, blockchain and cybersecurity, Cyberport empowers industries across smart city and government, banking and finance, digital entertainment, culture and tourism, healthcare, education and training, property management, construction, transportation and logistics, green environment and more, while hosting Hong Kong’s largest FinTech community. Commissioned by the HKSAR Government, Cyberport has implemented proof-of-concept and sandbox schemes, subsidisation for digital tech adoption, industry tech training and start-up incubation, to drive technology R&D, translation and commercialisation, thus propelling digital transformation and intelligent upgrade across industry and society.

Also as “State-level Scientific and Technological Enterprise Incubator” and Hong Kong’s key incubator, Cyberport supports entrepreneurs with funding and office space, extensive networks of enterprises, investors, technology corporations and professional services for business growth and expansion to Chinese Mainland and overseas markets, all-round facilitation for landing in Hong Kong, talent attraction and cultivation, ready as a launchpad to take start-ups in any stages of development to the next level.

For more information, please visit https://www.cyberport.hk/en.