APAC 2025 Finalists
Hong Kong; September 1, 2025 – The FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific, run by Accenture and in collaboration with Hong Kong Cyberport, today announced the 12 technology companies selected for its 2025 program. Now in its 12th year, the Lab supports early- and growth-stage FinTechs in accelerating product development and scaling their businesses through mentorship from senior executives at leading financial institutions.
This year’s cohort is leveraging agentic AI, climate-aligned finance, and cyber-resilient technologies to address the industry’s imperatives —from regulatory compliance and digital trust to sustainable investing and tokenized real-world assets.
Marco Tsui, Managing Director, Financial Services, Accenture Hong Kong, said
“AI continues to be a transformative force in financial services across Asia-Pacific, and this year’s class demonstrates how agentic and contextual AI are redefining the industry. The 2025 cohort is addressing mission-critical priorities through bold, scalable innovation. Their solutions reflect the region’s growing leadership in applied AI and its commitment to building a more intelligent, secure, and sustainable financial ecosystem. Accenture is proud to support these startups as they move from breakthrough ideas to real-world impact.”
Simon Chan, Chairman of Cyberport, said, “As Hong Kong’s digital tech hub and AI accelerator, we prioritise AI, cybersecurity, and blockchain as vital drivers of innovation in the financial sector, we are delighted to see this exceptional cohort encompass all these important areas. In today’s rapidly evolving financial landscape, it’s crucial to give companies real-world opportunities to implement their ideas. The innovative solutions from these startups will significantly enhance banking operations, boost security, ensure regulatory compliance, and unlock emerging digital asset markets through advanced AI and automation technologies.”
The 2025 FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific participants are:
- Agrud (Singapore) – Agrud offers a cloud-based, plug-and-play, cost-efficient, multi-asset class, multilingual platform that enables FIs to enhance client engagement across Retail, Wealth Management, and Corporate Banking, utilizing aggregated content, tools, and hyper-personalization.
- Blacklight AI (Hong Kong SAR) – Blacklight AI empowers SOC teams with autonomous, preemptive cyber defense. Its advanced AI neutralises threats before they strike, elevating human expertise and securing beyond traditional SIEM for real-time protection.
- Climate Kick (Hong Kong SAR) – It’s the on-chain gateway to alternative green investments, enabling capital flows into real-world, yield-bearing assets. It sources and tokenize Alternative Investments to offer real-world asset (RWA) exposure to digital asset funds and wealth managers.
- Deepkeep (Isreal) – Deepkeep provides Generative AI-native security and trust solutions for computer vision, LLMs and multimodality. Its platform ensures end-to-end protection with automated risk assessments, penetration testing, real-time monitoring, and an AI firewall for robust security and trust across Enterprises diverse use cases.
- DigiFT (Singapore/Hong Kong SAR) – DigiFT is a licensed next-gen exchange purpose-built for institutional-grade, tokenized real-world assets, providing end-to-end issuance, distribution, trading, and on-chain liquidity solutions, trusted by global asset managers.
- FillEasy (Hong Kong SAR) – KYC/KYB with Government Verified Data. It helps corporates source, transfer and use Verified Data to fulfill regulatory requirements, achieving 80% faster onboarding, eliminatfraud, and avoid regulatory fines.
- Finbots AI (Singapore) – FinbotsAI is a Singapore-based FinTech transforming financial services with its no-code AI quantitative modelling platform. Its products – CreditX, TargetX, and DecisionX – enable faster, more accurate, scalable credit modelling, personalised marketing, and automated decisioning.
- iMBrace (Hong Kong SAR) – In an ever-changing world, banks must keep pace with evolving customer needs, regulations, and operations. iMBrace is a platform that enables contextual, compliant, and confident AI—powered by dynamic knowledge, governed by people, and embedded in real processes.
- Laiye (Hong Kong SAR) – Laiye, with the vision of “AI Agents for Everyone,” is a global leader in intelligent automation, driving digital transformation through cutting-edge AI and automation technologies.
- Swarm Dynamics (Australia) – Swarm is a behavioral-driven digital communications compliance platform that uses advanced psycholinguistics and network analytics to detect, prevent and remediate misconduct. It helps removing alert noise and identifing actual risks, providing significant cost savings and improving risk management.
- U-Reg (Singapore) – The U-Reg platform creates a unified ecosystem enabling financial institutions and their business partners to collaborate through intelligent automated workflows, ensuring consistent operational and compliance outcomes while accelerating business operations.
- Xeptagon (Hong Kong SAR) – Xeptagon builds and operates end-to-end digital carbon market infrastructure, including MRV systems, registries, exchanges, and CBAM tools. The systems are already used by governments, intergovernmental agencies, and Fortune 500 companies across emerging markets.
About the FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific
Launched in 2014, the FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific has supported more than 89 startups, which have collectively raised over US$1.1 billion and completed more than 550 proof-of-concepts. Fifteen alumni have been acquired, and two have gone public.
The FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific is a collaboration between Accenture, Cyberport, and leading financial institutions, which this year include AXA, Bank of America, Bank of East Asia, Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Citi, China Construction Bank (Asia), Emirates NBD, Hang Seng Bank, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Prudential, SC Ventures by Standard Chartered, and Zurich Insurance Group.
The 12-week program provides participating companies with mentorship from senior financial services executives and access to Accenture’s deep technology and industry expertise. It culminates in Demo Day, where participants present their solutions to an audience of investors, financial institutions, regulators, and media.
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 2,200 companies, including 5 listed companies and 7 unicorns. One-third of onsite companies’ founders come from 26 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 400 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 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 Mainland China 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.