Singapore – Enterprise AI company fileAI has secured fresh investment from SMBC Asia Rising Fund, the corporate venture capital fund of SMBC, and Singtel Innov8, the corporate venture arm of Singtel Group.
The funding arrives as artificial intelligence shifts from experimental pilots into the core operational workflows of major enterprises across Asia, a region increasingly producing its own generation of homegrown AI companies.
fileAI, the company behind fileForge, will use the capital to expand into Japan and deepen its financial services capabilities, scaling its AI-native platform for enterprises managing complex, high-volume file and data workflows.
The investment also connects the company more closely with two of Asia’s most influential corporate ecosystems, banking group SMBC and telecommunications giant Singtel.
Alongside the funding announcement, fileAI has unveiled fileScout, its AI-native unstructured data mapping solution designed to sharply cut token costs when processing unstructured enterprise data.
The tool works in tandem with agentified data capture, validation, matching, and reconciliation to publish clean, verified, audit-ready records directly into enterprise systems.
The latest backing builds on fileAI’s June 2026 partnership with JRE Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm supporting the JR East Group, which laid the groundwork for the company’s entry into Japan.
That earlier partnership focused on applying governed AI agents to the digitisation and structuring of legacy contracts and operational documents.
With the new investment, fileAI plans to build out a local Japan team spanning sales, engineering, and customer success, while deepening ties with enterprises moving from AI pilots to production-grade AI workflows.
SMBC Asia Rising Fund brings a deep network across banking and large regulated enterprises to the partnership, reflecting growing confidence in fileAI’s ability to deploy governed AI within complex, high-stakes business environments.
In banking and financial services specifically, fileAI’s applications span statement and covenant extraction, KYC and onboarding checks, reconciliation, and regulatory reporting across large, multi-entity organisations.
As AI becomes further embedded within enterprise infrastructure, fileAI is positioning itself as the intelligence layer that transforms fragmented documents and unstructured data into governed, dependable workflows.
Christian Schneider, CEO of fileAI, said, “AI will become an operating layer for every major enterprise, but that future cannot be built on fragmented data, unreliable outputs or endlessly expanding computing costs. Our third-generation processing pipeline and fileScout address that foundation, enabling organisations to transform their most complex unstructured data into trusted intelligence and production-grade workflows.”
“Backed by some of Asia’s most influential corporate ecosystems, fileAI’s ambition is to build a global enterprise AI leader from Asia and to help the region’s businesses become the most AI-enabled organisations in the world”, he added.
Boon Ping Chua, Managing Director of Singtel Innov8, said,”Singtel Innov8 is excited to invest in fileAI as it builds a purpose-built AI platform to address one of the most persistent challenges in enterprise data. We believe there is a significant and growing need to turn complex, unstructured information into clean, structured data that enterprises can trust and use at scale. We see strong potential for fileAI as enterprises increasingly seek reliable data foundations to support AI adoption and unlock greater value from their data.”
Furthermore, Mayoran Rajendra, Managing Director – AI Transformation Department at SMBC, also commented on this milestone, “At SMBC Group, we continue to drive digitalisation and AI transformation across the Group to enhance both operational efficiency and customer experience. At the same time, we see strong demand for solutions that enable enterprises to unlock value from vast amounts of unstructured data and documents.
We believe fileAI’s capabilities in improving data accessibility, operational efficiency, and decision-making will become increasingly important in the AI era. We look forward to collaborating with fileAI and leading organisations to explore practical AI use cases and drive innovation across industries”, Rajendra continued.
