Danny SU

Head of China Investments, Singtel Innov8

📍 China🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2026
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Strategic Investor to DramaBox
May 2026
DramaBox is a leading mobile TV series company dedicated to creating captivating mobisode series. Through innovative storytelling and high-quality production values, we provide audiences with unique entertainment experiences. As industry leaders, we strive for excellence, continuously innovating and pushing boundaries.
Strategic investor to RobotEra
Dec 2025
ROBOTERA is a leading robotics company, founded in 2023, specializing in fully in-house humanoid robots and dexterous hands. From core actuators and joints to complete robotic systems, we develop high-performance, reliable robots entirely in-house, ensuring precise control and robust engineering across all our products. Our lineup includes the L7 full-size bipedal humanoid, built for complex motion and stability; the Q5 intelligent service robot, designed for service and research applications; and the XHAND1 dexterous hand, demonstrating advanced manipulation capabilities. Each product showcases our engineering excellence and hardware innovation. By combining robust engineering with versatile robotic systems, ROBOTERA delivers solutions ready for real-world environments. Our mission is to advance robotics technology and provide reliable robots that enhance human productivity, safety, and collaboration across industries and research.
Strategic Investor and Board Observor
May 2025
Whale is a Singapore-based enterprise AI company building AI-native solutions that transform how businesses operate, make decisions, and engage with customers. Its product suite—spanning spatial analytics, voice intelligence, generative content, and AI agents—helps organizations automate complex workflows and turn real-time data into action. Whale’s global investors include Temasek, Linear Capital, BOSCH Ventures, MTR Lab, Singtel Innov8, MDI Ventures, and Gentree Fund. Whale serves over 600 enterprise customers across over 20 countries. The company is led by a founding team with deep roots in AI, machine learning, and large-scale infrastructure from leading global tech companies. AI to See, Hear, Express, and Think Whale provides an enterprise-grade, AI-native product suite designed to power intelligent business operations across physical and digital environments: • SpaceSight – An AI-powered video analytics and audit platform for commercial spaces, enabling businesses to see and understand customer traffic, in-store behavior, and operational performance. • Echo – An enterprise voice intelligence platform that helps businesses hear and analyze conversations with advanced speech recognition, semantic analysis, and sentiment detection. • Harbor – A content management cloud for marketing and sales teams to express at scale, featuring AI-generated content, structured asset organization, and automated cross-channel delivery. • Alivia – A suite of enterprise-level AI agents that think, built for knowledge management, intelligent search, and task orchestration—powered by large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs). With over 60 fine-tuned private AI models built specifically for enterprise use, Whale continues to invest heavily in generative AI, IoT infrastructure, and data operations.
Strategic investor
Oct 2024
Founded by Google & Apple veterans, VITURE is determined to become the entrance to the future world.
Strategic Investor
Oct 2023
HPC-AI Tech is a startup focusing on improving the efficiency of enterprise AI model training and deployment. Before his startup launched, the founder had broken two world records for AI training speeds. In 2019, the most recent record, he and a team claimed the top BERT training speed, which is a benchmark used by Google and Microsoft, among others, to measure a machines understanding of human languages. HPC-AI Tech is the company behind Colossal-AI, a cloud-native platform combining the ability to scale the most expensive AI workloads (e.g. GPT-3) with the simplicity of a laptop-like development environment. Colossal-AI is one of the fastest-growing open-source projects in scalable AI with 3,600 GitHub stars and is being used by hundreds of organizations globally, including IBM, Ant Group, Walmart, Oxford, OPPO, and Oracle. Only 8 months after it was founded, HPC-AI Tech currently has 10 key clients, including an automaker giant. The company has set a goal of 1,000 clients in three years with a 50% annual increase after that. If you are interested, please email contact@hpcaitech.com
Strategic investor and board observer
Oct 2022
AILINK is a leading product and service provider focusing on the local 5G+Edge Cloud market. Our offerings cover the whole local 5G+Edge Cloud spectrum: from customized end-to-end 5G connectivity, lightweight intelligent Edge Cloud platform to the relevant IoT use cases, with particular focus on the industrial verticals. Further, through the introduction of new service model for industrial edge cloud, AI-LINK can assist customers to reduce initial cost of deploying 5G+Edge Cloud while still enjoying the high performance and reliability offered. Currently AI-LINK has already provided 5G+Edge Cloud based solutions for several leading industrial customers covering building material, mining, 3C to automobile manufacturing. In addition, it has accumulated an growing list of capable partners, including hardware ODMs, vertical application and algorithm developers, as well as industrial system integrators. Through jointly establishing new industrial standards and participating in in-depth cooperation, AI-LINK is creating an exciting and powerful 5G+Edge Cloud ecosystem for the customers towards Industry 4.0.
Strategic Investor and advisory board member
Jul 2022
DataMesh is a pioneering company specializing in advanced digital twin and mixed reality (MR) solutions, transforming how industries approach operations, training, and maintenance. With its flagship industrial metaverse platform, FactVerse, DataMesh integrates real-time data with immersive 3D environments, enabling precise simulations, practical training, and efficient maintenance workflows. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies like AI, AR, and IoT, DataMesh empowers businesses across manufacturing, construction, and facility management sectors to enhance productivity, optimize processes, and drive innovation. Their comprehensive suite of tools, including DataMesh Director, Checklist, Inspector, and Simulator, ensures seamless implementation and robust performance, making DataMesh a leader in the digital transformation landscape. DataMesh was founded in Seattle, Washington. Our current headquarters is in Singapore, and we have offices in Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, and Seattle.
Strategic Investor
Jan 2022
WIZ.AI is the trusted AI Partner for enterprises, delivering enterprise-grade ConversationalAI solutions designed to enhance customer experience and maximize operational efficiency. Powered by GenAI and advanced VoiceAI, WIZ.AI’s AI Agents and Voice Agents provide human-like engagement, enabling businesses to manage customer interactions at scale while driving exceptional customer service and measurable ROI. With a proven track record serving 300+ clients across 17 countries, WIZ.AI supports leading enterprises in Banking and Finance, Telco, Healthcare, E-Commerce, and FMCG. From customer growth and support to collections, contact center insights, and order taking, WIZ.AI empowers businesses to transform customer engagement and scale with confidence.
Strategic Investor
2020
Igloo is a full stack insurtech startup founded in 2016. It leverages big data, real-time risk assessment and end-to-end automated claims management to create innovative B2B2C insurance solutions for platform partners and insurers. Igloo’s insurance solutions enable companies to eliminate their exposure to operational risk, create new revenue streams and optimise and enhance existing products.
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Strategic Investor
Nov 2019
CXA Group is Asia’s one-stop, predictive and data intelligence platform for better health, wealth and wellness choices. Through the CXA platform, employers can empower employees with access to personalised health and lifestyle offerings, with clear and quantifiable ROI for the business. We enable employers to leverage their existing healthcare and insurance spend to pay for flexible benefits, corporate wellness and disease management initiatives in order to improve health, combat chronic disease and reduce costs while allowing for employee personalization via an e-wallet and AI. Headquartered in Singapore, CXA achieved revenue growth of 65 percent in 2018 and is expected to double that in 2019. It announced a funding round in March 2019 of USD 25 million. This follows US$33 million in total funding from Series A and B in 2015 and 2017 respectively. CXA’s investors include HSBC, Singtel Innov8, Telkom Indonesia MDI Ventures, Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia, Muang Thai Fuchsia Ventures, Humanica and Heritas Venture Fund B Capital Group, Openspace Ventures, Government-linked strategic investor EDBI, BioVeda Capital, FengHe Asia, Philips and RGAx. Driven by a team of industry veterans with extensive leadership experience across Asia’s human resource, insurance, finance, healthcare and technology industries, CXA serves more than 600 enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies, and more than 400,000 employees in 20 countries. CXA has received recognition as InsurTech of the Year from the Asia Insurance Industry Awards and was among the top three most impactful innovations at the Singapore Digital Techblazer Awards. We were also voted Best Corporate Wellness Consultant and Best Compensation & Benefits Consultant, Best Corporate Employee Rewards and won the Asian Insurance Innovation Award. CXA was one of only 7 global health tech startups to be selected to join the Innovations in Healthcare network founded by Duke Health, McKinsey & Co., and the World Economic Forum
Strategic Investor
2018
Established in 2017, Carota is a leading global one-stop OTA (Over-The-Air) upgrade and remote diagnostic full solution provider, focusing on emerging opportunities brought by the digital transformation of the automotive industry. This includes OTA (remote updates) for multiple ECUs, subscription services (Software-as-a-Service), remote diagnostics, OTA testing equipment and services, as well as fleet management through imaging. Our commitment is to provide safe, stable, reliable, and scalable OTA upgrades, device management, and fleet management solutions to global industry players such as automakers, Tier 1 suppliers, chip manufacturers, IoT and connected car terminal equipment providers, fleets, and owners. Carota operates in the global connected car and IoT cloud service industry, spanning automotive OEMs and the aftermarket. It offers services ranging from supplier management before new car mass production, production line updates during mass production, to remote updates, remote diagnostics, and fleet management through imaging after mass production. Carota is the only cloud service provider in the world that covers the entire automotive lifecycle. Its clients include more than 320 million intelligent devices, millions of vehicles, and tens of millions of automotive electronic control units (ECUs). The companys headquarters is in Taiwan, with customers in over 20 countries and regions including the United States, Europe, Japan, South Korea, India, and Southeast Asia. Carotas shareholders include internationally renowned institutions such as AU Optronics, Trend Micro, CID group, NFC Management Ltd., Delta Electronics, Darwin Venture Management, Global Investment Holdings, MediaTek, CDIB Partners Investment Holding, Singtel and Acer.
Strategic Investor
2018
SenseTime is a leading AI software company founded in Hong Kong in 2014, focused on creating a better AI-empowered future through innovation. Upholding a vision of advancing the interconnection of physical and digital worlds with AI, driving sustainable productivity growth and seamless interactive experiences, SenseTime is committed to advancing AI research, developing scalable and affordable AI software platforms that benefit businesses, people and society, as well as attract and nurture top talents to shape the future together. With our roots in the academic world, we invest in original and cutting-edge research that allows us to offer and continuously improve industry-leading, full-stack AI capabilities, covering key fields across perception intelligence, decision intelligence, AI-enabled content generation and AI-enabled content enhancement, as well as key capabilities in AI chips, sensors and computing infrastructure. Our proprietary AI infrastructure, SenseCore, allows us to develop powerful and efficient AI software platforms that are scalable and adaptable for a wide range of applications. Our technologies are trusted by customers and partners in many industry verticals including Smart Business, Smart City, Smart Life and Smart Auto. SenseTime has been actively involved in the development of national and international industry standards on data security, privacy protection, ethical and sustainable AI. As of June 30, 2021, SenseTime has participated in the formulation of over 80 national or international industry standards, working closely with multiple domestic and multilateral institutions on ethical and sustainable AI development. We have offices in markets including Hong Kong, Mainland China, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, among others, as well as a presence in Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
VC Investor to Cloopen
Jun 2016
Cloopen Group Holding Limited (“Cloopen”or“We”) is the leading multi-capability cloud-based communications solution provider in China and the only provider offering a full suite of cloud-based communications solutions, covering communications platform as a service (CPaaS), cloud-based contact centers (cloud-based CC), and cloud-based unified communications & collaborations (cloud-based UC&C).
VC Investor to Qiniu Cloud
Jan 2016
Founded in 2011, Qiniu is a leading cloud-storage service provider based in Shanghai, China. Qiniu invented a new generation of distributed data storage echnology. Combined with the domestic network environment, we bring up a “multiple data center & multiple accelerate node” architecture design. This design on the premise that solve “big data storage” of enterprise, made unprecedented innovation in data security, transferring acceleration, and the availability of storage service.
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2026
Strategic Investor to DramaBox
May 2026
DramaBox is a leading mobile TV series company dedicated to creating captivating mobisode series. Through innovative storytelling and high-quality production values, we provide audiences with unique entertainment experiences. As industry leaders, we strive for excellence, continuously innovating and pushing boundaries.
2025
Strategic investor to RobotEra
Dec 2025
ROBOTERA is a leading robotics company, founded in 2023, specializing in fully in-house humanoid robots and dexterous hands. From core actuators and joints to complete robotic systems, we develop high-performance, reliable robots entirely in-house, ensuring precise control and robust engineering across all our products. Our lineup includes the L7 full-size bipedal humanoid, built for complex motion and stability; the Q5 intelligent service robot, designed for service and research applications; and the XHAND1 dexterous hand, demonstrating advanced manipulation capabilities. Each product showcases our engineering excellence and hardware innovation. By combining robust engineering with versatile robotic systems, ROBOTERA delivers solutions ready for real-world environments. Our mission is to advance robotics technology and provide reliable robots that enhance human productivity, safety, and collaboration across industries and research.
Strategic Investor and Board Observor
May 2025
Whale is a Singapore-based enterprise AI company building AI-native solutions that transform how businesses operate, make decisions, and engage with customers. Its product suite—spanning spatial analytics, voice intelligence, generative content, and AI agents—helps organizations automate complex workflows and turn real-time data into action. Whale’s global investors include Temasek, Linear Capital, BOSCH Ventures, MTR Lab, Singtel Innov8, MDI Ventures, and Gentree Fund. Whale serves over 600 enterprise customers across over 20 countries. The company is led by a founding team with deep roots in AI, machine learning, and large-scale infrastructure from leading global tech companies. AI to See, Hear, Express, and Think Whale provides an enterprise-grade, AI-native product suite designed to power intelligent business operations across physical and digital environments: • SpaceSight – An AI-powered video analytics and audit platform for commercial spaces, enabling businesses to see and understand customer traffic, in-store behavior, and operational performance. • Echo – An enterprise voice intelligence platform that helps businesses hear and analyze conversations with advanced speech recognition, semantic analysis, and sentiment detection. • Harbor – A content management cloud for marketing and sales teams to express at scale, featuring AI-generated content, structured asset organization, and automated cross-channel delivery. • Alivia – A suite of enterprise-level AI agents that think, built for knowledge management, intelligent search, and task orchestration—powered by large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs). With over 60 fine-tuned private AI models built specifically for enterprise use, Whale continues to invest heavily in generative AI, IoT infrastructure, and data operations.
2024
Strategic investor
Oct 2024
Founded by Google & Apple veterans, VITURE is determined to become the entrance to the future world.
2023
Strategic Investor
Oct 2023
HPC-AI Tech is a startup focusing on improving the efficiency of enterprise AI model training and deployment. Before his startup launched, the founder had broken two world records for AI training speeds. In 2019, the most recent record, he and a team claimed the top BERT training speed, which is a benchmark used by Google and Microsoft, among others, to measure a machines understanding of human languages. HPC-AI Tech is the company behind Colossal-AI, a cloud-native platform combining the ability to scale the most expensive AI workloads (e.g. GPT-3) with the simplicity of a laptop-like development environment. Colossal-AI is one of the fastest-growing open-source projects in scalable AI with 3,600 GitHub stars and is being used by hundreds of organizations globally, including IBM, Ant Group, Walmart, Oxford, OPPO, and Oracle. Only 8 months after it was founded, HPC-AI Tech currently has 10 key clients, including an automaker giant. The company has set a goal of 1,000 clients in three years with a 50% annual increase after that. If you are interested, please email contact@hpcaitech.com
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