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|founding_year=2018 | |founding_year=2018 | ||
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BeeX is a Singapore-based startup that develops Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, with a focus on Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (HAUV). | |||
==Technology== | ==Technology== | ||
BeeX's HAUVs are used for inspections of underwater infrastructure in the maritime, energy and defense sectors. Their underwater computing platform, A.IKANBILIS, allows the HAUV to highly responsive to underwater conditions and operate autonomously with little operator skill<ref>{{Cite web |title=A.IKANBILIS – BeeX |url=https://beex.sg/a-ikanbilis/ |access-date=2025-12-16 |language=en-US}}</ref>. | |||
==Traction== | ==Traction== | ||
By 2025, the startup had served over 20 clients, in locations ranging from Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan to the Netherlands, Germany and the UK<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Wong |first=Derryn |date=2025-07-16 |title=Singapore startup BeeX takes the sting out of maritime inspection costs with underwater drones |url=https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/singapore/smes/singapore-startup-beex-takes-sting-out-maritime-inspection-costs-underwater-drones |access-date=2025-12-18 |website=The Business Times |language=en}}</ref>. | |||
==Accolades== | ==Accolades== | ||
In 2020, BeeX won first prize in the Port Innovation Ecosystem Reimagined at the [[Pier71]] Smart Port Challenge for the application of AUVs to maritime inspections<ref name=":0" />. | |||
==Funding== | ==Funding== | ||
The startup raised a $2 million bridge round in 2023, co-led by [[Earth Venture Capital]] and [[ShipsFocus Ventures]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=TechNode Global |date=2023-11-15 |title=Singapore's BeeX raises $2M in funding led by Earth Venture Capital, ShipsFocus Ventures |url=https://technode.global/2023/11/15/singapores-beex-raises-2m-in-funding-led-by-earth-venture-capital-shipsfocus-ventures/ |access-date=2025-12-16 |website=TNGlobal |language=en-US}}</ref>. | |||
== | Led by [[IMC Ventures]], BeeX closed a seed round in November 2021<ref>{{Cite web |title=Press Release: IMC Ventures makes Maiden Investment into BeeX, a Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Startup {{!}} IMC Ventures |url=https://imcventures.vc/2021/11/03/press-release-imc-ventures-makes-maiden-investment-into-beex-a-hovering-autonomous-underwater-vehicle-startup/ |access-date=2025-12-16 |website=imcventures.vc}}</ref>{{Startup/Funding history}} | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
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