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Octen raises $10M

Octen announced a Seed round of $10M on 22 April 2026. The company operates in Developer Tools and is based in Singapore. It was founded by Kuan Zou, CEO & Founder.

Raised
$10M
Stage
Seed
Industry
Developer Tools
Country
Singapore

Founder

Kuan Zou
CEO & Founder, Octen
LinkedIn profileocten.ai

Outreach angles

  • -Former leader of large-scale AI search systems at Alibaba Cloud and Baidu, bringing serious search infrastructure pedigree to Octen
  • -Assembled a team of engineers and researchers from Meta, Google, TikTok, and Alibaba in just three months after launch
  • -Seed round led by Square Peg will fund global infrastructure buildout after Octen launched a search API that answers queries in 62ms median, four times faster than closest rival

Signals

SeedAPI-FirstAI-NativeB2BDev ToolsEx-FAANG

Round details

Company: Octen
Domain: octen.ai
Amount: $10M
Stage: Seed
Industry: Developer Tools
Country: Singapore
Announced: 22 April 2026
Source: announcement

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