Surf Ventures

About

A firm, and a workshop

Surf Ventures is a Singapore-headquartered investment and operating firm advancing the sustainable and responsible application of AI across industries. We invest in, build, and experiment with ideas that harness AI to create enduring value — for businesses, people, and society.

Our approach brings together technological progress, ethical governance, sustainability, and beneficial real-world impact, with a focus on building solutions that are designed to last.

At its heart, Surf Ventures is also a laboratory for tinkering: a place to chase interesting problems, test unconventional ideas, and turn experiments into real-world products and businesses.

Building should feel a little like surfing — adventurous, instinctive, wild and free. You explore, catch a wave of possibility, learn as you go, and above all, have fun creating what comes next.

Mission

Three objectives

Invest

Select investments

Perform select investments into enterprises with a clear application of AI that can become self-sustaining over time.

Build

Operating teams

Assemble and fund operating teams across all segments of AI — generative AI, machine learning and natural language processing — to build sustainable business models on niche problem statements.

Gather

Aligned shareholders

Gather a group of experts and independent shareholders who share the same interests and conviction in the importance of harnessing artificial intelligence towards social good.

Ventures

Select investments & operating entities

NewsletterOS

Live

SaaS · AI research
& curation infrastructure

NewsletterOS is a SaaS platform that makes it easy for anyone to create and run their own AI-powered newsletter.

The idea started with a simple experiment: using AI to build a personalised Global AI Applied to Travel — Weekly Digest that automatically discovers, curates and synthesises the most relevant developments each week. The result was a high-quality, useful newsletter without the hours of manual research and writing typically required. NewsletterOS turns that capability into a product anyone can use.

Users choose the topics, industries and sources they care about, define what they want their newsletter to cover, and let AI do the heavy lifting — continuously researching, curating and transforming the latest information into a structured weekly digest. Whether you're tracking AI, healthcare, travel, finance, technology or a highly specialised niche, NewsletterOS gives you the infrastructure to build your own intelligent newsletter without having to build the underlying AI workflows yourself.

Your interests. Your sources. Your newsletter. Powered by AI.

TravelOut

Forecast

Consumer · Generative
travel guidance

An AI generative travel guide that always keeps itself up to date, scouring the web for the latest.

AI Asia

Forecast

Community · Governance
& information exchange

AI Asia targets to be Asia's most-referenced AI community.

Its mission is to enable ethical governance and beneficial application of artificial intelligence while empowering the rapid progress and growth of AI across the Asia region — by fostering a learning community and enabling efficient, accurate and unbiased information exchange.