An AI operator for water infrastructure. AquaOptima predicts demand and optimizes pumping decisions to reduce wasted electricity, match water supply more precisely to demand, and support leakage management.
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Build ventures. Strengthen resilience. Make technology accessible.
We work with the people closest to the problems to build practical solutions for the infrastructure and services that keep cities running.
Resilience starts with everyday life.
From housing, transportation, power, and water to property management and on-site services, daily life depends on people and systems working together. Disconnected information, limited staff, and wasted time, energy, and resources make that harder. We build technology to help these essential operations work better.
Water infrastructure
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Geospatial intelligence
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The built environment
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Housing
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Transportation
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Power
Image from Fré Sonneveld / Unsplash ↗We build solutions that strengthen resilience, and grow them into ventures that keep contributing.
Current ventures
Each venture addresses one operational problem, with its own team and its own path to market.
An evidence layer for the smart building lifecycle, from components and construction to operation and maintenance. Embuilded connects tracking, reporting, analytics, compliance, and intelligence to support better building care and decisions.
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GeoKernel combines real-time GIS, photogrammetry, and AI to turn drone data into usable maps, 3D models, and terrain information. It supports land surveying, disaster-response planning, and land-use decisions, including building and contour analysis.
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Why these ventures
Real-world value deserves a path to growth.
Some technology businesses have real customers, useful products, and deep domain knowledge, yet remain too small for an IPO and grow too slowly for traditional venture capital. Their value can be real even when they do not fit the usual funding path.
Across the infrastructure and services we depend on, earning trust, working with existing systems, and proving results take time. We choose problems worth that effort, then bring product, teams, and go-to-market execution together to build businesses that can grow.
How we build
Small core. A squad for every venture.
We bring industry partners, founding customers, and venture teams together around each opportunity.
Deepen domain knowledge
Industry partners
People working in the field bring the knowledge to identify the right problems and understand real constraints.
Build useful solutions
Founding customers
We build and test with customers on real cases, so solutions fit the work they need to do.
Grow enduring ventures
Dedicated venture teams
When a solution is ready to scale, we assemble the team and support its strategy, go-to-market, and growth.
Our core team
The people connecting the pieces.
We are a small core team, bringing together a wider ecosystem of industry experts, customers, technical partners, and entrepreneurs to build each venture.
Kevin Chan
Founder & General Partner
- Strategy
- Venture building
- Team building
Kevin brings over 15 years of experience building hardware-plus-AI systems for physical infrastructure. He co-founded Insight Robotics, raised US$16M, built distribution across five continents, and later led GeoXpert. His strengths span market judgment, partnership strategy, business development, team building, and connecting technical capability with commercial opportunity. He leads DataXquad, founded and chairs AquaOptima, and is a director of Embuilded.
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Hunter Lin
Associate Partner
- Product
- Go-to-market
- Operations
Hunter brings around three years of product management experience and three to five years across B2B go-to-market, digital marketing, and pre-sales support. His cold email outreach in a new market achieved reply rates of up to 6% and a 3% lead conversion rate. He has led a six-person team to improve four existing products in two months, and builds AI-agent workflows to help teams turn plans into results.
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A network of technical collaborators
- Technical architecture
- Engineering
- System integration
We work with technical collaborators bringing varied experience in IoT, industrial applications, and engineering. We bring their capabilities together around each venture’s needs, and remain open to welcoming a technical partner into the core team as we grow.
Explore a partnershipOur DNA
Singaporean strategic foresight. Taiwanese engineering spirit.
We bring strategy, engineering, and a spirit of partnership into the field, turning a shared understanding of real problems into practical action.
Strategy
Invest in understanding.
“The differences between the performance of various human societies are in considerable measure a reflection of their differences in their trained brain power, and their capacity to organise themselves to harness science and use technology to create a better life for themselves.”
Lee Kuan Yew, 29 October 1969
Science Council Ball, Singapore
We invest in domain knowledge, strategic judgment, and the people who can turn insight into a direction worth pursuing.
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Understand deeply. Put it to work.
“To understand is difficult; to act is easy.” 知難行易
Dr. Sun Yat-sen
We do the work to understand the problem, then bring that understanding into real sites, useful solutions, and sustained execution.
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Tàu-tīn · 鬥陣
We form a squad with our partners, standing shoulder to shoulder through the work. Shared commitment and complementary capabilities help us build for the long term.
Regional growth
Local experience. Shared across ventures.
Our company is incorporated in Singapore, with our core team based across Taiwan and Singapore. We see opportunities in Hong Kong, Japan, and Southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
We are working toward a model where ventures can share that experience across markets, helping one another understand local needs, find partners, and enter new regions. This is a direction we are developing, step by step.
Let’s talk!
Bring your problem and let’s talk about solutions, or bring your expertise and explore a partnership.
Contact
Tell us about the problem you are working on. Your message will be saved and sent to our team.
Or write to us directly: info@dataxquad.com