Plaud plans to expand its Asia Pacific (Apac) headquarters in Singapore and grow its local workforce to about 150 employees by the end of 2026
The move would lift Plaud’s global workforce to more than 600 employees. The company estimates the Singapore build-out will involve more than $10 million in investment, covering a larger office footprint, hiring and operations.
The Singapore office will oversee Plaud’s Apac strategy and serve as its first research and development hub in the region. The team will support functions including cloud infrastructure, AI development, human resources, finance, treasury and global legal compliance, while working with Plaud’s global product and engineering teams on AI workflows and intelligent agent systems. As such, Plaud is also hiring AI engineers, AI agent architects and data scientists in Singapore.
“Singapore is a natural base for Plaud’s next phase of growth in Asia-Pacific. The region is highly diverse, multilingual and fast-moving, and Singapore gives us access to strong AI, engineering and regional business talent,” says Nathan Xu, chief executive officer and co-founder of Plaud.
According to the company, Singapore will serve as a hub for growth across Apac, where professionals are working across borders and languages and where business context is often captured through meetings, interviews and spoken conversations.
“Across Apac, professionals are working in increasingly cross-border, multilingual and fast-moving environments, where a large part of business context and team knowledge is still captured through meetings, interviews and spoken conversations,” says Megumi Yoshinaga, head of Apac marketing at Plaud.
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Plaud is best known for Plaud Note Pro, a credit-card-sized AI note taker that records, transcribes, summarises and extracts insights from meetings, interviews and conversations.
It has more than 2 million users worldwide since 2023, and says it is recognised by Euromonitor as the world’s No. 1 AI note-taking device brand by 2025 sales volume.
