Boost Capital
Singapore, SG · 5 known investors
Boost provides AI-powered customer onboarding technology for financial institutions, offering e-KYC, e-KYB, document validation, fraud detection, e-contracting, AML checks and progressive profiling that integrate into existing systems via SDK, API, or white-labeled interfaces. Its tools support digital onboarding for loans, savings, payments, and insurance across mobile channels.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]
Also known as Boost · Boost Capital PTE. LTD.
Founders & leadership
Investors · 5
Also in the syndicate · 3
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Boost Capital (Boost Capital PTE. LTD.) is a Singapore-registered technology provider that supplies AI-based customer onboarding software to financial institutions. Its stack is modular: business parsing (e-KYB) covering ownership, legal/compliance, financial and location documents plus database cross-checks and virtual business tour collection; identity parsing (e-KYC) covering ID collection, selfie, liveness detection, facial recognition and ID-fraud detection; document validation modules that read, classify and verify identity, income, collateral and claims documents; e-contracting for consent and contract e-signature; AML database integration; loan servicing and deposit integration (payment gateway integration, account QR code generation, e-transfer FAQs, branch locators); deposit document issuance such as virtual passbooks and deposit certificates; appointment booking; and a data dashboard with analytics.
A distinguishing component is the company's "progressive profile development" user experience, a white-labeled interface using adaptive micro-interactions and AI-powered local-language chat (structured or unstructured) to assemble complete applicant files, or "fat files," while reducing drop-off. Boost states its onboarding covers loans, savings, payment systems and insurance, and both collateralized and uncollateralized applicants from micro-entrepreneurs to large corporations. Deployment options include an SDK, an end-to-end white-labeled UX, API-enabled modular functions, or a custom feature portal offering application management, drag-and-drop application processing and analytics, deployable in native apps, chat channels such as Messenger, Telegram and WhatsApp, or web apps. The company describes its data handling as bank-grade and ISO-certified, its infrastructure as horizontally and vertically scalable and distributed, and its code as SAST- and DAST-reviewed.
Business model
Boost licenses its onboarding technology to financial service providers, configuring components to the client's needs and integrating them into the client's existing systems and backend via SDK, API, white-labeled UX or a custom feature portal. Clients cited in company materials include banks, microfinance institutions, digital banks and payments companies.
Traction
Company materials state that the Mastercard Strive partnership exceeded its initial partner targets by five times, with 15 financial service providers, adopters including Asialink, PayMongo, UNO Digital Bank, RAFI Microfinance and Cantilan Bank, which together serve over 25 million Filipino clients. PayMongo deployed Boost technology for merchant onboarding, and RAFI Microfinance digitized its customer journey using chat-based onboarding via the Boost–Oradian integration. Boost reports a client bank grew its applicant pool by 30% after a data-dashboard insight, and cites targets of 10x KYB speed, 5x KYC speed and 10x fat-file success rates.
Latest developments
Boost published an insight brief on using AI to unlock access to small business finance in January 2026. Recent company-reported items include co-founder Lucinda Revell being named a Mastercard Changemaker by the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, participation in Financial Inclusion Week 2025 panels on AI in SME financing, and a Claude Code workshop for Philippine developers led by Boost's Carlo Almendral and Xavier Puspus.
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Market position
Boost operates in the digital customer onboarding and identity/document verification segment for financial services, focused on Southeast Asian emerging markets and financial inclusion use cases such as lending to small businesses, women-owned enterprises and unbanked or underbanked entrepreneurs.
Boost positions itself against generic document-processing vendors by training on locally specific documents, claiming higher OCR accuracy and better fraud detection, and by combining verification with a chat-based progressive profiling interface that connects individual onboarding features into a single flow. It also emphasizes validating whole applications through cross-referencing files, public data and patterns rather than validating documents in isolation.
Technology
The platform uses AI agents for intelligent document processing and fraud detection. Boost states it trains its models on local documents specific to the client's industry and market, claiming OCR accuracy above 99%, accuracy rates 20% higher and fraud detection twice as good as generic providers, and a 95% reduction in manual reviews. Fraud detection targets four categories: digital manipulation, physical manipulation, generative fabrication and template non-conformance. A pre-screen feature filters out documents of insufficient quality. Multilingual and multi-script processing supports local-language chat-based onboarding flows.
Go-to-market
Boost sells directly to financial institutions via demo requests and inbound contact, and works through partnerships and integrations — including an off-the-shelf integration with Oradian's Instafin core banking system, a partnership with API infrastructure provider Brankas, and a Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth / Mastercard Strive program in the Philippines. Company representatives also participate in industry panels and publish insight briefs and case studies on financial inclusion and SME finance.
Financial institutions including banks, microfinance institutions, digital banks, payment processors and insurers that onboard individual and business customers, ranging from unregistered microenterprises and sole proprietorships to partnerships and corporations.
Geography
Headquartered in Singapore at 20A Tanjong Pagar Road, with offices in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines; and Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia. Deployments and case studies referenced by the company are concentrated in the Philippines and Cambodia.
History
The website carries a 2023 copyright for Boost Capital PTE. LTD., a Singapore-registered company (UEN 201837447G). Epic Angels joined the investor base in April 2023, and the company announced US$2.5M in seed funding in August 2023. Subsequent milestones published by the company include a data dashboard feature release in September 2024, the Boost–Oradian integration with RAFI Microfinance in December 2024, Philippines chat-based onboarding case studies in May 2025, and an insight brief on AI and small business finance in January 2026.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 9
launches, deals, and filingsThe Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth honored Boost co-founder Lucinda Revell as a Changemaker for work supporting ASEAN small businesses.
Boost took silver for its chat-based loan and savings onboarding solution addressing financing for women-owned/led businesses.
Partnership to deliver API-powered, chat-based lending in Southeast Asia.
Partnership to accelerate adoption of new client onboarding channels in the Philippines; Boost reports the Mastercard Strive partnership exceeded initial partner targets by five times across 15 financial service providers.
Philippine fintech PayMongo launched Boost technology to simplify merchant onboarding.
RAFI Microfinance fully digitized its customer journey using Boost's Progressive Profile Development chat-based onboarding integrated with Oradian's Instafin core banking system.
Boost released its data dashboard, reporting that a client bank grew its applicant pool by 30% following a data insight.
Boost Capital announced US$2.5M in seed funding for its chat-based bank client onboarding platform from Village Global, Iterative Ventures, Hustle Fund, Epic Angels, Xcel Next, Insitor and angel investors.
$2.5M source ↗
Angel investor network Epic Angels invested in Boost Capital.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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- Boost Capitalboostkh.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Boost Capital do?
- Boost Capital sells AI-powered e-KYC, e-KYB, document validation and chat-based onboarding technology to financial institutions.
- Who founded Boost Capital?
- Boost Capital was founded by Gordon Peters.
- Who are Boost Capital's investors?
- Boost Capital's investors include Artesian, ITERATIVE.
- Where is Boost Capital headquartered?
- Boost Capital is headquartered in Singapore, SG.