Summary · why it matters
OGBC Group has launched a global hardware accelerator in downtown San Francisco, marking the Singapore-based investment platform's expansion into Silicon Valley. The accelerator aims to combine the region's AI talent with OGBC's global supply chain infrastructure to compress R&D timelines and eliminate commercialization barriers for early-stage hardware startups. Its inaugural cohort will focus on three sectors: robotics and embodied AI, consumer tech and smart hardware, and space tech and aerospace innovation. The program provides collaborative workspaces, capital matchmaking, and end-to-end manufacturing support, leveraging OGBC's industrial networks across Asian manufacturing hubs to accelerate time-to-market from a year to weeks. Applications for the first global cohort are now open.