# Graas raises $17M Series B and acquires Trustana

> Graas, a Singapore-based startup building AI agents for online retail, has closed a 17 million dollar Series B led by LemmaTree, a Temasek-backed investor, with participation from Integra Partners, Tin Men Capital, and others. Alongside the raise it is acquiring Trustana, a product-data platform, in a move meant to feed its retail agents richer, cleaner information about the goods they help sell. The pairing of a funding round with an acquisition tells you where Graas thinks the value is. AI agents for commerce are only as good as the product data underneath them, and buying Trustana lets Graas control that layer rather than depend on messy inputs. The company says revenue is growing more than 50 percent year over year, with its B2B agentic business more than doubling annually, and it expects the Trustana integration to complete by December 2026. The bet is on Asia's fragmented retail market, where merchants juggle many channels and marketplaces and could use software that automates listing, pricing, and customer interactions. It is a reminder that a lot of the most practical AI money is flowing not to frontier models but to the unglamorous plumbing of specific industries.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: TechTimes · Published Thursday, August 20, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Graas, a Singapore-based startup building AI agents for online retail, has closed a 17 million dollar Series B led by LemmaTree, a Temasek-backed investor, with participation from Integra Partners, Tin Men Capital, and others. Alongside the raise it is acquiring Trustana, a product-data platform, in a move meant to feed its retail agents richer, cleaner information about the goods they help sell. The pairing of a funding round with an acquisition tells you where Graas thinks the value is. AI agents for commerce are only as good as the product data underneath them, and buying Trustana lets Graas control that layer rather than depend on messy inputs. The company says revenue is growing more than 50 percent year over year, with its B2B agentic business more than doubling annually, and it expects the Trustana integration to complete by December 2026. The bet is on Asia's fragmented retail market, where merchants juggle many channels and marketplaces and could use software that automates listing, pricing, and customer interactions. It is a reminder that a lot of the most practical AI money is flowing not to frontier models but to the unglamorous plumbing of specific industries.

## Source

[Read the full story at TechTimes](https://www.techtimes.com/articles/324539/20260814/graas-raises-17m-acquires-trustana-temasek-bets-unified-ai-data-asia-retail.htm)

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