Krani.ai selected as one of 20 startups for MYStartup Pre-Accelerator Cohort 6

What are MYStartup and Cradle?

MYStartup is Malaysia's national startup platform, an initiative of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI). Cradle Fund is its implementing agency, and it runs the MYStartup Pre-Accelerator for early-stage founders.

In Cradle's announcement, selected founders spend the programme sharpening their business models, validating their ideas with real customers, and connecting with mentors and the wider Malaysian startup ecosystem as they prepare for their next stage of growth. The programme ends with a Demo Day.

Why this matters to Krani

Krani.ai builds AI agents for accountants. They read receipts and bank statements, match them to the client's chart of accounts, and post the entries into the accounting software a firm already uses. The work they replace is manual data entry, which is what keeps accounting firms from taking on more clients.

Being chosen as one of 20 startups for this cohort is a welcome vote of confidence from a national programme. It also gives us structured access to mentors and the wider startup ecosystem while we keep testing Krani against real accounting firms' documents.

What happens next

We'll be working through the programme over the coming weeks and will share what we learn here on the blog.

Update, 28 October 2026: Krani.ai went on to be named a Top 5 winner at Demo Day. Read the story.

Source: Cradle Fund's announcement on LinkedIn, 28 September 2026. The graphic above is Cradle Fund's.