Futurity unveils AI R&D centre in Colombo to accelerate innovation and growth
Newswire: Futurity, Sri Lanka’s first AI-native R&D studio launched and commenced operations at its new AI R&D centre in Colombo. The centre, which houses the company’s research, development, and project implementation teams, was inaugurated at a private event attended by clients, strategic partners, and company founders recently.
The 20-seat delivery centre, located in Colombo 05 is a strategic milestone in Futurity’s ongoing expansion. It brings together cross-functional teams focused on product innovation and implementation while embedding the client delivery function directly into the operational core. This integration allows Futurity to reduce time-to-market and strengthen client collaboration.
Founded armed with the vision to make work effortless in modern industries, Futurity’s solutions are designed to transform how organizations operate across sectors such as manufacturing, logistics, and enterprise services. With the recent growth in demand for solution implementations and full-scale AI transformation services, the Colombo facility will enable the company to onboard new clients and roll out high-impact product use cases more efficiently.
The Colombo Delivery Centre is designed to serve as both a technological innovation hub and a client-focused delivery node. By combining research and development with real-time project execution, the new centre is expected to enhance operational agility and improve end-user impact across Futurity’s digital product portfolio.
As Futurity intensifies its growth efforts, the launch signals a deepened commitment to the local innovation ecosystem. The company is actively investing in Sri Lankan talent, creating high-value job opportunities in research, product development, and enterprise delivery. Futurity also plans to use the centre as a launchpad for future regional and global expansions.
Rooted in Sri Lanka and built for impact, Futurity continues to differentiate itself with a distinctly local approach to innovation developing solutions tailored to real industry needs while upholding global best practices in technology and execution.
“At Futurity, we are working tirelessly to validate our solutions across real-world, industry-facing environments. This hands-on approach enables us to accelerate the learning curve and embed critical domain-specific nuances that make our offerings more relevant, resilient, and adaptable to the evolving world of work,” said Supun Kaluarachchi, Co-Founder of Futurity.
OSL take:
The fast-expanding global tech industry and the advancements in many fields like AI have presented business/investment opportunities in emerging business destinations like Sri Lanka. Apart from introducing latest tech advancements there’s also an emerging business/investment opportunity in the innovation sector through research and development. It is in such a backdrop that an AI research and development centre has been set up by a private sector business. It is also indicative of the growing business potential in Sri Lanka’s ICT and digital infrastructure development sectors. Given the Sri Lankan government’s target of transforming the country into an e-economy through a digital economy development programme, the increasing need for innovation through tech research and development have shown a great expansion. With Sri Lanka on a path to becoming a regional hub with overall economic expansion, there is and will be a steady growth in the business/investment opportunities in Sri Lanka’s ICT and digital infrastructure development sectors, especially in the globally evolving field of AI research and development targeting growth and innovation. While local businesses are already engaged in these fields, foreign businesses/investors while exploring direct business opportunities in ICT and digital infrastructure development sectors with special focus on AI research and development, could also look at expanding operations through partnerships or joint ventures with local businesses.