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Meet Kaiwen Li and Alima Strickland, the award-winning producer duo behind ChatCut, an AI-powered post-production tool designed to revolutionize the way creators edit dialogue-heavy videos quickly and efficiently.

Meet Shwen Ho, CEO of Sinhke, an AI-powered platform transforming shrimp farming by automating health assessments, reducing losses, and helping farmers optimize production.

Meet Thanyalat Chaleunsouk, the CEO of Yoosay, a Southeast Asia-based platform that empowers F&B vendors to optimize order management, streamline operations, and boost their growth with data-driven insights through their direct-to-consumer platform.

Meet the co-founder of Vucar, the AI-driven platform transforming car transactions in Vietnam with cutting-edge technology, transparency, and innovation.

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Discover how Tia Collings (Enaxiom) and Tanmay Patel (Lyngo) left steady careers to launch startups, with insights on entrepreneurship, co-founder matching, idea validation, and Antler's role in their journeys.

Learn how corporate leaders, Ben Chamberlain and Vandana Chaudhry, became VC-backed startup founders with Antler's support.

Founders Kshitija Deshmukh (FOBOH) and Nathan Spiteri (Shopfront) share how Antler’s day-zero support helped them build successful startups.

Why Antler invested in Tradestack: empowers trades businesses to quote 20x faster and win more jobs

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Find out about Antler's investment thesis, meet the exceptional founders, and learn about their latest traction.

Find out about Antler's investment thesis, meet the exceptional founders, and learn about their latest traction.

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Find out Antler's investment thesis, meet the exceptional founders, and learn about their latest traction.

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Find out Antler's investment thesis, meet the exceptional founders, and find out their latest traction.

Find out Antler's investment thesis, introducing their exceptional founders, and sharing their latest traction.

Find out about our investment thesis, meet the exceptional founders, and learn about their recent traction

TradeCredit is building supply chain finance products for fresh produce retailers.

HealthCRED raises $1.2 Million to revolutionise B2B Healthcare financing in India.

Accelerating due diligence and deepening insights - an AI operating system for private equity professionals

India’s first open mobility platform, Namma Yatri raises $11 million from Antler, Blume Ventures and Google.

Tradomate.one is building an AI-based trading analysis and automation platform for the next-gen trader.

HireBound is a conversational AI copilot that automates workflows for recruiters and develops proprietary resume intelligence.

Cautio is building the future of safety and security with intelligent video telematics.

Insurance Padosi is building a new-age insurance solution with a focus on customer education and personalized recommendations.

Meine Electric is revolutionizing renewable energy generation with aluminium-air fuel cells.

Storefox.ai is building the next-gen intelligence platform for offline retail.

Kubo Care aims to empower over 1 billion seniors globally to age safely and independently through innovative and non-invasive health monitoring solutions.

With household energy bills increasing by 81% since October 2022 and 70% of UK homeowners unable to afford the cost of installing a solar energy system, home energy continues to be a bleak landscape for homeowners to navigate.

Enter GRYD Energy, the team who is changing the game by overturning the traditional solar deployment model—with no upfront costs to homeowners. Read why GRYD is poised to scale an untapped part of the solar market, and why Antler is proud to be their day zero investor.

At Antler, we're always on the lookout for founders building groundbreaking technologies that have the potential to reshape industries. Our latest investment in Agenta.ai—a trailblazing company founded in our Berlin residency in June 2023—embodies this vision, representing a significant leap forward in the development and deployment of large language model (LLM) applications.

IndiaP2P's tech platform ensures the country’s highest-quality borrowers get access to faster, cheaper capital.

InspeCity is building propulsion and in-space servicing to enable space cities in the future.

A team from the Antler India Fellowship cohort, Cattle Guru is building a one-stop shop for Bharat farmers.

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We are thrilled to back 16-year-old Tejas Ravishankar as he builds a robust productivity and experience platform for open-source developers.

OnArrival is building simple, plug and play APIs that enable travel sellers (e.g. OTAs, corporate travel managers, travel agents, Airlines, hotels, etc.) bundle high-margin travel ancillaries (e.g. visa, insurance etc) in over a billion trips worldwide.

Salad is building the future of how women take charge of their hormonal health.

Find out more into why we backed Novo, a Berlin-based company disrupting the energy renovation industry. NOVO automates analysis, planning, and financing of energy renovation for real estate, with the goal of decarbonizing homes and tackling climate change.

Generative AI is opening up a world of opportunities and Hexo is building the underlying infrastructure to enable that. We are thrilled to partner with Vignesh Baskaran and Kunal Bhatia to help build and scale Hexo AI.

ApniBus, which has been operating in stealth mode, is now live in more than 350 routes connecting over 1000 destinations. In just 7 months, the platform has seen over 1 million transactions and is growing rapidly month on month. They have perfected an operating playbook that ensures superior unit economics from day 1 and at scale. We are proud to back Sumit, Ravi and the ApniBus team from day zero of their journey transforming intercity travel for the next 400M Bharat travelers.

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We are thrilled to back 21-year-old award-winning game developers and designers, Harsh Savergaonkar and Aditya Kasibhatla, who, with Cricinshots aim to redefine gaming experiences for the next generation of gamers and cricket fans in India and beyond.

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We at Antler are thrilled to back Finverv on day zero of its journey of building the critical infrastructure needed for enabling thousands of organizations to offer credit to their customers and suppliers while helping lenders build profitable and scalable partnerships.  

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At Antler India, we are particularly excited to back founders in areas such as SaaS, dev tooling, and Web3 infrastructure—with the vision of building critical infrastructure in India, for the world. To that end, we are thrilled to back Ronak, Debarshi, and the Adaptive team as they embark on a mission to empower technical and non-technical stakeholders at software companies globally.

It’s no secret that cryptocurrency has always been known for its price volatility. Over the past year alone, we have seen Bitcoin achieve its all-time high (ATH) in 2021, as values exceeded over US$65,000, while also dipping to a range of US$30,000 earlier this year. As such, many hodlers have introduced additional methods to earn continuously with their crypto investments to hedge against market fluctuations.

Love is in the air! Yup, it’s that time of the year again. While some impatiently await its arrival because of all the fun things they have planned out, it is a day of confrontation with involuntary romantic loneliness for others. Valentine’s Day 2022 is here, which we took as the occasion to find five startups that will help you celebrate Valentine’s Day, with or without a partner.

TradeBay is about to revolutionize the fruit trade industry by offering a Global fruit trading platform. Here is why the Stockholm portfolio company, led by CEO Filippa Jedeur-Palmgren, enables new market opportunities and why this Global multi-billion dollar industry is ripe for VC investment.

Thinking about leaving corporate life behind? Looking for more freedom, control, and financial independence? Perhaps being a consultant has shown you that the business world isn't half as complicated as you thought, and you've played around with the thought of starting your own company. However, you're unsure if you're cut out for the startup journey.

We asked four consultant-turned-entrepreneurs about the biggest lessons they learned along the way. From what these founders have discovered about themselves since becoming an entrepreneur, to how they've used their background in consulting to build successful tech startups in less than a year, here's what they had to say.

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The global pandemic had a profound impact on the mental health of many, so now more than ever, it is crucial to be aware of and apply good mental health practices.

At Antler, mental health is an important topic not only during Mental Health Awareness Month or the World Mental Health Day but throughout the whole year. As such, we've compiled advice from some of our portfolio companies that are tackling mental health: Stockholm-based VoiceHER, London-based Blueheart and Kalda, Singapore-based Innade, and Berlin-based clare&me.

Here's what they had to say.

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