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Designing a printed circuit board means reading datasheets, choosing components, drawing schematics, routing traces and checking hundreds of design rules in professional tools that take years to learn. Even trained engineers get it wrong: companies average 2.8 board respins per project, at around $46,000 each.

Engineers have never had more help. In Atlassian's 2025 survey of 3,500 developers and managers, 68% said AI saves them more than 10 hours a week. Half said they lose more than 10 hours a week to organisational friction: hunting for information, switching between tools, waiting on other people. Across knowledge work more broadly, Atlassian found that teams spend a quarter of their time just searching for answers.

In 2019, a precise 3D capture of a building cost more than £30,000. Today it costs under £500, and a phone walkthrough gets you most of the way there. Yet the knowledge that runs factories, warehouses and data centres still lives in photos, PDFs, spreadsheets and the heads of the people who walk the floor.

Aeration (pumping air into tanks so bacteria can break down waste) accounts for around 30% of a wastewater treatment plant's operating cost. Because operators can't see the biology in real time, most over-aerate by 20–30% as a safety buffer. Globally, aeration consumes roughly 1.5% of all energy demand, around $42bn a year. A 15% optimisation would be worth $6.3bn annually.

There are 76 million music creators worldwide, and MIDiA expects close to 200 million by 2030. Together they deliver 106,000 new tracks to streaming services every day. Most make music in a DAW (a digital audio workstation such as Ableton, Logic or FL Studio), and the thing they do most often inside it is search: scrolling sample libraries for a kick drum, a texture or a vocal that fits the key, tempo and feel of the track.

There is a quiet financial crisis happening in millions of UK households, and it repeats itself every month with very little fanfare. A nursery invoice arrives. It asks for £1,000, £1,500, sometimes £2,000 in full, in advance, before the month has even started. And parents, with very few options, find a way to pay it. Or they don't.

Antler’s new report, The Path to Series A in Germany, is one of the most comprehensive studies of German tech funding ever conducted.

A framework for reading innovation exposure and disruption risk  across institutional portfolios.

S&P and MSCI are reconsidering how the world classifies AI companies. Nearly 2,000 startups suggest the problem runs deeper than where to draw the next set of boundaries. 

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What 4,200 founders look like before the outcome is known, and why the most revealing thing about them is that they have no fixed address. 

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We’re doubling down on HIFI’s $37M Series A round led by Left Lane Capital with participation from Tether - after backing the company at the pre-seed and seed.

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Solo founders in Antler's portfolio once failed at three times the rate of founding duos. Across 1,747 companies, that gap has all but closed. Why is the harder question.

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