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100 AI Ideas You Can’t Vibe-Code: Untapped Startup Opportunities for Expert Founders

James McClure, General Partner at Antler Australia, explores 100 unique, complex, and untapped AI startup ideas that can’t be vibe-coded in a weekend - spanning sovereign GPUs, low-bandwidth AI, multi-agent systems, neurotech, synthetic audiences, and hypersonic space navigation. These high-barrier opportunities are launchpads for domain experts and builders in deep tech, regulated, scientific, or frontier domains. Read more below and join Antler’s residency to build them now.

Insights

Why we invested in AirDodge: Enabling Drone Operations in U-Space

AirDodge is making low-altitude airspace safe, scalable and predictable.

Insights

What’s Next in Consumer AI: Apps That Double as Life Layers

A curated snapshot of how India’s Consumer AI landscape is evolving: a simple behavioural lens of how we structure our view of Consumer AI, a Market Map of India’s Consumer AI startups, and areas we're excited about.

Insights

AI Market Map: Engineering

From tools to teammates: The rise of AI Agents in engineering.

Why we invested in ChatCut: Professional filmmakers reimagining the future of video editing

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.

Vietnam

What's NEXT: How AI is Revolutionizing the BFSI Landscape

At Antler India, we’ve met over 1,000 fintech founders in recent years and backed 20+ breakout bets. We’re now excited about the ways AI will shape the future of fintech — and are especially keen to meet exceptional founders building in the areas we detail below.

India

Announcing the Spring 2025 US Portfolio Showcase

We are thrilled to unveil the latest companies to join the Antler U.S. portfolio, an outstanding group of startups across FinTech, Consumer, DeepTech, Energy, Healthcare and BioTech, and more.

US

Why LPs should re-evaluate climate tech through the lens of AI

Rethinking climate alpha and why early-stage investors hold the advantage.

Global

Early Days—Episode 14: Supercritical with Michelle You

Michelle You is co-founder and CEO of Supercritical, one of the world's largest carbon removal marketplaces. But Supercritcal isn't the first startup Michelle has built and scaled. Before Supercritical, Michelle was co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Songkick, a company that helped fans discover concerts from their favorite artists. Songkick was backed by investors like YC, Index, Sequoia, Access and ultimately exited to Warner Music. 

Michelle shares how her experience at Songkick has influenced her approach to building Supercritical. We discuss the importance of user interviews, ascertaining key insights from customers, and how to structure an analytical decision making process. These are valuable, hard-earned lessons from a serial founder that you don't want to miss.

US

Antler’s New UK Terms: Giving Founders the Strongest Start at Day Zero

A £500k Commitment from Day Zero — Designed to Help You Build, Raise, and Scale Faster

UK

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"Antler has been one of the most helpful investors for closing our Series B round successfully."

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Wrtn

Antler has been one of the most helpful investors for closing our Series B round successfully.

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Airalo

"If someone is going to launch an Amazon for eSIMs, that should be us.”

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Wrtn

"Antler has been one of the most helpful investors for closing our Series B round successfully."

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Tactiq

"Antler are very instrumental with supporting companies across the globe. And that gives them a different type of belief in what’s possible in different geographies."

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Clout Kitchen

"They do the best thing that a VC should do, which is get out of the way and let us do our thing and be helpful when we ask them…so I think that’s really key."

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fileAI

"Antler funded me as a first investor and also immediately brought in another investor."

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Investing in OnArrival | Antler India

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.

India

Venture capital as an engine of positive transformation

Antler's second annual ESG and Impact Report shares learnings on how VCs can focus on creating sustainable value from the outset, and celebrates our portfolio companies' work in this space.

Global

A golden year of innovation? 25 of the biggest trends shaping 2023.

More than 25 operators at leading tech companies share their top predictions for the year ahead.

Global

Why we backed NOVO: speeding up energy renovation at scale—when a massive market meets the perfect team at the right time

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.

Germany

AI: Humanity's Miracle Machine, Part II

In the second installment of our multi-part series we dive deeper into the different layers of AI value stack and how future founders can find their cutting edge in this rapidly evolving ecosystem.

Note: This is part 2 of a multi-part AI series. If you are interested in understanding why AI will be an era-defining technology and the key terms associated with it, please read part 1 (click here) before you begin part 2.

India

Entrepreneurship and emotional intelligence

Exploring the link between entrepreneurship and emotional intelligence with Rafael Urdaneta, DACH Head of Finance at Antler.

Germany

Antler Australia: 2022 Year in Review

As 2022 draws to a close, it’s time to reflect on the year that was.

Australia

Investing in Generative AI with Hexo

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.

India

AI: Humanity’s Miracle Machine, Part I

In this multi-part series, we explore everything from the origins and evolution of AI to the future AI landscape and how future founders can be a part of it.

The 2nd installment of the series (click here) is also live for anyone interested in jumping right to how the AI landscape will pan out and what future founders need to know.

India

The 12 Days of Antler Gift Giving

At Antler, we're proud to back more than 600 companies across six continents doing great things in the world. During this season of giving, we are excited to highlight a selection of Antler portfolio companies whose products and services—from tech-enabled beauty products to luxury fashion mystery boxes—are sure to impress the most discerning trendsetters on your nice list. 

Welcome to the 12 Days of Antler Gift Giving!

Global

Writing your own success story

A conversation with Samira Scheerer, ex-consultant who’s following her vision of founding her own business.

Germany

The 2022 Benelux Unicorn Founder Roadmap: How to build unicorns in Benelux

As everyone anticipates the next wave of ultra-successful companies in Benelux, what does it take to get there? What do the successful founders of Benelux unicorns look like? This report is an in-depth look at the Benelux startup ecosystem and its brightest stars. And above all, it is for anyone who is helping build the next 50 unicorns in Benelux.

Netherlands

The Angle: Why the long-term view is the hard but right one

The Angle is a new content series from Antler, featuring perspectives from our team members on the biggest events and trends impacting founders and early-stage investors today. Every article is that person's unique angle on a hot topic—what they see from their vantage point in one of our 25 offices around the globe—not Antler's stance. In our first edition, Jeff Becker draws lessons from the demise of FTX and turbulent tech moments in recent years. This article first appeared in Jeff's Monday Morning Meeting on Substack.

Global

Finding the right solution

A conversation with Raj Kukreja, software developer, engineering manager and now working on finding the right solution.

Germany

Meaningful work: building products to empower people

Sitting down with Viktoria Prantauer: digital marketing expert, breast cancer survivor, and now working on making her mark on the world.

Germany

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