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Welcome to Insights — stories and perspectives from founders, partners, and Antler’s global community.

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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.

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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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Airalo

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

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"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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Startup Series: Meet RespiQ, the future of digestive health

In the coming weeks, we will be introducing our first Amsterdam cohort's startups. Today we will hear from the founders of RespiQ, a startup that is building a cutting edge, patent-pending technology based on proven science.

Netherlands

Startup series: How Charlotte and Oleg teamed up, developed a platform to connect distributed teams, and now make ‘magic happen’

I don't consider myself as much of a risk taker, but in summer 2019, I knew it was time. I quit my job in order to become an entrepreneur at Antler, without knowing what to build or with whom. My expectations were to work hard and develop a lot. Coming from the business side, predominantly from global organizations, I was also expecting to learn a lot in the tech field. Boy, was I in for a ride!

A look at one of the most critical days in the Antler program

On November 13th, Antler held its first Demo Day in Amsterdam. This day is the finale of the 6 month long Antler program. The big moment for an entrepreneur who's been building a company with their heart and soul. The first time your company is unveiled to the world.

Netherlands

50 trailblazing women who are shaping the future of tech

On Thursday the 21st of November 2019, about 100 leaders and influencers across the technology field were brought together to be part of the exclusive launch for Inspiring Fifty Nordics; men and women who see the value and positive impact that increased diversity has on all aspects of business including revenue growth, innovation and culture.

Startup Series: Meet Skyqraft

Skyqraft is an Antler-generated startup built to transform what the long-range power line inspection looks like today. Using manned helicopters and ground crew is not only outdated and time consuming, it's also dangerous, expensive and unsustainable.

Skyqraft offers autonomous, long-range infrastructure inspections that gathers video and image data using drones. Their machine learning system will then use this data to detect any potential threats towards the grid. The startup was founded in the inaugural Stockholm cohort by CEO David Almroth, CTO Umar Chughtai and Sales Director Sakina Turabali.

Startup Series: Capture, welcome to the world!

For those who have supported me along the way and those who are simply curious, I'd like to share my journey since July - from joining Antler Singapore with nothing but an idea, to being in Islamabad and just over a month away from launching Capture, the app enabling you to track, reduce and remove your climate footprint.

Singapore

The Antler Sydney Demo Day was a celebration of many things - one was women

Of the 12 companies Antler showcased at its inaugural Demo Day in Sydney, five were represented by female CEOs.

Australia

Startup Series: Meet xNomad

One in ten stores Globally are empty, and in the Nordics alone there’s over 20 000 vacant spaces. xNomad is marketplace for short-term retail space, the ‘Airbnb for pop-ups’. Watch the full video to learn more about the startup that was founded in the inaugural Antler Stockholm program by Jonathan Haralambakis.

Global

What investors look for at Demo Day, and how founders can impress them

Antler’s inaugural Demo Day in Sydney will take place on Thursday, November 7 at the iconic Sydney Town Hall.

Australia

Startup Series: Meet Done

Meet the Done team! Malin Granlund, CEO, and Alek Åström CTO, explain how they want to revive an industry that has been the most complained about in Sweden for over twelve years (Swedish Consumer Agency, 2017).

Startup Series: Bringing about change - one team at a time

Antler is in the business of enabling the world's most exceptional people to build technology companies that solve real problems, and have a strong impact on the world. Last year we had the chance to start working with some truly amazing entrepreneurs: Wisnu Nugrahadi, Margana Mohamad and Dimas Pramudya. In only twelve months, they have built an incredibly fast growing company working with 150,000 agents across Indonesia. So what makes Sampingan special?

Singapore

Expert Series: How I grew an app to 15 million users

Adeline Lee is a growth hacker, product marketer extraordinaire, and new mother. She's grown multiple applications and companies from thousands of users to millions. Here's how she grew these products to new heights...

Netherlands

Energy, property, mobility: Antler to focus on industries with high potential for innovation in Norway

Antler has launched in Norway with a mission to enable exceptional individuals to build global businesses in industries with high potential for innovation: energy, property, mobility.

Antler, a global startup generator and early-stage VC fund, recruits talented professionals to join a six-month program designed to support them in finding co-founders to build and grow a business that will go on to solve some of the most crucial problems of tomorrow.

How Antler is doing things differently to ensure founders are successful from day one

From the program to the team, and how it addresses the barriers to entrepreneurship, Antler gives founders an unfair advantage over startups not in the Antler program.

Australia

Launching Antler Jakarta to enable more successful Indonesian startups

Antler has recently announced its plan to launch in Jakarta to enable more Indonesian entrepreneurs to build successful startups through its platform. Antler's vision is to invest in at least 20 Indonesian startups annually and give founders support by helping them form the right team, funding them from day 1 and giving them access to a global network of advisors and mentors.

Indonesia

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