Antler

Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm founded in Singapore in 2017, focused on investing in technology companies with significant growth potential. With a presence across six continents and major entrepreneurial hubs such as London, New York, Singapore, and Sydney, Antler has supported the establishment of over 200 startups, 40% of which have at least one female co-founder. The firm identifies exceptional individuals and early-stage businesses, providing comprehensive support from team formation and business model validation to capital investment. Antler invests primarily at the pre-seed stage and continues to engage with its portfolio companies through subsequent funding rounds, including Series C. The firm operates several funds, including those targeting specific regions like East Africa, while maintaining a commitment to fostering diverse founding teams representing 70 nationalities. Through its global platform, Antler aims to help founders build impactful startups that can define the future of technology.

Jed Rose

Partner

Carolina Strobel

Partner

Past deals in Smart Cities

Spoor

Seed Round in 2020
Spoor is a company that has created a biodiversity monitoring platform specifically designed for the sustainable management of infrastructure, particularly in the context of wind farms. The platform employs advanced video technology and a proprietary model to detect, track, and classify bird species, providing valuable data on their three-dimensional flight paths. This information allows clients to gain insights into bird activity, enabling them to make informed decisions regarding the operation of their wind farms. By focusing on biodiversity and ecosystem data, Spoor aims to support sustainable practices in the renewable energy sector.

Plaace

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Proptech company creating vibrant streets and cities by helping property owners choose and connect with the right concepts, at the right place, using the right data.

StrataCore

Pre Seed Round in 2020
StrataCore builds a digital ecosystem for community living that enables seamless experiences for those that manage and reside within it.

Treeblue

Seed Round in 2020
Trees help reduce the heat island effect in cities by up to 8C, one benefit among many other benefits. However, with climate change, many urban trees are under massive stress and dying prematurely. Treeblue is a green tech startup, building a unique low-cost solution combining Internet of Things, satellite imagery, weather forecast, and Artificial Intelligence for predictive urban forest’s health and consequent prescriptive maintenance, optimising watering and fertilising.

Plaace

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Proptech company creating vibrant streets and cities by helping property owners choose and connect with the right concepts, at the right place, using the right data.

Neighbourhood

Pre Seed Round in 2020
We are on a mission to create unique neighbourhoods that empower human connection and enable people to live a more fulfilled urban life. We rethink how cities work by creating neighbourhood networks of convenient and connected spaces to live, work and play. We design, develop and operate these spaces through human and machine potential, creating walkable neighbourhoods for mixed-use communities, with a positive impact on people and place. Neighbourhood - Live well together.

Labelfuse

Pre Seed Round in 2019
We offer early-detection-warnings for public events and public spaces. Our platform tracks illegal drones in the sky in realtime, to defend VIPs and the people in general. Meanwhile, it tracks social distancing and human behaviour on an increasing grid of camera's in cities and soccer stadiums, while enabling farming robots to distinguish carrots from weeds, for organic agriculture.

Allihoop

Venture Round in 2019
Allihoop is a technology-enabled co-living brand offering flexible urban living in cities for young professionals.