Announcing the Fall 2024 US Portfolio Showcase

Meet the portfolio companies featured in our Antler US Fall 2024 Showcase. Learn more here.

Antler in the US

September 19, 2024
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We are excited to introduce the Antler portfolio companies featured in our Fall 2024 US Portfolio Showcase. We work with founders starting from day zero, bringing them in-house to our Residency Programs in Austin and New York. After investment from Antler, our portfolio companies work with the Antler US team to unlock continued growth and prepare to raise subsequent funding. Below is a brief insight into the companies that participated in our Spring 2024 Residency. Today, their stages range from pre-seed to seed: some of these startups are still early and are heads down building, while others already have term sheets on the table. As an investor and partner at the earliest stage, we are proud to showcase the progress of our most recently funded US founders. 

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  • Abstraction: AI teammates for sales, CX, and product teams to automate complex workflows 10x faster and deploy in minutes. Co-Founder, Akhil, spent 4 years leading pre and post-sales teams managing over $30M in ARR. Most recently, he was on the team that architected and built Brainbox ARIA, the world's first AI Agent for Building Management. Co-Founder, Roshan, has been building software for 10+ years. He was recruited to work under the VP of AI at Capital One where he built, scaled, and owned a 0 to 1 enterprise vulnerability tool, saving the organization $70M in spend.
  • Biota: Enabling water utilities to monitor and track the source of PFAS, forever chemicals recently classified as toxic by the EPA, in the water supply. Co-Founder & CEO, Dr. Rose, is a serial biotech entrepreneur and PhD level biochemist. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she launched the first commercial testing laboratory for COVID-19 in wastewater and sold over $10M of testing services. She’s developed multiple rapid, automated diagnostic tests and has raised over $50M in non-dilutive grant funds in the past. Founding team members Andrea, Andrew and Dan hold PhDs in microbiology, biochemistry, and bioengineering, with combined 8X biotechnology companies founded previously, and experience across developing automated life sciences platforms and diagnostic technologies.
  • BuiltRight: Leveraging AI to create websites for service businesses without technical expertise in just minutes. Co-Founder & CEO, Will, is full-stack software engineer of 12 years with early startup experience at companies like WayUp (YC15) and Welcome (YC21). He has bootstrapped and sold two companies. Co-Founder & COO, Arwin, has expertise in operations and GTM. He holds a masters in data science and a background in middle-market services private equity. He previously built and scaled social accounts to over 1 million followers.
  • ClimeCast: Energy efficiency upgrades for real estate firms. Co-Founder & CEO, Krishna, studied Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, conducted environmental engineering research at DuPont alongside the U.S International Chemistry Olympiad Representative. Developed an AI-enabled application for long range capacity planning across several business units at Procter and Gamble (P&G) saving 6-figures annually. Co-Founder & CTO, Ravi ,holds a degree in Computer Engineering, and was a stakeholder for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Developed hardware and software augmented reality systems for Kohler to improve manufacturing processes. Solo developer for hardware and software of bluetooth enabled energy efficiency monitor.
  • CopySight AI: IP scoring and licensing for AI-generated content. Co-Founder & CEO, Artem, raised $3M for previous AdTech startup working with Fortune 500 brands including Disney, L’Oréal, Diageo, before exiting to run the creative engineering department for Meta Reality Labs. Co-Founder, Alex, is a 3X founder, Growth Product Lead at Osome, one of the leading fintech companies in Singapore that automates financial and legal administrative tasks for entrepreneurs with AI. Matt is the former legal director and Head of IP at Snap, and a 3X fintech and AI founder.  Dima is a Ph.D. NLP senior researcher at Nvidia & 4X founder, who is helping build the model and has patented the technology approach.
  • DeepModel: Turnkey platform for launching specialized AI agents in minutes. Founder & CEO, Himakara, is a software engineer and 2X founder with 20+ years in unstructured data and AI, working with clients and partners like Box, EMC Documentum, and Toyota. He co-founded hydra.ai, one of the industry’s first no-code AI platforms, and built the engineering org at CertifyOS, a General Catalyst-backed healthcare data startup. COO, Bailey, is an operations leader and attorney with 12+ years of experience designing organizational processes. She was the head of market implementation operations at Oscar Health Insurance and built the operations organization at CertifyOS.
  • Fair: Embedded auto warranties that drivers love. Founder & CEO, Will, has experience building and scaling operations teams across TikTok, Instacart, Cruise, Uber, and Tawkify. CTO, Saritha, has 20+ years of full stack experience specializing in AI/ML, including data systems and data science at Yahoo! and Dollar Shave Club. CRO, Stephen, who was former VP of Actuary at one of the world’s largest reinsurers, SCOR.
  • Ghost: An all-in-one AI marketing agent for small businesses. Co-Founder, R.J., is a previous founder with $20m+ raised in consumer mobility tech, and formerly Head of Growth at a Sequoia-backed local restaurant software startup, growing GMV from $0-100m+ with small business partners. Co-Founder, Dilawer, was an early engineer at Fellow.app, building AI-powered meeting software while the company raised over $30m.
  • GLP Winner: Consumer metasearch for weightloss. Co-Founder & CEO, Sabina, previously founded Elo Entertainment (company behind Dotabuff, Overbuff, Speedrun.com) which operated with 7M+ monthly active users. Elo was bootstrapped before raising a Series A from private equity and built statistics tools for Dota 2, Overwatch, League of Legends, Valorant, and Fortnite. Co-Founder & CTO, Benson, was the first engineering hire who built the entire front end and scaled team to 40 people at Esper, a 8VC and Peter Thiel backed Series A company.
  • Inductive Robotics: Autonomous EV charging as a service. Co-Founder & CEO, Madhav, has a MBA from Haas and 10+ years of software engineering experience leading hardware and software deployments for brands including CVS, Starbucks, Walmart. Co-Founder & CTO, David, previously at Amazon building robotic solutions and inventor of 12+ novel methods for material handling equipment and robotic systems.
  • Itair: Helping creators monetize videos in minutes with AI-generated shopfronts. Co-Founder & CEO, Priya, has a background from UC Berkeley computer science and experience as founding product manager at two AI startups and senior PM at Northwestern Mutual. Co-Founder & CTO, Swapnil, was senior SWE at Microsoft launching consumer facing features to 30M users and led retail inventory for AI solutions for small business at Square.
  • Kismet: AI/ML-enabled platform empowering hotels to automate direct growth & group sales workflows. CEO, Jason, a Columbia MBA where he was a Feldbergs Fellow and former McKinsey consultant with extensive background as a hotelier and property developer and Marriott Advisory Board member. CTO, Julian, is an exited founder and AI/ML expert, previously leading engineering teams at Jet.com and Walmart’s Intelligent Retail Labs.
  • Koobz: Digital workflow for footwear manufacturing cost-effectively and sustainably. Founder & CEO, Kuba, was born and raised in Poland, with a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering, is a second time founder. His previous 3D printing company was successfully acquired by Nexa3D. He led post-acquisition rapid scaling from 15 to 150 employees, has 17 years of experience in high-speed, high-throughput manufacturing, and 10 years of experience in additive manufacturing, robotics, and automation. He is a holder of 5 patents on various manufacturing technologies.
  • Motley Bio: Early disease profiling & detection with multiomic sequencing. Co-Founder & CEO, Kristofer, a founding scientist at C2i Genomics that was recently acquired for ~$100m. Background in NGS assay development and bioinformatics/computational biology. Co-Founder & Lead Data Scientist, Sunil, background in computational biology and machine learning. Also a founding scientist at C2i Genomics where he developed cancer detection algorithms and models of the flagship product.
  • OM Therapeutics: ML-enabled small molecule discovery marketplace for researchers. Founding team members Devon, Adam, and Come each hold PhDs in genetics, chemistry, and computer science with multiple patents in DNA barcoding methods, and experience across microarray and novel sequencing. CEO and Co-Founder, Devon, previously founded 1859 which raised $50m in VC funding to build AI models and microfluidic screening. Come and Adam also worked at 1859. Devon received his PhD in Chemical Biology from Scripps Research Institute, developing nucleic acid computation methodologies and programmable biomolecules.
  • Outbound Aerospace: Designing and building next generation airplanes. Led by a team of previous leaders from SpaceX, Relativity Space, Wisk Aero, Hermeus, General Atomics, and Farmwise. Co-Founder & CEO, Ian, is a serial inventor and spent 8 years in medical devices across sales, engineering, and manufacturing in regulated industries. Co-Founder & CTO, Jake, has 10+ years of experience developing aircraft, spacecraft, and launch vehicles in engineering and integration roles, including working on Boeing 747, military aircraft, and world’s first 3D-printed rocket, Relativity Space’s Terran 1.
  • Parb AI: AI Agents for Dental Back-office Operations.The team has tech advanced degrees from Cornell and NYU. The team has tech advanced degrees from Cornell and NYU. In addition to their extensive startups experience. Co-Founder, Alfarouk, dropped out of dental school to study computer science, previously founded and exited a B2B SaaS startup. Following the acquisition, he joined the acquiring Series B startup and formed a team of 20+ members. Co-Founder, Youssef, has previously built AI products at a Series C healthtech startup. Before that, he was on the first Product Growth hires at a Series B startup and shipped software for leading automotive companies, including Daimler-Mercedes.
  • PensarAI: Application security on auto-pilot: automatically find and fix security vulnerabilities before production. Co-Founders, Kyle and Kerem, previously built and sold a company together. Backgrounds in building LLM-powered automation solutions across model risk, credit, and compliance at Barclays, published researcher in fintech and ML, and private equity business development.
  • Public Bored: Digital billboards across the globe, as easy as sending a tweet. Co-Founder & CEO, Eric, is a repeat founder, having scaled his last company to a team of 60 people with $6M+ ARR. His experience with understanding customers needs, designing successful user experiences, team building, and developing sales funnels helped him towards the successful exit of his previous venture. Co-Founder & CTO, Bhargav, is the previous founder of Performance IQ, a data analytics and performance tracking platform for boutique fitness clubs. His leadership and technical expertise propelled the platform to adopt over 5K businesses & 20M users before a successful acquisition by Battery Ventures.
  • Satlyt: The AirBnB for space computing; providing fast and secure edge computing software. Founder & CEO, Rama, is an ex SpaceX Starlink PM, AI Startup Manager at Google, Telco Business Lead at Tesla, and holds two advanced degrees in Business Management and Mechanical Engineering, and dropped out of a Masters in Space Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins to pursue his endeavors in space.
  • Screenify: Surfacing top candidates through in-depth, human-like AI interviews. Co-Founder, Karan, has been a technology leader for 15+ years and formerly Head of Engineering at DoorDash, leading the Dasher org and several engineering teams at Walmart e-Commerce supply chain. Co-Founder, Steve, has 12+ years in B2B leading product marketing at Google & Microsoft for products like ChromeBooks (achieved 92% YoY sales) and OneDrive.
  • Sluicebox.ai: GenAI emissions data set for 1.5B electronic parts. Elmar led a $10B sustainability product portfolio at AWS data centers. Material Science Engineer by trade and led Global Supply Chain Manufacturing at Dresden. Sarah led multi-year, multi-million dollar deals and integration projects for 80% of F500 and world-class organizations from NASA, Arrow Electronics to Deloitte. Emi is an AI Engineering leader that built self-driving cars for Uber and Aurora. Founding ML Engineer at Outreach before they raised $100M and previously at Sony.
  • Spiraldot Health Inc.: AI-powered clinical decision support for oncology. Founder & CEO, Talha, is a serial entrepreneur, two exits including as technical founder at divvyDOSE, which sold to United Healthcare for ~$0.5B. Ex-Apple Software Engineer led the iMovie team with Steve Jobs. Renee has 20+ years of experience as a practicing physician. Serial founder, prior exit of over $1B dollars to Humana. Anthony has deep expertise in healthtech, compliance, HIPAA at SaaS at scale. Most recently ran a whole division at Optum RX and prior to that was founding engineer with Talha at divvyDOSE.
  • Squeeze: AI-powered data intelligence layer for enterprise talent teams to optimize talent attraction. Co-Founder & CEO, Billy, is a software operator and growth equity investor. Invested over $180M into Growth-stage HR Tech, Mar-Tech, and Sales Tech Software. Leadership team at Series B startup. Co-Founder & CCO, James, is a sales engineer and AI solutions consultant for enterprise. Managed multi-national, multi-million-dollar sales engagements, implementations, and success. Co-Founder & CTO, Antony, is a seasoned engineering leader and multiple-time VC-backed startup CTO with experience across IBM, Allianz, ClearScore, and ContentCal (Acq. by Adobe).
  • Subbb: Discovery and monetization platform for paid online & IRL communities created in minutes. Founder & CEO, Jacob, has a full stack engineering and sales, marketing, and product background as first hire across multiple VC-backed startups, and YouTuber with 45K+ subscribers.
  • SymbyAI: AI-driven peer review and analysis of scientific documents to streamline the research lifecycle. Co-Founder & CEO, Ashia, is an AI Research Engineer and Computational Physicist with experience at premier research institutions including Fermilab, Mercury Data Science, and the Smithsonian. Ashia's career has centered on AI-focused scientific software; she has contributed to developing an inaugural algorithm for the autonomous operation of particle accelerators. Co-Founder & CTO, Michael, is a software developer whose experience ranges from binary analysis to aerospace to robotics.
  • Tatch AI: AI-native commercial insurance brokerage with automated end-to-end. workflow. Co-Founder, Tushar, is ex-ML at Goldman and Co-Founder, Dakotah, is an ex-investor at Carlyle and Coatue, they previously built a $60M AUM D2C RIA platform together called Poolit. Shabaig was early at Poolit and ex-BCG. The whole team is licensed and does the sales themselves today.
  • TeddyBot: Conversation AI-companion for well-being and connection for older adults. Co-Founder, Katie, led misinformation, media literacy, and elections for TikTok US/CAN, building teams, policies, strategies and products impacting 150M+ users. She holds a BA & MA from Stanford University & Forbes 30 Under 30 award. Co-Founder, Patrick, is an inventor and data privacy expert with 15+ years of founder and C-level startup experience developing integrated hardware and software systems (Rethink Robotics), won Time Magazine’s Top 50 inventions in 2008 and 2012. Previously at Akamai, he was the lead architect of the one of the world’s fastest blockchain transaction networks for MUFG Bank Japan. 
  • Tiny Dinner: An invitation-based community for dinner parties. Founder & CEO, Morgan, is a second time founder. Before Tiny Dinner he started Public Goods, a pioneer in Direct to Consumer which raised $30M (including from leading consumer PE firm, L Catterton). Public Goods is a profitable business; Morgan sits on the board of directors and hired a new CEO earlier this year.
  • Twisty AI: Automated video marketing, reducing cost by 75% and time to market from weeks to hours. Founder & CEO, Michael, is an entrepreneur and executive with 20+ years of experience in social video and product development at Apple, Google and YouTube. He was on the founding team as a PM at YouTube where he launched YouTube Channels and Subscriptions before moving to the revenue side, where he led the team responsible for half of the first billion in sales via Brand Channels and Contests.
  • Ven: Enabling commercial vehicle fleets to electrify through access to more data and charging opportunities. Daphne is an engineer turned product manager with significant expertise in the automotive industry, specifically the EV / AV space, F30U30. After launching playbooks on deploying autonomous drones for Amazon and Autonomous vehicles for Waymo, she started the product team at SpaceX (Starlink) and worked on strategy for Rivian. Jason is an accomplished machine learning scientist with over two decades of experience leading AI teams and teaching at Carnegie Mellon. He founded and sold a tech company to the Department of Defense and led engineering for Orbital Insight, a company that provides data to insurance firms.
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