The Antler Singapore Demo Day introduces new startups operating in sectors such as fintech, consumer technology, telco, AI, crypto, and healthtech
Startup generator and early-stage VC Antler announced that it has invested US$2.4 million into its second group of companies originating from Singapore.
Antler said that its Singapore Demo Day saw more than 500 investors, VCs, and people from the regional startup ecosystem attended the event. There were 3,000 applications, in which the program initially brought together 100 individuals from 22 countries. But only 40 founders made it into the next phase of the programme to get their company off the ground in three months.
The companies, Antler said, come from enterprise, telecommunications, fintech, consumer technology, and other sectors. They are:
A company that aims to reimagine the migrant workers recruitment process by starting with the construction industry. Their mission is to remove inefficiencies and barriers that stand in an individual’s way in pursuit of a better life by building a platform that matches workers with jobs overseas without the need to pay upfront fees to agents and other middlemen.
A platform that offers job-focussed training for in-demand skills. Eskwelabs combines the low-cost of online learning with the high engagement of offline training to produce job-ready students. Eskwelabs was launched with a data science bootcamps in the Philippines.
A platform for personalised skincare regimen for the modern millennial Indonesian women, offering a fully digital direct-to-consumer (D2C) experience with high-quality products made from halal and vegan ingredients.
A platform that lets investors earn interest on their cryptocurrencies by lending it to margin traders, who would otherwise struggle to access crypto loans. This approach allows crypto holders to capture the untapped value of their portfolio while benefiting the margin traders simultaneously.
A platform that lets users journal and draw how their body feels, to help them understand and communicate their psychiatric symptoms better. The app will use patterns in their data to identify mental health risks and educate users on their physical aspects.
A platform that matches brands with podcasts, enabling them to monetise through engine-based recommendation. The relevant results will enable brands to discover advertisement opportunities.
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A platform that aims to enable people to access more than a hundred eSIMs from around the world, with just a couple of taps from their phone.
A platform that enables users to personalise their healthy baby food order based on their baby’s age and allergies. It also helps track the baby’s development.
A tech company that simplifies and summarises patents and research papers by leveraging on AI and machine learning to analyse, rank, and summarise the best scientific documents in a given field of research. It then matches the content with the user’s interest areas and pushes relevant content based on their watching behaviour.
An omni-channel solution to make the onboarding and offboarding infrastructure in crypto much more user-friendly, and resilient against single channel dependency.
A point-of-sale (POS) solutions to help small merchants digitise their businesses. Its flagship product is the Qashier Smart Terminal– a connected, multi-purpose device that combines a POS software, payments hub, and an open platform for third party app integration at an affordable monthly subscription rate.
A personal coaching marketplace connecting millennials with a market of health coaches, nutritionists, and life and performance coaches.
A democratisation of retail investor access to alternative investment opportunities, such as private equity and venture capital funds.
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An online wholesale marketplace that allows customers to freely return items within 60 days. Operating in the Philippines, they also help local makers expand the distribution of their business and get into multiple stores without having to cold call retailers again.
A platform that enables millennials to plan, save, and spend in what matters to them by providing financial education and planning via a set of chatbots.
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An AI productivity tool that enables construction sites to be more productive by synchronising staff and projects, task planning, real-time attendance tracking, and the correct management tools in place.
A platform that combines telehealth, symptom diagnosis, and a health tracker to meet women’s sexual and mental health needs.
Since its first programme in Singapore in 2018, Antler has generated 44 new tech companies originating from Southeast Asia and the Nordics in a wide range of industries.
Antler’s approach is funding the founders from Day 1 and investing in them if they pass the evaluation of the Investment Committee after ten weeks.
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