About 61 per cent of these 15 companies had previous entrepreneurship experience, and 38 per cent have at least one female co-founder
Global startup generator and early-stage VC firm Antler has announced the 15 new companies that have graduated and received investment from its fourth Singapore programme.
The list also includes two startups from Antler’s COVID-19 Initiative. Launched earlier this year, the initiative aims to invest in startups that are working on ideas that respond to the impact of COVID-19.
About 61 per cent of these 15 companies had previous entrepreneurship experience, and 38 per cent have at least one female co-founder.
Antler held its fourth Singapore Demo Day and the first virtual one to an audience of investors, VCs and entrepreneurs from the global startup ecosystem.
“There has been a drastic change in consumer behaviour and we want to help create companies that keep this in mind when building…While most of the second phase of this programme was conducted remotely, the level and frequency of engagement increased and was intense,” Jussi Salovaara, Co-founder and Managing Partner Asia at Antler.
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“The Antler team adapted quickly to operating online and the current situation does not in any way deter us from working with the most exceptional founders to help them build and scale high-performing early-stage tech startups,” he added.
Below is the brief of the 15 ventures
Approvd: A SaaS for businesses to identify and assess external data risks. It empowers businesses to check, assess and onboard external vendors quicker and cost effectively, for data protection, cybersecurity and responsible AI use.
Chloropy: An AI startup, it automates the collection and management of crop health data from farms using drones for agrochemical companies.
Empala: Works with companies to enable their employees to drawdown the salary they have earned on demand.
Moneko: Developing an AI-powered personal finance mobile app, which application combines behavioural science and game design to help millennials in Asia get better at saving and managing their money.
Pawjourr: The Yelp for pets, helping pet owners discover new products, read reviews from other pet owners and directly book pet-related services.
Pretepop: An all-in-one platform for anyone looking to organise and run retail events online.
Skibre: A social and mobile-based e-sports platform. Skibre hosts skill-based mobile game tournaments for casual games across genres like puzzles, action, and strategy
Vikree: An enterprise SaaS platform to help companies break organisational boundaries and engage with partners to build a powerful ecosystem.
Volopay: Modernises the way companies manage spending by fusing financial management software with a smart corporate card.
Workclass: A social hiring platform focused on the accelerated hiring process in the blue-collar labour market.
YourRent: A fintech startup on a mission to improve flexibility, efficiency and fairness within the real estate rental ecosystem.
Zealth-ai: A personalised digital health intervention platform to provide patient reported outcomes monitoring and intelligent symptoms tracking.
Zopnik: Connecting local boutiques with pop-up shows at home in India.
Biogenes Technologies (COVID initiative): Develops, produces and markets aptamer-based (synthetic antibody) diagnostics products via their proprietary technology platform.
Path BioAnalytics (COVID initiative): Proprietary technology to quickly produce respiratory cell cultures, known as organoids, that are biologically-relevant and ideally suited to this task.
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