Singapore, January 2026 – Antler has announced its full 2025 AI portfolio, bringing together fourteen companies across two Disrupt cohorts that are already demonstrating commercial proof points. Every startup has secured paying customers, enterprise pilots, or strong user traction, and each founding team brings prior operating or entrepreneurial experience.
The portfolio spans two cohorts: Disrupt 1, launched in May 2025, and Disrupt 2, launched in October in Singapore. Together, they represent a focused wave of innovation across manufacturing, robotics, enterprise software, infrastructure reliability, energy optimization, and travel automation.
AI dominated headlines throughout 2025, with capital continuing to flow into the sector even as industry leaders questioned whether real commercial returns would follow. Antler Disrupt’s portfolio offers a grounded counterpoint, with companies building highly specific tools that solve real operational problems for enterprises and users.
Commercial Validation at the Center
What sets this portfolio apart is its shared commitment to traction:
● 100 percent of companies have secured paying customers, enterprise pilots, or meaningful user growth
● Two-thirds focus on infrastructure layers that make AI reliable and operational at scale
● Multiple companies report six-figure revenues or multi-million-dollar pipelines
● All founders have prior experience building and scaling products
These companies show that AI delivers tangible results when applied to well-defined, industry-specific problems.
Winnie Khoo, Partner at Antler added: “The most important signal today is not model size or fundraising volume. It is repeated usage. Our founders are winning real customers’ trust because their products work where it matters most, inside production and business systems. Disrupt sprints give us the platform to work with the type of builders we already have the conviction for and want to back. They move fast, they listen to customers, and they ship.”
Portfolio Highlights
Each company in the Disrupt portfolio receives US$400,000 in initial capital from Antler as its first institutional investment following the four-week sprint. Beyond the initial ticket, founders continue to receive operational support, investor introductions, and follow-on funding opportunities through Series C.
“We launched Disrupt in 2025 to test something we’d been thinking about for years: could we run at the same speed as our founders? These first two cohorts proved we can. We aggressively source for teams building the most ambitious, exciting companies. Then we work with them intensely for just four weeks. We aggressively introduce them to customers, enterprise connections, and investors. Honestly, we find ourselves so excited talking about what they’re building that we can’t help but evangelize to our entire network.
What excites me most is watching these founders scale beyond borders with the speed of technology today. That’s what Disrupt is about: matching founder momentum with the infrastructure and network to go global,” Winnie added.
Meet the 2025 Antler Disrupt Portfolio
- IndustrialMind – AI engineers for manufacturing that automate process design, production monitoring, and root cause analysis, delivering 10x performance and millions in operational cost savings for factories and equipment manufacturers.
- Nugen – Domain-Aligned AI with built-in confidence indicators and purpose-built architectures, providing reliable AI performance for enterprises in legal, financial, and healthcare sectors where trust is non-negotiable.
- Anamaya – Corporate travel platform with AI-powered intelligence travel manager that helps you optimize cost, policy compliance, and sustainability goals.
- 5.Y Glucose – Conversational Agentic AI that autonomously acquires, engages, converts, and supports customers at scale, enabling brands to deliver personalized product experiences across the entire customer lifecycle.
- Lambdai Space – Climate intelligence platform using physics-aware AI and satellite data to track environmental shifts and generate risk insights, enabling proactive climate action for insurance, agriculture, and financial services.
- AppSecAI – Automated security remediation platform that generates validated code fixes and delivers them as pull requests, reducing vulnerability remediation time from months to minutes for enterprises with large security backlogs.
- Drift – AI co-pilot for robotic development with realistic environment stimulation for testing and training autonomous systems.
- i10x – Unified AI marketplace providing access to 500+ AI models in one place with image and video generation, saving 90% costs for entrepreneurs, creators, and professionals needing multiple AI capabilities.
- Maia Care – AI-powered emergency response documentation that transcribes speech and auto-fills forms in real-time, saving up to 28% of ambulance crew time so first responders can focus on patient care.
- AlchemystAI – Context engine that provides persistent memory and verifiable sources for AI agents, enabling developers to build production-ready AI applications 20x faster with reliable, context-aware responses.
- Synthium – Cognition-as-a-Service platform that crowdsources human intelligence through gamified simulations, training robots with real social reasoning and coordination capabilities for the consumer robotics ecosystem.
- Swapify – AI-powered face-swapping platform that creates photorealistic videos and photos at scale, enabling content creators and enterprises to produce high-quality AI-generated media with proven commercial traction.
- Enerzyz – Energy asset orchestration OS that automates management through predictive control and digital twins, delivering 30%+ efficiency gains and zero unplanned outages for industrial and commercial facilities.
- Mapping Intelligence – AI modernization layer that upgrades legacy enterprise systems with intelligent capabilities without costly replacements, extending infrastructure life and unlocking automation for enterprises.
From Southeast Asia to the world
Although headquartered in Singapore, the portfolio companies already serve customers across Asia, Europe, and North America. Designed for global scale from day one, the portfolio reflects Antler’s belief that Southeast Asia has become a hub for practical, execution-driven AI development.
“The 2025 funding landscape has forced founders and investors alike to be more disciplined. We’re backing fewer companies, but with more conviction. The Disrupt batch represents the best of what we’ve seen: founders with proven execution, clear market opportunities, and genuine global ambition. They’re not chasing trends. They’re building the infrastructure and tools that consumers and enterprises will depend on for the next decade.” – said Jussi Salovaara, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Antler Asia.
As the industry moves into 2026, questions around the sustainability of AI investment will continue. Antler’s 2025 Disrupt portfolio sends a clear signal: AI works best when it is focused on measurable outcomes, led by experienced founders, and applied to problems enterprises already pay to solve.
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