Antares Labs announced its public launch and $7.25 million seed round with participation from Fifth Wall, Base10 Partners, Bloomberg Beta and Sandwith Ventures.
Antares Labs’ forward-deployed teams embed directly with customers to learn how the business actually works, then build company-specific AI solutions around the core problems—without requiring a data lake, system overhaul, or years-long implementation. The platform integrates with every major foundation model (AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic), routing requests dynamically to balance cost, performance, and quality—so customers are never locked into a single AI provider. Because the platform lives inside the customer’s environment, proprietary data, workflows, relationships, and logic stay with the customer. ROI shows up in 30 days, not 30 months.
“Every real estate owner-operator is asking the same question right now: how do we actually put AI to work inside our business? Not a pilot, not a dashboard — something that runs on our data, solves our problems, and compounds over time. Antares Labs exists to answer that,” said Noaman Ahmad, chief executive officer. “We embed directly with our clients to build AI around strategic capabilities that move the needle—accelerating investments, improving lease-up. The output isn’t a report or vendor to manage. It’s intelligence that lives inside their business, owned by them and gets smarter daily.”
The problems Antares Labs solves span the full spectrum of real estate operations. For a multifamily developer, that means finding deals in the next high-return submarket before anyone else does. For hospitality REITs, it means giving owners real-time visibility into market dynamics and connecting it to the staffing, service and spending decisions their operators make every day, instead of learning about them a quarter later in a report. And across every asset type, it means predicting which tenants are likely to churn before it ever becomes a vacancy or a lost lease.
Unlike black-box AI, every Antares Labs recommendation is fully traceable—from data to signal to business strategy—and audit-ready for finance, compliance and the board. Antares Labs is already working with large owner-operators, including Quarterra.
“For over a decade, we’ve heard the same frustration from the largest owner-operators in the world—decades of institutional knowledge, proprietary data and hard-won relationships that have never been fully activated,” shared Brendan Wallace, founder, CEO and CIO, Fifth Wall. “Nobody transforms alone—not on willpower, not on data sitting in a system no one uses. You need something actively working the plan with you, every day. Antares Labs was built to be that for real estate operators. The window to move is now, and the cost of waiting is real.”
