Antares Labs has announced its public launch and a $7.25m seed round. The funding round had 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 works, then builds company-specific AI solutions around the core problems – without requiring a data lake, system overhaul, or years-long implementation.
“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. 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.”
Noaman Ahmad, Chief Executive Officer, Antares Labs
The platform integrates with foundation models like AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic – and routes requests dynamically to balance cost, performance and quality, so customers are never locked into a single AI provider. As 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.
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.
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.
“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.
“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. I’m thrilled to bring this vision to life with Noaman and his team, whose deep industry knowledge positions them better than anyone to move fast and activate it.”
Brendan Wallace, Founder, CEO, and CIO, Fifth Wall
Antares Labs is already working with some of the largest owner-operators, including Quarterra.
