When is the best time to start a startup? "Today. Yesterday. When you don’t feel ready." That's what Partners at Antler will tell you. Our job at Antler is to make this easier for founders. Antler’s residency programs in 27 cities go beyond traditional investing. We have helped create and invest in more than 1,000 startups across a wide range of industries and technologies, with the goal of backing more than 6,000 by 2030. Bede Moore Dr. Jonathan Doerr Jeff Becker Rajiv Srivatsa Christoph Klink Magnus Grimeland Tyler Norwood Alan Poensgen Fridtjof Berge Kaye Xinqi Siheng Han #entrepreneurship #founders #startups
About us
Antler is the investor backing the world’s most driven founders, from day zero to greatness. Founded on the belief that people innovating is the key to building a better future, we partner with people across six continents to launch and scale high-potential startups that address meaningful opportunities and challenges. Knowing that exceptional founders can come from anywhere with any background, we have offices in 30 cities, including Austin, New York, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Bangalore, Jakarta, Portugal, Singapore, Seoul, Spain, Tokyo, and Sydney. Our global community backs people from the beginning with co-founder matching, deep business model validation, initial capital, expansion support, and follow-on funding. Fueled by a personal passion that goes beyond traditional investing, we have helped create and invested in more than 1100 startups across a wide range of industries and technologies, with the goal of backing more than 6,000 by 2030. Subscribe to our Insights newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dpjqwT To find founders, get funding, and build a great company, get in touch here: https://antler.co/apply
- Website
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http://www.antler.co
External link for Antler
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- Singapore
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2018
- Specialties
- startup, talents, venturecapital, investment, founder, talentacquisition, venture, investing, business, entrepreneurship, innovation, and venture capital
Locations
Employees at Antler
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Andreas Ehn
Partner at Approach – if you message me on LinkedIn, I will probably never see it; please email instead
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Alpesh Doshi
Passionate about technology, focused on Innovating thinking and Agile Delivery for Digital Transformation, #AI (Generative AI) and Data
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Lance Johnson
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Mark Inkster
Climate tech investor | Board member
Updates
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India is a fertile ground for space tech startups at present. Recently speaking to Entrepreneur India, Partner at Antler in India Nitin Sharma shared the unique opportunities within India’s space industry he gleaned from working with our portfolio company InspeCity - space logistics, developments in capturing earth imaging data and applications of earth observation data, and more. InspeCity provides solutions for “in-space logistics”, improving the maintenance of satellites, an increasingly lucrative economic venture with more than 10,000 active satellites orbiting the Earth as of June 2024. #SpaceTechStartups #SpaceInnovation #AntlerGlobal #AntlerIndia
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Daniel G., founder of Antler portfolio company Lerno, was featured in Sifted as part of the GoCardless 'founders factory'. Daniel launched Lerno after his position as Director of Corporate Sales at GoCardless Lerno helps B2B revenue teams make smarter decisions using its AI-driven audience intelligence platform, which turns customer data into actionable insights. Co-founded with Tunde Adeniran, Lerno is raising an angel round to support its growth. #AntlerGlobal #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #AI
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Top talent is migrating to AI startups—many of which will become the most critical companies of the future. Hear more from Antler Partner Jed Rose in his recent interview in The Times. (link in the comments 👇) #AIStartups
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Founding a startup is an exciting journey, but it comes with its share of challenges, including co-founder disagreements — a common reason for startup failures. Recently, our UK portfolio company, Kalda | The LGBTQIA+ mental wellbeing app, shared their experience of co-founder breakups with Sifted. While these challenges are near impossible to anticipate, Antler's approach makes a crucial difference in how these situations are handled. With ongoing consulting on conflict resolution and a focus on foundational elements like clean cap tables, financial diversification, and solid co-founder agreements, we equip founders to navigate conflicts more effectively. Though not all co-founder disagreements are preventable, at Antler we ensure that our founders are ready to face them with confidence and resilience. Read more about Kalda's journey in Sifted (link in the comments 👇) Daniel Samosir Botcherby 🦄 #StartupSuccess #FounderJourney #ConflictResolution #Entrepreneurship
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Abraham Burak and Ahmet Bahadir Ozdemir founded Airalo, the Antler portfolio company, to provide global data connectivity for travellers without the hefty charges of roaming services. Watch how as the world’s first eSIM marketplace, Airalo is sparing travellers the shock of high roaming bills with their eSIMs: https://lnkd.in/dFQUZEkf #Antler #Airalo #esim #roamingcharges #InnovationasanAssetClass
Airalo: Bill Shock
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Last month, Antler hosted the European Founder Conference, bringing 50 of our most exciting European portfolio founders to London for two days of events, workshops and networking. 300 investors and founders descended on Mansion House to discuss the biggest growth opportunities in European tech. We had some of the leading institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, VCs and unicorn founders from Europe and the US on stage. The founders Antler back get access to our global network of co-investors. Importantly, they also get access to each other. 85% of the founders who attended our European Founder Conference said spending time with other founders was the best part of their experience. Apply to our next residencies to join the Antler community here: https://lnkd.in/d53KTw3u Alan Poensgen Adam French Andrea Hajdu-Howe FCA #StartupEvent #Investor #EarlyStage #London
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This Week at Antler - Antler in India 🇮🇳 teamed up with Google to support the startup community, providing valuable resources and guidance to entrepreneurs at a Women’s Breakfast Club hosted by Neha Singh, Co-Founder and CEO of Tracxn: https://lnkd.in/dazeab29 Antler Partner Rajiv Srivatsa also announced our new Fastrack to Residency program aimed at helping talented entrepreneurs build and grow their startups with our support in India: https://lnkd.in/d42-BfHP The start of the next Antler in the Nordics residency is rapidly approaching, and we're on track to receive a record number of applications for this fall cohort. The program has a few spots open, so founders, this is the time to apply 👉 https://lnkd.in/dF_xTuKD Last but not least - Antler in Vietnam 🇻🇳 hosted a VC Grand Prix and gathered up investors from Vietnam’s active startup ecosystem to come together for some friendly racing on the track: https://lnkd.in/dGbXy9Sw Look out for more updates our community of exceptional founders continues to grow around the world. #AntlerGlobal #StartupEcosystem #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #Partnerships
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Antler portfolio company AskVinny supports landlords and building operators by providing a platform that allows handymen like Janak Vyas to resolve customer requests remotely through its video service. Rory Buchanan 👷 and Johnny Siu founded Ask Vinny at the Antler residency in the UK, where they identified a gap in the market for a property management platform that offers a cost-effective and efficient service. The AI-driven maintenance service is Ask Vinny’s first step towards improving the renting experience from start to end for landlords and tenants alike. Read more about Ask Vinny as featured in The Times via the link in the comments 👇 #PropertyManagement #proptech #AI #Antler
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Antler portfolio company Uncover has raised $1.4M in a funding round led by EQ2 Ventures and igniteXL Ventures with participation from Chui Ventures, ATG Samata and Altree Capital. Co-founded by Sneha Mehta, CFA and Jade Oyateru, MBA, Uncover is driven by a data-centric approach that taps into East Africa's fastest-growing digital female community. The brand has launched 6 market-disruptive proprietary-brand products at East Africa's largest retail chains (wellness, pharmaceutical, grocery, beauty) as well as through a D2C e-commerce platform. Congratulations to the Uncover team as they continue to expand their mission across new markets in Africa and beyond. Follow the link in the comments for more on Uncover👇