Antler
Antler is the world’s day zero investor that inspires, enables, and invests in visionary founders everywhere. Founded on the belief that talent is everywhere but opportunity is not, we remove the barriers to entrepreneurship so more people can launch sustainable businesses that solve meaningful problems, drive innovation, and improve lives.
We partner with the most early-stage entrepreneurs around the world through our residencies in 27 cities across six continents—Austin, Berlin, Bangalore, Jakarta, London, New York, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, and beyond. As an extension of our founders’ team, our global community backs them from the beginning and keeps backing them with team formation, deep business model validation, initial capital, global scaling, and follow-on funding, with a personal passion that goes beyond traditional investing.
At Antler, we know that a unique team is at the heart of every startup’s success. Our core activity is to bring together exceptional founders across the world, helping them find a cofounder(s) and getting their venture off the ground. In these instances we work alongside the teams for up to 12 weeks, then partner and invest in exceptional teams executing strongly towards a large opportunity. Antler invests at the earliest stage of a venture’s life cycle. While most of our investments will be made in teams that form through Antler’s cohorts, we will also invest in existing ventures with established founder teams that seek funding from Antler.
Antler provides significant value to its investees through exclusive access to a community of over 2,800 founders and the Antler team. We’ve built a vast talent network of 5000+ vetted candidates to help strengthen portfolio teams. With our global network of 450+ industry leaders, founders receive personalised feedback and guidance, supported by 600+ operators and advisors from 34 countries who host over 2,000 mentoring sessions annually. Additionally, we leverage connections with top-tier VCs to advise on fundraising strategies, offer discounts on essential services to extend runway, and provide best practices to help startups reach the next level. Lastly, our portfolio companies get access to perks which amount to ~£80k per company in value.