The investor backing the world’s most driven founders, from day zero to greatness. Enabling thousands of founders every year in 27 cities across six continents.
Ready to build your business from Day Zero? Join one of our residencies, across six continents.
Antler provides the resources, network, and support you need for your founding journey 🚀
Apply now:
#AntlerResidency
#DayZeroToGreatness
Huge congratulations to Antler US portfolio company
@Fanfixio
that was acquired by beauty giant
#SuperOrdinary
in an eight-figure deal! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 So proud of this awesome team’s accomplishment!
Who are the 170+ trailblazers shaping the future of Generative AI?⚡️
Read Antler’s Gen-AI Report—the first comprehensive map of the market available to everyone.
Also learn how language models work, the Gen-AI fundraising landscape, trends, and more!
👉
📣 We are excited to share that we are launching Antler Venture Fellowship Program!
Join us for a 1-2 years where you will get exposure to all aspects of early-stage venture capital across several geographies.
Apply by July 4th:
Antler is thrilled to have closed Antler Elevate, a $285M emerging growth fund that backs the next generation of game-changing founders across 20+ technology ecosystems, propelling them on their paths to greatness.
Read via
@techcrunch
👇
Are rumors of the
#creatoreconomy
’s decline greatly exaggerated?
Amidst the downturn, how are creators pivoting & what does it mean for the sector's future?
📱Read our 2023 creator economy report for:
👀 The latest 190+ startup platforms to watch.
🔥
It’s go-time for the 53 new founders joining our latest residency
@AntlerIndia
! 🇮🇳
Get to know this driven crew:
💥 30% have started a company before
💼 11 years of average working experience
💸 12% have previously raised venture funding
Their impressive backgrounds include:
The Creator Economy is booming! On our blog, we discover:
👉The 220+ platforms making movements
👉20+ insights from major thought leaders from Snapchat, Stripe, Product Hunt, TikTok, Index Ventures, Greylock, Northzone
👉The upcoming trends & predictions
📣 Our annual Creator Economy report is out! 📣
Forecast: the next generation of creators will be able to extend their monetization streams through
#web3
technology.
Read the full report below 👇
5,000+ founders. 600+ companies. 25 cities across six continents. As Antler continues to expand, we evolved our brand to reflect the reason we exist: to stand behind our founders from
#dayzero
and to keep backing them on their paths to greatness. Read more:
You heard it right - The State Plate is meeting the sharks! 🦈
Join us as we pitch on Shark Tank India, India’s first business reality show. Will we seal a deal? Stay tuned to find out 🥁🌟
#SharkTankIndia
#SharkTankIndiaOnSonyTV
We’re thrilled to welcome 66 new
#founders
joining our
@AntlerIndia
residency this week! 🇮🇳
From a cancer researcher to engineering leaders from India’s most valuable startups—we can't wait to see what this impressive group will build!🚀
#dayzero
We are excited to share that Antler Nairobi portfolio company
@Digiduka
has been acquired by a YC funded startup
@MarketForce360
🎉
Digiduka is a provider of digital financial services & social commerce solutions to informal retailers in Africa. Read more
We are proud to reach a special milestone as 2023 draws to a close: we recently made our 1,000th investment in companies that originated in Antler residencies around the world. 🌍
As we continue to grow, our scale matters for one reason: we are helping more founders bring
Antler Nairobi 🇰🇪 is happy to celebrate its 3rd anniversary🎉
Since opening we’ve received 12,000 applications, worked with 200+ founders ⭐ from 27 nationalities🌍, made 16 investments 💰 and drank millions cups of coffee ☕—with so much more to come! 🚀
The power structures of the
#CreatorEconomy
are rapidly changing - through
#Web3
platforms,
#creators
are now in the driver’s seat, being offered the opportunity to have greater individuality than ever before 💻
Read the full report
Today, we celebrated 50 trailblazing women in tech, the winners of
@Inspiringfifty
Nordics that was launched in collaboration with Antler at
@SlushHQ
. These are true role models paving the way for what women can and do achieve in tech.
#inspiringfifty
#womenintech
#women
Thrilled to announce our 3rd investment in India! 🇮🇳
Founded by 22-year-old hacker and coding influencer
@mehulmpt
,
@codedamncom
is making industry-level coding skills accessible and solving for interactive learning at scale!
Learn more about Codedamn: 👨💻
We invest in exceptional people and support them as they scale their startups from the earliest stages 🚀
Are you ready to build your company?
Apply today:
⌛ Last call for Berlin and Amsterdam!
#startups
#venturecapital
Raising capital from Pre-Seed to Seed👇[1/4]
- When do you need to raise your seed round?
- Who is your ideal investor and what is their value add?
- Will my investors follow me as I continue to raise new rounds?
- Who can they introduce me to?
- Will they be there for me?
We opened our doors to 63 new founders joining Antler at Amsterdam’s latest residency! 🇳🇱 This exceptional group includes an award-winning engineer who worked in deepfake detection & serial entrepreneur who built a company in Optical Character Recognition. Exciting times!🚀
It’s time to build for 30 new founders who joined the latest Antler residency in Kenya! 🇰🇪
About this impressive group:
🗺️ 10 nationalities
⭐ 30% women founders
💼 12 years average work experience, with expertise in innovation, growth, fintech, and more
Let's go!🚀
Do you need support with building your company? Join one of the upcoming Antler cohorts!
We invest in exceptional people who are building the defining companies of tomorrow.
Apply to Antler today and speed up your startup journey:
🚀 Are you ready to build your startup? Apply and join one of our locations to get started with Antler. We support you from day one with capital, resources, co-founders, and expert advice.
Start having a big impact, apply now:
🇺🇸 Antler’s US team is hiring! If you’re looking to get into venture capital and work alongside all-star founders, we want to talk to you.
Follow the thread to see our jobs🧵
.
@AntlerAustralia
held its first Demo Day in Sydney last night, and it was huge success with 900 people turning up, and many portfolio companies receiving investment offers! Here are some highlights from the event.
#AntlerAustralia
#nextwaveoftech
What a way to kick off the year! Our inaugural Iberian residency in
#Spain
and
#Portugal
has officially begun! 🇵🇹🇪🇸
A big welcome to our 60 new founders, incl. a glider pilot and ex-NASA software developer.
Here’s to building the future! 🚀
We’re excited to welcome 62 new
#founders
to Antler in Berlin!🇩🇪
From a CTO of 200+ person fintech company leading Series A/B of €70 million to a serial entrepreneur backed by Rocket Internet and a former MD at OnePlus—we are expecting great things from this special group!🚀
At Antler, we believe that the opportunities to innovate and positively impact the world are bigger than ever and that the leading companies of tomorrow are being built today.
To learn more and to apply, visit 👉
[1/6] Cultivating a
#network
as an early-stage founder can be very rewarding. It can lead to:
- Investment
- Customer acquisition
- Hiring talent
- Entrepreneurial friends
Here are some top tips on how to make it happen!
In the second episode of
@AntlerGlobal
's new podcast series, 'The Early Days Podcast',
@tylerfromantler
interviews co-founder and CEO of
@Superhuman
,
@rahulvohra
.
Listen to the full episode on Spotify here 👇
Don't forget to subscribe!
The opportunities to positively impact the world are greater than ever.
Are you ready to build your startup?
Start having a big impact and apply now!
We support you from day 1 with capital, resources, co-founders, and expert advice. [1/2]
Thrilled to announce our next investment in India -
@flowclubIN
!
Founded by
@gopikm0
,
@georgeannoys
&
@GokulHK
, Flow club empowers Gen-Zs and millennials by building a social-first experience to investing and financial management 💸
A big welcome to the 72 amazing founders who joined our residency in Indonesia! 🇮🇩 Some facts about this group:
💼 9 years average working experience
👩 18% women founders
💻 36% have tech backgrounds
🎓 56% hold a postgraduate degree
Excited to see what this group will build!🚀
It’s go time for 62 founders in
@AntlerJapan
's first-ever residency this week! 🇯🇵 This exceptional group includes a Mono-Coto hackathon winner, a former rocket developer, and more.
Can’t wait to see how their ideas impact the world!🚀
The world is changing and early-stage investing needs to keep up. Read about
@HarvardHBS
's case study about Antler and how we’re redefining the best ways to back visionary founders around the world.
#HBS
#earlystageVC
👉
The
#Creator
Economy is booming! On our blog, we discover:
👉220+ platforms making movements
👉20+ insights from major thought leaders from Snapchat, Stripe, Product Hunt, TikTok, Index Ventures, Greylock, Northzone
👉Upcoming trends & predictions
Read:
We’re proud to announce our oversubscribed Benelux fund has now closed at €20M! 🇧🇪 🇳🇱 🇱🇺 The next three years will see us back 50 startups in the region from day zero, led by exceptional founders. 🚀
More on the news here👇
It’s a new dawn for 150 founders who joined our latest residency in the Nordics! 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🇩🇰 Some facts about them:
🌎 35 nationalities represented
👩 23% women founders
💻 30% stem from a tech-background
The creator economy market size is still $100B. It's not failing—just evolving & changing. How are creators approaching this change? This is what we learned:
🤖 33% of creators are using generative AI platforms
📱 21% are concerned about algorithms
💹 36% are diversifying their
In our latest piece on The New Creator Economy: Unpacking Web3 Gaming, we discover:
🧠 How gaming came to formation and where we are today
🔎 New Web3 gaming platforms characteristics
🌎 Trends across community, NFT's, gaming architectures
🥁 And more!
We are excited to welcome 79 new
#founders
joining our residency in Singapore! 🇸🇬
About this amazing group:
🌍 29 different nationalities
💼 12 years average work experience
🎓 38% with postgraduate degrees
Exciting times ahead!🚀
Ideas matter. Especially the ones outside the classroom. The
@AntlerIndia
Fellowship is back, helping the brightest students turn their dorm-room startups into game-changing companies. 🧵
What are the most common mistakes that
#entrepreneurs
make when raising money?
➡️Asking a VC to sign an NDA
➡️Bombarding investors with cold emails
➡️Communicating a range ("I want to raise 500K-1M USD")
Find out how to avoid making these mistakes:
Antler Nairobi kicked off its 5th cohort with 26 founders looking to build tech ventures out of Africa.
The cohort has a record 40% female founders - a great development in the right direction to narrow the gender parity in our cohorts and the larger tech startup ecosystem! 🙌
⏲️ It’s time to build the “internet of commerce.” 💥
This week, our team
@AntlerIndia
unveiled The Antler Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) platform— the first venture platform focused on ONDC. 💪
Launched in partnership with some of India’s most influential tech
Major congrats to Arthur Leopold, Jonathan Meyers, & the
@Agentiohq
team on raising $4.25M!💥
Fantastic to see Agentio transform the way brands buy creator content at scale, w/its first-of-its-kind ad platform.
More via
@TechCrunch
(cc
@antler_us
)👇
.
@WiredUK
lists the 10 Hottest Startups in Stockholm and 40% of them are Antler portfolio companies.
Congratulations to Anyone (
@callinganyone
), Teemyco (
@teemyco
), Off Script (
@OffScriptHQ
) and Leetify (
@leetify
) for this stellar performance! 🎉
What’s in store for the world of startups and investing in 2023? 🔮
Antler’s Partners
@AcStrobel
and
@jeffbeckervc
share their 2023 predictions in the
@SVB_Financial
x
@AngelList
State of Early-Stage Venture & Startups Report.
We asked founders and investors from the Nordic startup ecosystem to share their thoughts on why we need more female entrepreneurs in the world. Here’s what they had to say.
#femalefounders
#IWD2020
#nextwaveoftech
We’re hiring! Join the Antler team - we move at a fast pace and we look for people with a drive. See some of the open positions in the thread ⬇️
See all available opportunities at
#jobs
#jobsavailable
#jobopportunites
#hiringnow
The holidays are the perfect time to catch up on some reading 📖
We asked Antler founders to share their top
#book
recommendations. Check out our list of exciting reads that will help you prepare for the
#entrepreneurial
journey in 2021.
#greatreads
Very excited to welcome the 110+ founders who joined our latest residences in Austin, Boulder & NYC! Some fascinating stats about this amazing group:
⭐ 10+ average years of work experience
👩🏿💻 51% identify as Black, Indigenous & People of Color (BIPOC)
💥 Their backgrounds are
Last week, our fourth Antler UK cohort kicked off 🚀 We were happy to welcome another diverse group of founders, with experiences from Fortune 100 companies, fashion unicorns, and quantum computing, to name a few. We can’t wait to see what they are about to create!
#startuplife
We’re delighted to share that Antler has just closed an oversubscribed Nordic fund at 36M USD and are proud to have investors including
@DraperEsprit
, Kistefos,
@Vaekstfonden
,
@InvestinorAS
- to name a few - join us.
We are launching in India with
@telljeeves
leading our operations.
India has a lot of potential and we look forward to supporting the entrepreneurial ecosystem and helping more entrepreneurs get their startups off the ground 🚀
-
@BiswarupG_ET
Today, we’re launching Restart the Future in Sweden - a one-year initiative backed by 13 of Sweden’s leading companies to create 1000 new businesses in the next 2 years, strengthen the economy, and to build a bright future.
Where will your business begin?
Our latest US residency is in full swing in
#NYC
,
#Boulder
, and
#Austin
! 🇺🇸 A few facts about our 120+ new founders:
🚀28% woman-identifying
🚀56% BIPOC
🚀10+ average years of work experience
🚀Diverse + unique backgrounds incl. a former SpaceX aerospace engineer & a CIA analyst
In the latest episode, meet
@InspiredCap
's
@alexavontobel
. Alexa reflects on how her experience building
#LearnVest
influences her approach as an investor. As she puts it, “there are no shortcuts in life.”
We are thrilled to announce our new exciting series at Antler India - Theory of NEXT! 🎉
The series decodes and contextualizes the spaces and ideas of the future. The first topic we discuss is
#ElectricVehicles
🔋
Follow the thread to learn more👇
We've asked our network which books they think every entrepreneur should read and here is a list of what they recommended.
What books would you add to this list? 📖
#Businessbooks
#Entrepreneurship
#Goodreads
Antler is launching in Copenhagen to invest in sustainable technologies!
Danish state fund
@Vaekstfonden
has invested in Antler's Nordic fund with the aim to increase the number of sustainable tech companies that receive VC investment in Denmark.
Creators are no longer the product, they are the new economies.
In this conversation we unpack:
🤔 What is the creator economy?
💡 Web 1.0 - Web 3.0 Shift
🌎 Global trends in verticals like gaming, music & NFTs
🚀 Creator economy unicorns
🥁 What's next?
The warmest welcome to the 69 new
#founders
who started our Antler Indonesia 🇮🇩 residency. From a Brazilian jiu-jitsu expert to a maritime specialist managing an ocean freight supply chain, this impressive group is cracking important problems—can’t wait to see what they build!🚀
How can you go from not writing a single line of code to receiving $350M in venture funding?
@estraschnov
's no code platform,
@bubble
has helped over 2M people to build tech products without any experience in computer programming.
Listen here 👇
We're excited to welcome Sheila Patel,
@GoldmanSachs
veteran, as a Board Member at Antler🎉
As the current Vice Chairman of
@BCapitalGroup
, VC firm co-founded by
@esaverin
, Sheila brings 30 years of experience in financial markets and investment. Welcome!
At Antler, we believe anyone with enough grit can build a great business. But we also know the startup ecosystem’s playing field is far from level.
This
#IWD2023
, we spoke with five women leaders at Antler about why embracing equity matters to our work👇
#EmbraceEquity
We are excited to welcome 70 new to our latest residency in the UK!🇬🇧 Here are some facts about this impressive group:
⭐43% previous founders
🗺️29 birth countries represented
👩19% women founders
💼Industry experts from 14 different sectors
Congrats to our London portfolio company Blueheart for raising their seed funding of £1m from
@profounders
and
@calmstormvc
. Blueheart is looking to democratize access to sex therapy by making it accessible, affordable and taboo-free.
Via
@businessinsider
Tech moving toward hardware. Driving the next billion users to digital wallets. A new generation of side hustles. Solving information overload with AI.
Antler Operators share predictions on the sectors and trends most likely to shape 2023.
Dive in now 👉
🥁 We're excited to introduce the Antler India Fellowship - a hands-on program with world-class mentors and an equity-free $20,000 grant to India’s brightest students to build startups of tomorrow.
Want to build your startup while at college? Apply!
Last call to apply to our Venture Fellowship Program! ⌛
We are looking for 2-4 ambitious people to join us for 1-2 years to get exposure to all aspects of early-stage venture capital across several geographies.
Apply by July 4th:
#VentureCapital
#VC
Antler UK Virtual Demo Day is now live! It’s been an incredible six months for our latest Antler cohort, and we are very excited to have you all tuned in to our virtual
#DemoDay
@LKvaalen
@olliepurdue
@apoirson
Big congrats to
@VamstarLimited
for raising $9.5M to address broken links in the medical
#supplychain
using
#AI
. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Since 2019, they’ve connected 86K+ hospitals/clinics in 80 countries to procure equipment in a fraction of the usual time.
We’re hiring! Join the Antler team - we move at a fast pace and we look for people with a drive. See some of the open positions in the thread ⬇️
See all available opportunities at
#jobs
#jobsavailable
#jobopportunites
#hiringnow
💥 50 Creators to Watch 💥
Creators. Journalists.🗞️Operators at prominent creator-related platforms. Founders.👩💻👨💻
These are the players—seen and unseen—who underpin the global creator ecosystem.
As the creator economy continues to grow, expand, and evolve, we've curated a
What are the fastest-growing trends in venture capital & entrepreneurship? 🚀
Antler Board Co-Chair/
@BCapitalGroup
's Sheila Patel, Antler CEO
@MagnusGrimeland
& Antler Partners
@tylerfromantler
,
@telljeeves
, Christoph Klink, Carolina Strobel discuss, offering perspectives from
We have recently launched a new job portal for 170+ of our portfolio companies across the world and across a variety of sectors. Join an early-stage company and have an impact from the start -
🌏 What does it take to move the world forward? 🌎
As we approach the 5th anniversary of our 1st investments, we’re excited to publish A Window into Progress, a report that captures the depth & impact of Antler’s global community.
Dive into the report:
Congrats to
@Marco_Financial
, Antler US portfolio company, who announced today that they secured $26M in funding and credit. Marco is the first tech-enabled financing platform built to support Latin American SMEs.
@TechCrunch
@jshieber
Very proud to announce the launch of
@AntlerGlobal
Vietnam’s 🇻🇳 second cohort, including:
🌍 A total of 68 founders from 16 nationalities
👩 35% female founders
💼 11 years average work experience
Can't wait to see what they build.🚀
Antler’s inaugural cohort in NYC started off with a bang!
With around 2,000 applications, 92 founders were present on Day 1. Our largest inaugural cohort yet. We're excited to see the companies they create in the coming months!
#nextwaveoftech
#startups
#tech
#NYC
Here are Antler's favourite
#podcasts
that every
#entrepreneur
should listen to in 2021 🎧
We gathered recommendations from Antler founders and our team to help you best prepare for the entrepreneurial journey.
What are your podcast recommendations?🎙️
A warm welcome to the 80+ founders joining Antler this week in
#New
York,
#Boulder
, and
#Austin
🇺🇸to meet co-founders, stress test ideas, and launch startups. From an ex-Google X software engineer to a molecular diagnostics expert, this impressive group will do great things! 🚀
Securing investment from Antler means getting support from the best. Funded founders have a chance to get guidance from world-class experts who offer support with tech, product, marketing, fundraising, and more.
See the thread to learn about the office hours we held in August👇