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The Anatomy of Greatness: What Makes a Unicorn Founder?

Antler’s report provides new insights on speed, geography, experience, and the changing profile of founders behind the world’s most valuable startups.

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How we built Antler

Antler Founder and CEO Magnus Grimeland on the origins of Antler, the rise of global entrepreneurship, and the mission to back outliers everywhere from inception.

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Agentic commerce: Unleashing the autonomous economy

From booking trips to settling invoices, AI is moving from answering questions to executing transactions. We explore the drivers of this $5 trillion shift, map 50+ startups building the infrastructure, and share our core lessons for the next generation of builders.

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Startup Truths and Building What Users TRULY Need with David Politis | The Further, Faster Podcast

David Politis has built three companies with a total value of $1bn in enterprise and exits. He talks to Jeff Becker about what he’s learnt from a career building, exiting and coaching other founders.

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FOUNDER —STORIES

Founder stories

Marco

After meeting at Antler, Peter Spradling and Jacob Shoihet set out to solve a major pain point for growing businesses in Latin America.

Treyd

Thrill-seeking founder Peter Beckman has built an innovative startup to help SMEs scale at pace.

Wrtn

Wrtn’s superapp personalises AI interactions at scale, offering tools like character chat, writing assistance and creative storytelling to help users express themselves and stay connected.

Satlyt

Rama Afullo is building an 'Above Cloud Service Provider' – a new, open, communication ecosystem for satellites

Tactiq

Tactiq enables teams to capture insights from work meetings with AI-powered transcripts and detailed summaries — helping organizations access knowledge and share the right information quickly.

Sweatpals

Salar Shahini found connection through fitness - now he's built a bespoke platform to make it easy for others to do the same

INGENIUS

Think you need two weeks to create and execute a global campaign? How about five minutes

Glīd

Kevin Damoa has designed a vehicle that can transfer cargo from road to rail without human intervention. Now it’s ready to roll.

HIFI

Stablecoins are shaking up FinTech — Zach Walsh, Co-Founder and CEO of HIFI, raised $8 million at a $45 million valuation, to take a cut.

fileAI

fileAI leverages agentic AI to automate manual business processes across any industry – from standard AP/AR workflows, to complex insurance claims processing.

Clout Kitchen

Clout Kitchen builds interactive AI experiences that deepen fan engagement and expand creators' reach.

Airalo

Ahmet Bahadir Ozdemir, the CEO of the eSIM industry’s first unicorn, credits a down-to-earth approach for his company’s stunning global rise

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What the new application layer looks like

The 5 primitives of SaaS — and how AI agents collapse or transform each one.

Global
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Building the future of insurance tech with Upcover | The Further, Faster Podcast

Skye Theodorou and Anish Sinha, founders of Upcover, are disrupting a notoriously un-sexy sector. They join Antler Partner and CCO Bede Moore to explain how.

Global
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Building autonomous AI for Europe's frontlines | The Further, Faster Podcast

OCCAM founder Guiam Wainwright joins Antler’s Hannah Leach to talk AI, parenthood and drone warfare.

Global
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Inside a builder’s mind: The opportunity for consumer AI in India

Co-authored by Anagh Prasad (VP, Accel) & Divita Aggarwal (Antler)

India
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How Antler Elevate Scales Startups from Series A to IPO | The Further, Faster Podcast

Antler Partner Fady Abdel-Nour speaks to CCO Bede Moore about Elevate – the unique growth fund designed to give founders maximum momentum

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Global
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Real-time data infra: What does stream-native actually look like?

What a truly streaming-first architecture looks like, and the implications for infrastructure, developer workflows, and AI-native applications.

Global
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Neuroscientist Dr David Spindler on what an elite mindset really looks like

Antler talks to high-performance neuroscientist Dr David Spindler about what it really takes to perform at the highest level, how to establish a winning mindset and how to keep going in the face of adversity.

Global
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Real-time data infra: the advent of the streamhouse

A persistent grey space exists for today’s systems, which struggle with the simplicity vs customizability tradeoff. We explore why these tradeoffs exist from an architectural perspective, and a look at modern attempts to unlock the frontier of scalable, real-time data.

Global
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How Vivek Sodera builds iconic companies | The Further, Faster Podcast

In another life, Vivek Sodera could have been building nuclear reactors. Instead, he caught the entrepreneurship bug, going on to build not one, but two iconic companies: LiveRamp and Superhuman.

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Global
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Cristoph Klink on Europe's era of execution | The Further, Faster Podcast

Christoph Klink, Antler partner for Central Europe, joined Bede Moore to discuss the perception and reality of the European tech ecosystem. Can the region that spawned Lovable really be thought of as lagging behind the rest of the world?

Global
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How Jenny Fleiss built Rent The Runway | The Further, Faster Podcast

Jenny Fleiss, founder of Rent the Runway joined host Jeff Becker to discuss her journey to success, lessons she’s learnt along the way and what it is like to return to the world of entrepreneurship – this time, as an investor. 

Global
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What it takes to be the world’s best

What does it take to be the world’s best, and to stay there? At Antler’s European Founder Conference, we assembled four elite performers to explore how sustained excellence is built, led, and lived.

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