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—INSIGHTS

Welcome to Insights — stories and perspectives from founders, partners, and Antler’s global community.

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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.

Insights

Europe's Execution Era: An Antler Study

Antler's latest report is one of the largest studies of tech founders in Europe. We’ve analysed more than 3,000 unicorn founders and 60,000 founders at the inception of their journey, uncovering Europe's rapid growth in an AI era of execution.

Insights

Why we invested in AirDodge: Enabling Drone Operations in U-Space

AirDodge is making low-altitude airspace safe, scalable and predictable.

Insights

What’s Next in Consumer AI: Apps That Double as Life Layers

A curated snapshot of how India’s Consumer AI landscape is evolving: a simple behavioural lens of how we structure our view of Consumer AI, a Market Map of India’s Consumer AI startups, and areas we're excited about.

Insights

AI Market Map: Engineering

From tools to teammates: The rise of AI Agents in engineering.

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Wrtn

"Antler has been one of the most helpful investors for closing our Series B round successfully."

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Wrtn

Antler has been one of the most helpful investors for closing our Series B round successfully.

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Airalo

"If someone is going to launch an Amazon for eSIMs, that should be us.”

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Wrtn

"Antler has been one of the most helpful investors for closing our Series B round successfully."

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Tactiq

"Antler are very instrumental with supporting companies across the globe. And that gives them a different type of belief in what’s possible in different geographies."

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Clout Kitchen

"They do the best thing that a VC should do, which is get out of the way and let us do our thing and be helpful when we ask them…so I think that’s really key."

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fileAI

"Antler funded me as a first investor and also immediately brought in another investor."

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Day Zero to Greatness Series: A fireside chat with Chief Evangelist of Canva, Guy Kawasaki

Guy Kawasaki, Chief Evangelist at Canva, speaks with Bede Moore, Chief Commercial Officer, of Antler, in a virtual fireside chat.

Australia

Antler launches $60 million MENAP fund

Antler announces the expansion of its presence to MENAP with Romain Assunção as Partner.

MENAP

Portfolio spotlight: Vero Technologies revolutionizes inventory finance

Ryan Sommerville on his investment in Vero Technologies and the inventory finance landscape.

US

Seven ways to grow your D2C demand without giving your money to Google, Meta, or Amazon

James McClure, a Partner at Antler in Australia, delves into seven ways startups can grow their D2C demand without needing to generate it through paid platforms like Google, Meta, or Amazon.

Singapore

12 MINUTES—Episode 3: Kilian Martin from Physikit

12 MINUTES with Antler founders gives a closer look into the journey of founders toward successfully building their ventures. Every first Wednesday of the month Alan Poensgen, Antler Partner in Germany, sits down with a founder of an Antler portfolio company and talks about their time at Antler, the team formation, the ideation process, and more.

Germany

8 founders reveal the advantage they gained by building their startup with Antler in Australia

Building a business, whether you’re a seasoned entrepreneur or a first-time founder, is hard work.

Australia

Antler Australia's Residency Structure: A comprehensive guide for aspiring founders

Embarking on the entrepreneurial path can be intimidating and riddled with uncertainty and potential risks. Challenges may arise for founders in identifying the perfect co-founder, affirming their concept's viability, or establishing a network and solid route to funding. Antler Australia's residency offers a well-organised framework, mitigating the hazards associated with startup creation.

Australia

Taking the leap: Insights and advice from technologists-turned-entrepreneurs

Learn from technologists who founded their own businesses through Antler Australia and what insights they offer on entrepreneurship and autonomy, impact, and creative freedom.

Australia

Antler invests in women-led companies and gives them an unfair advantage, here's how

Co-Founder of GoFIGR, Helena Turpin, dives into creating her business in Antler Australia's second cohort back in 2020 and embracing the advantage of building with a VC focussed on empowering women founders.

Australia

From the outside looking in—Bernie Li | Building Blocks Podcast

Founding a startup can be an incredibly tough process for any entrepreneur, no matter the experience level. To provide some insight into the entrepreneurship process, Bernie Li, General Partner at Antler Canada speaks with Brendan Herjavec of the Building Blocks Podcast on a recent episode, and sheds some light on his entrepreneurship path, the concept of the “power rule” in investing, the founder mentality, and what it means to truly be a “good” founder.

Canada

Ex-Spotify CTO Explains How To Build And Scale Successful Startups

Growth is fantastic, but it needs to managed in such a manner whereby sustainability is not lost

Australia

12 MINUTES — Episode 2: Dean Hastie from Tapline

12 MINUTES with Antler founders gives a closer look into the journey of founders toward successfully building their ventures. Every first Wednesday of the month Alan Poensgen, Antler Partner in Germany, sits down with a founder of an Antler portfolio company and talks about their time at Antler, the team formation, the ideation process, and more.

Germany

What is Antler’s track record of investing in women?

From removing the barriers to entry to ensuring diversity in our interviewing and investment processes, as well as being a sector agnostic investor, Antler is on a mission to make entrepreneurship more accessible.

Australia

Antler Ignite

Antler Ignite is a special online initiative for high school and university students to spark their entrepreneurial spirit. Get a taste of Antler’s residency programs and learn about the cornerstones of entrepreneurship from Antler’s partners.

Global

Under the hood: How Antler sources and assesses great founders

Our Window into Progress digital event series continues with "Under the Hood"—a deep dive into the rigor and scale that makes Antler unique as we source and assess tens of thousands of founders across six continents.

Global

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