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Stories and perspectives from founders, partners, and Antler’s global community.

Podcast
October 14, 2025

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.

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.

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Insights
September 11, 2025

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

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

Insights
August 19, 2025

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
August 12, 2025

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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Insights
January 26, 2023

Tanika McLeod: The educator empowering the next generation with an on-demand social learning platform

Meet Tanika McLeod, one of the three co-founders of MinuteSkill, a Toronto-based social micro-learning platform that uses bite-sized content and knowledge-sharing communities to empower the next generation.

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Global
Founder Stories
January 23, 2023

Investing in OnArrival | Antler India

OnArrival is building simple, plug and play APIs that enable travel sellers (e.g. OTAs, corporate travel managers, travel agents, Airlines, hotels, etc.) bundle high-margin travel ancillaries (e.g. visa, insurance etc) in over a billion trips worldwide.

India
Sustainability
January 16, 2023

Venture capital as an engine of positive transformation

Antler's second annual ESG and Impact Report shares learnings on how VCs can focus on creating sustainable value from the outset, and celebrates our portfolio companies' work in this space.

Global
Founder Stories
January 13, 2023

Investing in Salad

Salad is building the future of how women take charge of their hormonal health.

India
Insights
January 12, 2023

A golden year of innovation? 25 of the biggest trends shaping 2023.

More than 25 operators at leading tech companies share their top predictions for the year ahead.

Global
Founder Stories
January 12, 2023

Why we backed NOVO: speeding up energy renovation at scale—when a massive market meets the perfect team at the right time

Find out more into why we backed Novo, a Berlin-based company disrupting the energy renovation industry. NOVO automates analysis, planning, and financing of energy renovation for real estate, with the goal of decarbonizing homes and tackling climate change.

Germany
Residency
December 21, 2022

Entrepreneurship and emotional intelligence

Exploring the link between entrepreneurship and emotional intelligence with Rafael Urdaneta, DACH Head of Finance at Antler.

Germany
Residency
December 21, 2022

AI: Humanity's Miracle Machine, Part II

In the second installment of our multi-part series we dive deeper into the different layers of AI value stack and how future founders can find their cutting edge in this rapidly evolving ecosystem.

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Note: This is part 2 of a multi-part AI series. If you are interested in understanding why AI will be an era-defining technology and the key terms associated with it, please read part 1 (click here) before you begin part 2.

India
Residency
December 20, 2022

Antler Australia: 2022 Year in Review

As 2022 draws to a close, it’s time to reflect on the year that was.

Australia
Founder Stories
December 15, 2022

Investing in Generative AI with Hexo

Generative AI is opening up a world of opportunities and Hexo is building the underlying infrastructure to enable that. We are thrilled to partner with Vignesh Baskaran and Kunal Bhatia to help build and scale Hexo AI.

India
Residency
December 13, 2022

AI: Humanity’s Miracle Machine, Part I

In this multi-part series, we explore everything from the origins and evolution of AI to the future AI landscape and how future founders can be a part of it.

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The 2nd installment of the series (click here) is also live for anyone interested in jumping right to how the AI landscape will pan out and what future founders need to know.

India
Insights
December 13, 2022

The 12 Days of Antler Gift Giving

At Antler, we're proud to back more than 600 companies across six continents doing great things in the world. During this season of giving, we are excited to highlight a selection of Antler portfolio companies whose products and services—from tech-enabled beauty products to luxury fashion mystery boxes—are sure to impress the most discerning trendsetters on your nice list. 

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Welcome to the 12 Days of Antler Gift Giving!

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