Antler is a global, early-stage investor that understands world-class startups are built by exceptional entrepreneurs. This is why we bring together and invest in highly driven people who turn their vision into reality. The Antler team in France provides support by connecting our founders with subject matter experts, successful founders, and mentors as well as early access to capital to help build and scale their startups.
A better future will not happen automatically—the world needs talented, driven, and resilient people to build it. By helping thousands of founders meet, ideate, launch and scale the next generation of great companies that address some of the most pressing challenges of our time, we move society forward and make progress a certainty.
Antler France founders come from +10 countries, with an average of 10 years of experience across diverse sectors such as software, deep tech, biotech, renewables, AI and more. Antler strives to be as inclusive as possible, as we firmly believe that great ideas are born worldwide. By avoiding confinements to a particular demographic, we embrace the potential of tomorrow's game-changing concepts.
As one of the most active investors globally, Antler is backing game-changing companies.
Average work experience of founders working with Antler
Combined portfolio value across Antler
Startups founded around the world
Startups with at least one woman co-founder
The full application process takes about 2-3 weeks to complete. Once you apply, our scouting team will guide you through the full process and will be available to answer all your questions.
The full application process takes about 2-3 weeks to complete. Once you apply, our scouting team will guide you through the full process and will be available to answer all your questions.
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The full application process takes about 2-3 weeks to complete. Once you apply, our scouting team will guide you through the full process and will be available to answer all your questions.
Don't just take it from us. Hear from phenomenal people who joined Antler in France to launch their company.
Bree Pagonis
WIRL
We had never stepped foot in the startup space before. Antler’s support from initial ideation through to setting us up for success when pitching to external investors was invaluable.
Valentin Kassarnig
SpeechifAI
Many decisions are made in uncertainty that define the outcome of your company. Antler gives me the support needed to make those decisions.
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Charbel Ayoub
Pathzero
The last two years launching and scaling Pathzero has been exhilarating, challenging and an incredible learning curve. My involvement with Antler early on opened my eyes to a new horizon that I’d never considered before.
Andrea Derman
I went into the Antler experience straight from the MBA classroom.
And wow! It was like taking top students from every MBA class and putting them together, full-time, for 11 weeks to brainstorm and build. Everyone is so inspiring, motivated and fun to be around. There is a sense of community where teams truly help each other with shaping our products. But most importantly, while building those products, without noticing you also build yourself. It was truly an amazing experience that I would recommend to every entrepreneurial mind.
Malcolm-Wiley Floyd
Stairs Financial
Antler’s collection of founders, operators and investors is the strongest platform for an early stage founder on the market.
Meet the people dedicated to our founders’ success here in France
Antoine is a partner at Antler France. He was previously a partner at Antler's London office. Antoine was also the cofounder, chairman and COO of StanPlus Tech, a VC backed startup leading the change in the Indian medical transportation market. Before his MBA at INSEAD, Antoine spent 8 years at Areva, the World Nuclear Energy leader and a growing OEM in Renewable Energy.
Jamie is a Partner at Antler France. She is a former entrepreneur, having built the startup Vyable in the US and a social entrepreneurship start-up studio. She moved on to the investment side four years ago, as a Founding and Managing Partner at Narrative Fund, and as a Venture Partner at EF.
Euryale is our Program & Investment Director at Antler France. She has a long entrepreneurial track record. After an early career in finance, she founded THEM in China, acquired by Altima where she stayed on post acquisition to build Altima Russia up until exiting the business to Accenture Interactive. She then created Trianon Startups, and organization that fostered tech & startup collaboration between France & Russia. She holds a MSc in economics from Dauphine University in Paris.
Lorenzo is Finance lead at Antler’s French office, where he oversees all matters linked to the funds and finance function. Prior to Antler, he was with a Geneva-based multi-family office managing EUR 2.4B AUM. He also spent 4 years as COO of a fintech start-up operating in Europe and Israel.
Thomas is our Portfolio & Investment Manager at Antler France. He is a former founder, having built the very successful consumer app Baby Sittor. Since then, he's been involved in the tech ecosystem through the French public investment arm BPI France, and as an Operating Partner & Product Manager.
We are expanding our team of passionate people backing the most driven founders in France. Check out our open positions at Antler France.
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Above all things, we invest in people. We believe that every great company starts with a great team—and the strongest teams pursue the best ideas. We level the playing field by bringing together innovative people from all backgrounds and geographies so they can find co-founders that light a fire in them. By surrounding founders with a dynamic community of thinkers and builders—and connecting them with world-class talent—we are uniquely committed to raising their game and focusing their vision.
Antler is the day zero investor backing the world's most driven people, from day greatness. We are one of the world’s most active early-stage investors, present in 23 locations across six continents. Since making our first investment in 2018, we have invested in over 600 companies. Our global footprint provides the unique ability for the businesses we invest in to access international startup ecosystems for quicker scaling, due diligence, and problem-solving. Our global community of founders, advisors, and experts moves our founders forward faster. Antler helps you meet potential co-founder(s), form a team, or add to your existing team. Working with Antler will also help you to test and validate the problem you have identified, enable you to build a technology startup to solve it, and then invest in it. Additionally, Antler helps to de-risk common pinch points throughout the business building and scaling journey with dedicated coaching, practical workshops, and, of course, insightful and helpful resources.
We're looking for individuals with drive and grit, who are at the beginning of their entrepreneurial journey to change the world. Maybe you've just started building, but haven't yet raised capital; or you've got an idea and are thinking about getting started, but haven't quite made the leap yet. Either way, Antler is the right place for you to bring your idea to life. We accept applications from individuals and teams. This includes solo founders, looking to find a co-founder and to validate your idea. You are at the stage where you’re ready to give everything you’ve got. You want to test a number of promising ideas, and be part of a supportive environment to iron out what to build and what market to go after. When you join Antler, you join a community of founders, get support from a global platform of experts and resources, and receive investments to scale your ideas and businesses. We invest from the pre-seed stage and we continue to be a long-term partner as your company grows. You may already have a team and have already started your business, but have not yet raised funding. Join forces with Antler to fast-track your startup by getting support tailored to your stage of the journey. You’ll join our fast-growing founder community and have the opportunity to receive an investment from Antler. If you want to positively impact the world by creating a company that solves real problems, join Antler and build a groundbreaking technology company by applying on Antler.co/apply.
We accept founders and teams who have already launched their product.
We are industry agnostic and invest across all technology sectors.
Our program is held in person in Paris.
Yes. Building a new venture is a full-time job and we only want to work with founders who are fully committed to the process. If you already have a co-founder, we expect you to treat the program as a full-time commitment for everyone.
Yes. Even if we love your profile, we would need to process your co-founder first before deciding to make you an official offer.
Yes. Antler France does not sponsor visas. Founders will need to have a work permit (i.e., not a tourist visa) for France in order to qualify.
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