Build your company with Antler in Berlin and Munich

As Partner in Central Europe, Christoph supports exceptional entrepreneurs along their journey - from entering into a cohort to building and scaling their ventures successfully. He draws on his background as Business Angel and Partner with McKinsey & Company. Before joining Antler he served a range of leading technology organizations, amongst others from the mobility and transportation space, on disruptive strategy and building innovative business models. Building and nurturing top talent organizations is one of his key passions and a great source of inspiration for Christoph.

Alan brings extensive experience in building and scaling technology businesses. He was previously MD and Co-Founder at Westwing, a home & living e-commerce company, and one of Europe’s few e-commerce IPOs of the past years. Before Westwing, he built the software development hub at Rocket Internet, and was CEO of a SEA e-commerce company, along with working for a VC and starting his own company in Spain.

Andrea will help you get in front of your next investor and help you to iterate your fintech idea. She has spent 17 years in the financial services industry, most recently at Goldman Sachs in the investment management division. Andrea heads up Antler's capital team and work with fundraising for both Antler's funds globally as well as supporting founders who are raising external capital. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Andrea spent over a decade at HSBC.

Rafael started his career as an entrepreneur in Barcelona, shortly after completing his IMBA. Startups and Finance have been his passion all along, so he has started a number of companies in Europe and Asia. After living and working in China for 8+ years, he moved back to Europe several years ago and has since then been actively involved in Startups.

As Capital Director Fabian is responsible for securing capital and manages investor relations in the DACH-region. Previously he spent significant time within the media company Bertelsmann´s German advertising sales business. In his last role he led operations for a number of industry sectors as well as brands. Fabian graduated from University of St. Gallen with a Masters in International Affairs and Governance.

Linda draws on rich experience from working across the financial as well as early stage space. She started her career at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and previously helped build up the pension buyout market in Germany at Deutsche Betriebsrenten Holding. Linda is passionate about identifying and backing founders that are building disruptive tech businesses. At Antler, she works with founders along their entire journey and supports them from day 0 on.

Yash began his career putting his finance knowledge into practice at PwC. He later moved to the startup and VC space, including operational stints with Selina Finance and early stage VC experience with Cavalry Ventures. He is excited by trends in the fintech space and likes discussing new B2B software plays. Yash has a Masters in Strategy & International Management from the University of St. Gallen and a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Gentian began his career by working in Investment Management and HRTech startups. He later became a part of the Investment Team at APX where he helped source and select startups. Gentian loves to follow the trends of the quantified self industry and med-tech. Gentian obtained a degree in Economics from Bocconi University. He will be supporting Antler as an Investment Associate.

Dr. Saskia Appelhoffis a global marketer, entrepreneur and growth leader with 15 years of experience covering all areas of marketing. Saskia has worked internationally across Europe and USA focusing on growing teams and efficiently scaling businesses. Passionate about building purpose-driven brands and companies. Advising start-up focusing on Food & Health Tech and sustainability. Previous brands that she has worked for include Zalando, raisin, SmileDirectClub, Outfittery, Wooga, navabi, blablacar among others.

Niko was previously a partner at McKinsey, where he was a core member of the Retail & Consumer Goods Practice and led the store ops practice in EMEA. He left McKinsey in 2019 to build his own business, eagle lsp, a legal service provider focusing on tech-enabled, scalable solution in mass litigation and e-Discovery. His first Angel investments include successful Y-Combinator applications.

Technology leader with 15+ years of experience leading engineering teams building solutions in B2C, B2B and IoT in companies of all sizes. Currently CTO @ EQS Group AG

Robert is CEO and co-founder of nu3, a powerhouse for D2C brands in the field of nutrition and pharma. Additionally, he is Executive Director Marketing and Operations at Shop Apotheke Europe, an online pharmacy. Previously, he worked for McKinsey & Co as a strategy consultant.

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Emma is a third time founder, angel investor and Venture Scout for Peak Capital.  Emma’s most recent business Honeypot.io, Europe’s leading job platform for tech talent was acquired by XING in 2019. Prior to that, Emma worked as a journalist and co-founded a communications agency in South Africa. Emma also serves on multiple boards in addition to consulting marketing services.

Philipp was Managing Director at LiquidM - a mobile DSP - which got acquired by Bertelsmann Group in 2016 and which he managed to sell a second time to Equativ in 2020. Currently he is engaged as Partner at Veto Capital - a Business Angel collective that invests into early-stage Start-ups.

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Monique isan experienced entrepreneur and strong leader with an international trackrecord of scaling performing organizations and high growth businesses. She cofoundedHelloBody in 2016 and scaled the business to €65million in annual sales andoutstanding profitability.

Daniel is CEO & Founder of optile. Previously he founded Pay.On which got acquired by ACI Worldwide. Before that, he was Director of Technology at Wirecard.

In addition to his education at Charité – Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Max is a proud member of the baby vc community and recently spent a year at Harvard Medical School doing research in aging and immunology. With strong ties to both the startup and healthcare worlds, he believes innovation is key to addressing current challenges in medicine.

Luis is an International Business graduate from @Maastricht University School of Business and Economics with a background in Business Development and B2B sales. During his studies, he often engaged with entrepreneurship and the start-up community.After his previous experience in the start-up ecosystem in Berlin, he is eager to experience the investor side and make an impact in the venture world!

Amelie completed her Bachelors at Universität Passau and is currently studying Impact Entrepreneurship and Innovation while building an MVP (low-code) as part of her Master thesis at Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon.Launching her own E-Commerce Store during the first Covid lockdown got her excited about entrepreneurship and gave her an idea of what it takes to build a business from scratch. She still runs operations and partnerships as well as customer relations and brand expansion. Amelie also loves to play the guitar and is currently enjoying Lisbon where she organizes public sports events to bring together and connect people.

Passionate about entrepreneurship, Gustav started pursuing his own adventures as a 16 year old and built a successful e-commerce business while still in high school. He continues to serve happy customers all around the world.After a year in the military he is pursuing a BSc in Business & Economics at Stockholm School of Economics while continuously engaging himself in the startup world in different ways.Gustav is, among other things, excited about the opportunities in the creator economy space. He is eager to bring his skills to the investor side of the startup world and work with all the great founders joining us at Antler.