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As co-founder and Managing Partner Asia for Antler, Jussi works with a global team dedicated to developing the next generation of world-changing companies and creating a global pipeline for top talents to pursue a career in entrepreneurship and innovation. Before joining the startup ecosystem, Jussi headed the Global Services Commercial Management sector of Nokia. He works closely with the founders to coach them and helps connect them with the right advisors to build their businesses.

Markus is a Partner at Antler sharing the overall responsibility for Antler’s operations in Southeast Asia. Markus has worked with technology ventures in SEA for nearly a decade. Prior to Antler, Markus was in Venture Development Roles at Zalora and Global Fashion Group (GFG) based in Indonesia, Philippines and Singapore. He holds a Master’s degree in Banking and Finance from the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.

Agung brings over a decade of entrepreneurial and venture capital experience. Prior to Antler, he was the Co-founder and CEO of Warung Pintar, the largest B2B e-commerce platform in the country, empowering over half a million traditional retailers. Prior to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Agung actively engaged with the tech startup community, working as an investment associate at East Ventures and running incubator programs at the Global Entrepreneurship Program Indonesia (GEPI). He obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), and his accomplishments were recognized when he was honored as one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 Asia in 2019.

Kanta is a Program Director at Antler Indonesia where he contributes to enable exceptional entrepreneurs in Indonesia to build successful companies. Prior to Antler, he was a cofounder of Kotoko (Antler-backed omnichannel retail startup), Country Manager for Luno Indonesia, Operations & Business Improvement Manager at Grab, Management Consultant at Arghajata and Financial Analyst at CIMB Niaga.

Novi is responsible for scouting the exceptional talents to join our program to build innovative tech start-ups. Starting her career as Analyst in Accenture and IBM Malaysia, she then decided to shift her career to recruitment consultant at Michael Page Indonesia prior to joining Antler as Founder Scout. Her experience immerses in helping businesses grow by finding the right talent with the right skillset, drive and motivation to help ventures to scale up in the long term.

Jessica has been actively involved in the startup ecosystem for over 4 years to enable and support innovative startups in Indonesia. Prior to Antler, she was the Program Lead at Plug and Play Indonesia and the Community Builder for local venture capital backed by a renowned IT provider. Her experience immerses in enforcing innovation to big corporations, and building the network between stakeholders of the startups ecosystem.

Tama is Investment Sr. Associate at Antler Indonesia and before joining us, Tama was Investment Analyst of MDI Ventures, Corporate Venture capital backed by Telkom Indonesia. At MDI Ventures, his main focus was exploring early-stage investment from sourcing, due diligence, and executing investment. Aside from that, he also contributed to several accelerator under MDI Ventures management : Indigo Program and Hub.Id Program as a Program Analyst. During his career at MDI Ventures. Tama helped to close several notable investments like Riliv (co-invest with east-ventures) and Verihubs (YCombinator 2021).

Dama is an Associate at Antler Indonesia and before joining Antler, he was program officer for #1000StartupDigital by Ministry of Communications & Informatics. At #1000StartupDigital, his main focus is to create a movement across 20 cities in Indonesia to enable the startup ecosystem in Indonesia through various mentoring programmes. Where the goals is to develop digital talent, creating a digital solution and creating an inclusive startup ecosystem. Before Kominfo, he was part of widelanes a local concert promoter as Head of talent relation.

Ryan Thoo is the marketing lead for Southeast Asia. He manages Antler's brand and marketing performance in the region as well as coach founders in early-stage growth and marketing. Former Marketing Director at PropertyGuru, the leading Proptech company in Southeast Asia, where he was part of the core team to drive the organization from Series B to market leadership and IPO. During that journey, Ryan contributed towards scaling up their Marketplaces business across SEA, starting up their FinTech arm, and driving Web3 innovation for PropTech.

Felix works on portfolio management and investment topics for Antler's Southeast Asia portfolio. He provides coaching and fundraising support, manages select external investments, helps build relationships with investment firms, and enables performance reporting. Felix previously worked as a consultant at Bain & Company, advising global clients across sectors on strategic topics. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and an MSc in International Finance from HEC Paris.

Keith heads the Finance function in Antler Southeast Asia and is in charge of the financial and tax reporting and compliance of the SEA fund and the local Antler entity. He has more than 20 years of working experience in both the public and private sectors covering industries from real estate, sports, defence and research. Prior to joining Antler, he spent 13 years with a multi-national real estate company which specializes in fund and asset management, real estate development and resort operations.

Audrey supports the financial operations of South East Asia as a financial Associate. She has an understanding of financial systems that stem further than the basics, previously working first hand on finances in Singapore’s hospitality industry. Audrey is also currently pursuing her ACCA studies to gain her Chartered Certified Accountant qualification. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy and Financial Management.