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GET YOUR STARTUP LAUNCHED AND FUNDED WITH A GLOBAL INVESTOR
Antler backs the world’s most driven founders, from day zero to greatness. As the world’s most active early-stage investor, we back people from the beginning with co-founder matching, deep business validation, and pre-seed capital. Join us as we bring together the best talents in Malaysia to build the most defining companies of tomorrow.
We invest from the earliest stage—whether you're a startup looking for funding or an individual looking for co-founders and pre-launch capital to launch your startup. More importantly, we are looking for extraordinary individuals and teams across various industries, professional backgrounds, genders, and nationalities.
For individuals who are looking for a co-founder to build and start something new.
We bring together an exclusive group of ambitious people to explore ideas together. Meet, learn, and co-create with exceptional builders. Join us to turn your vision into reality.
For startups that already building. Get fast-tracked funding and join our global community of founders, investors, and industry experts to access talent, advisors, expansion support, and capital around the world.
Regardless of the stage of your startup, you will gain access to coaching, network resources, and investor introductions.
Individual founders will build and launch their companies with our support through a ten-week residency. Startups with an existing team of founders will be fast-tracked directly to pitch if ready for fundraising.
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Formation and validation
You will be surrounded with everything you need to build at lightning speed: a community of diverse founders so that you can connect with other great talents as potential co-founders, get coaching from our team of proven founders and advisors, and validate your business ideas.
Pre-seed funding
Get the opportunity to pitch for an investment of US$110,000 for a 12% equity stake. Invested companies are required to pay a program fee of US$40,000, which is not applicable if you get a direct investment or if you do not receive an investment after the residency.
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Scaling and fundraising
Join Antler's portfolio and receive continued support and access to a global capital pathway. When you are ready to raise your seed round, Antler will host a Demo Day where you will showcase your startup to top investors in the region.
Antler startups are moving the world forward
Antler is the most active investor in Southeast Asia—and around the world—backing the most game-changing companies.
If shortlisted, we will have 2 rounds of interviews with you to understand your background, motivations, experiences, and expertise. You will also get to ask us more questions to further assess if our residency would be an ideal fit for you.
Get a confirmation
The full application process takes about 2-3 weeks to complete, after which we will inform you if accepted or rejected.
If shortlisted, we will have 2 rounds of interviews with you to understand your background, motivations, experiences, and expertise. You will also get to ask us more questions to further assess if our residency would be an ideal fit for you.
Get a confirmation
The full application process takes about 2-3 weeks to complete, after which we will inform you if accepted or rejected.
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If shortlisted, we will have 2 rounds of interviews with you to understand your background, motivations, experiences, and expertise. You will also get to ask us more questions to further assess if our residency would be an ideal fit for you.
Get a confirmation
The full application process takes about 2-3 weeks to complete, after which we will inform you if accepted or rejected.
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Antler-funded founders go on to raise capital from other leading VCs.
Founder testimonials
Click here to find out what founders who have built and launched their companies with Antler say about us.
The dedicated coaches at Antler and the deep expertise they have in their industries really brought additional value to our team. They helped us pin-point areas we've missed, in the process of building our company.
Meet the people dedicated to our founders' success.
Jussi Salovaara
Co-founder and Managing Partner
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.
Frank Kang
Associate Partner
Frank is a seasoned serial entrepreneur with 17 years of experience. As Country Head for Malaysia, he leads investment strategy and operations for the region. He founded a social networking service at 23 and established one of the largest Twitter directories in Korea. He also founded LivingSocial and Althea in Malaysia. With Frank's proven track record of building scalable businesses in Asia, his vast experiences will help Malaysians to think globally from Day Zero and expand Malaysia's entrepreneurial impact across borders.
Markus Bruderer
Partner
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.
Ryan Thoo
Vice President
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 Frenzel
Investment Manager
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 Lim
Finance Director
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 Gunawan
Finance Associate
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.