Build your company with Antler in the Nordics

Experienced early stage investor and advisor, Warren is an active investor in ~20 early stage businesses across a number of sectors. He is a former McKinsey partner, start-up founder and CEO. He has previously spent 5 years as co-founder and CEO of Vireo Energy, building up a renewable energy business in Eastern Europe backed by Kinnevik. Warren focuses on helping our companies building the right team, setting strategy, executing growth initiatives and scaling operations

Willy holds a law degree from the University of Oslo and started his career as a lawyer in the law firm Thommessen in Norway, followed by 5 years as legal counsel and secretary of the board in the Ventelo group. The last 5 years he has acted as an entrepreneur and private investor primarily in tech and real estate.

Trond is an experienced leader with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting, venture capital and private equity industry. He is a strong entrepreneurship professional with MBA from Harvard.

Passionate about running marathons and building great ventures.

Nils is originally from Germany but lived, studied and worked in France, the Netherlands, Australia, and Sweden. He holds a B.A. in International Relations and an MSc. in Media and Communication. Nils is fascinated with tech innovation in the fast-paced world of entrepreneurship. His aim is to help exceptional founders make their mark in the world. Outside of work you will find Nils at the gym, exploring the beautiful Swedish nature or watching documentaries about cosmology.

Oscar, heading up Antler Stockholm, is an entrepreneur, expansion specialist and leader with 10 years' experience in building ventures across Africa, Europe, Middle East and Latin America. He previously co-founded BIMA, a global leader in mobile insurance, with 26M customers and has worked at Spotify, Kinnevik and Universal Avenue. He loves the outdoors and his favorite meal is freshly caught trout grilled over an open fire.

Narve Hansen is a Norwegian business manager with more than 30 years of experience in the financial sector and acquired broad experience as a manager and consultant within international business, product development and marketing. He is also a founder and co-owner of startups in Latin America and Norway.

Michael started his career with The Boston Consulting Group. Since then, he has worked with building, scaling, and investing in startups. Michael has helped build and scale numerous companies as a co-founder, advisor, or angel-investor including two companies which have experienced exit events.

Matthias is our bridge between the recruitment and program teams. He plays a key role in finding and recruiting the best talent for our cohorts, and makes sure that the daily operations in the program run smoothly. Matze started his career with an apprenticeship in Banking, followed by several internships in trading and M&A. Before joining Antler, he interned for a leading Venture Capital firm in Zambia. Matze holds an MSc. in Business Finance from BI Norwegian Business School.

Lene runs the end-to-end execution of the Norwegian program. She has previous experience from strategy, digital transformation and business development. Prior to joining Antler she founded and developed Evolver by BDO, BDOs venture capital firm investing in startups. Lene is an alumni from Norwegian School of Economics. She has a can-do attitude and gets her energy from being around people or going for a run outdoors.

Livia is a full-stack marketing and communications expert obsessed with building brands. With 10 years' experience from startups in Stockholm and NYC, Livia previously ran fintech Tink’s marketing department and headed up community and content marketing at ecommerce platform Tictail. Livia is a lover of the Russian language, undercover interior designer and will help you set your marketing strategy, grow and attract customers.

Startup executive, brand and marketing strategist, people manager, writer and editor with over 15 years of experience in online, print, and social media communications and public relations. Experienced at company leadership, mentoring teams, and developing a brand identity and growth strategy, in both North America and Europe.

Prior to joining the Nordic partner group, she led the end-to-end scouting and selection of founders. Previously recognized as one of Asia’s top talents within the communications field, she has spent the last decade working within the corporate sector with experience across 3 global markets working closely with the senior leadership teams of key financial services institutions and enterprise tech companies.

Kristian co-leads the Norwegian operations at Antler alongside Anne, where he leads both our fundraising and partnership efforts. Kristian is also responsible for building the ecosystem around Antler in Europe focusing on partnerships with commercial companies that want to contribute through their services and idea generation towards founders in the programs. He is also working on raising the European funds that invest in Antler's portfolio companies.

Julia supports Antler’s Nordic portfolio of 120+ companies across fundraising, hiring, growth and more. She previously headed up Antler’s Nordic programs as well as the marketing department. She also helped launch Antler in Korea and in Denmark, where she is currently based. She has a background in business and marketing, holds a degree from Stockholm School of Economics, is passionate about diversity in tech and is a bit of a bookworm.

Consultant and coach supporting companies, teams and individuals with building healthy and high performing organizations. With my roots in agile product/software development and most of my experience from 9 years at Spotify in different leadership roles.

Jose is an Investment & Portfolio Associate, assessing new investments and working together with Antler portfolio companies to help them accelerate their growth. He has worked in different areas within Antler and has an MSc in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He has lived in Mexico (born), Prague, Shanghai, and now Oslo.

As Partner at Maersk Growth I'm responsible for heading our efforts in screening, validating and investing in startups within supply chain.

Founder of Google Norway. Longest serving country director globally (15 years). Worked in online media industry since 1995. BSBA from Ohio State University (1993). Founder of Google Norway. Longest serving country director globally (15 years). Worked in online media industry since 1995. BSBA from Ohio State University (1993).

Jens is the Founder Scout for Antler Sweden and Denmark. He has pursued a B.Sc. in International Business at Copenhagen Business School and courses in Rhetoric and Business Administration at the University of Gothenburg. Before joining Antler, he lived in Malta for 3 years where he headed up the Customer Operations teams for the Nordic markets at a multinational company in the iGaming industry. When not scouting for the world’s most exceptional founders, he likes to play beach volleyball and try out new restaurants.

Hedvig has a background in project management, communication, and stakeholder management. She moved to Copenhagen three years ago to pursue a MSc. in Organisational Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Copenhagen Business School. In her spare time, Hedvig enjoys traveling to new destinations and cooking and eating together with her friends.

Gustav has been running an eCommerce company and holds a first-class honors degree in International Business Management, having lived in the UK, Australia, and Luxembourg — before returning to his native Sweden. In his spare time, Gustav enjoys traveling to new destinations as well as spend time with friends and family.

Emma is the Recruitment Director for the Nordic region, based in Stockholm. Emma received a BSc in Behavioral Science after finishing her studies in London and Fort Lauderdale and at Stockholm University. At Antler, she attracts and scouts the talent founders to join the platform as well as plays her magic in the matchmaking of creating dream teams for the cohorts. Emma is an active individual with three teenagers at home. She likes to serve food at her gigantic table in her home at the island north of Stockholm as well as spending time at the gym or in the dance studio.

David is an experienced business and product development leader, having worked in product roles at Sony Mobile and Spotify, and latest serving as director of product at iZettle. David coaches our companies in Business Development, Product Planning and Product Management. He is also well versed in software, and holds a Msc in Information & Communication Technology (ICT)

Dan is passionate about helping teams build product driven businesses that are propelled by partnership, user delight and a crisp value proposition. He has more than 15 years experience leading programs and collaborations across Europe, Asia and North America with some of the world’s leading brands, such as Spotify, Sony and GSK Bio. Dan has worked with both digital and physical products within B2B and B2C throughout the entire lifecycle from concept creation, development, partnerships and distribution

Claes comes from a background at McKinsey heading up the Swedish office for 23 years and serving on the Senior Advisory Board. For the last 13 years Claes has been a partner with the leading Swedish PE fund, Altor Equity Partners with AUM US$8.3bn over five funds

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I apply my experience from leading positions in the financial, payments and public sector to build and scale great enterprises. I do this as Non Executive Board member, Adviser and Business Angel in start-ups and established enterprises.I do this with the purpose of unleashing the business potential of innovative tech, platform or the like solutions, that could be developed into playing an important role to citizens, businesses or the greater society. This can be in the disruption and transformation of i.e. the financial, food or energy sector that depend increasingly on seamless infrastructure and simple and sustainable value chains.

Serial entrepreneur with 20+ years experience in strategic brand management, design and innovation. Anniken is the co-founder 657 Oslo, a co-working hub for creative entrepreneurs, Superblaise, a consultancy focusing on strategy, innovation and communication and Sprinterwing, matching ambitious entrepreneurs with mentors.

Anders is a dynamic and passionate entrepreneur with a passion for business and leadership. Experienced in challenging and changing current business models in the Energy and Logistics sector. Wide experience from both building his own start-up company, senior positions in global companies, industry expert and a number of board assignments. Have been responsible in the whole value chain from development, sourcing, production, supply chain and trading/sales in a global market that undergoes fast changes towards sustainability.

Anne Worsøe is partner and co-founder of Farmhouse Capital, an Oslo-based investment company investing in early-stage technology startups, solving global challenges. She was a Partner at Bakken & Baeck while the company scaled from 16 to 60+ people, where she also managed their investment company. Previously, she initiated and co-founded the co-working space Nordic Innovation House in Silicon Valley, and she was the first CEO of the Norwegian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association.

Anne co-leads the Norwegian operations at Antler alongside Kristian, and ensures the wheels are in motion and that everything is running at Antler speed and quality. With her previous background as an entrepreneur who single-handedly founded a pioneer health food brand in Turkey, Anne is able to wear both an investor and entrepreneur hat when supporting our startups. Her company co-launched together with Unilever, and was sold across 5 countries with customers such as Starbucks and Carrefour. She had a successful exit in Dec 2017. Prior to that, she held a managerial position in Visma and was part of the management group of Vismas largest division, Enterprise. Anne is an alumni from UC Berkeley and Copenhagen Business School.

Anders is a professional leader with 15+ years of managerial experience from a range of industries, including FinTech, IT, education, telecom, banking/finance. He combines an entrepreneurial mindset with an analytical foundation as a former McKinsey consultant. Additionally, he possesses solid experience in international business from working across Europe, China, Africa, and USA. Anders speaks Mandarin Chinese on a professional level.

Board Member in Noria and Co-Founder and CEO of Noria Digital who deliver cutting edge digital transformation in financial services.