We’re looking for highly ambitious operators, technologists, or serial entrepreneurs who can motivate themselves and others to join their mission to build a game-changing business. Whether you’re an individual or team at the early stages of their journey, we are here to help as a partner obsessed with your success.

We are focused on providing founders better access to capital at the very beginning of their journey, so we back founders at the ideation stage. We'll invest as early as a clearly defined product statement and roadmap to your MVP, we'll even help you incorporate your new venture if necessary. We always aim to be the first institutional check into our portfolio companies.

Antler has offices in Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, and Helsinki, which founders can access 24/7. Building a startup is a full-time commitment, and we expect founders to work hard on developing an outlier companies that can scale globally. Our offices provide a focused environment and a supportive community of ambitious founders working toward the same goal.

Our standard terms apply. If your startup has already closed a round at a significantly higher valuation, or are currently closing a round, your specific case can be brought up to the Investment Committee for consideration.

No, our terms are non-negotiable. We invest to catalyze your pre-seed raise, with reserves for later rounds. If you pass our investment committee, we invest €200,000 upfront (€100,000 for 8.5% of equity + €100,000 on an uncapped SAFE or convertible note). In addition to the €200,000, we pre-commit €300,000 of matching funds into the first funding rounds you raise, for a grand total of €500,000. We can continue with follow-on investments in our companies with larger amounts until Series C.

We commit to pre-seed investing €500,000 in the companies that are successful at our investment committee:

• The first part of €200,000 is wired immediately post investment decision. The second part of €300,000 is conditional on further capital being raised from other investors within nine months following our first investment

In addition to this, we can support our companies with larger amounts as follow-on investments until Series C.

The details:

Initial investment of €200,000 (first part):

• The €200,000 is divided in two components: 
  
  • €100,000 for an 8.5% ownership stake 
  • €100,000 on an uncapped SAFE (or convertible) with a MFN (most-favored-nation) clause
• Full €200,000 is wired immediately post investment decision

Pre-committed next investment of up to €300,000 (second part):

• We’ll invest one-third of the total amount raised in the next funding round
• Within nine months after our initial investment
• The round needs to involve professional or semi-professional investors
• On the same terms as those investors
• No specified cap on the total matching amount
• For illustrative purposes, if your company raises €600,000 from professional investors after our initial investment, Antler may invest an additional €300,000 on the same terms, totalling €900,000.

Further investments (after initial and next investments):

• Potential pro rata investments
• Until Series C
• No amount limits

We are a generalist tech investor. We primarily back software and invest in any business built by exceptional founders aiming to scale their businesses globally across many industries.