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Antler is the world's most active early-stage investor, backing exceptional people from inception to global scale.

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Antler is where founders come to go further, faster. Antler is the world’s most active early-stage investor and most active investor into AI startups globally, backing exceptional people at the very start of their journey—and supporting them from inception to scale. Across more than 25 cities worldwide—including New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, Dubai, Bangalore, Singapore, Seoul, and Sydney—the firm helps founders remove the barriers to building by connecting them with world-class peers, validating business models, and providing initial capital. To date, Antler has backed more than 2,500 startups globally, including five unicorns: Airalo, Lovable, Pixverse, Dream and micro1. For founders who go on to build breakout companies, Antler Elevate—the $285M emerging growth fund—invests beyond the early stages, managed through offices in London, Singapore, New York and San Francisco.

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Fast facts

$26B

Total portfolio value

2500+

Portfolio companies

12,000+

Founders supported

2018

First investment made

33%

Portfolio companies with woman co-founders

100+

Nationalities represented in the portfolio

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PRESS RELEASES

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Singapore

September 18, 2025

Antler Appoints Hiro Kiga as Partner to Drive Early-Stage Tech Investment in Southeast Asia and Japan

Global

September 12, 2025

Antler backs micro1, the AI platform for human intelligence, in its USD $35 million Series A led by 01A

Global

September 9, 2025

Teton.ai Raises $20 Million to Reinvent Elderly Care

Global

September 3, 2025

Global Call for Startups 2025: Announcing the Winners Driving Food System Transformation

UK

August 28, 2025

Antler significantly increases investment for UK’s best tech founders

US

August 26, 2025

Loman AI Raises $3.5 Million to Transform Restaurant Operations with Voice AI

Southeast Asia

August 13, 2025

Antler doubles down on AI with US$7.4M in early-stage funding across Southeast Asia

Global

August 4, 2025

Antler Launches Criticality: $65M Fund to Back Transformative Technologies

Germany

July 15, 2025

ANTLER DOUBLES INVESTMENT FOR CONTINENTAL EUROPE’S BEST TECH FOUNDERS

Global

July 10, 2025

AIRALO BECOMES THE FIRST ESIM UNICORN WITH AN INVESTMENT ROUND OF $220M

Global

July 3, 2025

Fact Sheet: Nordic Investment Terms

Global

June 18, 2025

Nvelop Secures €1.2 Million Seed Round to Revolutionize Enterprise Procurement with Agentic AI

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