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Antler Raises additional $510 Million within the Last 12 Months to Support Founders from Inception to Scale

San Francisco, January 06, 2026: Global early-stage venture capital firm Antler announced the close of its second U.S. fund. With other funds also achieving final closes this year across key regions, Antler has raised another $510 million in total capital commitments.

Alongside its U.S. growth, Antler also closed funds supporting founders across Europe and Asia, with participation from institutional investors including the New Mexico State Investment Council, EIFO, Tesi, an Australian Superannuation Fund, two U.S. healthcare systems, university endowments and family offices.

Antler has invested in over 1,800 companies globally, with over 400 in the past 12 months. Two recently announced unicorns include Airalo and Lovable. Airalo, a provider of embedded SIM (eSIM) technology, became a unicorn in July 2025 following a $220 million round led by CVC, with participation from Peak XV and Antler Elevate. Antler Elevate is a fund investing in breakout companies originating from Antler’s proprietary company-building platform, one of the largest of its kind globally. Lovable, an AI platform, reached a $1.8 billion valuation after a $200 million Series A eight months after launch is now valued at $6.6 billion, two years after its launch.

“With the transition to AI, the growth in global innovation is accelerating at unprecedented speed and across more regions than ever. We’re increasingly partnering with institutions that want investment exposure to technology companies at the earliest inception stages, as well as the insights that signal how the future might evolve,” said Magnus Grimeland, founder and CEO of Antler.

Approximately 50% of the total capital is expected to be allocated to U.S.-based startups. In 2025, Antler opened its San Francisco office and launched a residency program to support founders from inception through Series A. The firm also expanded its U.S. leadership team with several senior hires:

  • Bob Rosin, Managing Partner, based in San Francisco. Previously repeat founder, member of exec leadership team at Stripe, LinkedIn, and Skype, Partner at Defy.vc, and angel investor in multiple unicorns.
  • Chris Walsh, General Partner, San Francisco. Former Partner at 7GC, where he led investments in Fluidstack, Anthropic, Dream, Poolside, and Lucra.
  • Courtney Christianson, Global Partner, Park City, Utah. Former investor relations leader at 25madison, QED Investors, and KSL Capital Partners.


Select U.S. Investments 

  • Agentio — An ad platform for creator content that makes it easy for brands and creators to work together. Forerunner led Agentio’s recent Series B round, with participation from existing investors Benchmark, Craft Ventures, AlleyCorp, Antler, and Starting Line, bringing Agentio’s total fundraising to $56 million and valuing the company at $340 million.
  • Sweatpals – A social fitness and wellness event platform that helps users get off their phones and to in-real-life experiences where they can meet new friends. Patron, A16z Speedrun, and Kevin Hart's HartBeat Ventures participated in Sweatpal’s recent $12 million seed round.
  • Doorstep.ai — A precision tracking software for delivery platforms, backed by Canaan and Cercano.
  • Rebolt – An AI-powered website builder for home service businesses that lets users build  fully SEO'd websites in under five minutes.
  • American Housing Corporation — Building a vertically integrated real estate development firm and prefab housing manufacturer to address the U.S. housing crisis by industrializing the construction of middle housing, including duplexes, townhouses, and medium-density apartment buildings.
  • Triangle Health — An AI-driven telehealth and care coordination platform serving patients with major medical conditions who are underserved by traditional care. Triangle integrates EMR data and lab results to connect patients with clinical trials, right-to-try programs, expanded access pathways, international clinics, and off-label treatments.
  • AminoChain — A bio-sample marketplace connecting biobanks with biopharma companies, streamlining bio-sample search and distribution. Patients can track how their samples are used in research, earn royalties, and benefit from new scientific insights. a16z led AminoChain’s recent $5 million seed round, with participation from Cercano and Antler Elevate.
  • Benjamin — A consumer rewards platform that enables users to earn cash on everyday activities such as purchases, gaming, surveys, and ads. Benjamin also provides 30 million SMB merchants with payment infrastructure, customer data, and marketing tools to drive growth and retention.
  • Bitewell — The world’s first corporate food health benefits provider, offering users a digital health score derived from its proprietary FoodHealth Score. As a B2B food-as-medicine company, Bitewell partners with employers to lower insurance costs and improve employee health outcomes. In October 2024, the company announced a partnership with Kroger, applying its scoring technology to approximately 50,000 products across the grocer’s family of stores.

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About Antler
Antler is the world’s most active early-stage investor, backing exceptional people at the very start of their journey — and supporting them from inception to scale. Across 27 cities worldwide—including New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, 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 1,500 startups globally, including Airalo, Lovable, Peec.AI, Reebelo, Wrtn, and Benjamin.

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, and New York.

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Rike Döpp Bergérus
VP of Global Communications
rike@antler.co