Build your company with Antler

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's Nordic residencies take place at our offices in Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, and Helsinki. The residency is a full-time commitment. This means that you are 100% dedicating your time to building your company. That said, it is not “mandatory” to be in the office from 9-5PM daily. The intention is to foster an engaged and supportive community of founders building together in person. As long as you show up for cohort activities and receive value from the community, you can spend your time in any way you see most fit to build your company. Most founders come in 4-5 days a week.

Our standard terms are €100k for 10% equity. 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.

We invest to catalyze your pre-seed raise, with reserves for later rounds. If you pass our investment committee, we first write you a check for €100,000 for 10% of your company. Founders can then unlock follow-on funding on a matching basis, depending on capital raised from external investors. Antler will match 50% of this external funding with 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. We can continue with follow-on investments in our companies with larger amounts until Series C.

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.

Post-investment, we foster an even higher touch relationship, where founders continue to work with Antler weekly. Focus areas include customer and revenue growth, and future fundraising preparation. As portfolio companies progress toward their next round, Antler introduces their most recent investment cohort of downstream investors.

We commit to pre-seed investing 400K EUR in the companies that are successful at our investment committee:

• The first part is 100K EUR for 10% ownership.
• The second part of 300K EUR 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 (first part):

• 100K EUR for 10% ownership
• Done as part of our residency

Pre-committed next investment (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 industry agnostic. We invest in scalable companies and exceptional people. However, we do not invest in the following areas: drugs, narcotics, adult entertainment, and gambling.