About the opportunity
This is not a job and we are not looking to be your employer! We want to partner with you as you build your next company as a founder.
This is an opportunity to
partner with us and a community of 180+ exceptional founders around you
get 300k EUR from Antler committed to your next company before you have even incorporated it,
complete your co-founding team with the strongest and most committed co-founders
gain a long term partner who wants to keep investing for the coming rounds
Access to a world class package of perks worth hundreds of thousands of Euros - including AWS, OpenAI Credits, Free Google Cloud, Wework, Notion, Airtable, HS, Zoom, Microsoft Founders hub and much more.
If you are in the early days of building or about to start your next company, we want to meet you!
Antler is the world's most active venture capital firm, providing funding from pre-seed to Series C. We back the best founders across hardware and software, across B2B and B2C and across verticals from deeptech, through cybersecurity to climatetech or fintech. With 30 offices on 6 continents and 1,500+ portfolio companies we offer access to a very strong community. Every year 160,000+ founders apply to partner with us.
We meet all founders through one of our Continental Europe founder residencies hosted in our offices in Amsterdam, Berlin or Munich. This experience will get you surrounded by a community 180+ fellow founders and Antler investors, will allow you to get the first cheque committed within weeks of joining and will ensure you get further in building your company faster.
How our founder residency works
1. The residency runs for an initial 6-10 weeks, requires your full-time commitment to building your company and starts on 22 September 2025.
2. Pressure cooker environment allowing you to validate, complete your cofounding team and build even more steam faster, culminating in first investment for selected teams.
3. Once the initial investment is committed, you will join the portfolio as a full member - you will continue to have your desk in our office for months.
Who we are looking for
Requirements