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The Antler Sydney Demo Day was a celebration of many things - one was women

Of the 12 companies Antler showcased at its inaugural Demo Day in Sydney, five were represented by female CEOs.

Australia

Startup Series: Meet xNomad

One in ten stores Globally are empty, and in the Nordics alone there’s over 20 000 vacant spaces. xNomad is marketplace for short-term retail space, the ‘Airbnb for pop-ups’. Watch the full video to learn more about the startup that was founded in the inaugural Antler Stockholm program by Jonathan Haralambakis.

Global

What investors look for at Demo Day, and how founders can impress them

Antler’s inaugural Demo Day in Sydney will take place on Thursday, November 7 at the iconic Sydney Town Hall.

Australia

Startup Series: Meet Done

Meet the Done team! Malin Granlund, CEO, and Alek Åström CTO, explain how they want to revive an industry that has been the most complained about in Sweden for over twelve years (Swedish Consumer Agency, 2017).

Expert Series: How I grew an app to 15 million users

Adeline Lee is a growth hacker, product marketer extraordinaire, and new mother. She's grown multiple applications and companies from thousands of users to millions. Here's how she grew these products to new heights...

Netherlands

Startup Series: Bringing about change - one team at a time

Antler is in the business of enabling the world's most exceptional people to build technology companies that solve real problems, and have a strong impact on the world. Last year we had the chance to start working with some truly amazing entrepreneurs: Wisnu Nugrahadi, Margana Mohamad and Dimas Pramudya. In only twelve months, they have built an incredibly fast growing company working with 150,000 agents across Indonesia. So what makes Sampingan special?

Singapore

How Antler is doing things differently to ensure founders are successful from day one

From the program to the team, and how it addresses the barriers to entrepreneurship, Antler gives founders an unfair advantage over startups not in the Antler program.

Australia

Energy, property, mobility: Antler to focus on industries with high potential for innovation in Norway

Antler has launched in Norway with a mission to enable exceptional individuals to build global businesses in industries with high potential for innovation: energy, property, mobility.

Antler, a global startup generator and early-stage VC fund, recruits talented professionals to join a six-month program designed to support them in finding co-founders to build and grow a business that will go on to solve some of the most crucial problems of tomorrow.

Launching Antler Jakarta to enable more successful Indonesian startups

Antler has recently announced its plan to launch in Jakarta to enable more Indonesian entrepreneurs to build successful startups through its platform. Antler's vision is to invest in at least 20 Indonesian startups annually and give founders support by helping them form the right team, funding them from day 1 and giving them access to a global network of advisors and mentors.

Indonesia

Behind the scenes at Antler with Prince Daniel of Sweden

On the third of September, Antler was fortunate enough to be paid a royal visit. Prince Daniel of Sweden, Duke of Västergötland, came to visit the Antler Stockholm office. Here is what happened behind the scenes.

Startup Series: Meet Mattrvest

Mattrvest are all about helping people plan, spend and save for what "mattrs" to them. Our Amsterdam team sat down with two of the three team members, Mayur Singh and Diane Delava while they were in town to discuss how the team met, why they decided to form Mattrvest and what their current go-to-market strategy looks like.

Singapore

Startup Series: Meet Cognicept

Cognicept is a service layer and platform from autonomous robotics to help improve failure rates and serviceability of autonomous systems by providing tele-operated, human in the loop support.

Singapore

It's the journey, not the destination: This founder shares the 'life-changing experience' she had at Antler, despite not gaining investment

"I have evolved into a better version of myself... I am so proud that I took the leap to launch my own business. I worked hard for something that I am passionate about and enjoyed every second of it."

Australia

Antler Sydney generates 12 portfolio companies, invests $100K in each

Twelve startups formed in the Antler program in Sydney have secured $100,000 in pre-seed funding.

Australia

A letter to all new founders

The most common question I've been asked is "How does the co-founder matching process work?" Here are my thoughts.

Founder story: 'You don't need to do anything special to help women succeed. Just open the door'

Antler Sydney entrepreneur Siobhan O'Toole says, rather than holding another Women's Day event, take action to help women succeed by holding open the door.

Australia

Enabling women to find success in Venture Capital

Currently, only ~2% of all Dutch Venture Capital is invested in female-founded or female co-founded companies. Simply put, there is a huge population with phenomenal ideas but they are largely being ignored, misunderstood or brushed to the side. Now, what can we do to solve this problem?

Netherlands

Building the next wave of tech startups out of Africa

Africa, with its staggering young population, rapidly growing adoption of mobile technologies, increasing middle class and harbouring of 4/10 world’s fastest growing economies, is ready for a tech revolution and Antler is excited to bring its disruptive model to the continent.

Kenya

Why 'now' is the best time to start a company

According to Forbes, around 90% of startups fail. We don’t know about you, but that sounds like a large proportion of unsuccessful business ventures to us. We sat down with Antoine Poirson, one of our partners at our London office, to discuss his thoughts on becoming an entrepreneur in today’s Globally competitive market.

UK

A snapshot into the recruiter mind; Interviewing

Antler's Director of Recruiting in Sydney, Adele Moynihan, shares her top interview tip and why.

Australia

Antler Singapore Demo Day - second cohort

Seventeen new companies from our second Singapore program presented their startups to over 500 people from Southeast Asia's regional startup ecosystem. The energy was upbeat and buzzing at the event held at the School of the Arts concert hall.

Singapore

My journey towards company building

A majority of people want to start their own company but only a fraction of them do. Amsterdam partner Kim Oreskovic shares her story on becoming part of the next wave of tech and how Antler is solving the issues hindering people from starting businesses.

Netherlands

Creating smart cities through payment & Mobility tech

The “glocalization” of two essential services will be the most important for the next phase of human growth. There are two basic services that need a cross-city facilitation, and they require integration and consolidation. These are payments and Mobility.

Global

It is finally here: Stockholm's inaugural Demo Day

June 12, 2019 | Stockholm: What do you get when you take 14 portfolio  companies, 500 guests, almost 1500 people live streaming from across the  world, one stage and a mission to build the next wave of tech?

Expert Series: Why diversity is vital to team building

Former Uber EMEA Head of Recruiting and Antler advisor, Nicolas Buteau outlines what he thinks are the most essential tips for hiring your first recruits for your startup, how to maintain team diversity at scale and hiring pitfalls to avoid. We sat down with Nic in London to discuss all this and more.

UK

Startup Series: How Airalo will change connectivity forever with digital sims

Alright, let's say you're going on a trip to Asia and plan on hitting 5 different countries. You know you're gonna need to sort out a mobile connection to the local company in each new place.

Chore.

But, imagine if you could simply get your local SIMs before you even start your trip? So that once you land you are automatically connected. Before you've even finished breakfast in your New York apartment, in 5 minutes you've sorted out mobile connectivity for your adventure to the East.

This is the aim of Airalo co-founder and Antler alumni, Bahadir Özdemir. He plans to turn the traditional roaming market completely on its head through new eSIM technology.

Bahadir stopped by the Antler Amsterdam office for a quick chat with our marketing manager Hayden on the state of eSIM technology and the challenges in being the trailblazer for this emerging space:

Singapore

Blueprint: How Antler Sydney recruited 71 aspiring founders in 3 months

Lessons from recruiting a diverse cohort of rocket scientists, excited entrepreneurs, CTO's, management consultants and all round superstars.

Australia

Taking a chance with Antler: entrepreneurship, symbolism, and success

Zoe Hall, Director of Marketing for the newly opened New York location, looks to fully communicate the advantages of Antler’s unique approach by sharing an illustrative encounter with Anna Ratala and Malik Alimoekhamedov, current co-founders of Zvook and Antler alumi.

Singapore

The keys to building successful startup teams

Last week Fortify founder, Paul Musters gave a presentation to the Antler  cohort in Amsterdam about what it takes to build a successful startup team.  His presentation covered many aspects including the 5 reasons for  dysfunctional teams, psychological safety and more. Here are some of the  biggest takeaways we found.

Netherlands

The limitless power of new beginnings

On August 18, 2018, I had a realization. It was the realization that another life-changing opportunity had fallen onto my path. Earlier in life in similar situations, I didn’t realize the ripple effects that a decision has over time.

Netherlands

Resilience, tenacity and drive: the makings of an entrepreneur

The entrepreneurial journey can be a combination of structure and chaos, success and failure. But most would agree that above all it one of ongoing learning.

Australia

Tech is a miniseries, not a movie

Don’t strive for perfection on your first go- strive to prove that the business works and customers are willing to pay for it. Think of building your product as a miniseries, not as a movie.

Singapore

A side of Sampingan

Wisnu Nugrahadi is a founder from Antler's inaugural program in Singapore from July 2018. After the first eight weeks into the program, he and his co-founders Margana Mohamad and Dimas Pramudya created Sampingan.

Singapore

Why Antler will help more women become successful entrepreneurs

You don’t need a startup. You don’t need a team. You don’t even need an idea. Antler helps with all of that.

Australia

The opportunity to compete Globally has never been greater

They say you make your own luck in life, and historically, I think Australia has done that... but if we believe we can ride the sheep’s back into an affluent future, then we deserve to be the poor fools we will become.

Australia

#BalanceforBetter—the importance of diversity

In honour of International Women's Day, we want to highlight the importance of female presence in the working space. Therefore, we sat down for a chat with Saskia Rademaker, our recruitment director in Amsterdam, and asked her all about her vision on the importance of diversity.

Netherlands

Founders' journey to demo day

Our very first demo day for Antler Singapore was met with great success, with 13 portfolio companies presenting their pitches to more than 500 investors from both the regional and international VC community. A great step forward from where they were six months ago.

Singapore

Life beyond coding as a Chief Technology Officer

This week, we speak to David Almroth, an experienced CTO and full stack developer with 20 years of software development experience and expertise in machine learning. After a decade in the startup ecosystem, David takes some time out to share with us his motivations, aspirations and overall founder journey. Come January 2019, he will also be joining our inaugural Stockholm program.

5 Minutes with Alok Pathak

We spent five minutes with robotics and tech engineer Alok Pathak to learn more about his entrepreneurial journey with Antler and the different aspects of building technology and prototyping that gets him excited.

Singapore

How design thinking can shape your business idea

Design thinking is a solution-based approach to problem-solving. It is a process that draws upon logic, imagination, intuition, and systematic reasoning, to solve complex problems by exploring possibilities of what could be and create desired outcomes that benefit the end-user (customer). Solonia Teodros, co-founder of The Change School*, breaks down the science of design thinking and how any professional can benefit from it.

Singapore

The subtle art of storytelling

How can a $1 horse be sold for a hundred bucks? Pretty easy, there are multiple ways to weave a narrative around your product or service which can set you apart from the crowd. Anh Nguyen, subscription marketing lead at YouTube APAC, shares her valuable insight into the secret to good storytelling for any product or brand. Storytelling is a crucial skill to master for any startup as it helps to inspire potential hires, customers and investors - to believe in your brand. The aim is to cut through the noise and communicate succinctly but effectively. Inspirational stories form the bedrock of effective communication, and they help to convey the sheer passion and drive behind incredible ideas.

Singapore

First Antler cohort is officially LIVE

After months of preparation, the first Antler cohort is finally in full force in Singapore. It has been an intensive 120 hours as we introduced our 62 founders to the program, each other, and ran through key topics and exercises that broke down barriers in getting to know each other. These sessions were formatted with the intention of bringing out different personalities and working styles, through a range of high and low pressure settings. There was a variety of light-hearted icebreaker sessions to intensive product building hackathons. Lots of laughter, chatter and hard work ensued. Here, we've put together a little roundup of our first-ever week!

Singapore

How to reach the right audience for your startup

"Try to make every lunch lead to a meeting with two new strangers" Lisa Enckell is a partner at Antler leading Marketing and PR. She shares how marketing for startups can be a challenge, but used right, the restrictions can be turned into a blessing.

Singapore

5 recruitment tips for your startup

Finding and recruiting talented co-workers is one of the hardest tasks as a founder. Antler's head of recruiting, Prerna Sharma, hired hundreds of people to Uber's Southeast Asia operations, and at other companies like Flow Traders, a Dutch proprietary trading firm which has the same hiring values as any growing startup. She has several years of experience in recruiting talent for startups. Here, she lists the crucial prerequisites you need to consider before building your team.

Singapore

Apple veteran Jordan Dea-Mattson’s advice to founders

Jordan Dea-Mattson is a 35 year veteran of high tech, having worked at Apple, Adobe Systems, Yahoo and a number of Silicon Valley startups. He is now site director for Indeed.com's Singapore Engineering Centre, and recently he joined our Happy Hour to share some valuable advice with the Antler founders.

Singapore

Inside Scoop: What we learnt at TIA 2018

We are all familiar with the startup worlds of Berlin, Stockholm and Silicon Valley, but where do we look for Asia's startup hub? You might want to switch your gaze away from the skyscrapers of Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Russia. Southeast Asia could be your much-overlooked getaway into Asia, and here are some reasons why.

Singapore

Why Southeast Asia is the new startup hub

We are all familiar with the startup worlds of Berlin, Stockholm and Silicon Valley, but where do we look for Asia’s startup hub? This could be your much-overlooked gateway into Asia, and here are some reasons why.

Singapore

Magnus Grimeland's advice to founders

In a series of blog posts, we'll introduce the people behind Antler. First off is our founder and CEO, Magnus Grimeland. Read on to get his perspectives on why he started Antler and what his ambitions are for this new startup generator. He also shares some useful tips for aspiring entrepreneurs.

Singapore

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