Build your startup in 10 weeks —with Antler in Brazil
We’re a global VC that supports Brazilian founders on their entrepreneurial journey from day zero to greatness.
Build your startup in 10 weeks —with Antler in Brazil
We’re a global VC that supports Brazilian founders on their entrepreneurial journey from day zero to greatness.
Meet 60+ people with the same purpose as you: build the next big Brazilian startup
Participate in masterclasses, workshops, and coaching sessions to transform your idea into reality
Get access to renowned venture capitalists and founders from the Brazilian ecosystem
Best-performing teams get a chance to present their business to our Investment Committee and potentially receive our pre-seed investment.
How Antler works
Our 10-week residency is designed to support founders in the earliest stage of their entrepreneurial journey
Scouting Process
Throughout the year, our scouting team is looking for the most talented and driven founders in Brazil. We select 60+ entrepreneurs to participate in each residency. These individuals come from varied backgrounds, but they all share the grit and resilience to create a new startup.
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The Residency
The residency, which runs fully in-person in Sao Paulo, is a 10-week experience that gathers founders in the earliest stage of their journeys. Our day-zero support enables co-founder matchmaking, idea validation, and business modeling.
Our Investment
Best-performing teams in the residency get a chance to pitch their startups to Antler’s Investment Committee. When approved, they secure our pre-seed investment, which will enable their business to get off the ground.
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Join us for an open session with one of our partners to discuss how we work with founders and what to expect
FAQs
By helping thousands of founders launch and scale the next generation of great companies that address some of the most pressing challenges of our time, we move society forward and make progress a certainty.
Antler is a global venture capital platform known for creating its own pipeline of investments. In order to back exceptional founders at the beginning of their journeys, Antler designed and launched its residency, where driven and resilient entrepreneurs can create their own startups with our day-zero support. The most promising startups that originated in the program can receive a pre-seed investment from Antler to scale their new businesses.
Antler’s residency is a 10-week entirely in-person immersion, where 60+ potential founders spend a lot of time together. It is a unique innovation environment with people that share the same objective of becoming a startup founder. This group of entrepreneurs will dive into our global methodology for business creation and validation, increase their professional network, and potentially receive a pre-seed investment during this period.
Most importantly, Antler is looking for talented, driven, and resilient people. Antler wants to back those that are willing to go the extra mile to create businesses capable of bringing progress and innovation to society. We are looking for individuals that are 100% certain of the decision of becoming a startup founder, even if they don’t have an idea for a business.
Each residency has a different profile picture of founders. However, Antler’s scouting team has an active effort of selecting a balanced set of exceptional professionals. Our main goal is to have all types of founders, including business operators, industry specialists, PhDs, and technology experts.
In Antler, selected founders don’t have to pay anything for applying and securing a slot in our residency. As the residency is entirely in-person, founders need to be in Sao Paulo for at least 10 weeks, if they want to participate in it. We are not responsible for affording accommodations, transportation, and other expenses for any of the selected founders. However, in specific cases, which are analyzed by the Antler team, we can concede grants covering some costs.
In our residency, after you formed a founding team and validated your business idea, you will have the chance to present your startup to our Investment Committee. If your business is approved by our Investment Committee, you will secure a pre-seed investment from Antler.
Our pre-seed investment is standardized for each residency. Therefore, every residency has its own size of check. The calculation of the valuation for every startup that originated in our program is based on macroeconomic conditions.
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Create the next big startup in Brazil with our day-zero support.
We’re making progress inevitable in the Brazilian early-stage
Fuelled by a passion that goes beyond traditional investing, we exist to increase our founders’ speed and maximize their success rate in solving important problems.
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Meet our team
Mike is a Partner at Antler Australia and co-leads the Australia operations. He's a seasoned operator and investor who kickstarted his career in equity capital markets and mergers and acquisitions.Mike's journey with Uber began as the second employee in Asia and the 121st globally. As the Head of Operations for Australia and New Zealand, he played a pivotal role in building a thriving multi-billion-dollar business locally. Over the course of six years, he witnessed the local team's remarkable growth, scaling it from just three members to a formidable team of over 500. This experience gave him invaluable insights into scaling businesses and driving growth in challenging markets.Following his time at Uber, Mike co-founded and led Kaddy, a B2B marketplace. Under his leadership as CEO, Kaddy was acquired for $34 million within three years. Mike also brings over 20 years of investment experience, including numerous direct and indirect angel investments. His diverse background and extensive experience have made him a sought-after advisor and mentor, offering valuable insights to early stage businesses.
Marcelo was the founder and CEO of the credit fintech Lendico (www.lendico.com.br). He led the company through a full cycle of entrepreneurship: model creation, team building, product design, launch, scale up and a successful exit to Lonestar, when the company had +R$1billion in credit originations and 100+ employees. He has just returned from Stanford’s flagship senior executive program (SEP)
20+ years experience in tech investing, business building and digital transformation projects. Operating Partner for Redpoint eventures, Intel Capital LATAM director for over a decade and Innovation Director of public traded companies. Recognised digital advisor and board member.
Rafael was previously Head of Investors Relations and M&A of companies listed on the Brazilian Stock Exchange. Also worked as equities sales for banks in Brazil such as Merrill Lynch, Santander and Citibank and holds an MBA from Darden Business School. Father of Laura and Daniel.
Highly accomplished, Result Driven, Hard worker, Ownership, Quick Learner, and ability to assume different responsibilities; Accounting and Financial Management with more than 15 years of progressive professional experiences: Banking, Big 4 Companies (M&A and audit), Venture capital, with a strong accounting background; Strong international experience, leading foreign teams and clients.
Caio has worked for five years in startup operations. Four years at Liv Up, a Brazilian foodtech company, in operations, deliveries and supply chain teams managing both growth and improvement projects. Before that he has helped Lendico, a credit fintech, improving its backoffice processes through automation. He has also worked in private equity and in applied engineering research in Germany.
Pedro graduated in Law at the University of São Paulo and worked for a while in the best M&A law firms in Brazil leading big transactions for his clients. After transitioning to the startup and entrepreneurial world, Pedro worked for a social impact startup accelerator and held strategic positions in healthtechs and fintechs. Currently, Pedro is pursuing an MBA degree at Cornell University.
Matheus is a communications specialist, with a solid experience in content marketing and innovation strategy. Previously, worked at ACE Startups, an early-stage VC and startup accelerator in Brazil. Matheus is also a former journalist at Forbes Brazil, Terra, and Estadão, where he reported about the brazilian startups and innovation ecosystem.
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Ester previously worked at a startup accelerator abroad and also at a Brazilian Venture Capital fund that invests only in international businesses. She graduated in Business Administration at the University of São Paulo (USP) and has also worked at Citibank and KPMG.