Antler

Fridtjof pioneered a day-zero talent-first model that forms co-founder teams across 20+ global locations before companies exist, pairing McKinsey strategy rigor with Nordic startup scaling and a unified advisory network.

Jussi Salovaara, co‑founder who leads its Asia operations, backs individual earliest‑stage founders, helps them find co‑founders after selection, and mentors operators and founders from non‑obvious backgrounds during volatility.

Magnus Grimeland blends Norwegian Naval Special Forces background with scaling Asia's largest fashion e-commerce platform, creating a global operating system screening 150,000 applicants annually to back founders with world-class capability.

Vegard, ex-Coastal Ranger Command special-ops who spent six years leading McKinsey data teams, co-founded the firm and as COO drives expansion across six continents while backing founders pre-team.

Alan Poensgen, a leading voice on European tech cycles, argues in Fortune that the tech winter will forge resilient founders from unicorns and scaleups, and hosts monthly 12 MINUTES interviews.

Anne Solhaug Tutar scaled and exited a health-food brand—co-launching with Unilever and reaching Starbucks/Carrefour—entered VC on maternity leave, bringing baby to meetings and focusing on founder teams, elevating Oslo.

Anthony Millet paused his MBA to turn parents' £500k shop into a £35m ecommerce business sold to JD Sports; he prioritizes founder resilience and spends hundreds of hours with teams.

Antoine Poirson, a mechanical engineer turned investor who co-founded RED.Health and ran emergency medical response operations in India, leverages hands-on healthcare startup experience to form teams and validate problem–solution fit.

Carolina Strobel, a Brazilian VC pioneer investing since 2001, blends legal and operational experience, prioritizes execution, builds funds and ecosystems, and champions diversity across Latin America.

Former McKinsey partner who left boardrooms for day-zero investing, working with founders pre-idea to validate what to build, leading analyses of European founders and cohort programs that test cofounder configurations.

Gabriel Jung is an operator-turned-investor across Korea and Japan: he led GS Retail’s VC, founded B2B SaaS, built Korea’s pre-seed systems, and backed Moloco (>$1.5B), connecting founders to 25+ countries.

Jed pairs CEO experience scaling fintechs—growing Paymentsense from breakeven to £24m EBITDA in three years and at Airwallex—with Antler investing and improv coaching to sharpen founders' storytelling and pitch presence.

Jeff Becker spent nine years at LinkedIn launching business units as it grew to 770M members; co-founded Earhoox to 250k customers; spends two months in person vetting obsessed founders.

Jiho Kang, the first Korean founder in both 500 Startups and Y Combinator, co-founded Soomgo and BxB/KRWb (acquired by Binance) and brings 13+ years coding to marketplaces and crypto infrastructure.

Kristian Jul Røsjø is a former Norwegian diplomat turned investor with Statoil energy experience and international-operations expertise who has worked with 450–500 founders and backed 60+ Norwegian companies.

Marcelo founded and led Brazilian credit fintech Lendico to a Lone Star exit after R$1B+ originations, 100+ employees, pairing published banking-transformation thought leadership with Stanford Executive and MIT blockchain programs.

Exited Lazada, Southeast Asia's largest e-commerce player, to Alibaba Group in 2016, having grown the company from pre-seed to unicorn status.

Navi Singh pairs MIT research in infrared sensors and IoT with founder experience commercializing deep‑tech imaging at Essess Inc., applying a systematic deep‑tech lens to hardware, robotics, quantum and biotech.

Ollie Purdue founded VC-backed challenger bank Loot (raised ~£12M, ~250k users), served as CPO at Bó, and co-leads a day-zero London residency that screens pre-idea founders to form teams.

Ronald Jan Schuurs, partner and spokesperson, leverages a decade of C‑level experience—including Delivery Hero CEO—plus finance/strategy consulting to deliver an operational VC perspective focused on e‑commerce, fintech and healthtech.

Ryan Sommerville, first hire who established his firm's US presence in NY and Austin, runs founder-focused cohorts, emphasizes community over programming, and favors founders showing real-world risk-taking and personal magnetism.

Ryo Umezawa leverages 10 formative years in the Philippines and Japan country‑manager stints at Tinder and HomeAway, plus a VP role at Vector (M&A), to champion founders designing globally from day zero.

Tyler Norwood led marketplace rollouts across 10+ Southeast Asian countries, helped drive e‑commerce acquisitions, hosts the Early Days podcast, and champions counter‑cultural energy and space startups with an endurance‑athlete mindset.

Youri Doeleman brings an unusually interdisciplinary background—cosmology (MSc, Kyoto), McKinsey, social entrepreneurship and professional music—and personally built a 70-founder first cohort while running a hands-on, 11-week observation-driven co-founder matching program.

Amy Zaghloul is a director specializing in fundraising for early-stage companies, using New York M&A and capital-raising experience plus investor-relations expertise to bridge founders and investors across Canada and MENAP.

Ricardo Batista is a founder-investor who brings recent company-building experience from scaling Glovo’s operations to 120+ employees and leading Lola Market, after interviewing 1,000+ founders as an Investment Director.

Rio Hodges leads a Boulder residency focused on growing the Rocky Mountain ecosystem, working hands-on with founders pre-cofounder or pre-idea and accelerating six months' progress into six weeks as builder-partner.

Vineet Agarwal is a 2x founder-turned-VC who led Ola Electric’s Etergo acquisition, spans Goldman Sachs $40B+ M&A to $500M+ Ola fundraising and pre-seed investing, and publishes first-principles EV theses.

Ollie Forsyth built and led global founder communities as Global Head of Community, designing day‑zero structured networks, and founded NEW ECONOMIES to map trends like generative AI, creator economy.