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Antler’s new report, The Path to Series A in Germany, is one of the most comprehensive studies of German tech funding ever conducted.

What 4,200 founders look like before the outcome is known, and why the most revealing thing about them is that they have no fixed address.

S&P and MSCI are reconsidering how the world classifies AI companies. Nearly 2,000 startups suggest the problem runs deeper than where to draw the next set of boundaries.

A framework for reading innovation exposure and disruption risk across institutional portfolios.

Solo founders in Antler's portfolio once failed at three times the rate of founding duos. Across 1,747 companies, that gap has all but closed. Why is the harder question.

We’re doubling down on HIFI’s $37M Series A round led by Left Lane Capital with participation from Tether - after backing the company at the pre-seed and seed.

Starting up has never been easier. Succeeding has never been harder. Here's what the data says separates the founders who raise from the ones who don't.

With Australia’s VC market increasingly concentrated and the EOY shutdown approaching, pre-seed founders need to start earlier, target the right investors and choose a process that can actually close before year-end.

Antler's latest report is one of the largest studies of tech founders in Europe. We have analyzed 209 European unicorns, 551 unicorn founders, 4,129 Series A founders, and 81,055 individual funding rounds since 2000 to uncover a dramatic shift in the region's venture ecosystem.

A Boston-based startup is turning human gameplay into the training data that's gating humanoid robot progress.

A California-based sales and support AI just crossed Fortune 100 customer on the books.‍

From an India-only story to US enterprise traction, and a spot in one of the most selective AI cohorts around.

A startup born out of solving bottlenecks at Tesla's Gigafactories is now bringing that same decision-making engine to the broader manufacturing world.

A Dubai-based AI startup that's letting revenue and product depth do the talking

A closed-loop sleep device built entirely in India just became the fastest Indian healthtech company to cross $1M on Kickstarter.

A Bengaluru-based legal AI startup wants outcomes, not just tools, to define how legal work gets measured.

An Australian startup turned missed calls into a $1.9M ARR business — and it's just landed in the US.

An Indian-US startup is building the interface layer that today's keyboards and touchscreens were never designed for.

If you are building a global technology company with real ambition and the stamina to move fast, you need to be in this room.

From day zero to VC-ready: Inside the largest cohort of entrepreneurs building Australia's next generation of category-defining companies.

The difference between a deck that gets read and a deck that gets funded.

We’re thrilled to announce that Antler is an investor and partner in Dream following the company’s $260M Series C financing led by Bicycle Capital, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, BRV and Tru Arrow Partners.

The unfiltered truth: Two founders on battling self-doubt, navigating the 2% funding gap, and why the biggest success comes from building before you feel ready.

Only 12% of British startups that raise a seed round ever reach Series A — and new research from Antler reveals exactly why.

Inside Antler, through two pivots, and into a new category: the infrastructure layer for AI agents in enterprise.

Meet the portfolio companies featured in our Antler U.S. Spring 2026 Showcase.

Applications are open for Antler Australia's residency. Here's what happens inside the program, why founders move faster than they would alone, and what the investment actually looks like.

Why we believe the moment for Physical AI and Robotics has finally arrived, our early thinking about the opportunity, and where we are placing our bets.

Software encodes process. AI changes who can do the encoding but it doesn't change the need for someone to know what should be encoded.

If you are founding a startup in 2026, you are living in a paradox. It has never been easier to build a product, yet it has never been harder to build a thriving business.

Most founders wait for a market to form before they build. Harrison Kennedy did the opposite. Years before demand crystallised, before organisations knew what to look for, and before the problem had a category, he was already designing the solution.

That tension was at the heart of a panel hosted by Antler Japan Senior Director Florian Geier at YOKOHAMA CONNÉCT, where Fuminori Gunji, Head of GTM at ZooKeep, and Paul McMahon, Representative Director of TokyoDev, joined a room of founders and operators to unpack what it really takes to build global teams from Japan. The conversation was grounded in something rare in startup discourse: actual data.

Automating accreditation workflows with AI, Novana turns school quality assurance from a manual compliance burden into a continuous, data-driven improvement system.

A physician-first approach to clinical AI, grounded in transparency, trust, and real-world practice in Japan.

From 2,000 applications, 57 founders have been selected. They will spend 10 weeks in an intensive early-stage venture generation program building category-defining businesses and achieving some of the most meaningful work of their lives.

The strongest founders in Europe don’t need a long runway to explore - they need a short, intense window to ship, prove signal, and move decisively toward scaling. Antler TRINITY is our new, highly selective 3-week sprint in Berlin built for exactly these.

Technical founders, AI-native teams, and relentless speed are reshaping how Europe builds billion-dollar companies.

You'll take too long failing if you actually build your product. Don't do it!

How German founders are building globally competitive companies despite economic headwinds.

If you are pitching a VC, you aren’t succeeding because you are sailing through your slides perfectly. You are succeeding if the meeting transforms into a dialogue driven by the investor asking the right questions.

From booking trips to settling invoices, AI is moving from answering questions to executing transactions. We explore the drivers of this $5 trillion shift, map 50+ startups building the infrastructure, and share our core lessons for the next generation of builders.

Applications for the Antler Disrupt: Spring 2026 sprint are now open. If you're building emerging technologies and ready to scale globally, this is your moment.

Your valuation should not be too hot (high), nor too cold (too low), not too hard nor too soft, but just right like Goldilocks's preferred bowl of porridge.

Antler Singapore today announced improved investment terms and a revamped 6-week residency for founders building global software companies with strong execution and a global mindset. Founders can now access up to $400,000 from inception, with a $150,000 net funding as the first ticket.

Antler’s report provides new insights on speed, geography, experience, and the changing profile of founders behind the world’s most valuable startups.

We believe in transparency. Here's the full breakdown of the Antler Disrupt investment: how it works, what you get, and what happens at IC.

Meet Ishaan, Vinit, and Jayanth, a team of young founder-operators with strong product depth, building the future of dating in the AI era. People are ready to move beyond algorithms that optimise for attention, and toward systems that optimise for outcomes. We cover our view of the category, why it’s ripe for reinvention, why we backed Wavelength. We also introduce our proprietary market map to frame where innovation is headed.

Many founders get the concept of traction wrong. The problem isn’t how much revenue you have - it’s whether the growth pattern is reliable. Yes, if and how much you can raise depends on many factors beyond traction such as team background, sector attractiveness, storytelling ability, etc… (See "Ability To Raise Cheat Sheet" for a broader picture). But, once first revenues start to come in, traction becomes invariably a big part of the equation. ‍So how much traction do you need to be able to raise?

What early-stage building demanded of founders in 2025.

Reflection on My Time as a Visiting Analyst at Antler Canada

The 5 primitives of SaaS — and how AI agents collapse or transform each one.

Co-authored by Anagh Prasad (VP, Accel) & Divita Aggarwal (Antler)

Antler talks to high-performance neuroscientist Dr David Spindler about what it really takes to perform at the highest level, how to establish a winning mindset and how to keep going in the face of adversity.

What a truly streaming-first architecture looks like, and the implications for infrastructure, developer workflows, and AI-native applications.

A persistent grey space exists for today’s systems, which struggle with the simplicity vs customizability tradeoff. We explore why these tradeoffs exist from an architectural perspective, and a look at modern attempts to unlock the frontier of scalable, real-time data.

What does it take to be the world’s best, and to stay there? At Antler’s European Founder Conference, we assembled four elite performers to explore how sustained excellence is built, led, and lived.

People are ready to move beyond algorithms that optimise for attention and toward systems that optimise for outcomes. This piece covers the current state of the matchmaking market, why it’s ripe for reinvention, and why India is uniquely positioned to lead the shift. Introducing our proprietary market map to frame where innovation is headed.

Built by parents and repeat founders, MyWonder is reimagining out-of-school learn and play - with the world’s first AI-native, screen-free “own” device for kids.

The Ten Gates Framework provides a structured way to test problems for venture-scale potential and make clear calls — Proceed, Iterate, Pivot, or Kill.

The three attributes elite founders have in common, how European innovation is fuelled by global talent, and why turbulent times lead to the biggest breakthroughs.... here are some of the main takeaways from speakers including Anton Osika (Founder of Lovable), Marius Meiners (Founder of Peec AI) and Harry Stebbings (Founder of 20VC).