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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.

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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.

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Find your co-founder

Meet 60+ people with the same purpose as you: build the next big Brazilian startup

Validate your business idea

Participate in masterclasses, workshops, and coaching sessions to transform your idea into reality

Bulk your professional network

Get access to renowned venture capitalists and founders from the Brazilian ecosystem

Pitch your startup to us

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.

Who can join Antler?

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For Individuals

Looking for a co-founder?

For individuals who are looking for a co-founder to build and start something new.

We bring together an exclusive group of ambitious people to explore ideas together. Meet, learn, and co-create with exceptional builders. Join us to turn your vision into reality.

For Individuals

Looking for a co-founder?

For individuals who are looking for a co-founder to build and start something new.

We bring together an exclusive group of ambitious people to explore ideas together. Meet, learn, and co-create with exceptional builders. Join us to turn your vision into reality.

Meet an Antler partner Thursday at 1PM CET

Join us for an open session with one of our partners to discuss how we work with founders and what to expect

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My experience at Antler was excellent: I met my co-founder there, accessed valuable content and relevant people, and gained the momentum needed to quickly bring our thesis to life. In just ten weeks, we went from zero to a company with a product, customers, support, and capital to start in a structured way.

Thais Sterenberg
Co-founder & CEO
Elephan.ai
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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.

How is Antler’s investment process?

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.

What is Antler’s residency?

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.

Which profile of founders is Antler looking for?

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.

What is the profile of the group of founders in each residency?

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.

Does Antler afford anything for the selected founders?

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.

How can I get a pre-seed investment from Antler?

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.

What size is Antler’s pre-seed investment?

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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Antler’s residency

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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

Marcelo Ciampolini
Partner

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)

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