

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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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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Antler’s residency
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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