About Antler:
Antler backs the world’s most ambitious founders from the very start. Founded on the belief that innovation is the key to building a better future, we partner with people across six continents to launch and scale high-potential startups that address meaningful opportunities and challenges. Knowing that exceptional founders can come from anywhere with any background, we have offices in more than 25 cities, including New York, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Bangalore, Singapore, Seoul, and Sydney.
Our global community supports founders on deep business model validation, initial capital, expansion support, and follow-on funding. Fueled by a personal passion that goes beyond traditional investing, we have helped create and invested in more than 1,500 startups across a wide range of industries and technologies.
A better future won’t happen automatically—the world needs talented, determined, and resilient people to build it. Antler team members are part of an ambitious global community dedicated to helping the most driven founders move the world forward.
The Role:
The Capital Director is responsible for capital origination and execution by way of the Antler Japan and SEA fund.
- Cultivate, build, and maintain relationships with a material group of relevant LPs for investments into Antler’s Japan/SEA Fund.
- Actively map the fundraising network in Japan (and globally) to thoughtfully identify fundraising opportunities
- Drive Investor Relations: build and maintain relationships with a large group of suited LPs for investments into Antler’s Japan and SEA fund, by keeping LPs well-informed
- Build out a network of well-connected supporters and advisors that can help broaden the reach of our fundraising efforts through high-quality monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc reports, and as requested by LPs
Requirements:
- 8 - 12 years of work experience in institutional fundraising (Family Offices, Endowments, Foundations, Pension Funds, Fund of Funds, Wealth Managers)
- Robust understanding of investment management and financial market products and services with pronounced commercial instincts
- Demonstrated ability to leverage personal and professional network with family offices and institutional investors
- Experience in leading fundraising processes for funds, including day-to-day management of the fundraising process
Key Attributes:
- Strong Communication Skills - verbal and written
- Strong Personal Impact - ability to establish a high level of credibility externally and internally - personable, mature, influential
- Strong Commercial Acumen and a natural intellectual curiosity
- Close attention to detail, with a reputation for producing consistent, clear, and reliable work
- Fluency in Japanese and English
The Antler Proposition:
- Create a legacy and have a large impact: be part of building hundreds of disruptive companies
- An opportunity to change the lives of hundreds of people about to turn into entrepreneurs
- An opportunity to build a high-volume investment track record both in early-stage companies and also in the later stages
- An opportunity to greatly impact the direction and success of Antler globally
- A competitive compensation package
What We Do
Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors globally. The firm leads in ‘Day Zero’ investing, an approach to venture capital focused on partnering with founders pre-launch. Antler systematically removes capital and network constraints for early-stage technology entrepreneurs by providing co-founder matching, deep business model validation, initial capital, expansion support, and follow-on funding. The firm is present in 30 cities across most leading technology ecosystems globally and has made over 1,300 investments into early-stage startups. Antler has been repeatedly recognized by Pitchbook as the world’s most active angel and seed-stage investor
