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.
About the RoleWe’re looking for an Associate to join Antler’s investment team in Helsinki. You’ll play a key role in identifying and supporting exceptional founders at the earliest stages. You’ll work across sourcing, evaluation, and portfolio support, giving you a front-row seat to the Nordic’s most ambitious startups and founders.
Key Responsibilities- Founder Sourcing: Identify, engage, and build relationships with exceptional founders and operators across the Nordics
- Investment Process: Support screening, analysis, and decision-making for early-stage investments
- Portfolio Support: Work closely with founders pre- and post-investment — across topics like GTM, fundraising, and more from inception to growth stage
- Ecosystem Building: Expand Antler’s network across the Nordic tech and startup ecosystem, including investors, angels, universities, operators, and other key players
- 1-2 years of experience in startups, venture capital, or a similar environment
- Experience as a founder or early startup operator at a fast-growing scale-up is a strong plus
- Strong understanding of product, growth, and startup-building fundamentals
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- Highly organised, proactive, and driven by curiosity and ambition
- Based in Helsinki with an obsessive passion for working with early-stage founders
- Work directly with the Nordic’s most ambitious founders at the earliest stages of company building
- Exposure to a wide range of industries and business models to develop your mental frameworks
- A chance to develop deep expertise in early-stage investing
- Work from our office in central Helsinki, surrounded by a highly ambitious team and exceptional founders building their startups as close to 24/7 as humanly possible
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
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