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

A £500k Commitment from Day Zero — Designed to Help You Build, Raise, and Scale Faster

Bringing life-saving innovations to patients faster and cheaper

Empowering facilities technicians to make repairs up to 80% faster

An innovative new approach to combat the growing threat of cyber attacks

Unlocking smarter returns on stablecoins with AI-driven security and scalability

Doing for medical education what Duolingo did for language learning

Transforming healthcare admin to put patients first

Building the operating system for food and drink manufacturers

At Antler, we invest in founders who rethink industries and execute relentlessly. The UK team has highlighted key areas they're excited to explore in full knowledge the best ideas come from those who rewrite the rules. Our Spring 2025 Residency in the UK is your chance to build with conviction and scale faster with a community of incredible founders.

Antler's annual flagship event dived deep into the challenges and opportunities shaping the future of UK technology and investment.

Find out Antler's investment thesis, meet the exceptional founders, and learn about their latest traction.

Find out about Antler's investment thesis, meet the exceptional founders, and learn about their latest traction.

Why Antler invested in Tradestack: empowers trades businesses to quote 20x faster and win more jobs

Antler invests £840K in seven new british tech startups.

Find out about our investment thesis, meet the exceptional founders, and learn about their recent traction

Find out Antler's investment thesis, introducing their exceptional founders, and sharing their latest traction.

Find out Antler's investment thesis, meet the exceptional founders, and find out their latest traction.

Accelerating due diligence and deepening insights - an AI operating system for private equity professionals

Read our report about why the rise of the European technical founder means there has never been a better chance for Europe to build its first tech giant

Antler’s exclusive “Empowering Women Entrepreneurs: Building Venture-Scalable Businesses” summit in London brought together top women founders for a dynamic afternoon of thought leadership and discussion. Read highlights of the event—essential insights for the next generation of women founders in the UK and beyond.

With household energy bills increasing by 81% since October 2022 and 70% of UK homeowners unable to afford the cost of installing a solar energy system, home energy continues to be a bleak landscape for homeowners to navigate. Enter GRYD Energy, the team who is changing the game by overturning the traditional solar deployment model—with no upfront costs to homeowners. Read why GRYD is poised to scale an untapped part of the solar market, and why Antler is proud to be their day zero investor.

Serial entrepreneurs. Tech leaders from household name brands. Investment bankers. PhD students. Meet some of the diverse and remarkably driven founders joining our next Antler residency in the UK.

What are the trends and who are the people defining the future of UK tech? Antler in the UK and Google hosted The UK’s Early-Stage Growth Opportunity, a dynamic event exploring the trends and growth opportunities in UK and European early-stage investing over the next 10 years.

New portfolio companies represent teams building in fast growth tech verticals such as fintech, femtech, healthtech and AI Latest investments come after Antler was recognised as the most active private early stage investor in Europe in H1 2023

A look back at 2022, a record year for the leading day zero investor in Europe—showcasing investment activity and key predictions for the early-stage tech ecosystem in 2023.

This article is for my fellow founders who are entering the journey of building a startup in the UK. We had many discussions on different slack channels and I eventually was asked to share my experience of pre-seed fundraising without having any revenue — something which takes far more effort in Britain than in the US.

Founder Series: Glaize - The Cure to the Manicure

We received 2600 applications for our second UK cohort, which was a 50% increase from the previous cohort. 71 founders were selected to join Antler, half of whom had previously launched a startup. After two months, we invested in seven startups which were built by these entrepreneurs. In keeping with our focus on supporting companies with diverse co-founding teams, over half of the companies that we invested in (four out of seven) had at least one woman founder, which is significantly above the London average of 21%.

The internet gave people a place to learn about sex autonomously, not just through family, friends and traditional education. Insight into how others feel and think about sex has created more openness around the topic. With this came a deeper understanding of sexual psychology, and as Sachin Raoul and Robbie Coomber started to look into this rather taboo topic, they discovered that billions of people were suffering in silence.

Meet Mast! Joy, Rob and Henry all joined Antler UK two weeks before the UK government announced the lockdown. Apart from informal discussions they had never brainstormed together in our offices. Everything happened remotely and they've never looked back!

Different nationalities, different backgrounds and different interests. Rob, the CEO, has seven years of experience working in Risk for Barclays in London and Frankfurt. Emmanuel, the CTO, has spent eight years in Academia. After his PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Sorbonne University in Paris, he joined University College London (UCL) as a Research Associate focusing on automatic persuasion methods for behaviour change. They probably would not have met if it wasn't for Antler.

In June 2019, 71 exceptional individuals, representing 32 different nationalities, were carefully selected to join our first program in London. After just 2 months we invested £1.56 million in 13 different companies that were generated in that program, 30% of which have a female co-founder. At our first London Demo Day, these companies pitched in front of a full house of 400 investors at the iconic Royal Institution in Mayfair. During the day, we also had the pleasure to invite Reshma Sohoni, founder and managing director at SeedCamp, for a fireside chat together with our CEO and founder Magnus Grimeland. Moderated by Amy Lewin from Sifted, they shared their insights on the European startup and venture capital scene, how it has evolved in the last few years and what's to come. Get a first glimpse at the 13 companies below.

According to Forbes, around 90% of startups fail. We don’t know about you, but that sounds like a large proportion of unsuccessful business ventures to us. We sat down with Antoine Poirson, one of our partners at our London office, to discuss his thoughts on becoming an entrepreneur in today’s Globally competitive market.

Former Uber EMEA Head of Recruiting and Antler advisor, Nicolas Buteau outlines what he thinks are the most essential tips for hiring your first recruits for your startup, how to maintain team diversity at scale and hiring pitfalls to avoid. We sat down with Nic in London to discuss all this and more.