Startup Founder | Antler (Canada)

Are you ready to take the leap into entrepreneurship and lead your own tech venture? Antler is looking for individuals with a drive to innovate, a commitment to resilience, and a passion for building a tech startup from the ground up in Canada. Whether your expertise lies in engineering, finance, marketing, or any other field, if you have the determination to create and grow a business, we want you to join us.

🚀 About Antler

At Antler, we lower the barriers to entrepreneurship by giving you the necessary support to find the right co-founder, test and validate your idea, and by providing funding from day zero so that you can build truly global companies. We are a global early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the defining companies of tomorrow to fundamentally improve the world with groundbreaking technology. Our residency brings together experienced and driven professionals from diverse backgrounds to build strong teams and launch their own companies. We are present in 27 locations worldwide, have supported 6.000+ founders through our programs, invested in 850+ startups, with the goal of backing more than 6.000 by 2030.

💡 About you

For our dynamic program starting on March 25, 2024, we invite aspiring entrepreneurs from all professional backgrounds to join our next cohort in Toronto. This is an opportunity to meet a like-minded co-founder and develop a business from its inception, fully supported by Antler. While specific industry experience is not a prerequisite, we seek individuals with the following traits:

• A strong commitment to pursuing an entrepreneurial journey, with a willingness to learn and adapt.
• Demonstrated resilience and perseverance in the face of challenges.
• A history of professional or personal achievements that reflect determination and a hands-on approach.
• Problem-solving mindset, with a creative and innovative approach to overcoming obstacles.
• Strong interpersonal skills, capable of inspiring and working collaboratively with diverse teams.
• Ability to think strategically, with a vision for identifying opportunities and building viable business models.
• Experience in any professional field is welcome; what matters is your drive to succeed as an entrepreneur.
• Self-motivated and capable of working independently, making crucial decisions, and leading a venture to success.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage and connect with a broad range of stakeholders.

📝 Residency details

Start date: March 25, 2024
Duration: 10 weeks
Location: Toronto

Requirements: you will need to be a Canadian citizen or PR card holder in order to qualify
Full time, full commitment

Structure
The in-person program is structured in two phases and runs full-time:

Phase 1 runs for ~2.5 months and is focused on venture development and testing a startup hypothesis. Here we surround you with everything you need to build at lightning speed: a community of diverse founders so that you can find the right co-founder, coaching from our team of proven founders and advisors, perks from hundreds of partners and a global network. At the end of this phase, your team will pitch to our Investment Committee. Successful teams will receive pre-seed funding from Antler and move to Phase 2

During Phase 2, which runs for ~3.5 months, you will receive personalized coaching from our partners and global network of advisors to help you scale and hire your core team. It culminates with Demo Day, where you will get the opportunity to pitch to local and international investors

You enter Phase 3 once you have left stealth mode and your startup is live. Antler becomes a long term partner for your startup and our global network continues supporting you while scaling and growing your startup. We provide capital up to Series C with our Global Access Fund. You also become part of a strong global network of founders who exchange best practices and learn from each other.

What you get

• Pool of potential co-founders
• Personalized coaching sessions with business experts
• Access to a global network of startup advisors and experts in their fields
• Antler provides founders with a CAD$3,000 stipend during the 10-week Residency.
• The opportunity to pitch at Antler Canada's Investment Committee, that will invest at the following terms: CAD$150,000 pre-seed investment for a fully diluted 10% equity stake. If you don't get an investment from Antler, we do not charge any fee nor take any equity.

💎Antler Highlights

Here you can find some examples of successful companies that were built during the Antler Residency, received pre-seed investment from Antler, and have gone on to raise substantial investment afterwards:

Airalo - The world’s first eSIM subscription and top-up store
Xailient - World’s fastest Computer Vision AI
homebase - Making home ownership accessible
reebelo - circular economy for e-devices
Vamstar - Data science powered B2B healthcare marketplace platform.

Apply now to stop dreaming and start building!