Founder | Marketing, Sales, Growth Hacking | Antler (Canada)

Are you an experienced marketing and sales growth-hacker looking to build your own tech venture? Do you have years of marketing industry expertise, including digital marketing with strong strategy implementation with proven results, ability to lead a strong team of founders who, together with you, are looking to build a disruptive tech venture out of Canada? Do you have an understanding of various offline and online marketing strategies, demonstrating exceptional growth in fast moving tech startup environments? And are you looking to build your next tech venture from scratch?

🚀 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 upcoming program on March 25, 2024, we are looking for an experienced marketing and sales professional to join our next cohort in Toronto. You will have the opportunity to meet a co-founder and build a business from scratch, with the support of Antler. In addition to the highlighted skills above, you should also have the following competencies:

• 5+ years of experience executing and/or leading digital marketing programs for top digital marketing agencies, internet-companies or client marketing organizations
• Vast experience in leading campaign operations across multiple channels and products preferable in e-commerce, marketplace or e-commerce arm of retail companies
• Deep expertise and knowledge in digital strategy, omnichannel, digital culture and agile process
• Digital marketing savvy on multiple digital and physical marketing platforms, systems and tools
• Strategy oriented, with deep expertise in business and wide knowledge in enterprise management and superior level of problem solving
• Ability to influence and be a natural leader to manage the internal team and coordinate the multidisciplinary external teams in complex client environments
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and communicate with a wide range of technical and non-technical/low technology literacy stakeholders and customers
• Strong analytical skills with hands-on experience in conducting market research analysis, solving business problems, innovative thinking, developing technical roadmaps and go to market strategies, story outlines, writing user stories, refining product backlogs, and coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements in a fast-paced, demanding environment
• Ability to work independently, without the need for day-to-day guidance, make independent decisions and influence positive outcomes

📝 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!