How Antler East Africa is building early-stage startups with experienced professionals
Unlike incubators and accelerators, company builders are organizations that tend to develop startups from scratch mainly based on their own ideas and resources. In the process, they bring together tech enthusiasts designers, developers, marketers who likely meet each other for the first time to work on a startup.
Antler is one such organization. But it runs a mixed model where it also acts as an early-stage venture capital firm. It helps founders build complementary co-founding teams, and provides support with deep business model validation and a global platform for scaling their businesses. To date, Antler has invested in and helped build more than 250 companies. Of these companies, 40% have at least one female co-founder, and the founders represent more than 70 nationalities.