Location: London (UK) or Boulder (U.S.A) preferred
Start date: Immediately
Duration: 3 months, full time
About Antler
Antler (www.antler.co) is a global early-stage venture capital firm that identifies, invests in and challenges the world’s most exceptional people to build groundbreaking technology companies.
We currently operate and work with founders as well as our portfolio companies across 20+ locations such as: Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Sweden, U.K and U.S.A to name a few. To date, as a generalist investor where we invest from inception to IPO, we have invested in 500+ portfolio companies such as Anyone, Appboxo, Reebelo Volopay and XanPool who have collectively raised $75m+. We are now investing in 500+ companies annually across all verticals.
About the role
Antler has a portfolio of 500+ early-stage startups based all over the globe. We are always pushing the boundaries on how we can make our global community world-class as well as a main reason why founders would trust and allow us to partner with them. We are now looking for an exceptional individual who can help us make this global network a flourishing community and more valuable to what it is today. You will be working directly with Ollie Forsyth (Global Community Manager), Laura Whiddon (Global Community Analyst) & Caitlin Vickers (Founder Resources Associate)
Throughout your three month internship, we will be working closely on the following projects together:
AntlerX
A global community of our founders who we have met, who applied and went through our programs but did not receive funding. We have some audacious goals on where this type of community could go such as founders finding their dream co-founders who might be on opposite sides of the world but they may be an ideal team to build a large company. Your role here is to launch this new community in a strategic way.
Antler Retreats
Now the world is opening up, we strongly believe community is the number one reason why founders will always remain part of Antler and believe in how we might be able to support them in the future. We are planning on organizing a founder retreat in the next few months where we will take 10-20 founders somewhere abroad, an opportunity for them to network, build strong relationships with fellow founders who might just become lifetime friends. This is what our community is all about - we build lifetime relationships and never leave anyone behind. Your role here is to support with logistics and make sure the trip is a success so we can make this initiative a recurring impactful way on how founders can build successful companies as well as giving back to the wider community.
Network and ecosystem building
Build strong relationships with VC’s and conference providers where we have the opportunity to speak at. Our founders are mostly early stage so we also want a goal to partner with these conferences who might be able to allocate a certain number of tickets at no cost for our founders to access. If achieved, you can be sure to make a lot of friends with the Antler founders. The role will also include reaching out to potential perk providers who might be interested in offering their services to our founders at a discounted rate. In addition, we want to be meeting new potential advisors and technology leaders who might be able to make an impact on our founders.
Operations
We are often presenting internal presentations, case studies to the wider organization on wider initiatives - some of your time will be spent supporting us with this. We know making presentations is not the most fun but it’s great for personal development.
Develop your own community initiative for our global community
You will collaborate with our team to determine a project that spans your internship accumulating in a presentation to our leadership. This project should serve as an opportunity for you to push your boundaries, learn and develop your approach to ideation and presentation. It should be an artifact that you can use to represent your work in the future and also provide value to Antler. We will coach you directly and indirectly throughout this project and make available other team members for you to learn from. Who knows - this might be the gateway to your future company!
Our culture at Antler?
We win and play as a team.
Compensation
Paid internship.