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🚀 About Antler

Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm investing in tomorrow's defining technology companies. Antler is on a mission to improve the world by identifying, investing in and challenging the world’s most exceptional people to build groundbreaking technology companies.

We believe anyone with the right grit, spike, drive, and ambition can change the world. Antler is present in most major startup ecosystems across five continents, including New York, Toronto, London, Berlin, Bangalore, Singapore, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh, and Sydney. Since launching in 2017, we have invested in over 700 companies worldwide, and our portfolio represents over 30 different industries, such as healthtech, proptech, deeptech and fintech.

Antler aspires to be the world’s leading early-stage VC and a value-adding partner for exceptional founders from pre-idea to IPO.

💡 The Role

The role's main focus is to drive Antler Iberia’s operations from Lisbon, namely of the scouting, program and support the portfolio companies in fundraising efforts in subsequent funding rounds.

Responsibilities

• Passionately drive & strategise the end-to-end sourcing of the 120+ founders that will create 15-30 great companies from our cohorts across Iberia annually.
• Support invested companies as they evolve into later rounds of funding
• Plan regional sourcing strategies of high-quality founders, including defining whom we are looking for, where they are located and how we reach them with our value proposition.
• Work closely with Marketing & PR to execute a targeted talent marketing strategy and offer the best founder experience.
• Be the expert and advisor regarding market knowledge.
• Support and advise the management team on any talent-related discussions and projects.
• Provide support to accepted applicants and ensure a flawless onboarding process.
• Be a powerful brand ambassador for Antler.

🎓 Key experience

• Entrepreneurial background as a founder or a C-level executive in a fast-growing tech company
• Business acumen, understanding of business concepts. You will be reviewing thousands of ideas, decks and companies.
• Experience working in high-growth technology companies.
• Demonstrated interest in sourcing, interviewing and candidate experience.
• Network within the Lisbon/Madrid tech and start-up community.
• Experience working in high-growth technology companies.

🧬 Personal attributes

• High energy level, independence, entrepreneurial mindset, individual motivation, and a collaborative team-oriented approach to business
• Superior oral and written communication skills in English plus Portuguese and/or Spanish
• Ability to establish a high level of credibility externally and internally (personable, mature, influential)
• Exceptional record of academic, entrepreneurial and professional achievement
• Strong commercial acumen and intellectual curiosity with proven ability to leverage the personal network, e.g. with family offices and individual investors
• High attention to detail, with a reputation for producing consistent, precise and reliable outputs
• Proficient in Google suites

💎 What we offer

• Create a legacy and have a significant impact: be part of building hundreds of disruptive companies in Iberia that will define the next wave of tech.
• Be part of a highly qualified and hardworking team and a global firm that is growing rapidly.
• Opportunity to work in Venture Capital and build expertise in investment and early-stage company formation
• Build experience in supporting early-stage companies
• Opportunity to impact the direction and success of the companies you are working with
• In the future, the opportunity to take more significant responsibilities within Antler, on the investment side, the portfolio side, or taking a larger pan-regional or global role