Founder Operations Manager, Antler
5 days a week in office
Early-stage Venture Capital firm
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Early-stage Venture Capital firm
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Antler's mission is to improve the world by investing in the most exceptional people who are building the defining companies of tomorrow.
Role
Who you are
- Extremely strong work ethic; you do what needs doing
- High agency, low ego - ownership without theatrics
- Hands-on, pragmatic, and comfortable with unglamorous tasks
- Exceptional attention to detail
- A systems thinker who can design and run complex processes
- Comfortable hiring, managing, and leading interns - without becoming detached from execution
- Process-driven and highly organised
- Technologically fluent; comfortable with no-code tools and operational automation
- Highly autonomous; you thrive on independence rather than constant feedback
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- You thrive in a 100% in-person, in-office culture
What the job involves
- As Founder Operations Manager, you will run the internal and founder-facing operations of Antler in Berlin end-to-end. You are both the person who makes things happen day to day and the one who continuously improves how things work, with a strong bias toward stability, automation, and repeatability
- This is not a strategy-only role, and it is not a stepping stone into investing. It is a high-ownership execution role at the heart of how Antler operates. You will report to one of the partners
- Design, run, and continuously improve the day-to-day founder scouting and selection operations
- Orchestrate a high-volume workflow across applications, interviews, decisions, and follow-ups (HubSpot)
- Ensure speed, clarity, and consistency in founder communication and internal coordination
- Hire, manage, and lead interns supporting scouting and operations
- Own and execute founder-facing operations end-to-end:
- Onboarding
- Residency execution
- Events and founder activities
- Residency calendar and schedule management
- Portfolio and alumni engagement
- Be accountable for the founder experience, measured by NPS and qualitative feedback
- Build new communities
- Ensure everything “just runs” - without constant reinvention or heroics
- Manage the Berlin office: stocked, organised, and ready to be the place where people start their life’s work
- Coordinate across the organisation to ensure flawless delivery
- Support the building of a world-class founder community through operational excellence
- Stabilise existing processes first - then improve them where it matters
- Identify repetitive, manual work and automate aggressively (Notion, Airtable, Zapier, HubSpot workflows)
- Build dashboards and lightweight systems that create visibility and reduce noise
- Constantly challenge how things are done - with pragmatism, not novelty for its own sake
- What Success Looks Like (12–18 Months):
- Founders experience Antler as fast, organised, and professional
- Founder NPS is high; feedback highlights clarity and smooth execution
- Founder selection runs faster with fewer manual interventions
- Processes are documented, repeatable, and no longer reinvented
- More automation, less firefighting
- The entire team (from investment team to interns) operate independently under your coordination
Our take
Antler is a global start-up generator and early-stage VC company. The company aims to find innovative start-ups and assist the entrepreneurs in the first steps of establishing their business while providing them with pre-seed funds and a stipend for living expenses. The company usually accepts less than 5% of the applicants.
Antler is different from other VC companies through the fact that they offer a wide range of services that enable founders to thrive, such as helping founders find the right co-founder, validating companies' business models, and connecting founders with advisors. The company aims to build a diverse portfolio of startups that it chooses to fund - currently, Antler funded businesses in 17 industries, built by entrepreneurs from 36 nationalities, with more than 50% of companies including at least one female founder.
The current challenge faced by the company is finding new ways to continue its expansion plans and to attract funding, allowing it to support innovative startups. The company has recently raised considerable funding, which will fund the expansion of its operations in Amsterdam, London, New York, Stockholm, Sydney, Nairobi, Oslo and Singapore.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2020
$26.8m
Jan 2020
$53.5m
Total funding: $80.2m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Bras Basah, Singapore
Leadership
Dilan Mizrakli Landgraff
(Co-Founder & Partner)Previously Associate - Acquisition and Leveraged Finance at J.P. Morgan for 4 years and Senior Investment Associate at Altor Equity Partners also for 4 years
Fridtjof Berge
(Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer)Previously Head of E-commerce at Why Not As for 1 year and Consultant at McKinsey & Company also for 1 year
Jussi Salovaara
(Co-Founder & Managing Partner)Previously Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company for 5 years and Advisor at The Scale Factory for 1 year
Magnus Grimeland
(Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer)Previously Associate Principal & Junior Partner at McKinsey & Company for 5 years and Managing Director at Rocket Internet for 4 years
Prerna Sharma
(General Partner)Previously Software Developer at Tata Consultancy Services for 1 year and Recruiter at Uber Technologies for 2 years
Vegard Medbø
(Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer)Previously Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company for 5 years and Coastal Ranger at Norwegian Armed Forces for 2 years
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