Antler invests from the earliest stage whether a startup looking for funding or an individual looking for co-founders and pre-launch capital to launch a startup. Antler partners with exceptional founders across six continents to launch and scale startups that address meaningful opportunities and challenges.

Antler invests primarily in three ways;

  1. Pre-seed residency investing
  2. Investing in pre-seed and seed rounds of companies formed outside our residencies
  3. Investing in A rounds and beyond

 

The National Empowerment Fund (the NEF) is a driver and thought-leader in promoting and facilitating black economic participation by providing financial and non-financial support to black-owned and managed businesses, and by promoting a culture of savings and investment among black people. The NEF’s vision is to become the leading provider of innovative transformation solutions for an economically inclusive South Africa.