Principal, Investment Team

Antler
London
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Curiosity","Communication","Empathy","Bias to action","Ownership"]

Identify and back exceptional founders from day zero, evaluate founder potential and founder-market fit, and help turn ambitious ideas into high-potential ventures. This hands-on role spans sourcing, residency support, and end-to-end investment processes in the UK ecosystem. You’ll coach founders, shape early strategy, and lead diligence to drive pre-seed and seed investments.

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Antler
3 months ago

Principal, Investment Team

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Job Summary

Identify and back exceptional founders from day zero, evaluate founder potential and founder-market fit, and help turn ambitious ideas into high-potential ventures. This hands-on role spans sourcing, residency support, and end-to-end investment processes in the UK ecosystem. You’ll coach founders, shape early strategy, and lead diligence to drive pre-seed and seed investments.
Location: London
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance

Key Responsibilities

  • •Identify and back exceptional founders early; build conviction by assessing founder potential, ambition, resilience, and founder–market fit.
  • •Leverage trusted relationships within the startup ecosystem to find and win exceptional individuals across founders, operators, investors, universities, and industry communities.
  • •Work AI-first: use AI tools to identify founders, personalise outreach, analyse data at scale, and maximise time spent with founders.
  • •Support founders from idea to company and beyond: help frame problems, validate opportunities, refine business models, understand customers, and build the foundations of scalable companies.
  • •Lead investment diligence and decision-making: evaluate founder quality, market opportunities, business potential, competitive dynamics, and execution capability; bring recommendations to IC.

Key Requirements

  • •Significant experience building, operating in, or investing in high-growth startups, with exposure to the pre-seed and pre-revenue stages.
  • •Strong commercial judgement with the ability to assess markets, business models, and founder potential.
  • •An active and credible network across the UK startup ecosystem that can be leveraged from day one.
  • •Comfortable coaching founders and making sound decisions with imperfect information.
  • •Thrives in ambiguous, fast-moving, resource-constrained environments; bias to action and ownership.
Experience:Early-stage startupsVenture capitalPre-seedUK startup ecosystem
Skills:CuriosityCommunicationEmpathyBias to actionOwnership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AI toolsData analytics

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

Antler
Global early-stage venture firm and startup generator that invests in and builds technology companies by selecting founders, providing pre-seed/seed capital, mentorship, and operational support across multiple global hubs.
Industry: Venture Capital
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Singapore, Singapore
Founded: 2017
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