Antler is delighted to welcome Orson Stadler as a Partner who will be co-heading its London operation. Stadler formerly held the position of Senior Principal at Mustard Seed as well as being one of the first team members of the mpact venture capital fund.

Stadler began his career at global asset manager BlackRock, conceptualising and implementing global business and product strategy. He later joined as one of the first employees at  Mustard Seed, a leading European early-stage impact venture capital fund.

During his time at Mustard Seed, Orson was involved in all aspects of setting up the fund, including fundraising and deployment strategy, before leading investments in twelve notable European startups across six locations. These included co-investments with funds such as Seedcamp, SpeedInvest, InVenture, Octopus Ventures amongst others.

In his position as Partner, Stadler is keen to further Antler’s vision of aiming to fundamentally improve the world by providing world-class support to entrepreneurs right from the beginning of their journeys. 

Orson Stadler comments, "The London and European early-stage eco-systems are at a hugely exciting inflection point, with more top-quality investors and great companies being built than ever before. However, the support available to entrepreneurs at the start of their journeys remains under professionalised and non-transparent. It is Antler's mission to provide world-class entrepreneurs access to all the tools necessary from community, to capital, to knowledge to build transformational businesses, and it is my great privilege to be joining my incredibly intelligent, driven and ambitious colleagues in continuing this journey.”

Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the defining technology companies of tomorrow. The firm is present in six continents including major entrepreneurial hubs: London, New York, Singapore and Sydney.

Founded in Singapore in 2017, Antler is on a mission to fundamentally improve the world by enabling and investing in the world's most exceptional people building the defining companies of tomorrow. Antler has already invested in and helped build over 250 companies since launch. Of these companies, over 40% have at least one female co-founder, and the founders represent 60 nationalities.

Antler enables exceptional people to build impactful technology startups by building complementary co-founder teams, supporting the teams with deep business model validation and by providing a global platform for scaling their startups.