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Alan Poensgen

Partner at Antler

Berlin Metropolitan Area

Overview

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2020 - Current

    Antler is a global early-stage VC enabling and investing in the world's most exceptional people. We are the world’s largest early-stage investment platform active in the major startup ecosystems across six continents, and have invested in 90+ companies in 2020 alone. Every year, 50,000 founders across the world want to work with us on launching and building their own companies. When joining us, people bring significant professional experience from diverse careers such as serial entrepreneurs, engineers, product builders, subject matter pros and PhDs. Many founders have deep industry experience and are now setting out to change the way that this particular industry works. Our portfolio companies solve important issues, create sustainable value and make the world a better place. We regularly embark with a new cohort of exceptional entrepreneurs who want to build scalable startups. We support them throughout the entire journey from inception through scale-up and invest into the strongest teams in our founder cohorts. We work with founders across various sectors and themes as they build sustainable and scalable businesses. We are always excited to learn about the individual challenges that founders want to focus on - the best ideas we have funded have always been the ones we did not see coming. If you are interested in learning more about us at Antler, our portfolio companies or about the opportunities to work with us, please reach out through berlin@antler.co or visit http://antler.co.

  • Co-Founder & Managing Director WestwingNow

    2013 - 2020

    Publicly listed Home & Living e-commerce company founded in 2011 with >1’000 employees. ~500m EUR annual Sales. Active in 11 markets across Europe.

  • Co-Founder & CEO OfficeFab

    2012 - 2013

    OfficeFab is South-East Asia's leading office supplies and stationery e-commerce. The company caters to thousands of corporate customers from small SMEs to Fortune 500 companies.

  • Global Venture Development

    2011 - 2013

    Rocket Internet incubates, builds, develops operationally and strategically invests in internet and technology companies globally. It's active portfolio spans >200 companies in over 50 countries around the world.

  • Co-Founder

    2010 - 2011

    Educational online game for children

  • International Business Development

    2008 - 2010

    Leading Spanish internet incubator and VC.

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