Richard Baillie

Senior Investment Manager

2024 - Current

Investment Manager

2023 - 2024

I lead the process for direct investments at Antler in the UK covering everything from sourcing and due diligence to signing documents and onboarding new companies to the portfolio. Investments include pre-seed and seed rounds for Further Finance, Hydrologiq, HIGHR Collective, Volunteero, Flowla, Servo AI, Renude, Quench, Titan Academy, Unravel and many more. In the Antler cohort, I act as a coach to newly formed teams helping them validate problems, test solutions and build towards investment committee.

Investment Associate

2021 - 2022

Capital Advisory Associate

2021 - 2021

Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the defining technology companies of tomorrow. The firm has offices across six continents and most major entrepreneurial hubs. 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 200 companies since launch. Of these companies, 40% have at least one female co-founder, and the founders represent 70 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 providing a global platform for scaling their startups.

Partner VC

2022

Europe's leading open access demo day

Associate

2020 - 2021

Boutique investment bank focused on connecting innovative Israeli tech start-ups with global investment funds and VCs. We help start-ups define their equity story, refine pitch decks and find the right investors to support their growth journey outside of Israel with a particular focus on London or European based investors. We also work with VCs who have little presence in Israel to help them find Israeli start-ups to invest in. We are deeply connected to the start-up scene in Israel and see 100s of companies a year.

Equity Capital Markets Advisory

2020 - 2020

First hire into newly created ECM team working directly with MD. Completed new analyst / associate technical training covering financial modelling, comps and CapIQ. Prepared pitch decks for a variety of transactions including dual-track M&A & IPOs, equity sell downs and capital raises.

MBA Consultant

2019 - 2019

Provided a deep analysis of Intouch's competitors and the potential size of the smart retail market in which they operate to support pitch decks for the next funding round.

MBA Consultant

2019 - 2019

Advised BT on potential ways to take advantage of open banking regulation and the rise of digital banking to create new revenue streams through digital financial services offerings.

Associate International Consultant

2018 - 2018

Actuarial Analyst

2013 - 2018