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.
Education
Bachelor Hons
2007 - 2010
Bachelor
2006 - 2007