Early Stage Venture Capital Firm Antler Launches in Berlin
Summary
Global early stage capital firm Antler is opening a new office in Berlin. Partners of the fund covering Germany and Central Europe are Alan Poensgen, former Co-Founder and Managing Director at the home & living e-commerce company Westwing, and Dr. Christoph Klink, former partner at the management consultancy McKinsey & Company. These new appointments follow the addition of Ronald Jan Schuurs as a Partner to cover The Netherlands. Additionally, the firm works closely with over 400 advisors with entrepreneurial, financial, political or technological backgrounds. Among them are world-renowned experts such as Larry Summers, former US Secretary of the Treasury and Harvard President, Klaus Kleinfeld, former CEO of Siemens, Peter Harrison, CEO of Schroders Asset Management and Christian Miele, Partner at e.Ventures and President of the German Start-up Association.