Group update

Prosus is pleased to announce a new partnership with Antler, the world’s most active early-stage investor and backer of many of the fastest growing tech companies in Europe. The partnership sees Prosus welcome Antler’s 2025 Netherlands residency to the newly opened AI House, in Amsterdam’s Zuidas. The collaboration is a catalyst for strengthening the Netherlands tech ecosystem, and providing an environment for visionary startups to succeed.

Euro Beinat, Global Head of AI at Prosus, said: “The Netherlands has a dense talent pool, successful startups, plus top universities and researchers. Looking further, Europe's innovation capabilities are world-class, particularly in applied AI. The challenge isn't finding talent; it's creating the conditions for that talent to succeed at home. Our biggest barrier is our own confidence, speed and ambition–all things we can change. We're very happy to work with Antler as a partner to the AI House, and to back their mission of removing barriers to entrepreneurship.”

RJ Schuurs, Partner at Antler, comments, “Antler works with the best founders in Europe and around the world, and gives them the best possible chance to build category-defining tech companies. Bringing our founders into AI House Amsterdam will connect them with the world-class community Prosus is curating. Dutch founders are building some of the most exciting AI technology in Europe and AI House reflects the quality and ambition of what is being built here.”

The Antler residency is an example of the type of connections that Prosus aims to foster, between industry and academia, startups and established tech leaders, to accelerate the Netherlands' transformation into Europe's AI powerhouse.

Over the last five years, Antler has invested in more than 180 startups in the Netherlands, Germany, France and across Continental Europe, with many of these becoming the fastest growing tech companies in the region, including the likes of Lovable, Peec AI, Voltrac and Klearly.

Antler research shows that technical AI founders are the fastest growing breed among founders starting businesses today. Between 2023 and 2025, the number of AI engineers becoming founders in Europe increased by 14x, with AI allowing them to execute faster than before. AI House Amsterdam exists to concentrate this talent and ambition, providing a platform for brilliant ideas to emerge and scale.

Visit https://www.aihouse.nl/ to check out upcoming events and register your interest for more.

About Antler

Antler is where founders come to go further, faster.

Antler the world’s most active early-stage investor, backing exceptional people at the very start of their journey, and supporting them from inception to scale.

Across 30 cities worldwide, including New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, Bangalore, Singapore, Seoul, and Sydney, the firm helps founders remove the barriers to building by connecting them with world-class peers, validating business models, and providing initial capital. To date, Antler has backed more than 1,500 startups globally, including Airalo, Peec.AI, Reebelo, Wrtn, and Benjamin.