01 — About
A career built on making ambitious things happen.
Magnus Grimeland is the Founder & CEO of Antler, one of the world's most active early-stage investors. His work has consistently returned to the same question: how do you find exceptional people, and how do you build the conditions in which they can create global companies?
Norwegian Naval Special Forces
Discipline, judgment and decision-making under pressure — the foundation for everything that followed.
Harvard University, class of 2007
A global outlook shaped alongside people who intended to build things that mattered.
Partner, McKinsey & Company, 2007 - 2013
Advising leadership teams on strategy and growth across markets and industries.
Co-founded Zalora in 2013
Built one of Asia's early e-commerce leaders from a standing start, hiring and operating across the region.
Scaled Global Fashion Group across 26 markets, 2015 - 2017
Operating at genuine global scale — capital, talent and execution across four continents.
Founded Antler in 2018
A conviction that exceptional people exist everywhere, and that backing them from Day Zero is the highest-leverage investment there is.
Antler across ~30 cities, 2,000+ companies backed
One of the world's most global early-stage investment platforms, built city by city.