Very excited that we launched our inaugural program in Riyadh 🇸🇦!🚀 3,000 applications. 90 founders joining. Awesome. Some stats about the founders: 🎯 67% have startup experience 🌎 34 nationalities Congrats to Dr. Jonathan Doerr & the Antler MENAP team. Big moment. 💥

How do you in-depthly meet 90 potential co-founders in under 5 days? 📌 Founder presentations 📌 1-on-1 networking 📌 Team challenges 📌 Socials (football, dinners, padel etc.) 📌 Breaks and meals

The official programming of the day has wrapped up but the conversations continue…💬

Antler spotted at The Garage | الكــراج opening at ⏰ 2:55 ⏰ 3:26

Happy National Day to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Thank you for your hospitality and supporting our mission to innovate cutting edge startups 🙏

Speed networking ongoing⚡️ Some things overheard: 📌 $30m Series A round 📌 PropTech idea 📌 Climate solution

The energy is charged The Garage | الكــراج ⚡️⚡️⚡️

We kicked off the morning with team presentations from the weekend ⚡️ 24h sprint for a team to come up with the solution to a problem ⚡️Crowd votes for the best idea ⚡️ Next sprint is based on improving another team’s idea

Today kicks off with a masterclass on market validation 💭 How do you intelligbly deduce your TAM, SOM, SAM…💭

Hearing from Fatmah at The Garage | الكــراج: the 150 startups hosted here and the facilities that support our founders💬

Partner Dr. Jonathan Doerr will be speaking at #Step2024 - stay tuned🚀

Global CEO and Co-Founder, Magnus Grimeland, visiting Antler MENAP in 🇸🇦 Sharing more about his journey, from launching ZALORA to founding Antler 🚀

The opportunities in the Middle East, North Africa & Pakistan (MENAP) startup ecosystem are huge.🔥 92 founders joined our Antler MENAP residency, incl. serial entrepreneurs with exits & technical founders. Here's what motivated them to build w/us👇 antler.co/blog/first-ant…