Annie Ripp

Principal

2024 - 2024

Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors, inspiring, enabling, and investing in hundreds of startups and thousands of entrepreneurs across six continents. Through its global residency programs in leading entrepreneurial hubs such as New York, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Bangalore, Singapore, Seoul, and Sydney, the firm has supported over 3,500 founders, and 500+ portfolio companies globally to date, investing from inception through Series C. Antler is on a mission to fundamentally improve the world by helping the world's most exceptional people build complementary co-founder teams, supporting them with deep business model validation, and providing a global platform for scaling. Antler portfolio companies operate in 30+ industries, including AI, robotics, drones, fintech, proptech, and healthtech. Thirty percent of these companies have at least one female co-founder, and Antler founders represent more than 80 nationalities. Antler is changing the way that early-stage investments are made at scale and making entrepreneurship more accessible to founders everywhere. Antler is professionalizing early-stage investing by bringing new capital, a large global community of co-founders, and broad industry expertise to support fast-growing companies from the earlier stages. For more information about Antler, please visit antler.co.

Associate

2022 - 2024

Antler is one of the most active early-stage investors, inspiring, enabling, and investing in hundreds of startups and thousands of entrepreneurs across six continents. Through its global residency programs in leading entrepreneurial hubs such as New York, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Bangalore, Singapore, Seoul, and Sydney, the firm has supported over 3,500 founders, and 500+ portfolio companies globally to date, investing from inception through Series C. Antler is on a mission to fundamentally improve the world by helping the world's most exceptional people build complementary co-founder teams, supporting them with deep business model validation, and providing a global platform for scaling. Antler portfolio companies operate in 30+ industries, including AI, robotics, drones, fintech, proptech, and healthtech. Thirty percent of these companies have at least one female co-founder, and Antler founders represent more than 80 nationalities. Antler is changing the way that early-stage investments are made at scale and making entrepreneurship more accessible to founders everywhere. Antler is professionalizing early-stage investing by bringing new capital, a large global community of co-founders, and broad industry expertise to support fast-growing companies from the earlier stages. For more information about Antler, please visit antler.co.

Venture Capital Investor

2022 - 2022

BBG Ventures is an early-stage fund backing big ideas that will reshape the way we live. One of the most active investors in female founders in the US, BBGV focuses on female founders who intuitively understand the dominant consumer, enabling them to transform the collective or individual lived experience of the 99%. Female founders are poised to do giant things. We’re here to give them that first, crucial investment. We look for companies that drive systems change, create 10x better consumer solutions, or address new buying behaviors across some of the biggest categories of consumer spending that are ripe for reinvention: Health and Wellbeing, Future of Education and Work, Climate Friendly Products and Platforms, Overlooked and Emerging Consumers.

Growth Equity Investor

2020 - 2022

Spring Lake Equity Partners is a growth equity firm investing in private technology companies

Intern, Global Medical Affairs

2018 - 2018

Intern

2017 - 2017