Bob Rosin, Antler Managing Partner on Early-Stage Investing & Scale

Bob Rosin is the Managing Partner at Antler US, a global early-stage venture capital firm with over $1B in assets under management and investments in more than 1,500 companies. A three-time startup founder who raised over $130M from top investors like Sequoia and Marc Andreessen, he led his third venture, Qik, to a $150M acquisition by Skype, followed by roles as VP of Business Development at Skype and VP & GM at Microsoft after its $8.5B sale. Rosin later drove partnerships at LinkedIn for 4.5 years as part of the product leadership team, headed partnerships at Stripe, served as Partner at Defy.vc from 2020-2025, and joined Antler in 2025 to focus on pre-seed investments, co-founder matching, and scaling ideation-stage startups. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Cornell University.Topics: From repeat founder to investor: lessons from building and exiting multiple startupsHow Antler finds, matches, and backs founders at the idea stageWhat pre-seed investors actually look for before there’s a product or traction#VentureCapital #PreSeed #StartupFounders #EarlyStageVC #Entrepreneurship