Last week, Antler US portfolio company Cedar announced that it closed a $3 million seed round led by Caffeinated Capital, with participation from Tishman Speyer Ventures and a number of prominent individual investors. In this episode of Early Days, co-founders Kyle, Rahul, and Nate share their journey of building Cedar and discuss how their tools will help builders, developers, and the broader real estate community tackle the urban housing crisis.

We're honored to feature the first founder Antler US ever invested in, Manuel Schönfeld, founder & CEO of PowerX, on this episode of Early Days.

Rob Frohwein, founder of fintech startups Keep Financial and Kabbage, shares insights from his lifetime of entrepreneurship on this episode of Early Days.

Early Days is back and we’re dropping our first ever episode featuring an Antler US portfolio founder: bitewell’s CEO & Co-Founder, Samantha Citro Alexander. bitewell is a B2B "food as medicine" marketplace that allows employers to offer healthy food as an insurance-subsidized benefit. The food health benefit startup recently raised a $4.0 million seed round led by Lake Nona Fund and Refinery Ventures.

Scott Harrison talks about starting Charity Water.

Fredrik Thomassen is the founder and CEO of Superside.

Jake Gibson, co-founder of Nerdwallet, shares the story of how messing around with a friend to fix a problem getting a credit card, scales into a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ.  Follow Jake on Twitter (he's hilarious).To learn more about Antler and how you can start your next company with us please come see us at antler.co

Sacha Michaud, co-founder of Glovo shares the story of how this once humble delivery company grew into a billion dollars logistics platform in Europe.  You can check our Glovo at glovoapp.com and follow Sacha on Twitter.To learn more about Antler and how you can start your next company with us please come see us at antler.coPeople Sacha follows:Bill GatesLarry & Sergei (Google)Books on Sacha's shelf:The Road Ahead - Bill GatesNo Rules Rules - Reid Hastings &  Erin MeyerOutliers - Malcolm Gladwell

Harpaul Sambhi dives into how he built Magical, a company focused on reducing monotony and pain in everyday tasks through simple, effective automation.   At the time of recording, Magical had just raised $41m in funding and automated over 1 billion tasks for more than 10,000 companies globally.To learn more about Antler and how you can start your next company with us please come see us at antler.coPeople Harpaul follows for inspiration:Shahed Khan - Founder of Loom.Jeff Weiner - Founder of LinkedIn.Neil Patel - NYT best seller.Books Harpaul recommends:Letters From a Stoic - Seneca.Meditations - Marcus Aurelius.The Courage to be Disliked - Ichirou Kishimi & Fumitake Koga

Avi Meir, Founder and CEO of TravelPerk shares his story of becoming a serial entrepreneur, and how his latest venture, TravelPerk, is changing the game in corporate travel. To learn more about Antler and how you can start your next company with us please come see us at antler.co

Andrew Ofstad, Co-founder of the world's largest no code platform, Airtable, shares how three friends from college built an $11bn dollar no code empire that more than 80% of the Fortune 100 use day to day.To learn more about Antler and how you can start your next company with us please come see us at antler.co

Rahul Vohra, Founder and CEO of the your favorite email client, Superhuman, shares how he first came up with the idea, and how he has successfully competed with one of the world's most powerful companies, Google.To learn more about Antler and how you can start your next company with us please come see us at antler.co

Mark Gainey, the Co-founder and Chairman of Strava shares the story of how he built the worlds largest online athlete community.To learn more about Antler and how you can start your next company with us please come see us at antler.co