Patrick Stapleton

Patrick Stapleton is a Managing Partner at Antler based in New York City, where he leads global investments in pre-seed and seed-stage technology startups. Before assuming this position in early 2023, he served as a Partner at Initialized Capital from 2018 to 2022 and held earlier roles as a technology operator. The Columbia University graduate has executed over 20 venture investments throughout his career, including backing Amplitude before its 2021 initial public offering and leading a $5 million seed round for the artificial intelligence coding platform Replit in October 2024. Stapleton frequently shares industry insights with an audience of over 15,000 followers and regularly speaks at major events like TechCrunch Disrupt and the World Economic Forum in Davos. His current focus remains on deploying capital into early-stage SaaS, artificial intelligence, financial technology, and developer tools enterprises.