Case study
How Antler built a structured, consistent approach to psychosocial risk across a global early-stage investment fund
Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm backing exceptional founders from day zero. Operating across more than 30 locations worldwide, the firm wanted a structured way to capture information, surface emerging risks, and track actions over time. ReFresh gave it greater confidence across its compliance, governance, and due-diligence processes.
Industry:
Early-stage venture capital
Headquarters:
Singapore
Workforce:
30= locations globally
Headcount:
300-500
800
Hours Saved
Returned to the team by automating assessment, collation, and reporting across every location, so capturing information and tracking actions no longer happens by hand.
$300K
Cost reduced
Achieved by retiring consultant time, point tools, and manual processes, with one platform replacing the external and ad hoc work the firm previously relied on.
100%
Risk Coverage
Reached by assessing every team member across all thirty-plus locations on a continuous cycle, giving structured, defensible coverage for compliance, governance, and due diligence.
“ReFresh has supported us in building a more structured and consistent approach to psychosocial risk management. The platform helps capture relevant information, surface emerging risks, and track actions taken over time, giving us greater confidence in our compliance, governance, and due-diligence processes.”
Overview
Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm that backs exceptional founders from day zero, providing first institutional capital, hands-on support, and a global community. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Singapore, the firm operates across more than 30 locations worldwide and is one of the most active early-stage investors globally.
Running a platform of that reach places a premium on strong governance and due diligence. Antler wanted its own approach to psychosocial risk to be as structured and consistent as the standards it holds across its investment processes, with the right information captured and the right actions tracked over time.
The challenge
Psychosocial risk is straightforward to acknowledge and harder to manage consistently, particularly for an organisation operating across many locations. Without a single system, relevant information sits in different places, emerging risks are easy to miss, and there is no clean record of what was identified and what was done about it.
For a firm where compliance, governance, and due diligence are core to how it operates, that gap matters. Antler wanted to move from a fragmented, point-in-time view to a structured approach that captured information, surfaced risks early, and held a clear trail of the actions taken.
The solution
Antler adopted ReFresh Psychosocial Automate to give it one structured, consistent approach. The platform captures relevant information in a single place, scores and surfaces emerging risks as they arise, and tracks the actions taken in response over time, so nothing relies on manual collation or memory.
That continuous, organised record feeds directly into the firm's compliance, governance, and due-diligence processes. Rather than assembling a picture after the fact, Antler has a current view it can draw on whenever it needs to demonstrate how psychosocial risk is being identified and managed.
The outcome
Antler now manages psychosocial risk through a structured, consistent system rather than an ad hoc one. Information is captured as it comes in, emerging risks are surfaced early, and the actions taken are tracked over time, giving the firm a defensible record across its operations.
The result is greater confidence in the firm's compliance, governance, and due-diligence processes, backed by evidence rather than assumption, and matched to the standards Antler holds itself to as a global investment platform.