We joined Antler's Nordics Residency — Now Based at BLOXHUB in Copenhagen

We have some news that we are genuinely proud to share: In early March 2026, KONTEXT has been accepted into Antler's Nordics residency program, and we are now working full-time out of Antler's Copenhagen office — located inside BLOXHUB, the Nordic Hub for Sustainable Urbanization, on the waterfront in the heart of the city. It is a big step for us, and one that feels like more than just a change of address.

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Getting into Antler

Antler (https://www.antler.co/) is one of the most active early-stage venture capital firms in the world, backing founders from day zero — before a product exists, sometimes before a team exists. Their always-on Nordic residency operates across Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, and Helsinki, backed by a Nordic Fund II of more than $100 million, and is designed for founders who want to build and raise without waiting for the right moment. The selection process is competitive and we are surrounded by exceptional innovators and founders, which makes being here feel meaningful.

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Antler's residencies focus on product development, customer traction, and investor readiness, with founders working directly with local Antler Partners and benefiting from weekly one-on-one mentorship. For a company at our stage (deep in building the methodology and technology stack that will define what KONTEXT becomes) this kind of structured, intensive environment is exactly what we need. Not a lecture series (but yes, sometimes also lectures) but a forcing function: a room full of people building seriously, some good music, with experienced people who push us to make the right decisions.

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We are grateful to be here, and we are taking the opportunity seriously.

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Why BLOXHUB Makes This Especially Meaningful

Antler's Copenhagen office sits inside BLOXHUB, and for an UrbanTech startup like KONTEXT, that is not an incidental detail. It is one of the best places in the world we could be working from right now. BLOXHUB is the Nordic Hub for Sustainable Urbanization — a platform that helps its members connect with partners, share knowledge, and create business opportunities. Founded on the belief that global urbanization and climate change require new collaborative approaches, BLOXHUB serves as a Nordic launchpad for future urban solutions and a gateway to the Danish and Nordic markets for international companies.

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Located in a state-of-the-art building designed by OMA, BLOXHUB brings together over 380 cities, organizations, and enterprises — including startups and established companies — to co-create solutions for better future cities. The building itself also houses the Danish Architecture Center, the Danish Design Center, and Creative Denmark.

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What that means in practice, sitting here on any given day, is that the people in the corridors and the coffee queue are architects, urban planners, construction technologists, sustainability researchers, municipal strategists, and founders building everything from climate-tech to civic data platforms. The conversations that happen informally (over lunch, between meetings, at the evening events that BLOXHUB runs constantly) are the kinds of conversations that would take months to engineer anywhere else. For us, this is the target audience and the peer community at the same time. Only recently, we were part of the Placemaking conference hosted by VOLCANO, and we invite you to join it for the next edition.

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KONTEXT is building technology to reveal the unmeasurable aspects of urban life — connecting the lived human experience of cities with the people who shape them: planners, architects, developers, municipalities. We could not have designed a better neighbourhood to work in. We are surrounded by exactly the people we are building for, and exactly the conversations that sharpen what we are doing and why.

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What We Are Working On

The residency comes at a pivotal moment for KONTEXT. We are actively developing our data pipeline, combining computer vision, multi-source text analysis, and urban understanding to produce place intelligence that captures what traditional urban data completely misses. We have recently announced our collaboration with Bevar Mere, the philanthropic initiative backed by Realdania, Grundejernes Investeringsfond, Landsbyggefonden, and Dreyers Fond, where we are conducting location scouting across two Danish cities / neighbourhoods using our methodology. And we are in active conversations with municipalities and real estate developers who want to understand the social dimension of the places they invest in — not just the economic fundamentals.

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The Antler residency gives us the structure to accelerate all of this: to sharpen our product, stress-test our assumptions with experienced investors and advisors, and move from building in relative isolation to building inside a community that holds us accountable to real progress.

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A Genuine Thank You

We want to say clearly: we are happy. Very happy. In this building, in this program, at this stage of what we are building. The team at Antler Nordics has been thoughtful, direct, and generous with their time from day one. And the BLOXHUB community, the density of expertise and ambition that exists in this space, is something we did not fully anticipate. Every week here teaches us something we did not know we needed to know.

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If you are curious about what we are building, want to collaborate, or just want to talk about cities and data and the gap between the two — come find us. We are on the waterfront in Copenhagen, and the door is usually open.

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Follow our progress at kontext.city or reach out directly at hello@kontext.city. Learn more about Antler at antler.co and about BLOXHUB at bloxhub.org.

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