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Entrepreneur First

Entrepreneur-matching platform

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501-1000 employees
  • B2B
  • Deep Tech
  • Investing
  • Accelerator
London, UK

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Company mission

Entrepreneur First believes the world is missing out on some of its best founders. It's their mission to find and fund them, wherever they are.

Led by a woman

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

12% employee growth in 12 months

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Otta's take

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Sam Franklin

CEO of Otta

Entrepreneur First is a “talent investor” that recruits and backs individuals pre-team and pre-idea to enable them to found startups.

The company pioneered this new model of talent investing. While other accelerators typically back founders with semi-established businesses, EF was the first to back individuals and match them with other founders during the program.

The company already has a great portfolio of investments, including Cleo, CloudNC and Permutive.

Benefits

  • A competitive salary and bonus based on performance
  • A buzzing space full of some of the most talented founders, technologists and investors working on world-changing businesses
  • The opportunity to supercharge your learning by working with a talented, ambitious and diverse global team (we’re currently operational in multiple countries across Europe, North America, and Asia)
  • Have the opportunity to be an early employee at an institution that is changing the way the most ambitious people approach entrepreneurship. The potential impact is enormous
  • A Learning & Development allowance to purchase any product or service that will contribute to your personal or professional development
  • Enhanced parental leave, plus broader leave policies including additional time off (around two weeks) at the end of the year during Christmas & New Year

Funding (2 rounds)

Feb 2019

$146.8m

Sep 2016

$51.1m

Total funding: $197.8m

Founders

Matt Clifford

(CEO)

Started his career at McKinsey as a consultant, where he worked with Alice. Studied at MIT and Cambridge.

Alice Bentinck

(Co-founder and General Partner)

Previously a consultant at McKinsey. Also the Co-founder of Code First: Girls

People progressing

Carl

Joined as a Fund Operations Associate. Promoted to Fund Operations Manager after 1.5 years and is now a Senior Funds Manager.