Last month, startups in our portfolio have been making waves, shipping products and securing deals to ramp up their growth. Check out what they’ve been up to below 👇 Congratulations to Feather, Syntetica, Polari Group, altrove, Lodestar Space, Recurse ML, toby and Telescope.
Entrepreneur First
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Entrepreneur First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch.
About us
Entrepreneur First is the best place in the world to meet your co-founder and build a startup from scratch. We bring together and fund exceptional individuals to help them meet their co-founder, develop an idea and raise money from leading investors - as fast as possible. The companies built at EF are now worth over $10B. They include Tractable (a computer vision unicorn), Cleo, Omnipresent, Aztec, Transcelestial, Airbank and many more. We’re backed by some of the world's best tech founders and company builders, including Patrick and John Collison (Stripe); Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Tom Blomfield (GoCardless and Monzo), Sara Clemens (Pandora and Twitch); Nat Friedman (GitHub); and Matt Mullenweg (Wordpress). For more information about Entrepreneur First, visit joinef.com We're hiring! Join our global team and experience firsthand the workings of a globally unique talent investor working with cutting edge entrepreneurs on world changing technologies: joinef.com/jobs
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https://www.joinef.com/
External link for Entrepreneur First
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- London
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2011
Locations
Employees at Entrepreneur First
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Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman is an Influencer Co-Founder, LinkedIn & Inflection AI. Investor at Greylock.
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Venkat Raju
Investor,Mentor,Director - Startups | Partner/Advisor - Funds, Incubators, Accelerators | CxO Consultant - Corp(Open) Innovation, Digital(AI)…
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Toby Coppel
Co-founder and Partner @ Mosaic Ventures | Partnering with the most ambitious founders in Europe
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Shriraj Gaglani
Strategic Partnerships Advisor
Updates
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Imagine what you could build surrounded by a carefully selected group of ambitious peers. The deadline for our upcoming London program is August 1. Last spring, our founders pitched to >100 of Silicon Valley’s top Partner-level investors at our first Demo Day in San Francisco. If you think this could be you, apply now: https://lnkd.in/ejqvApQB
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Apps are closing for our upcoming Core and Grad programs in London and Paris. Paris 👉 apply by Wednesday, 31 July London 👉 apply by Thursday, 1 August Application link in comments ⬇
Shout-out to all the builders in my network, EF's Programs are starting soon 🎉 apply before July 31st! 🌟 I met Estelle a year ago - and I decided to drop everything and dive all-in in my entrepreneurial journey. Having failed my first startup dAlembert AI 📚 with my former partners and friends (cc Antoine & Benjamin) - I couldn't miss the opportunity to start again. During the program, I found Soline and we launched Agōra AI💧 EF has truly been transformative. You'll build & scale your ideas at the speed of light, going from 0 to 1 in a couple of weeks. You'll meet with incredible founders & learn from some of the best entrepreneurs in our French Ecosystem in Paris 🇫🇷 You can dive in EF's programs in the comments section ⬇️ Entrepreneur First Guillaume Tonnel Maxence Jamet Coralie Chaufour Estelle Charveriat Pauline Commereuc
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We recently hosted cofounders of Theremia, Iris Maréchal and Chloé Geoffroy, at STATION F. Last year, Iris and Chloé met at Find in Paris. Then, they joined our Paris program and built Theremia. Check out the key takeaways from their fireside chat here: 1/ The foundation of a cofounding team is a joint, core belief to explore together. Early on, you need to dig into the details, and look for signs of misalignment. Iris and Chloé identified their joint belief to make healthcare more inclusive and used this as their starting point for ideation. 2/ Startups with the strongest founder-idea fit are most likely to succeed. Discovering your Edge is key - your specific, personal, competitive advantage. Iris’ Edge is her experience working at the intersection of health and business, having worked with some of the world’s leading pharma companies at BCG. Meanwhile, Chloé’s Edge is her background as a Pharmacist and Chemical Engineer with a postdoc in Neuropharmacology. 3/ Using their joint belief and complementary Edges, Iris and Chloé built Theremia, an AI-driven platform to design drug derivatives with improved efficacy across diverse demographics. By leveraging extensive multi-scale data, Theremia optimizes drug development, enhances clinical trial processes, and supports pharmaceutical companies in delivering safer, more effective therapies. 4/ Chloé and Iris’ top tip for future founders is to get started, now. Chloé wrapped up her postdoc and Iris quit her job at BGC to start a company at EF. The real risk isn’t starting a company - it’s the opportunity cost of delaying your founding journey. Apps for our upcoming programs in London and Paris close soon: https://apply.joinef.com/
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“I wouldn’t trade it for anything.” Meet cofounders of Clarity Care AI, Hermine T. and Alexandru Andrei, as they move to San Francisco and continue building their startup on our SF Launch program. Check out their journey here: https://lnkd.in/ejaSSxYs
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We recently introduced Stripe cofounder John Collison to a room of future founders in Paris. Our cofounder Matt Clifford caught up with John on his experience founding Stripe — from the early days to scaling the company to thousands of employees and billions in revenue.
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We recently brought together 25 talented and ambitious women for Find in Paris. Over a single day, they tested cofounder partnerships, identified their unique advantages as a founder, and pitched their ideas to a jury of Talent Investors. Solutions ranged from cost-effective simulated materials for rapid testing to a mobile app that uses computer vision to offer real-time physiotherapy assistance. We wrapped up the day with a fireside chat on founding with EF alumni and CEO of EndoGene.Bio, María Teresa Pérez Zaballos. María built EndoGene.Bio at EF in 2022 to tackle undiagnosed endometriosis using a prescription diagnostic test that can be taken at home. If you’re curious about building a startup, keep an eye out for our future events.
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Last month, our Summer '24 San Francisco cohort met for the first time at Kick Off Summit in Santa Cruz. They tested out cofounder relationships, began ideating, and heard from EF Alumni Joseph Melkonian, Cristian Ponce, Théo Schäfer, and Eric Sun about their founding experiences building Womp Labs and Tetsuwan Scientific. Register interest for our US Winter cohort, starting in January 2025, here: https://apply.joinef.com
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Feelings from an exciting weekend with the Entrepreneur First Bangalore Team! I attended the entrepreneur first hackathon this weekend and it was one of most exhilarating experiences I’ve had in a while. It was 2 days full of ideation and building. In the process, I met a bunch of very impressive people but ended up spending most of my time with the most fun biologists and gene researchers ideating on how to make wet lab experiments faster. It’s exciting to see how young sectoral experts are bringing in their expertise to form businesses in under served areas. Through this process, I had to face my biases on the ideation process too. The EF team has a simple yet effective process to ideation and my biases against a structured approach to ideation came out in full force through the exercise. I believe in a free-flowing idea generation process, but you more often than not miss out on the deeper problems while scratching the itch on the surface. This is one simple learning which I’ll carry with me throughout. I also want to thank the EF India team for being phenomenal hosts and mentors through the weekend! Sajal, Dhruv, Raghav, Rahul, Urmil