Entrepreneurs First
joinef.com Direct investor
Founder-matching accelerator that identifies exceptional individuals, pairs them with cofounders, and provides capital and operational support through early and growth stages.
Entrepreneurs First is an accelerator headquartered in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2011. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series B, in FinTech, privacy, robotics and supply Chain AI. Its stated cheque size is Up to $250K per company, up to $5M follow-on. 100 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We turn exceptional individuals into funded founders.”
— Entrepreneurs First, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Accelerator
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Invests in
- GB, US, IN
- Cheque size
- Up to $250K per company, up to $5M follow-on
- Founded
- 2011
- Portfolio
- 100 companies
Team, as Entrepreneurs First publishes it
- Alice Bentinck Cofounder and CEO
- Matt Clifford Cofounder and Chair
- Tom Shinner Partner and COO
- Jonny Clifford Partner and General Manager, London
- Rahul Samat Partner and General Manager, Bangalore
- Joe Ros Partner and General Manager, North America
- Elspeth Lawson Partner and Deputy CPO
- Max Neuberger General Counsel
- Isabel Bescos Partner and General Manager, San Francisco
- Mike Phillips Partner, London
- Max Mugnaioni Principal, London
- Ali Susskind Principal, North America
Names and roles exactly as listed on joinef.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 51 co-investors found.
- Air Street Capital 2 shared companies: tractable.ai, automata.tech
- Backed VC 2 shared companies: ochre-bio.com, cloudnc.com
- Episode 1 Ventures 2 shared companies: cloudnc.com, mimica.ai
- Redalpine Venture Partners 2 shared companies: magdrive.space, betterdairy.co.uk
- Axevil Capital, LLC 1 shared company: alchemy.digital
- BVP 1 shared company: alchemy.digital
- Carmel Partners 1 shared company: alchemy.digital
- GHO Capital 1 shared company: alchemy.digital
- Highland Europe 1 shared company: alchemy.digital
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 1 shared company: alchemy.digital
and 41 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Entrepreneurs First publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.joinef.com/is_investor, layer, type, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, name, thesis_quote_page, description
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21592473founded, hq_country
- https://www.joinef.com/about/hq_country, hq_city, founded, people
- https://www.joinef.com/portfolio/sectors, portfolio_count
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Record 61 · added 2026-08-27 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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