Entrepreneurs First (formerly Entrepreneur First) is a global talent investor and accelerator founded in 2011 by Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford. It brings together exceptional individuals to find co-founders and build technology startups from scratch, investing up to $250K per company at the pre-seed stage with up to $5M in follow-on funding.
Deal activity increased 50% year-over-year (12 deals in the last 12 months). Their most common stage is seed (50% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $13.2M (across 78 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
98
Fund Size
—
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
17
Team
JR
Joe Ros
Partner and General Manager, North America
MP
Mike Phillips
Partner, London
JD
Julia Denoly-Lepic
Principal, The Bridge
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
116 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Pharosyn | Seed | — | Sep 2026 |
 Mutable Tactics | Pre-Seed | $2.1M | Mar 2026 |
 Seamflow | Seed | $4.5M | Feb 2026 |
 Automata | Series C | $45M | Jan 2026 |
 AgileRL | Seed | $7.5M | Jan 2026 |
 Biographica | Series A | $8.8M | Jan 2026 |
 Squaremind | Series A | $18M | Jan 2026 |
 UNCOVR | Seed | — | Jan 2026 |
 Asterix Health | Pre-Seed | — | Jan 2026 |
| Pharosyn | Seed | $3M | Jan 2026 |
| UUncovr | Unknown | $7M | Jan 2026 |
 Peripheral Labs | Seed | $3.6M | Dec 2025 |
 Comind | Series C | $60M | Oct 2025 |
 Jack & Jill | Seed | $20M | Oct 2025 |
 Phagos | Series A | — | Oct 2025 |
| MMimica | Series B | $26.2M | Sep 2025 |
 Genomines | Series A | — | Sep 2025 |
 Tracelight | Seed | $3.6M | Aug 2025 |
 Kyron.bio | Seed | — | May 2025 |
 sensmore | Seed | — | May 2025 |
 CodeAnt AI | Seed | — | May 2025 |
 WilsonAI Company | Pre-Seed | — | Feb 2025 |
 level zero | Pre-Seed | $6.9M | Feb 2025 |
 Briefcase | Seed | — | Dec 2024 |
 Synthera AI | Pre-Seed | — | Dec 2024 |
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Top Co-Investors
Transpose Platform14 shared
Phoenix Court Group9 shared
Octopus Ventures7 shared
Y Combinator6 shared
Khosla Ventures5 shared
Alumni Ventures5 shared
Chalfen Ventures5 shared
Index Ventures5 shared
SOSV4 shared
Sands Capital4 shared
Seedcamp4 shared
Wavemaker Partners4 shared
Episode 13 shared
Founders Fund3 shared
Hoxton Ventures3 shared
Atomico3 shared
Backed VC3 shared
T. Rowe Price3 shared
Ascension Ventures3 shared
Anthemis3 shared
Last updated: 9 September 2026