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.
Their most common stage is seed (52% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $15.3M (across 89 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
105
Fund Size
—
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
14
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
136 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Jack & Jill | Series A | — | Sep 2026 |
 Open Cosmos | Unknown | — | Sep 2026 |
 HelmGuard AI | Seed | $7.3M | Sep 2026 |
 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 |
| SScope | Series A | $20M | Jan 2026 |
 UNCOVR | Seed | — | Jan 2026 |
 Asterix Health | Pre-Seed | — | Jan 2026 |
 Scope | Series A | $20M | Jan 2026 |
| Pharosyn | Seed | $3M | Jan 2026 |
 Uncovr | Unknown | $7M | Jan 2026 |
| PPeripheral | Seed | $3.6M | Dec 2025 |
 Comind | Unknown | $102.5M | Oct 2025 |
 Comindtechnologies | 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 |
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Top Co-Investors
Transpose Platform17 shared
Phoenix Court Group13 shared
Transpose7 shared
Octopus Ventures7 shared
Playfair Capital7 shared
SOSV6 shared
Episode 16 shared
Alumni Ventures6 shared
Y Combinator6 shared
Khosla Ventures5 shared
Chalfen Ventures5 shared
British Business Bank5 shared
Ascension Ventures5 shared
Plug and Play Tech Center5 shared
Index Ventures5 shared
Wavemaker Partners5 shared
Backed VC4 shared
Sands Capital4 shared
Seedcamp4 shared
private angel investors4 shared
Last updated: 20 October 2026