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What does Entrepreneur First invest in?
Entrepreneur First invests most often at Seed and Venture (61% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Internet, Service Industry and Artificial Intelligence (ai).
Entrepreneur First highlights
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55 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Venture: 61% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 53 rounds, median $685K
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2 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Join a cohort of peers you’ll work alongside at one of our global offices and by Demo Day, the top performing founders will be generating hundreds of thousands of revenue.From their own website
- Type
- Accelerator
- Cheque size
- $125K – $250K as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeed
- Sectors
- InternetService IndustryArtificial Intelligence (ai)
- Based in
- London, United Kingdom
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first332 appearances
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44 rounds
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An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration9 named
AYAlice Yvonne BentinckExecutive Officer of the General Partner of the PartnershipiFiling they signed
AMAnne Marie Alexander DrosteDirectoriFiling they signed
EFEntrepreneurs First Investment Manager LLPthe Investment ManageriFiling they signed
JWJoe WhiteExecutive Officer of the General Partner of the PartnershipiFiling they signed
JCJonathan CliffordDirectoriFiling they signed
MPMatthew Philip CliffordExecutive Officer of the General Partner of the PartnershipiFiling they signed
RARobert Alexander CromptonDirectoriFiling they signed
TSThomas ShinnerChief Operating OfficeriForm ADV
TSTom ShinnerMember of the Investment ManageriFiling they signed
We also hold 25 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$891Massets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Entrepreneurs First Investment Manager LLP
- SEC number
- CRD 300402
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 3 we have independently watched raise
AlchemyPortfolio[START]
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed2 in all
Scape TechnologiesBought by Facebook$40MFeb 2020
Magic Pony TechnologyBought by Twitter$150MJun 2016
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.