Pencil is the world’s first creative AI platform for digital advertising teams in brands and agencies. Entrepreneur First backs founders and individuals to build deep tech startups from scratch. So far, we’ve helped 2,000+ people create 300+ companies, worth a combined $2bnRight now, the world’s most ambitious people are held back by corporate and cultural convention. Zehan joined EF after earning a PhD in Computer Vision and Biomedical Image Analysis from Imperial. He built his first business out of his bedroom aged 14.Rather than creating a bank, Cleo sits on top of existing infrastructure to give our users an elegant and user-friendly banking experience. It has offices in seven locations; Toronto, London, Berlin, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Bangalore. As an entrepreneur, raising capital is a skill that you must have. We bring together an extraordinary collection of people, from experienced industry experts to top technologists and academics – and even extraordinary people right at the start of their careers. She has won a number of awards and grants for her research.Rohit cofounded Transcelestial Technologies (EFSG1). They are encouraged to join prestigious corporates, or top academic institutions and make slow and steady progress. It is a highly effective environment designed to bring people together and help them realise their potential to impact the world. Entrepreneur First is the world’s leading talent investor. We've built 150+ companies now worth over US$1.5B. Upgrade to Pro to access the expansive Crunchbase dataset to uncover the companies, people, and news that matters.
Our founders are building everything from AI that beats humans at detecting cancer in mammograms, to a space laser communication networkOur companies raise money from the world’s best investors, with many on course to build globally important businesses. Their intensive 6-month program is designed to give you the best possible support in the first 200 days of your startup’s life. We’ve also had companies achieve early success, like Magic Pony Technology, who were acquired by Twitter for $150m just 18 months after the founders met on the programme.Discovering better drugs, quicker and at half the cost.Kheiron’s Machine Learning technology makes cancer diagnoses faster, easier, cheaper and more accurate.A space data network using lasers to transfer data at up to 1000x faster than what is currently available.Technology that can automate the work of any expert that’s paid to inspect things, in any domain, at near zero marginal cost. Ambitious individuals have joined from Google and Goldman Sachs, Alibaba and Amazon, MIT and NUS. By integrating APIs for banks and other financial service providers, Cleo aims to become a hub for each user’s banking activity.Entrepreneur First is backed by Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn), the founders of DeepMind and PayPal, and some of the top investors in the world.Entrepreneur First Investment Manager LLP (807367) is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.We run cohorts twice a year, in six different countries around the globe.Twice a year we select up to 100 people to join our programme, from thousands of applicants.The first part of the programme focuses on finding the right co-founder, and developing your idea. Dave holds a first class Master’s in Computer Science from Oxford and previously ran the algorithmic trading quantitative strategies team at Deutsche Bank where his algorithms traded >5% of the European stock market volume.Noor joined EF8 where she met her co-founder Vid and founded GTN, a company that offers a quantum leap in drug discovery. Founded in 2011 by Matthew Clifford and Alice Bentinck, as of 2019 the company has had 1000+ people go through its programme, creating 200+ companies worth a combined $2bn. Noor is a professor from Aalborg University in Copenhagen with ten years of academic experience in machine learning. Entrepreneur First has raised 4 funds, their latest being Entrepreneur First (Global). This puts an artificial limit on what they can achieve, and how fast. Entrepreneur First is the world’s leading talent investor. We call this and helps you grow your company – with investment from us – culminating in a demo day in front of the world’s best investors.We bring together an extraordinary collection of people, from experienced industry experts to top technologists and academics – and even extraordinary people right at the start of their careers. Entrepreneur First is funded by 11 investors. Ambitious individuals have joined from Google and Goldman Sachs, Alibaba and Amazon, MIT and NUS. He’s an Electrical Engineer by training, and worked for 4 years in RBS’ FX Electronic Markets Team on latency in communications before joining EF.Sadaf is co-founder of See-Mode, which empowers doctors to predict strokes and save lives with no additional test. Lakestar and Mosaic Ventures are the most recent investors. They're funded by some of the most prestigious investors … She has collaborated with leading AI and machine learning experts from UCLA, University of Oxford, and Imperial College.Zehan is the cofounder of Magic Pony Technology (EF3), a video processing startup that was acquired by Twitter. This fund was announced on Feb 20, 2019 and raised a total of $115M. She has published more than 50 papers with 1000 citations and an entire book on generative networks. We exist to remove that limit.We offer these Outlier individuals the opportunity to start a technology company and use their ambition to have a lasting, powerful impact.Dave rejected a PhD offer from Princeton to join EF and found Optimal Labs (EF7). Prior to joining EF, Neel has over 7 years of deep finance experience having worked at 3 top-tier investment funds managing >$150bn.