Entrepreneurs First
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Entrepreneurs First is a VC fund in London focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Entrepreneurs First provides programs that identify individuals interested in building technology companies and support them through the early stages of company formation. The organization evaluates applicants as individuals and brings selected participants into cohorts where they explore ideas, connect with potential cofounders, and form startupteams. Participants receive guidance on idea development, product validation, and company creation while preparing to seek venture funding. Entrepreneurs First also provides financial backing and structured programs that include workshops, mentorship, and networking with investors. Through these activities, the organization facilitates the transition from individual participants to newly formed startup companies.
- Total investments:
- 447
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
- Fund size:
- $133M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Entrepreneurs First invests in
Stages Entrepreneurs First invests in
Countries Entrepreneurs First invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 7 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $724k–$7M
- Pre-Seed
- $55k–$3.1M
- Series A
- $6M–$45M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 39 (9%)
- Software 36 (8%)
- Information Technology 21 (5%)
- Machine Learning 15 (3%)
- Biotechnology 12 (3%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 59 (13%)
- Seed 47 (11%)
- Series A 9 (2%)
- Funding Round 4 (1%)
- Series B 3 (1%)
Country
- United Kingdom 32 (7%)
- United States 18 (4%)
- India 13 (3%)
- France 13 (3%)
- Germany 10 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alice Bentinck
CEO and co-founder
|
CEO and co-founder | Total investments: 14 | Find email | |
Chris Mairs
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 26 | Find email | |
Coralie Chaufour
Partner, General Manager & Founder - EF Paris
|
Partner, General Manager & Founder - EF Paris | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Joseph Ros
Investment Strategy Lead
|
Investment Strategy Lead | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Matt Clifford
Co-Founder & CEO
|
Co-Founder & CEO | Total investments: 41 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peripheral Labs provides technology for live media and spatial intelligence. | $8.7M / Seed / Aug 17, 2026 | ||
| Juno Bio uses machine learning and state of the art bioinformatics to analyse and predict how best to manipulate microbiomes, significantly reducing the time and resources needed to improve their functionality. | $3.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 16, 2026 | ||
| EverSettled is an administrative platform that provides specialized software and interactive checklists to guide families through the estate settlement and probate process. The company coordinates asset discovery, subscription cancellations, and debt negotiation to help individuals manage post-death administrative tasks. | $5M / Seed / Jul 16, 2026 | ||
| Uncovr is an AI-powered surgical intelligence and documentation platform that automatically transforms operating room videos into structured clinical reports and billing codes. | $7M / Seed / Jun 10, 2026 | ||
| Certo is an agentic AI company that offers a product compliance platform for regulatory management. | $4M / Seed / May 26, 2026 | ||
| Shatterdome Energy operates as a financial infrastructure layer for the modern energy and power sectors. The company focuses on transforming distributed energy resources—including solar, wind, battery storage, and flexible load—into tradable financial assets and market-moving derivatives. | $3.5M / Pre-Seed / May 21, 2026 | ||
| Scope AI is a software development platform that offers AI-driven industrial software inspection and faster decision-making. | $20M / Series A / May 19, 2026 | ||
| Asterix Health is the workforce solution for modern healthcare. | $2.9M / Pre-Seed / May 07, 2026 | ||
| Davis AI provides AI-driven real estate development services focused on early-stage feasibility studies and architectural design. The company combines proprietary generative models, including its Gaudi-1 architectural generation model, with in-house architects to deliver site analysis, regulatory diagnostics, volumetrics, financial modeling, andinvestment analysis. Davis AI also produces architectural outputs such as floor plans, unit mix optimization, and space planning. Its workflow ingests client data rooms and enriches them with regulatory, market, and site data, turning these into constraints that guide every result. Outputs are refined and validated by human experts before delivery and are intended for real estate developers, investors, and other project stakeholders. | $5.5M / Pre-Seed / May 06, 2026 | ||
| Hadean are a venture backed tech startup providing the most simple and secure platform for cloud native development. Intuitive and developer friendly, the Hadean Platform provides a friction free route to a cloud-native infrastructure. It lets you write applications once and deploy anywhere, taking care of setup, configuration, scaling, securityand more.Hadean have developed two flagship applications. Aether Engine provides distributed load balancing for agent-based simulations, while Muxer is a network model that utilises distributed edge networks. The result is spatial simulations of unparalleled size and complexity, where thousands of concurrent users can join and interact. Hadean have found traction in gaming, healthcare, virtual events and defence with industry leading companies such as Microsoft, Minecraft and CAE. | $15M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 11, 2026 | ||
| See all 447 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Entrepreneurs First invest in?
Entrepreneurs First invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 447 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Entrepreneurs First's check size?
Entrepreneurs First typically joins rounds of $724k–$7M at Seed, $55k–$3.1M at Pre-Seed and $6M–$45M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Entrepreneurs First participates in.
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Who are the partners at Entrepreneurs First?
The team at Entrepreneurs First includes Alice Bentinck (CEO and co-founder), Chris Mairs (Venture Partner) and Coralie Chaufour (Partner, General Manager & Founder - EF Paris), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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