# Entrepreneurs First

> Entrepreneurs First is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence. See 294 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 294
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/entrepreneurs-first
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/join_ef
- Website: http://www.joinef.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/joinef

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $724k–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $55k–$3.1M |
| Series A | $6M–$45M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 39 | 13% |
| Software | 36 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 21 | 7% |
| Machine Learning | 15 | 5% |
| Biotechnology | 12 | 4% |

143 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 59 | 20% |
| Seed | 47 | 16% |
| Series A | 9 | 3% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 1% |
| Series B | 3 | 1% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 32 | 11% |
| United States | 18 | 6% |
| India | 13 | 4% |
| France | 13 | 4% |
| Germany | 10 | 3% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alice Bentinck | CEO and co-founder | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alice-bentinck-2 |
| Chris Mairs | Venture Partner | 26 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-mairs |
| Coralie Chaufour | Partner, General Manager & Founder - EF Paris | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coralie-chaufour |
| Joseph Ros | Investment Strategy Lead | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joseph-ros |
| Matt Clifford | Co-Founder & CEO | 41 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-clifford |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Juno Bio | 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 | 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 |  |
| EverSettled | 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 | 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 | Certo is an agentic AI company that offers a product compliance platform for regulatory management. | $4M | Seed | May 26, 2026 |  |
| Shatterdome Energy | 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 | 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 | Asterix Health is the workforce solution for modern healthcare. | $2.9M | Pre-Seed | May 07, 2026 |  |
| Davis AI | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 294 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Entrepreneurs First](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entrepreneur-first) — VC Fund, 178 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 34 deals together
- [Transpose Platform Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ti-platform-management) — VC Fund, 29 deals together
- [SOSV HAX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hax-accelerator) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiny-vc) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Transpose Platform Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/transpose-platform) — VC Fund, 10 deals together

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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 294 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.

### How do I contact Entrepreneurs First?

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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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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