Matt Clifford
Co-Founder & CEO @ Entrepreneurs First
London, United Kingdom
Matt Clifford is a seed investor at Entrepreneurs First in London focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Matt co-founded EF after being a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Prior to EF Matt spent his time studying at MIT fuelled by an obsession with R, Python and unusual datasets. EF is the best place for Europe’s top technical individuals to meet and build world-changing startups in London.They select purely on the basis of technical talent, so youcan apply before you have a team or an idea. The intensive 6-month programme is designed to give you the best possible support in the first 200 days of your startup’s life.They have created over 40 startups now worth over $300 million. The startups are funded by some prestigious investors including Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Octopus Investments and Y Combinator.
- Total investments:
- 42
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries Matt Clifford invests in
Stages Matt Clifford invests in
Countries Matt Clifford invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $756k–$7M
- Pre-Seed
- $55k–$4.2M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $2.4M–$34M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 12 (29%)
- Artificial Intelligence 9 (21%)
- FinTech 6 (14%)
- SaaS 5 (12%)
- Financial Services 3 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 18 (43%)
- Pre-Seed 9 (21%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (5%)
- Series A 1 (2%)
- Funding Round 1 (2%)
Country
- United Kingdom 16 (38%)
- United States 4 (10%)
- India 2 (5%)
- Estonia 1 (2%)
- Germany 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| HelmGuard develops an AI-driven trust infrastructure platform for security, compliance, and third-party risk management. The company provides an operational risk infrastructure layer that centralizes fragmented security, compliance, and vendor data into a structured repository. Its platform coordinates autonomous, domain-specific AI agents thatperform continuous data indexing, compliance mapping, automated vendor assessments, and real-time security tracking. HelmGuard includes a risk operating system, a zero-knowledge verification engine for selective disclosure and cryptographic-style proofs, and persona-specific risk intelligence reporting. These capabilities support first-party, third-party, and customer-facing workflows across sectors such as financial services, SaaS, and healthcare. The platform is used by security, risk, and compliance teams to maintain continuous oversight of internal controls, vendor posture, and regulatory obligations while generating tailored, natural-language reports for business stakeholders. | $7.3M / Seed / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| Asterix Health is the workforce solution for modern healthcare. | $2.9M / Pre-Seed / May 07, 2026 | ||
| Rivan Industries designs and builds modular, vertically integrated, synthetic fuel plants. | $33.8M / Series A / Apr 20, 2026 | ||
| Asymmetric Security is an AI-native cybersecurity startup specializing in digital forensics and incident response. It combines elite forensic experts with proprietary AI to accelerate investigations, especially Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, at less than half the cost of competitors while shrinking timelines from days to hours. | $4.2M / Pre-Seed / Jan 23, 2026 | ||
| Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform. | $3M / Seed / Dec 03, 2024 | ||
| Patch building a national network of neighborhood workspaces and will be sharing news, ideas, and plans from the Work Near Homeworld. | $3.7M / Seed / Mar 20, 2023 | ||
| Flow is the first engineering data platform built for agile engineering teams. Flow helps teams stay integrated with the correct data, regardless of which tool they are working in. | $8.5M / Seed / Dec 06, 2022 | ||
| KOOS is a platform for community incentives that provides flexible, equity-like advantages to contributors who are not employees. | $4M / Seed / Sep 29, 2022 | ||
| Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom. | $4.2M / Seed / Sep 14, 2022 | ||
| Fullstack digital lending platform with a no-code interface that can enable digital lending for any company in a few clicks - without having to hire engineers! | $55K / Pre-Seed / Sep 01, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Entrepreneurs First
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.
Entrepreneurs First Contacts
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Alice Bentinck
CEO and co-founder
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Anthony Finkelstein
Science Partner
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Arthur Waller
Entrepreneur In Residence
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Ashwin Chandrasekaran
Company Building (Form) Team, India
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Chris Mairs
Venture Partner
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FAQ
What does Matt Clifford invest in?
Matt Clifford invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 42 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 Matt Clifford's check size?
Matt Clifford typically joins rounds of $756k–$7M at Seed, $55k–$4.2M at Pre-Seed and $2.4M–$34M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Matt Clifford participates in.
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When did Matt Clifford last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Matt Clifford closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 42 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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