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Entrepreneurs First

Brand · Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals

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Company overview

Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. We bring together talented outliers to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise money from the world’s best investors.Since pioneering Talent Investing in 2015, we’ve learned to recognize individuals with extraordinary futures before anyone else, embedding them in a community of ambitious peers and giving them the tools they need to succeed, fast. We back them before they have a company, a team, even before they have an idea, based purely on talent.EF’s portfolio is now collectively valued at over $16B, and includes companies such as Aztec, Cleo, Magdrive, Neptune, Omnea, Opply, PolyAI, Tractable, and many more.EF is backed by some of the world's leading founders and investors, including Founders Fund, Greylock, John Collison (founder – Stripe), Patrick Collison (founder – Stripe), Reid Hoffman (founder – LinkedIn), Eric Schmidt (former CEO - Google), Demis Hassabis (founder – Google DeepMind ), Taavet Hinrikus (founder – Wise), Matt Mullenweg (founder – WordPress), Charlie Songhurst (Board member – Meta), Christa Davies (Board member – Stripe), Lachy Groom (founder – Physical Intelligence), Aidan Gomez (founder – Cohere), Mati Staniszewski (founder – ElevenLabs), Danny Rimer (Partner - Index Ventures), Matt Cohler (former General Partner - Benchmark).We exist to make great companies happen that otherwise wouldn’t.For more information about Entrepreneurs First, visit www.joinef.comWe're hiring! Join our global team and experience firsthand the workings of a globally unique talent investor working with cutting edge entrepreneurs on world changing technologies: https://www.joinef.com/about/careers
Founded in 2014
London, England, GBR
1.2K employees (49 in marketing)
85% recommend to a friend
67% positive business outlook

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Headcount trend

Company growth over the last 12 months

Headcount +23.3% year over year

Funding

Total funding

$317.6M

Last raise

$133.4M

Series D, 4 months ago

Funding history

Feb 2026

Entrepreneurs First Capital · $133.4M

Feb 2019

Entrepreneur First (Global) · $130.4M

Sep 2017

EF Singapore

Sep 2016

Next Stage Fund · $53.7M

Unknown date

Entrepreneurs First (Core)

Audience

Monthly website visitors
244.6K
Month over month+10%
Quarter over quarter+92.5%
Top sourceSearch (43.4%)
Ad budget per month$0.0
Average search rank45.6
Traffic source mix
Search
43.4%
Direct
40.8%
Social
8.4%
Referral
6.5%
Paid referral
0.9%

LinkedIn followers

Follower count and growth

Total followers

204.5K

12-mo growth

+22.4%

Monthly growth

+6.1%

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