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| 02.07.2024 | Feather Revolutionizes Expat Insurance in Europe | Feather, a Berlin-based startup, has secured €6 million in funding to simplify insurance for expats across Europe. Founded in 2018 by Rob Schumacher and Vincent Audoire, Feather aims to provide a seamless and transparent insurance experienc... |
| 28.06.2024 | Feather raises €6M to simplify Insurance for expats in Europe | Expat insurance startup Feather has secured €6 million in funding, bringing its funding to €10 million.
Today’s insurance offerings fall short in meeting the needs of the mobile migrant workforce, and student population. They’re too complic... |
| 15.05.2024 | Allozymes: Pioneering Enzyme Innovation to Transform Industries Worldwide | Allozymes, a dynamic biotechnology startup based in Singapore, recently announced a significant milestone with the successful closure of a $15 million Series A funding round. This substantial investment, led by esteemed investors Seventure ... |
| 14.05.2024 | Allozymes Raises $15 Million in Series A Funding, Poised to Revolutionize Industries with Enzymatic Solutions | SINGAPORE, May 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Allozymes, a leading innovator in enzyme discovery and engineering, today announced the closing of a $15 million Series A funding round led by Seventure Partners of France and Xora Innovation of Singa... |
| 29.03.2024 | Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis gets UK knighthood for ‘services to artificial intelligence’ | Demis Hassabis, CEO and one of three founders of Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) subsidiary DeepMind, has been awarded a knighthood in the U.K. for “services to artificial intelligence.”
Ian Hogarth, chair of the U.K. government’s rec... |
| 26.03.2024 | 1991 Ventures: Investing in Ukrainian and CEE Startups | Today, 1991 Ventures unveiled a £15 million fund to support emerging talent in Ukraine and Central Eastern Europe (CEE) with global potential. Founded by Ukrainian brothers Denis and Viktor Gursky, the industry-agnostic fund aims to nurture... |
| 25.03.2024 | 1991 Ventures launches £15M fund for Ukrainian and CEE startups | Today 1991 Ventures launched a £15 million fund to invest in untapped Ukrainian and Central Eastern European (CEE) startup talent with global potential to solve real-world problems.
The industry-agnostic early-stage fund was founded by Ukra... |
| 16.03.2024 | Entrepreneur First Opens San Francisco Hub to Strengthen India-US Corridor and Provide Founders Access to US Investors | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
5 Indian companies; 11 Indian Founders to join 28 other selected global companies for the immersion program
The global immersive program is aimed to provide exceptional Indian founder talent access to US investor... |
| 12.03.2024 | UMAMI Bioworks & Shiok Meats Merge to Commercialize Cultivated Seafood | Two cultivated seafood pioneers from Singapore — UMAMI Bioworks and Shiok Meats — have merged to establish a combined entity that will bring cultivated seafood closer to commercial viability.
The strategic merge, believed to be the first in... |
| 21.11.2023 | Parkwalk supports ‘Founders at the University of Cambridge’ pre-seed accelerator | Along with 100 experts from Graphcore, Arm, Google and Stripe, we are proud to support the Founders at the University of Cambridge, with Cambridge Enterprise, aiding the next generation of start-ups. This new initiative is the first pre-see... |
| 06.11.2023 | Spotted Zebra recauda £7,7 millones en una ronda liderada por Nauta Capital | 06/11/2023
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Spotted Zebra ha recaudado 7,7 millones de libras esterlinas en una financiación de serie A liderada por la empresa paneuropea de capit... |
| 01.11.2023 | UK-based Spotted Zebra raises €8.8M to tackle global skills-gap crisis | Read this article in:
London-based Spotted Zebra, a skills-based workforce management platform, announced that it has secured £7.7M (approximately €8.84M) in a Series A round of funding.
The investment was led by the pan-European VC firm Na... |
| 26.10.2023 | Amatera raises $1.6m to expand climate smart crop breeding platform, starting with coffee | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Amatera.]
Amatera, a French startup developing climate-smart perennial crops including a new coffee variety with the resilience and yields of Robusta and the taste of Ar... |
| 21.09.2023 | From salt-tolerant wheat to Robusta coffee that tastes like Arabica, two climate smart startups to watch | Pressure to breed ‘climate smart’ crops—from salt tolerant rice to heat-tolerant tomatoes—is rising as farmers battle rising soil salinity, higher temperatures, and more erratic weather. But traditional crop breeding can take decades to bea... |
| 25.08.2023 | Meet the founder: Chewing the designer fat with Satnam Singh at Fattastic Technologies | From hydrogenation to interesterification, there are many ways to change the properties of fats, says Fattastic Technologies founder Satnam Singh. But finding a cost-effective, scalable approach to create the next generation of healthy fats... |
| 16.08.2023 | Finding The Next Steve Wozniak | The search for talent has become a global phenomenon. As Marc Andreessen noted in a 2014 interview for New York Magazine: “our companies are desperate for talent. Desperate. Our companies are dying for talent. They’re like lying on the beac... |
| 27.07.2023 | Austrian fund Calm/Storm backs thymia during €2.4M seed round | Austrian fund Calm/Storm backs thymia during €2.4M seed round
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| 27.07.2023 | UK's thymia raises $2.7 million to expand its AI approach to diagnosing mental health struggles through gamification | thymia is taking an AI approach to diagnosing mental health symptoms and treatment plans through gamified AI tools. Using its proprietary data set which it claims is one of the largest in the world with over one billion data points collecte... |
| 19.06.2023 | Лучшие города Великобритании для стартапа сегодня | 0 Обсудить
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| 21.05.2023 | 10 Лучших акселераторов для стартапов | 0 Обсудить
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| 15.04.2023 | The 5 things to remember when you’re looking for a co-founder | Finding a co-founder is one of the most important things to get right when founding a startup. But it’s also one of the most difficult.
Your co-founder partnership is the foundation of your startup, and key to long-term success. Yet too man... |
| 14.04.2023 | 500 Global spreads its wings across the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, via Tbilisi | European accelerators are going through an interesting time right now. For instance, TechStars Stockholm was all set to launch and then abruptly shut down. And I think it’s now commonly accepted that most accelerators outside of YCombinator... |
| 12.04.2023 | Spotted Zebra lands $1.8 million to close the skills gap | London-based start-up Spotted Zebra has raised $1.8 million in seed funding to help close the skills gap with its skills-based workforce management platform.
The round was led by Playfair Capital and includes Entrepreneur First.
“We are exc... |
| 21.03.2023 | Entrepreneur First Backs Indian Students to be the Next World-Changing Founders with the Launch of its Graduate Program | Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Entrepreneur First (EF) is an early-stage talent investing firm that hand-selects exceptionally talented individuals and brings them together to build globally impactful companies from scratch. Established in Ind... |
| 11.03.2023 | SVB contagion: UK arm shuts down, government scrambles and startups brace for the worst | As of late Thursday night and Friday morning, the fallout from the shutdown of Silicon Valley Bank in the US had reached the shores of the UK and Europe. Yesterday afternoon, the Bank of England sought a court order to place Silicon Valley ... |
| 03.02.2023 | Finnish Maki Ventures co-leads €3.4M seed round for Ever Dye, a French deeptech | Finnish Maki Ventures co-leads €3.4M seed round for Ever Dye, a French deeptech
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| 02.02.2023 | Paris-based Ever Dye raises €3.4M to develop sustainable dyes for the textile industry | Paris-based Ever Dye, a deep-tech startup, announced on Wednesday, February 1, that it has raised €3.4M in a Seed round of funding. The startup creates a chemical method for textile dyeing factories to colour fibres quickly, efficiently, an... |
| 01.02.2023 | Baking up deep hues, France's Ever Dye raises €3.4 million | Taking inspiration from the Parisian artisan landscape, Ever Dye is working on dye products sans chemical agents to radically cut down on textiles carbon emissions.
To get its product out the door Ever Dye just raised €3.4 million in seed f... |
| 06.12.2022 | Customer intelligence platform Chattermill raises $26 million | London-based Chattermill has raised $26 million in a Series B funding round that will see the company press forward with its expansion plans in both European and U.S. markets. While the economic downturn is hitting bottom lines across the b... |
| 30.11.2022 | Rouvia bags €2.9 million to link up multi-mode logistics | rouvia, a logistics visibility software startup based out of Berlin, has generated €2.9 million in its latest fundraise.
The round was co-led by Cavalry Ventures and Dynamo Ventures and also featured Entrepreneur First, Angel Invest, Preque... |
| 27.10.2022 | Bioengineered houseplant Neo P1 purifies your home | What if you could have a perfectly crafted house plant which would improve human health and help fight climate change? Well, you can, and it probably has one of the easiest houseplant names to pronounce Neo P1. It may also be the easiest to... |
| 23.09.2022 | Molten Ventures backs UK startup Hadean with $30 million to power the metaverse | The current virtual worlds seem to offer limited experience - small scale, siloed, and insecure and mass adoption of the metaverse can be a gamechanger.
London-based deep tech startup Hadean has raised $30 million in funding to build out it... |
| 26.07.2022 | Struck Capital ploughs $15M into spinning up its own startups | What do you do when you get pitched a bunch of really nice startups but you think you can do even better? You roll your own, of course. Or, at least, that’s what Struck Capital is giving a whirl with a $15 million fund and a team of experie... |
| 02.07.2022 | Ring ring ring ring Solanaphone | Welcome back to Chain Reaction.
Last week, we talked about the NFT community being down bad but still down to party. This week, we’re looking at the desperation of web3 startups for a post-Apple tech industry.
If you want to get this in you... |
| 30.06.2022 | Modsy, an interior design startup founded by a Google Ventures partner, is shutting down its design business and splitting ties with designers | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
As the markets continue to plunge and venture investors pull back, a digital interior design star... |
| 29.06.2022 | UK’s Entrepreneur First raises €150M to invest in the next generation of global innovators | Entrepreneur First (EF), a UK-based global talent investor, announced on Wednesday that it has secured $158M (approximately €150M) in a Series C round of funding.
The fresh funds will enable Entrepreneur First to invest in new startups and ... |
| 29.06.2022 | A who’s who of founders-turned-investors pump $158 million into London’s Entrepreneur First | Self-billed as, “The best place in the world to meet your co-founder”, London-based scaleup investor in early-stage founder talent Entrepreneur First has raised $158 million in a Series C funding round.
The Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford-... |
| 29.06.2022 | Entrepreneur First Raises $158M Series C Funding Round | Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford
Entrepreneur First, a London, UK-based early stage investor, raised a $158m Series C funding round.
Backers included: Patrick and John Collison (co-founders of Stripe), Taavet Hinrikus (co-founder of Wise), ... |
| 28.06.2022 | Entrepreneur First raises $158M at a $560M valuation, adding Stripe’s Collison brothers to its list of backers | Entrepreneur First made a name for itself a decade ago in its home base of London, and then further afield, for the novel approach it takes to tech investing: Rather than seek out interesting, scaling startups like typical VCs, it backs fou... |
| 22.06.2022 | Stripe, LinkedIn execs back Entrepreneur First’s $158m raise | InvestmentsNewsStartups
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Entrepreneur First (EF), a UK-based startup enabler, has raised US$158 million in an oversubscribed series C round and an... |
| 14.06.2022 | Friday Finance requests permission to buzz the tower with fresh $20 million | Berlin-based Friday Finance has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Molten Ventures. The thrust will provide the craft with the lift needed to expand into several new markets, continue the development of both its product a... |
| 04.05.2022 | SoundCloud snaps up AI-based audio and music company Musiio to mine for gold | Seeking to further bolster its music intelligence capabilities, SoundCloud has acquired Singapore-based Musiio. SoundCloud is expecting to further pan for gold, in both music and the artists that produce it, amongst its mountains of data, w... |
| 28.02.2022 | London startup nabs $2.8 million to help parents invest in their kid’s financial future | The financial services industry is dominated by single-user products, designed for individuals managing money on their own. And whilst this works for a certain group of people, more and more digitally native parents want a more collaborativ... |
| 14.02.2022 | A Failure To Build Is Threatening The U.K.’s European Startup Crown | The high cost of housing is preventing British founders from starting and scaling their companies according to a new report. Endorsed by 60 business leaders, including Entrepreneur First’s Matt Clifford MBE, Yo Company’s Simon Woodroffe OBE... |
| 04.02.2022 | What does your genetic data tell about you? Berlin’s Nostos Genomics raises €5 million to speed up disease diagnosis | Berlin-based AI driven genetic analysis platform Nostos Genomics has raised a €5 million seed funding from 42CAP, Frontline Ventures, Amino Collective and Entrepreneur First. Other investors in the round included Konstantin Mehl (Kaia Healt... |
| 07.12.2021 | Four startups from initial Entrepreneur First Toronto cohort raise collective $5.7 million CAD | As part of Entrepreneur First Toronto’s initial cohort in the city, startups TriplePlay (formerly Lobby), Vivid Machines, getware.ai, and OutPoint have raised a collective $4.5 million USD ($5.7 million CAD) in seed funding.
Entrepreneur Fi... |
| 15.11.2021 | Entrepreneur First launches partnership with Tezos to spin up Web3 startups | Entrepreneur First, an accelerator-come-company builder, is partnering with the Tezos crypto platform to attract new potential founders to web3. EF specializes in putting together early-career co-founders, developing their ideas, and puttin... |
| 24.08.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Ai Palette raises $4.4m to help brands predict the food trends of the future | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Ai Palette.
Food trend-spotting platform Ai Palette has raised $4.4 million in Series A funding, AFN can exclusively reveal.
Indian VC firms Exfinity Venture Partners and pi Vent... |
| 20.07.2021 | How we built an AI unicorn in 6 years | Alex Dalyac Contributor
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Today, Tractable is worth $1 billion. Our AI is used by millions of peop... |
| 01.07.2021 | Nodes and Links raises £7.9 million, aims to bring projects home on time, on budget | Nodes and Links uses AI to minimise human error in a number of large-scale engineering projects. Through detailed analysis the startups’ Aegis platform provides project and risk managers with real-time data that helps ensure trillion dollar... |
| 22.06.2021 | Airbank receives €2.5 million with scouts from Accel and Sequoia on board | The Berlin-based fintech aimed at helping startups and SMB’s better manage their cash, Airbank, has closed a €2.5 million seed round that saw backing from Accel scout Luca Ascani, and Sequoia scout Marc McCabe.
Founded in January of this ye... |
| 10.06.2021 | What SOSV’s Climate Tech 100 tells founders about investors in the space | Benjamin Joffe Contributor
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| 27.05.2021 | Startup Nation Series: The Singapore startup ecosystem | What comes to your mind when you think about Singapore? Skyscrapers, beautiful aquariums or the Merlion? But these aren’t the only attractions of the Lion City. Many entrepreneurs believe that Singapore is a ‘startup paradise’. In this part... |
| 25.04.2021 | 10 Global Accelerator Programs That Could Be Excellent Opportunities For Bangladeshi Founders | 1. Y Combinator: Y Combinator is a Silicon Valley-based accelerator program. Founded in 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Trevor Blackwell, and Robert Morris, YC is considered to be one of the top startup accelerator programs in the ... |
| 12.03.2021 | Top 10 Startup Accelerators in the United Kingdom | One of the most popular methods used to identify high-growth potential startups is to find out if they have gone through an accelerator program. This is especially true if we only consider programs that validate the ambition of startups and... |
| 11.02.2021 | Which Funds Are Funding Black Founders? (And How Can You Get Some?) | Black founder getting funded.getty |
| 21.12.2020 | Better Dairy Secures US$2.1M Seed Funding For Its Animal-Free Fermentation Dairy | 1
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| 10.12.2020 | Candu.ai Raises $5M Seed Led by Two Sigma Ventures to Bring Their No-Code Web Builder to SaaS
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| 10.12.2020 | 51 VCs Who Want To Invest In Women, Black And Latinx, And LGBTQ+ Founders | Erica Chidi, co-founder and chief executive officer of Loom, speaks during the 2020 Makers ... [+] Conference in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. The event gathers industry leading females for roundtable discussio... |
| 10.12.2020 | Candu raises $5M to help software companies onboard users intelligently | This morning Candu, a software startup that provides no-code web tools for SaaS apps, announced a $5 million funding round.
TechCrunch caught up with founder Jonathan Anderson and lead investor Villi Iltchev, a partner at Two Sigma Ventures... |
| 03.12.2020 | Joe White MBE appointed new UK Consul-General in SF, with new Technology Envoy role | Joe White MBE — a general partner of Entrepreneur First, a Greylock-backed early-stage deep tech fund — is leaving after being appointed as Her Majesty’s Consul-General, San Francisco, and Technology Envoy to the United States in a new, com... |
| 09.10.2020 | EU-Startups Podcast / Episode 7: European Investors pitching their VC firm/focus to you | For the 7th episode of the EU-Startups Podcast we invited European venture capital investors to come on air and to pitch their VC firm and investment focus. For further information, the links to those firms can be found in the show notes be... |
| 23.08.2020 | 4 причины, зачем IT компаниям и стартапам открывать компанию в Великобритании | 1. Сэкономить на налогах
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| 21.08.2020 | How to raise your first VC fund | Charles Yu Contributor
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| 17.07.2020 | 5 ASEAN startups tackling the messy middle of the agrifood value chain | While the bulk of agrifoodtech VC funding in Southeast Asia went to downstream categories in 2019, startups sitting in the middle of the value chain are increasingly attracting interest from investors.
According to AgFunder’s first-ever ASE... |
| 15.07.2020 | Startup India – Your Path To A Successful Business In India | Invest India, the national investment promotion agency & facilitation agency is the first point of reference for investors in India
Startup India, an initiative hosted by Invest India, focuses on the promotion of the Indian startup ecos... |
| 19.05.2020 | Former Andreessen Horowitz partner Benedict Evans joins EF as venture partner | Entrepreneur First (EF), the London-headquartered “talent investor” that backs individuals pre-team and pre-idea to enable them to found startups, has appointed former Andreessen Horowitz partner Benedict Evans as a venture partner.
A well-... |
| 15.05.2020 | A Global Perspective: COVID’s Impact On European And American Female Founders & VCs | 14 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Many horror stories have recently come out about layoffs in the startup world, in both the U.S. and Europe. From Bird and Eventbrite to Yelp and Lyft, thousands of tech employees have been furloughe... |
| 10.04.2020 | Tips, tactics and cashflow strategies for startup survival during a crisis | Joe White Contributor
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| 26.03.2020 | Meet the European startups that pitched at EF’s 13th (and first virtual) Demo Day | Entrepreneur First (EF), the the London-headquartered company builder and “talent first” investor, unveiled its latest cohort of “deep tech” companies in a first virtual Demo Day, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Presenting startups, in... |
| 13.03.2020 | Singapore cybersecurity firm raises USD 1 million from SGInnovate, Atlas, Entrepreneur First | Singapore-based cybersecurity startup Right-Hand has secured USD 1 million in a seed funding round led by local early-stage VC fund Atlas Ventures.
SGInnovate, an investment firm backed by the Singapore government, and Entrepreneur First al... |
| 17.12.2019 | EF’s Matt Wichrowski is joining Berlin enterprise and ‘deeptech’ seed firm Fly Ventures as partner | Entrepeneur First, the London-headquartered “talent investor” and company builder backed by Silicon Valley’s Greylock, is losing long-time employee Matt Wichrowski to a career in venture capital.
TechCrunch has learned that Wichrowski, who ... |
| 15.10.2019 | Entrepreneur First, the ‘talent investor,’ pulls out of Hong Kong | Entrepreneur First (EF), the Greylock-backed “talent investor” that recruits and backs individuals pre-team and pre-idea to enable them to found startups, is pulling out of Hong Kong, TechCrunch has learned.
According to sources, the London... |
| 23.09.2019 | Entrepreneur First, the ‘talent investor,’ to launch in Toronto, Canada early next year | Entrepreneur First (EF), the London-headquartered “talent investor” that recruits and backs individuals pre-team and pre-idea to enable them to found startups, has announced its plans to expand to Canada.
It marks the first time EF has ente... |
| 12.06.2019 | Why I Moved From San Francisco To Europe To Invest In Tech | Growth of European Unicorns Data from Invest Europe |
| 29.05.2019 | How To Navigate The Journey To Series A: Lessons From Investors And Their Portfolios | Compass Poprotskiy Alexey ShutterStock |
| 12.04.2019 | The Student Room Founder Charles Delingpole Talks Building A Business At University | Charles Delingpole founded The Student Room when he was a teenager Balderton |
| 27.03.2019 | Meet the European startups that pitched at EF’s 11th Demo Day in London | Entrepreneur First (EF), the company builder and “talent first” investor, held its eleventh Demo Day in London this afternoon. The event included newly formed startups from EF’s London, Berlin and Paris cohorts, and represented a showcase o... |
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| 19.02.2019 | EF raises $115M new fund, aiming to create another 300-plus startups in the next three years | Entrepreneur First (EF), the London-headquartered “talent investor” that recruits and backs individuals pre-team and pre-idea to enable them to found startups, has raised a new fund of its own to continue scaling globally.
The $115 million ... |
| 29.01.2019 | Entrepreneur First eyes further Asia growth to build its global network of founders | British startup venture builder Entrepreneur First is eyeing additional expansion in Asia, where its operation is now as large as it is in Europe, as it expands its reach in 2019. But despite serving a varied mixture of markets, the company... |
| 08.01.2019 | London-based AR mapping startup Scape Technologies emerges from stealth after raising €7 million | As augmented reality headsets, autonomous vehicles, and drones become more common, they will need to operate safely alongside people, and therefore have to understand the physical world with more detail than ever before.
To create these kin... |
| 20.11.2018 | London’s startup ecosystem at a glance | Without a doubt, London is an exceptional place for startup development. The third largest tech hub in the world, and leading startup hub in Europe, is known for its vibrant community, a high concentration of capital and a massive concentra... |
| 14.10.2018 | Entrepreneur First, the company builder backed by Greylock, lands in Bangalore | Entrepreneur First (EF), the London-HQ’d company builder that invests in individuals “pre-team, pre-idea” to enable them to found new startups, is scaling up rapidly, as it promised to so. Already running programs in Paris, Berlin, London, ... |
| 27.09.2018 | Meet the startups that pitched at EF’s 10th Demo Day in London | Entrepreneur First (EF), the company builder and “talent first” investor, held its tenth London Demo Day this afternoon. This time around the even had a decidedly more international bent as it combined pitches from the London and recently l... |
| 24.08.2018 | UK Government-Backed Accelerator Will Sponsor Blockchain Startups | Blockchain startups seeking to expand to the U.K. might find that now is a good time to do so.
In its most recent update for entrepreneurs wishing to set up businesses in the U.K., the Department for International Trade announced that Entre... |
| 05.07.2018 | Entrepreneur First, the company builder backed by Greylock, expands to Paris | Entrepreneur First (EF), the London-HQ’d company builder that invests in individuals “pre-team, pre-idea” to help those individuals found new startups, is continuing to expand internationally. After adding an outpost and program in Singapor... |
| 07.05.2018 | Entrepreneur First is recruiting for its fourth cohort, Singapore | Entrepreneur First (EF), the London-founded accelerator, launched a Singapore programme to help build Singapore’s startup and innovation community in 2016, which since has had 2,400 applications from aspiring entrepreneurs. EF has already b... |
| 20.04.2018 | Musiio uses AI to help the music industry curate tracks more efficiently | A former streaming industry exec and an AI specialist walk into a bar… they leave starting an AI company for the music industry.
That’s not exactly how Singapore-based startup Musiio was formed, but it’s close enough — and the outcome is th... |
| 22.03.2018 | Entrepreneur First, the London-based company builder backed by Greylock, expands to Hong Kong | When Silicon Valley’s Greylock Partners led Entrepreneur First‘s $12.4 million funding round in September, Greylock’s Reid Hoffman said he could see the company builder expanding to “20 or 30 or 40 cities, maybe even 50“. Since then, EF has... |
| 22.03.2018 | Meet the startups that pitched at EF’s 9th Demo Day in London | Entrepreneur First (EF), the company builder and “talent first” investor, held its ninth London Demo Day this afternoon. Once again, the pitches took place in front of a packed crowd at King’s Place in London’s King Cross area, seeing 19 st... |
| 17.01.2018 | Company builder Entrepreneur First is expanding to Berlin | Entrepreneur First (EF), the London-headquartered company builder that invests in individuals “pre-team, pre-idea” to help create new technology startups, is continuing to expand internationally. Following adding an outpost and program in S... |
| 20.09.2017 | Nova wants to be the technical cofounder that helps more people build startups | This article was originally posted on the Tech North website.
As the North of England’s tech ecosystem develops, so does its investment scene. Where once there were a handful of angels and VCs, and a couple of accelerators, we now have a d... |
| 15.09.2017 | Meet the startups that just pitched at EF’s 8th Demo Day in London | Entrepreneur First (EF), the company builder and “talent first” investor, has just held Demo Day for its eighth London cohort, seeing 14 newly formed startups pitch their wares onstage to investors, press and other actors in the European te... |
| 13.09.2017 | Entrepreneur First Raises $12M in Funding | Entrepreneur First, a London, UK-based startup accelerator, raised $12m in funding.
Backers included Greylock Partners, Mosaic Ventures, Founders Fund, Lakestar, Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman (DeepMind) Rob Bi... |
| 12.09.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, September 12 | ROBOT LAWYER
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| 11.09.2017 | Company builder Entrepreneur First raises $12.4M led by Greylock, Reid Hoffman joins board | Well, this is quite a coup. Entrepreneur First (EF), the London-headquartered company builder that invests in individuals “pre-team, pre-idea” to help create new technology startups, has raised $12.4 million in new funding led by Silicon Va... |
| 26.06.2017 | Company builder Entrepreneur First hires ex-Yahoo and Googler as new London head | In a recent conversation I had with a London VC, the topic of Entrepreneur First came up, as we compared notes on how far the company builder has come since its early days when the jury was well and truly out.
“What people need to remember,... |
