Prior to joining EF, Neel has over 7 years of deep finance experience having worked at 3 top-tier investment funds managing >$150bn.
Some of our most successful companies have been built by co-founders with a combination of technical and domain expertise. Entrepreneur First is the world’s leading talent investor.
We’re most excited by applications of new and emerging technologies applied to hard or underserved problems. We invest time and money in the world’s most talented and ambitious individuals, helping them to find a co-founder, develop an idea, and start a company. You can see our VPs The company you create does. Entrepreneur First does not own any IP that belongs to your company, and does not take a proportion of your profits.
We bring together an extraordinary collection of people, from experienced industry experts to top technologists and academics – and even extraordinary people right at the start of their careers. To start we will pay you £2,000 per month in London / S$5,000 per a month in Singapore or equivalent in Bangalore / €2,000 a month in Berlin or Paris for 3 months during Form. The process took 2 weeks.
We’ll facilitate team-building and ideation and have several frameworks and tools to help you reach the strongest founder-idea fit. Entrepreneur First backs founders and individuals to build deep tech startups from scratch. The second is that we believe in urgency and not delaying building the company you believe should exist. Join the world's largest venture builder backed by Greylock, Founders Fund, Mosaic and more. Transcelestial is developing a ground breaking satellite communications network, using proprietary laser technology to transfer data 1000 times faster than current wireless technologies, across any distance. We will work with you to help you figure out what the best next steps might look like and support you along the way. Ambitious individuals have joined from Google and Goldman Sachs, Alibaba and Amazon, MIT and NUS. Regardless of what you choose to do you will always be part of the Entrepreneur First community – and perhaps even re-apply to join a later cohort, as many have done.
Some Entrepreneur First alumni first worked for our before joining the programme. We’re most interested in building companies which are technically defensible and can become globally significant.On our Launch programme you will have a VP check in once a week. There is also no need to give the stipend back – that is yours to keep.No, though many companies choose to stay in these locations. More than that, though, our companies have had a transformative impact on certain industries.
We’ve also had companies achieve early success, like Magic Pony Technology, who were acquired by Twitter for $150m just 18 months after the founders met on the programme.Discovering better drugs, quicker and at half the cost.Kheiron’s Machine Learning technology makes cancer diagnoses faster, easier, cheaper and more accurate.A space data network using lasers to transfer data at up to 1000x faster than what is currently available.Technology that can automate the work of any expert that’s paid to inspect things, in any domain, at near zero marginal cost. Pencil is the world’s first creative AI platform for digital advertising teams in brands and agencies. So far, we’ve helped 2,000+ people create 300+ companies, worth a combined $2bnRight now, the world’s most ambitious people are held back by corporate and cultural convention. These check ins are a critical part of your development throughout Entrepreneur First. She has a PhD and a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a dual degree in Biomedical Engineering. She has published more than 50 papers with 1000 citations and an entire book on generative networks. If you don’t come from a technical background but have strong beliefs formed from working in industry we’d welcome an application from you. Company builder Entrepreneur First completed its inaugural Singapore program in an Investor Day that saw 12 teams pitch to investors and industry players.. So far, we’ve helped 2,000+ people create 300+ companies, worth a combined $2bn
Ambitious individuals have joined from Google and Goldman Sachs, Alibaba and Amazon, MIT and NUS. You can view the backgrounds of some of our technical founder alumni You are still eligible to apply if you have taken a very small amount of investment or been awarded a grant. You can view our full portfolio of companies To date Entrepreneur First has built over 200 companies which have gone on to be collectively valued at $1.5bn. We have companies based in the US, South Africa, Netherlands and China as well as many other locations.Entrepreneur First funds you as an individual from Day 1, and if you form a company, we are your first investor. You can read more about our thoughts on the opportunity cost involved in not starting now No – we don’t tell you what to work on or give you ideas. Optimal applies bleeding-edge Deep Reinforcement Learning to create highly-intelligent autopilots for farms. Building a successful company requires full-time commitment from day 1 and is almost impossible to do if you’re simultaneously working on something else. We exist to remove that limit.We offer these Outlier individuals the opportunity to start a technology company and use their ambition to have a lasting, powerful impact.Dave rejected a PhD offer from Princeton to join EF and found Optimal Labs (EF7).
It has offices in seven locations; Toronto, London, Berlin, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Bangalore. There was a gap between the two interviews. Entrepreneur First Investment Manager LLP (807367) is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.Not at all – Entrepreneur First is a Talent Investor which means we invest in you before you have a co-founder or incorporated companyWe choose people based on their potential and their desire to make an impact, and our team spends hundreds of hours screening individuals to give you the best shot at finding the right cofounder. Absolutely – we’re strong believers that technically-skilled individuals can make some of the best founders. He built his first business out of his bedroom aged 14.Rather than creating a bank, Cleo sits on top of existing infrastructure to give our users an elegant and user-friendly banking experience. In some locations we can offer support to help you apply for a visa if required and to help you settle into the regions.