Entrepreneur First

Entrepreneur First is a London-headquartered platform and early-stage technology investor that helps ambitious individuals form technology startups by connecting them with potential co-founders, helping develop ideas, and accelerating funding from leading investors. The organization operates across six cities on three continents, supporting high-potential founders to build globally important tech companies. Since inception it has supported hundreds of ventures and built a network of thousands of alumni, with a portfolio valued in the billions. It is backed by prominent tech founders and investors who provide mentorship and capital to accelerate growth.

Milad Alucozai

Venture Partner

Sam Barnett

President

Clémence Bellanger

Principal, Paris

Alice Bentinck

General Partner

Jonny Clifford

Partner and General Partner, London

Matt Clifford

Investor

Philipp Herkelmann

Partner and General Manager

Elspeth Lawson

Partner and Deputy CPO

Christopher Mairs

Venture Partner

Rahul Samat

Partner and General Manager, Banglore

Tom Shinner

Partner and COO

Past deals in Real Time

Level Zero

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Level Zero Health is a technology company specializing in advanced biosensor solutions. It develops wearable devices equipped with DNA-based sensors, designed to precisely monitor key endocrine biomarkers in real-time. By combining biochemistry and nanotechnology, the company collects novel data, empowering users to gain insights into their hormonal health.

Level Zero

Seed Round in 2024
Level Zero Health is a technology company specializing in advanced biosensor solutions. It develops wearable devices equipped with DNA-based sensors, designed to precisely monitor key endocrine biomarkers in real-time. By combining biochemistry and nanotechnology, the company collects novel data, empowering users to gain insights into their hormonal health.

toby

Pre Seed Round in 2024
real-time speech & text translation to work with anyone in any language

Retail Pulse

Seed Round in 2023
Retail Pulse leverages AI to provide real-time insights from millions of Kirana stores, empowering businesses and retailers.

Subconscious Compute

Seed Round in 2022
We compute and attach a “Trust Score” to every endpoint, users, requests, and data in real time. Automate your defences based on “Trust”. Our agents (enabled by Habituation and Novelty ML) observe the sequence of events in your distributed network, and filter out novel but low-trust sequences. We alert you with a soft-causal proof when a potential threat is detected. The alert always comes with an approximate location of potential dangers in both time and space.

Grabbit Live

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Grabbit Live is a live-streaming marketplace where emerging brands and small retailers can host shopping shows and sell in real-time.

Lytehouse

Seed Round in 2021
Lytehouse develops AI-powered security monitoring systems that enhance control room capabilities. Its platform transforms fragmented video data into intelligent alerts, reducing false alarms, increasing operator efficiency, and improving service quality through targeted threat management.

Subconscious Compute

Pre Seed Round in 2021
We compute and attach a “Trust Score” to every endpoint, users, requests, and data in real time. Automate your defences based on “Trust”. Our agents (enabled by Habituation and Novelty ML) observe the sequence of events in your distributed network, and filter out novel but low-trust sequences. We alert you with a soft-causal proof when a potential threat is detected. The alert always comes with an approximate location of potential dangers in both time and space.

Retail Pulse

Seed Round in 2021
Retail Pulse leverages AI to provide real-time insights from millions of Kirana stores, empowering businesses and retailers.

Retail Pulse

Seed Round in 2020
Retail Pulse leverages AI to provide real-time insights from millions of Kirana stores, empowering businesses and retailers.

Playback

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Playback is a video-based e-commerce platform that facilitates live interactions between retailers and brands. The platform enables brands to showcase their products through video presentations and close orders in real-time. It features a comprehensive customer relationship management system that supports video consultations, order processing, payments, messaging, and invoicing. This integrated approach allows brands to create shoppable videos and host virtual events, enhancing their ability to engage with retailers and drive sales.

Phantasma Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Phantasma Labs is a London-based company that develops, owns, and operates a simulation platform that creates datasets and models of human behavior to train autonomous vehicles for optimal responses in extreme situations. Founded in 2018, the company focuses on generating large-scale, realistic simulations of how pedestrians, cyclists, and other road users interact with autonomous systems. Its software-as-a-service platform enables AI and planning systems for self-driving cars to learn from real-life scenarios safely, helping vehicles anticipate human actions and improve decision-making. By simulating real-world driving environments with virtual humans, Phantasma Labs supports the development of AI that can better understand and respond to human behavior, reducing risk in training and testing.

Ackcio

Seed Round in 2020
Ackcio is a developer of real-time, wireless monitoring solutions tailored for industrial applications. The company focuses on enhancing decision-making processes by providing critical project insights through its advanced monitoring systems. These systems integrate with various industrial sensors to wirelessly transmit readings to centralized services, where the data is stored and analyzed. By leveraging this technology, Ackcio enables clients to optimize their operations, reduce costs, and enhance safety, ultimately helping to prevent potential disasters.

Retail Pulse

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Retail Pulse leverages AI to provide real-time insights from millions of Kirana stores, empowering businesses and retailers.

Synchronous

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Synchronous Technologies is a Singapore-based software company specializing in simulation-based artificial intelligence designed to address scheduling challenges in manufacturing, construction, and transportation sectors. The company focuses on enhancing decision-making processes for manufacturers by enabling them to create better production plans in real-time. Synchronous leverages an innovative data paradigm alongside advanced algorithms to generate and continuously update near-optimal production plans and schedules, ensuring that factories can adapt swiftly to changing conditions and make informed operational choices.

Right-Hand Cybersecurity

Seed Round in 2020
Right-Hand Cybersecurity is a developer of an AI-powered platform focused on enhancing cyber and policy awareness within enterprises. Recognizing that 90% of data breaches are attributed to employee error, the company aims to mitigate human risk by analyzing employee behavior in real-time. Its platform generates user behavior analytics and delivers tailored, user-friendly micro-learning tools and training nudges designed to educate employees about their risky behaviors. By personalizing and automating awareness programs, Right-Hand Cybersecurity enables organizations to foster a strong cyber culture and achieve compliance with relevant standards.

Lytehouse

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Lytehouse develops AI-powered security monitoring systems that enhance control room capabilities. Its platform transforms fragmented video data into intelligent alerts, reducing false alarms, increasing operator efficiency, and improving service quality through targeted threat management.

Synchronous

Convertible Note in 2018
Synchronous Technologies is a Singapore-based software company specializing in simulation-based artificial intelligence designed to address scheduling challenges in manufacturing, construction, and transportation sectors. The company focuses on enhancing decision-making processes for manufacturers by enabling them to create better production plans in real-time. Synchronous leverages an innovative data paradigm alongside advanced algorithms to generate and continuously update near-optimal production plans and schedules, ensuring that factories can adapt swiftly to changing conditions and make informed operational choices.

Portcast

Seed Round in 2018
Portcast offers a real-time transportation visibility platform with predictive analytics. It enhances productivity, reduces operational costs, and minimizes carbon emissions through accurate demand forecasting and integration capabilities.

Ackcio

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Ackcio is a developer of real-time, wireless monitoring solutions tailored for industrial applications. The company focuses on enhancing decision-making processes by providing critical project insights through its advanced monitoring systems. These systems integrate with various industrial sensors to wirelessly transmit readings to centralized services, where the data is stored and analyzed. By leveraging this technology, Ackcio enables clients to optimize their operations, reduce costs, and enhance safety, ultimately helping to prevent potential disasters.

Calipsa

Seed Round in 2016
Founded in London in 2016, Calipsa develops an AI-powered video monitoring platform that processes hours of feeds to provide alerts and reports for traffic enforcement, accidents, and public disorder management. Its platform offers features like free health checks, site scheduling, camera management, and ptz/video loss detection, aiming to enhance operator efficiency and reduce installation costs by leveraging existing cameras.

Eblur

Seed Round in 2016
Eblur is a developer of artificial intelligence-based game coaching software designed specifically for eSports games. The company's innovative software acts as an automated coach, utilizing machine learning algorithms trained on data from over 500,000 matches. Eblur's technology automatically captures game elements from the screen, considers team dynamics, and provides real-time analytical feedback during matches. This approach aims to enhance players' performance by offering personalized coaching insights and strategies, thus making the gaming experience more engaging and competitive.

Calipsa

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Founded in London in 2016, Calipsa develops an AI-powered video monitoring platform that processes hours of feeds to provide alerts and reports for traffic enforcement, accidents, and public disorder management. Its platform offers features like free health checks, site scheduling, camera management, and ptz/video loss detection, aiming to enhance operator efficiency and reduce installation costs by leveraging existing cameras.
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