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 Pre-Seed Round

The Personal AI Company

Pre Seed Round in 2025
​Amurex.ai, developed by The Personal AI Company, is an innovative AI meeting copilot designed to enhance productivity and streamline workflows. Functioning as an 'Invisible Companion,' Amurex operates seamlessly in the background, managing tasks, retaining essential information, and supporting users without causing disruptions. ​ Key features of Amurex include:​ - Unified Knowledge Search: Integrates with platforms like Notion, Google Drive, and Obsidian, making your knowledge instantly searchable. ​ - Automated Meeting Management: Transcribes and summarizes meetings, and tracks action items automatically. ​ - Real-Time Assistance: Provides real-time suggestions during meetings to help users stay focused and engaged. ​ Notably, Amurex is fully open-source, allowing users to customize and self-host the platform according to their preferences. By offering a silent, smart companion that handles tasks and supports workflows without interruption, Amurex.ai is redefining how individuals manage their work and personal lives.

Wexler AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Wexler is a fact intelligence platform that aids legal, compliance, HR, and forensic teams in extracting and verifying critical information. It streamlines the process of establishing facts in various disputes, enhancing understanding and reducing uncertainty.

Morse

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Morse automates firmware documentation, tracks progress, and speeds up onboarding, helping engineers innovate and deliver faster.

Trident AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Trident AI is a technology company specializing in AI-driven fraud investigation software. Its mission is to create a world free of fraud victims by employing AI to combat increasingly sophisticated fraudulent activities. The company's software assists banks and fintech businesses worldwide in managing fraud more effectively, reducing false positives, and enhancing genuine fraud detection.

toby

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

ZapMetals

Pre Seed Round in 2023
ZapMetals specializes in manufacturing automation technology for affordable metal prototyping services. Its proprietary robotic machinist enables autonomous production of prototyped and low-volume CNC milling orders, ensuring accurate results with fast turnaround times at competitive prices.

Prefer

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Prefer is a coffee manufacturing company that is bean-free. The company uses fermentation to create coffee from waste. The fermentation process converts upcycled food by-products, from beer, bread, and tofu manufacturing, into these same aroma molecules.

Mirantus Health

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Mirantus Health improves access to specialist healthcare for underserved patients by empowering doctors through its digital-hybrid services. These services combine point-of-care diagnostics with telemedicine, allowing specialists to diagnose and treat patients remotely. This approach enhances patient care, increases physician earnings, and reduces downstream costs for payors.

Sensmore

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Sensmore specializes in AI-driven automation software for heavy machinery. Their platform integrates proprietary perception software with off-the-shelf sensor technology, enhancing operational efficiency, reducing costs, and improving safety in mining operations.

Astronome AI

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Astronome AI develops a management platform that automates IT tasks for small and medium-sized businesses. The platform provides real-time support across multiple channels and uses artificial intelligence to streamline onboarding and offboarding, control application access, and manage security and devices. By standardizing processes and reducing IT costs, the solution helps SMBs streamline IT management and secure their operations.

Ailiverse

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Ailiverse Text2AI AutoDL platform automates deep learning model development with only 1% of the data for training, in a 10X faster speed, and requires zero technical AI expertise from users.

Kaizan

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Kaizan is an AI company that empowers client teams to manage and grow their businesses effectively. It uses conversation intelligence to provide actionable insights, summaries of interactions, risks, and opportunities, enabling teams to retain and expand clients proactively.

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.

Waste Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Waste Labs is a Singapore-based artificial intelligence company focused on optimizing waste collection and promoting recycling and circular supply chains. The company’s AI platform equips cities and waste managers with data-driven insights and prescriptive recommendations, enabling them to map waste flows and design efficient, sustainable waste collection systems. By utilizing both available and proprietary waste data, Waste Labs creates a digital twin model of existing waste collection infrastructures, allowing clients to identify inefficiencies and improve operations. The company serves leading waste management firms and sustainable producers across Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and the UK, striving to enhance environmental sustainability through advanced technology.

Character

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Character is a developer of a friend-finding application designed to facilitate new connections among users. The app employs a unique approach by matching individuals based on a variety of thought-provoking questions. This innovative method aims to help millennials, particularly those who have recently relocated, to establish meaningful friendships in their new environments. By fostering connections through engaging and reflective inquiries, Character seeks to enhance social interactions and support users in building their social networks.

Text Cortex AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Text Cortex AI provides an innovative platform that utilizes customizable AI-based technology to assist businesses with content creation. Recognizing that many organizations struggle with generating text for various needs, including product descriptions, blogs, and landing pages, the platform aims to streamline the writing process. By employing natural language generation, Text Cortex AI significantly reduces the time required for content creation, allowing users to produce large volumes of text efficiently. The service is accessible through both a web application and an API, which facilitates seamless integration into existing workflows. Through its solutions, Text Cortex AI enables businesses to enhance their content marketing strategies and unlock sustainable growth in their communication efforts.

The Lowdown

Pre Seed Round in 2021
The Lowdown is an online platform based in London that helps women choose, access and use contraception and reproductive healthcare. Founded in 2019, it combines user-generated content with medical guidance to provide information, reviews and prescriptions where available. The platform emphasizes a community-first approach, allowing users to share experiences with different contraceptive methods, compare symptoms and side effects, and obtain real-world advice to support informed decisions about hormonal and non-hormonal options.

Powerhouse AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Powerhouse AI offers automated processes that turn warehouses into powerhouses, such as counting pallets and boxes, supporting cycle counting, reading bar- and qr-codes, checking correct placement, supporting stocktakes and audits, supporting goods received, and providing audit reports.

Friday Finance

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Friday Finance is a financial management platform based in Berlin, Germany, designed for startups and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Europe. Established in 2021, the company aims to simplify B2B finance by offering tools that facilitate the collection, payment, and financing of invoices. Its platform integrates with users' existing bank accounts, providing real-time insights into cash flow while enabling businesses to pay bills, create financial forecasts, and streamline their month-end closing processes. By centralizing various financial functions, Friday Finance enhances control, visibility, and automation for finance teams, ultimately helping businesses save time and operate more efficiently.

NeuroPixel.AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
NeuroPixel.AI is a deep-tech platform specializing in apparel cataloging through advanced AI and machine learning technologies. The company has developed a proprietary framework known as DeepNet, which streamlines the process of creating high-quality catalog images for online retail. By allowing clients to photograph apparel on a mannequin, NeuroPixel.AI enables the generation of realistic images that showcase the clothing as if worn by models in various poses. This innovative approach not only enhances the visual appeal of online storefronts but also offers a cost-effective solution for retailers looking to improve their product presentation.

ImmunitoAI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
ImmunitoAI is a biotechnology platform focused on transforming antibody discovery and therapeutics through the use of artificial intelligence. The company has developed an AI-powered system that accelerates the creation of novel antibody therapeutics by generating new antibodies and antibody fragments against any epitope, independent of biological sources such as animals or humans. This innovative approach allows healthcare institutions to streamline their processes, ultimately saving time and reducing costs while enhancing efficiency in the development of targeted treatments.

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.

Rightbot

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Rightbot develops AI-driven robotics technology for warehouse automation. Their autonomous mobile robots specialize in bin-picking, automating tasks such as order fulfillment, inventory replenishment, cycle audit, and consolidation.

Expertia.AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Expertia is a platform that provides Deep Learning, Natural language processing (NLP) and Explainable AI to predict the right candidate.

Aspiro

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Aspiro is a company that specializes in voice AI-driven sales coaching through its software as a service (SaaS) platform. The solution is designed to provide continuous, automated coaching for sales teams, allowing sales leaders to onboard and develop their representatives effectively. Aspiro's software tailors sales tactics to various buyer personas and situations, offering instant feedback and performance scores. It enhances essential skills such as speaking, critical thinking, creativity, listening, and persuasion. Additionally, the platform features fully automated conversational role-plays, equipping sales representatives with contextual inputs that align with their specific product and personal selling style.

Reti Health

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Reti Health develops a medical device that prevents heart attacks and strokes by enabling early detection of cardiovascular disease through retinal image screening during routine eye examinations.

Gensyn

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Gensyn develops a machine learning computing protocol that connects global compute hardware resources like GPUs and CPUs. It enables engineers, researchers, and academics to access these resources securely for deep learning models without compromising data privacy or compliance.

Nanofy

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Nanofy Technologies was an industrial solutions developer specializing in nano-materials, founded during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of Entrepreneur First's 8th Singapore cohort. The company focused on creating a self-disinfection coating designed to eliminate microbes upon contact by harnessing visible light to generate photocatalytic reactions. This innovative technology aimed to reduce the spread of pathogens in high-traffic indoor environments. After a year of research and development, Nanofy struggled to compete with established technologies in ISO-certified trials, leading to its closure in September 2021 due to an inability to progress beyond pilot implementations.

Thermosphr

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Thermosphr is a technology startup specializing in end-to-end solutions for optimizing energy usage in commercial buildings. Its core product is a thermal management platform that employs predictive control and real-time remote management to enhance the efficiency of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. This results in reduced energy consumption and carbon footprint, while maintaining optimal indoor conditions for occupants.

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.

ThinkSono

Pre Seed Round in 2020
ThinkSono Ltd is a London-based company that specializes in the development of software for diagnosing deep vein thrombosis (DVT) at the point of care. Founded in 2016, the firm has created an innovative automatic diagnostic system that leverages deep learning technologies to guide healthcare professionals in using a portable scanner. This system instructs users on where to place the probe on the skin to capture ultrasound images, facilitating rapid diagnosis. By enabling healthcare providers to assess DVT within ten minutes, ThinkSono aims to improve patient outcomes and streamline the diagnostic process in various medical settings.

Nostos Genomics

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Nostos Genomics partners with genetic testing labs to accelerate diagnoses for individuals with genetic diseases. Their platform combines machine learning and synthetic biology to enhance diagnostic accuracy and efficiency.

Cargoflip

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Cargoflip is a platform that helps small and medium-sized companies manage international trade and export documentation. It provides an online logistics solution to simplify shipments by streamlining shipping documents and communications, and by enabling collaboration among logistics providers. The product generates trade documents, supports track and trace, performs compliance checks, and shares updates with partners to expand cross-border trade. By leveraging data-driven processes, it aims to improve efficiency and visibility across the supply chain.

Better Dairy

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Better Dairy produces dairy alternatives using precision fermentation. It creates animal-free versions of cheese, yogurt, and ice cream that are molecularly identical to traditional dairy products, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Ambify

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Ambify Ltd is an environmental health technology company that specializes in developing integrated hardware and software solutions for monitoring environmental health risks. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom, Ambify offers wearable devices equipped with sensors to track exposures to various pollutants, including air quality, noise, and vibration levels. The company’s platform enables real-time and continuous monitoring of environmental health risk factors, empowering individuals, employers, healthcare systems, and policymakers to take informed actions to mitigate the effects of environmental pollutants on health.

Verchable

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Verchable Limited is an artificial intelligence company based in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2019. It specializes in video understanding through advanced computer vision technology. Verchable's software detects people, places, and actions within videos, automatically generating metadata tags that enhance the searchability and readability of video content. This innovative approach enables users to better comprehend the contents of their videos, making it easier to identify relevant information at scale.

Niostem

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Niostem is a startup developing a wearable device that harnesses the body's regenerative potential to stimulate hair growth and prevent baldness. This non-invasive solution aims to restore natural hair regeneration without relying on drugs or surgical procedures.

PixCap

Pre Seed Round in 2019
PixCap is a web-based platform that enables designers to discover, customize, and export 3D designs for various applications such as images, videos, websites, and merchandise. Its mission is to democratize 3D design for the internet.

Sepsitron

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Sepsitron is a medical diagnostic technology company focused on the early detection of blood infections. Its innovative approach utilizes a combination of unique biomarkers, microfluidics, and advanced electronics to enable rapid identification of multiple pathogens—including viral, bacterial, parasitic, and fungal—using a single test. The device is designed for point-of-care applications, offering a significant advantage by delivering results 50 times faster and at one-tenth the cost of conventional methods. Importantly, Sepsitron's tests do not require any sample pre-processing and can analyze whole blood samples, allowing healthcare professionals to diagnose and initiate treatment for infections more efficiently.

ShapeNine

Pre Seed Round in 2019
ShapeNine Ltd is a London-based company established in 2019 that specializes in the development of software for designing deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) structures. Utilizing artificial intelligence and advanced algorithms, ShapeNine creates low-cost biomolecules for one-step purification of proteins and biologicals. The company's innovative platform leverages DNA as an engineering material, allowing for the precise control of industrial applications at the nanoscale. This technology is particularly beneficial for the biochemical, electronic, and pharmaceutical industries, enabling customers to implement functional designs tailored for specific tasks.

AarogyaAI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
AarogyaAI is an artificial intelligence driven software as a service that diagnoses drug-resistant infections, including drug-resistant tuberculosis. It accepts a patient's DNA sequence via a cloud-based platform and, using machine-learning algorithms, provides a comprehensive drug susceptibility report within hours, enabling healthcare providers to select effective treatment options and drug combinations promptly.

Donut

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Donut is a financial technology company that facilitates wealth building through its innovative platform focused on decentralized finance (DeFi). Founded in 2018 and dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin, Donut offers users a straightforward and reliable method to access both fixed and variable yields. The platform effectively bridges traditional finance and DeFi, providing a fast mobile onramp experience that is designed to be accessible, educational, and transparent. By prioritizing user experience, Donut enables individuals to save and earn competitive yields, making it easier for them to explore new financial opportunities.

Rosecut

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Rosecut is a London-based digital wealth management platform that uses artificial intelligence to design and recommend personal goals and investment strategies. Founded in 2018, it provides bespoke guidance, active investment management, and visibility of wealth to support long-term wealth generation and proactive risk management, combining AI insights with input from private banking professionals.

Panakeia Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Panakeia simplifies and accelerates cancer diagnosis through its AI-driven diagnostics platform. By analyzing biopsy images, it helps pathologists locate cancer tissues, enabling precise visual analysis of tissue samples, ultimately reducing diagnostic costs per patient.

Wavel.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Wavel.ai specializes in voice AI solutions for scaling and localizing video content. Its intelligent speech-to-text and text-to-speech AI enables generation of subtitles in over 70 languages, dubbing videos in real-time across multiple languages with minimal effort.

Split

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Split is a Southeast Asian fintech startup that facilitates buy now pay later (BNPL) services for businesses across various platforms such as ecommerce, retail, and social commerce. Its platform integrates with websites or applications, allowing consumers to split their purchases into interest-free installments, thereby providing businesses an additional payment option for their customers.

BlockPunk

Pre Seed Round in 2018
BlockPunk is an entertainment startup focused on empowering creators through blockchain technology, allowing them to exert greater control over their digital rights. The company has developed a platform that enables creators to transform their digital artwork into scarce collectible merchandise, facilitating the sale of digital goods. By utilizing blockchain, BlockPunk provides proof of authenticity, ensuring true digital ownership for both creators and fans. The company gained recognition for launching the world's first sale of anime crypto goods and has established partnerships with prominent producers in Japan. Through its innovative approach, BlockPunk is at the forefront of decentralizing the film and television industry, with a particular emphasis on anime as its initial market.

Neurobit

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Neurobit develops Software as a Medical Device powered by AI that analyzes sleep vitals to identify sleep biomarkers and support predictive, precision health. The company aims to deliver universally accessible health analytics to improve care quality and efficiency for clinicians and patients. Its Biomarker Bridge initiative creates a collaborative platform linking AI-driven biomarker developers to accelerate integration of digital biomarkers into clinical practice. Neurobit's platform functions as a medical device for sleep and respiratory disorder units and as a clinical trial portal for large-scale population studies, applying machine learning and acoustic neurofeedback to understand and optimize sleep. Used by leading universities, hospitals, and R&D centers worldwide, the technology supports research, diagnosis, and treatment planning in cardiopulmonary and neurological contexts.

Medo.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Medo.ai develops AI-assisted ultrasound technology aimed at bringing expert-level ultrasound diagnosis to point-of-care settings. The company combines artificial intelligence and cloud computing with ultrasound devices to enable clinicians, including novices, to perform and interpret scans with guidance, reducing the need for on-site specialists. Its technology supports applications across settings such as newborn screening in remote locations, home monitoring of elderly patients, trauma assessment in emergency rooms, and routine liver and kidney evaluations in family practice, aiming to improve accessibility, efficiency, and early diagnosis.

ConnectMed

Pre Seed Round in 2017
ConnectedMed builds digital therapeutics platform that allows patients to manage their primary and chronic care needs.

Lemnis Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Lemnis Technologies Pte. Ltd., founded in 2017 and headquartered in Singapore, specializes in the development of virtual reality and augmented reality headsets. The company is committed to advancing mixed reality as a viable computing platform through innovative technology grounded in scientific research. With a team of scientists and engineers, including several PhD holders from prestigious institutions, Lemnis Technologies focuses on enhancing visual fidelity in head-mounted displays. The company gained recognition for its Verifocal™ platform, which was introduced at SIGGRAPH 2018 and subsequently received a CES 2019 Innovation Award for the Verifocal™ VR Kit. Lemnis continues to push the boundaries of mixed reality, showcasing new generation headsets with advanced eye-tracking capabilities.

AccuRx

Pre Seed Round in 2017
AccuRx is a healthcare communication platform that connects patients and medical professionals to streamline care. The platform enables SMS messaging, appointment reminders, referrals, patient surveys, and video consultations, and supports managing virtual wards, outpatient clinics, and follow-up pathways, helping to improve efficiency in primary care. Founded in 2016 and based in London, it is used by a large majority of GP practices and NHS trusts.

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

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.

Chattermill

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Founded in 2015, Chattermill is a London-based software company that specializes in customer experience analytics. It uses artificial intelligence to analyze customer feedback across various touchpoints, enabling organizations to gain unified insights and improve customer loyalty.

Avocarrot

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Avocarrot Ltd. is a London-based company that operates a native advertising exchange platform specifically designed for mobile application publishers. Established in 1999, Avocarrot provides a technology platform that enables publishers to optimize and monitor their native ad revenue through real-time bidding. The platform allows for the customization of native display and video ads, facilitating a seamless user experience that enhances engagement and revenue generation. With its focus on creating less intrusive advertising solutions, Avocarrot positions itself as a leading programmatic native ad exchange, connecting mobile publishers with premium advertisers globally. The company also has locations in San Francisco and Athens and has been functioning as a subsidiary of Glispa GmbH since September 2016.
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