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# Entrepreneur First
- URL: https://entrepreneurplus.co.uk/investors/entrepreneur-first/
- Published: 2026-10-15T16:48:36.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-15T16:48:36.000Z
- Description: Talent investor that matches individuals with co-founders and funds them to build companies from scratch.
- Author: Editorial Desk
- Tags: #ep-investor

![Entrepreneur First logo](https://storage.ghost.io/c/05/a4/05a4a052-18ab-4836-8924-ec8b322c371c/content/images/2026/10/entrepreneur-first-logo.svg) 

Talent investor that matches individuals with co-founders and funds them to build companies from scratch.

- Venture capital
- London

Type

Venture capital

Based in

London

Stages

Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, Series B+, Growth

Sector focus

Fintech, AI & Data

Cheque size

€100k–€1.5M

Fund size

Undisclosed

Founded

2011

Website

[joinef.com](https://www.joinef.com/?ref=entrepreneurplus.co.uk)

Entrepreneur First is a talent investor founded in London in 2011\. Rather than backing existing start-ups, it selects individuals before they have a company or co-founder, runs a cohort programme to help them find a co-founder and an idea, and then invests in the resulting company.

It offers equity-free support during the ideation phase, up to $250k at company formation and follow-on funding of up to $5m through to Series B. Programmes currently run in London, Bangalore and San Francisco, and its portfolio is valued at more than $16bn in aggregate.

## Team

- **Jonny Clifford**, Partner and General Manager, London [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonnyclifford/?ref=entrepreneurplus.co.uk)
- **Rahul Samat**, Partner and General Manager, Bangalore [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahulsamat/?ref=entrepreneurplus.co.uk)

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