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The $115m first close of our Global Fund will allow us to back 2200+ individuals to build global deep tech companies. To celebrate, we're publishing the stories of 6 remarkable individuals who we've already funded on this thread - starting now...
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From now on, when you join an EF program in Europe, India or the US, we’ll help you relocate to San Francisco to raise your seed round. Startups relocating to SF can expect to:
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EF are proud to announce a $12.4m funding round led by Greylock Partners' Reid Hoffman
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We’re excited to announce the launch of a dedicated platform for founders to create the future of the decentralised web: Entrepreneur First Web3 (London), in collaboration with
@TezosFoundation
.
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Almost half of the pitches we saw today were delivered by some of the most talented women in the world. This is Talent Investing at its best.
#EntrepreneurFirst
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We’re launching a new hub in San Francisco. From now on, startups across our global sites will be invited to relocate to San Francisco after funding from our Investment Committee. Read more here:
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3 weeks ago some of the most talented technologists from Europe, India and North America relocated to our new San Francisco office. In just 3 weeks time, they’ll be launching their startups at Demo Day.
But who are they? 🧵
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We're thrilled to announce EF Berlin: the next step in our mission to make EF accessible to every ambitious individual in the world . Apply now:
#EFBerlin2018
#EFscalewithReid
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"In Silicon Valley, we joke that we should start Z Combinator, by taking everyone who failed at Y Combinator and giving them money"
Here's what
@withfries2
of
@a16z
had to say on the value of the learning that comes with failure and how it's viewed in the Valley
#vc
#tech
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Today, we’re launching our office in South Park in San Francisco, welcoming founders from across our global sites. Cofounder and CEO of EF
@Alicebentinck
spoke to
@CarolineHydeTV
on
@BloombergTV
about how our SF office will give founders who have built their companies from
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We are announcing an update to our Pre-Seed investment. Every company who we fund in 2024 out of our hubs in the US, Europe and India will now get up to $250k on founder-friendly, transparent terms.
Read more here:
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We're delighted to announce that EF8 Alum Alex Appelbe
@pelby
and Bashir Beikzadeh of
@Metis_labs
have raised a €1 Million Seed Round to continue their mission to transform the manufacturing industry
#manufacturing
#ef
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What it’s like to join the Entrepreneur First programme?
We asked the people who have been through it.
More videos via:
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The countdown is over.
@reidhoffman
,
@Alicebentinck
, and
@matthewclifford
are kicking off our W‘23 Demo Day in San Francisco 👇
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As Talent Investors, we identify and fund great founders before they start a company. But the best founders don't come neatly labelled.
Through working with thousands of founders, we've identified what sets the best apart, and who is on a trajectory for global success (thread)
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"If we had stood on the roof of the building throwing over $100 bills we wouldn't have been spending money as fast."
It was great to hear some of
@linkedin
co founder
@reidhoffman
's old war stories from his
@PayPal
days when he visited us in London
#blitzscaling
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Yesterday we ran our first Demo Day in San Francisco where our latest batch pitched to >100 of Silicon Valley’s top Partner-level investors.
Today, you can learn more about these companies on our W’23 online Demo Day Portal. Check it out here:
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We just launched >30 startups at our first Demo Day in San Francisco, check it out here 🧵
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We’ve raised a $158M Series C from today’s most successful founders to build the world’s best platform for building co-founding teams.
Read more:
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We are excited to welcome
@ArlanWasHere
to the EF offices tomorrow. Arlan will be speaking to our cohort about her journey into VC and her progress in backing seed stage companies |
@AndysHVC
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The
@join_ef
programme is intellectually challenging and, at times, emotionally intense.
But you're not doing it alone.
Your cohort will live it with you, the EF team will support you, and our 2000-strong global community will become your most valuable network.
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Excited to win Best Accelerator
@TheEuropas
! Thank you to our amazing team & the 350 founders we have worked with
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It’s just under a week until
@reidhoffman
and EF's cofounders,
@Alicebentinck
and
@matthewclifford
, host our first Demo Day in San Francisco. The countdown is on.
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Next week our W’23 batch will be pitching at our first Demo Day in San Francisco.
Check out who they are and follow them for updates on their progress 🧵
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We’ve just kicked off our Defensive AI fireside chat featuring our cofounder,
@matthewclifford
, and
@reidhoffman
, cofounder of
@LinkedIn
and
@inflectionAI
. Matt and Reid are discussing the latest developments, geopolitics, and opportunities in AI.
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Do you have what it takes to build your own start-up in the future?
Find out during a selective, week-long boot camp for individuals with outsized ambition.
Apply to the FIND beta in Bangalore:
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"If you feel that what you are working on today has to exist five years from today, with or without you, then you should keep doing it." Thank you to
@ArlanWasHere
for wise words to our cohort around her drive and motivation. |
@AndysHVC
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Proud to have won best accelerator at
#TheEuropas
. A testament to EF cohorts 1-6 & the EF team!
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"I feel I've done more here in 2 months than I've done during all my years in academia" - this is what Joanne Kanaan from our first cohort had to say about her experience with EF so far
#startups
#entrepreneurship
#efparis
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Take a look at the first ten startups from our latest batch pitching at Demo Day in San Francisco 🧵
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We're looking for the founders of the future - and we're committed to making that future diverse.
We want to speak with talented women with the potential to found global tech companies.
Tell us which
#FutureFemaleFounders
we should be speaking to here:
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Introducing the smartest, most ambitious individuals from across Europe.
With
@stripe
cofounder
@patrickc
helping
@Alicebentinck
kick Demo Day off in Dogpatch, San Francisco.
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A brilliant
@FinancialTimes
podcast with
@join_ef
co-founder
@AliceBentinck
, including why she decided to found Entrepreneur First instead of joining Google.
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We’ve officially started EFSG4. An immensely talented and diverse group of over a 100 who’ve joined EF to build the world’s most important companies.
#efsg4
#entrepreneur
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AccuRx, Calipsa, OpenCosmos, PassFort, Xihelm, Neurofenix all on Public 100 list of UK startups who are transforming public services
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Just over 6 months ago, our Talent Investors selected an exceptional set of future founders for our W’23 batch. They were all pre-team and pre-idea. Why did we invest? We believe in the founder potential of these individuals to build generation-defining companies. They are
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Tractable, led by Alex Dalyac and Razvan Ranca, has become the first company founded through Entrepreneur First to be valued at over $1 billion.
Read more in
@TechCrunch
:
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Excited to be partnering with
@GreylockVC
as the most ambitious technologists build the world's most important companies
Turning exceptional individuals into exceptional founders.
@reidhoffman
announces our investment in
@efLDN
.
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‘How to be a Founder’ by
@alicebentinck
and
@matthewclifford
is out today.
Gain the insights, advice and lessons you need to lay the foundation for a globally successful company.
Here’s how to get your copy:
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From June 28 - 30, we’re bringing together a curated group of ambitious technologists curious about building a defense tech startup in collaboration with
@inflectionxyz
in Munich. The hackathon will be supported by leading defense tech companies, including
@HelsingAI
and
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Doing your PhD in Oxford? Or interested in tech entrepreneurship? Come along to our PhD to Startup event, 5.30pm on Wednesday 28th @ The Oxford Foundry. Hear Ross Harper, PhD and EF Alum, talk about his journey from academia to entrepreneurship. Open to all students.
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Tonight we are hosting an Introduction to Entrepreneur First Paris. We are thrilled to welcome
@join_ef
alumni Marc Sloan, co-founder and CEO
@ContextScout
and Dave Hunter, co-founder and CEO Optimal Labs for a fireside chat with Paris' future founders.
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Thrilled for
@Rob_Bishop
@zehanwang
& MPT team after news of
@Twitter
acquisition. Proud to be part of your journey
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Do you want to see what’s possible when you bring together a cohort of exceptional people to build in some of the world’s most ambitious industries? Meet the startups pitching at EF’s Summer ‘23 Demo Day today 🧵
Read more:
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Proud to have won
@GPBullhound
#investorallstars
Exit of the Year for Magic Pony with
@OctopusVentures
🍾✨🐴
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It matters what the most ambitious choose to do with their lives. Start a company in 2016. Apply today to join EF at
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#EFSG1
starts in 4 days, with great female founders.
@AnneMarieDroste
presented them at
#womenintech
@SlushHQ
today
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We're very proud to see the co-founders of
@AimBrainHQ
(EF3 cohort) as part of Forbes
#30under30Technology
, as well as
@dhruvghulati
(EF alum) and
@Ishaan_trussle
(EF portfolio). Congratulations all
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In collaboration with
@huggingface
and
@StartinSaclay
, we’re bringing together talented technologists for a hands-on hackathon in Paris from April 25 - 26.
If you’re interested in using AI to solve problems in traditional industries and climate change, or want to build an
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We took incoming W23 US founders for 48h to San Francisco to meet with investors at
@sequoia
and
@8vc
, get insights from founders
@t_blom
,
@collision
,
@rob_bishop
, as well as hosting an AI Hackathon. Read on for the details 👉🧵
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Incredible to see the energy in the room this weekend as we brought together builders, experts, founders and investors in defense tech to participate in the El Segundo defense tech hackathon we co-hosted with
@8VC
and
@apollo_defense
🧵
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Just over 24 hours ago, 32 of our teams pitched to over 100 of the Bay Area’s top investors at our first Demo Day in San Francisco. Before EF, some of these founders:
👉 raced on India’s national sprint team
👉 won a NeurIPS competition at just 18
👉 relocated from Colombia to
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"EF is spreading across the globe like wildfire" -
@zoejerv
of
@eqtventures
on our expansion this year and the quality of companies at our recent EUR10 demo day, featuring companies from London and Berlin
#eur10
#demoday
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This week we announced a new $115M fund that we're using to support talented individuals to realise their ambitions. If you have what it takes to launch a startup, we'll support you to find a cofounder, develop an idea and start a company. Visit to apply.
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Our founders are solving some of the world's most important problems, from the decarbonisation of the textiles industry, to agricultural robots to feed the future. Check out the next wave of startups launched from our latest batch...🧵
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Congratulations to our cofounder
@matthewclifford
on being awarded a CBE for services to AI 👏
Great honour to be awarded a CBE by the King today for services to AI. Getting the Summit and AI Safety Institute off the ground has been a huge collective effort; I’m so grateful to the incredible team that made them happen (and congrats to
@demishassabis
and
@soundboy
!)
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"It’s the belief that you are not like other people. You are different and can achieve what others can’t"
@Alicebentinck
on why Personal Exceptionalism matters for a founder
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Today has been a huge day for some of our portfolio companies, with nearly $70M in funding collectively announced.
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We just funded and built 33 deep tech startups. Find out more here
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1/ Today we’re announcing that our cofounders,
@alicebentinck
and
@matthewclifford
are changing their roles at Entrepreneur First. Alice becomes our CEO, while Matt is going to work full-time on funding and advising AI founders and companies
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Open Cosmos signs with the ESA to be the agency’s first Space Mission Provider
@Open_Cosmos
@wendytanwhite
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We're hosting N26 Co-Founder
@MTayenthal
at Factory Berlin on August 9th. Maximilian will discuss building N26 from scratch and why startups offer an important career path for the world’s most ambitious people. Limited spaces available - sign up now
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Congratulations
@AndysHVC
and
@anisahob
- we're very excited to follow your progress at
@Backstage_Cap
🗣 Listen up, London! Meet your new
#BackstageAccelerator
team. The incredible
@AndysHVC
+
@anisahob
! 🎉
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"Entrepreneur First has more investments in AI startups than any other European investor"
@Alicebentinck
at the
@AIBE_Summit
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👉 3 months ago, we backed individuals based purely on founder potential, investing in the top performing companies in their batch
👉 6 weeks ago, these companies relocated to San Francisco to continue building in the most important startup ecosystem in the world
👉 3 days to
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Tonight we are delighted to host Frank Chen
@withfries2
, Partner
@a16z
in conversation with
@bartdessaint
, Partner
@Mosaic_VC
and
@matthewclifford
, co-founder and CEO
@join_ef
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Team
@efLDN
opening the London Stock Exchange for International Women's Day!
@Alicebentinck
@savitritan
@zoejerv
#IWD
#Beboldforchange
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Amber Hill was one of two
@join_ef
alumni to be named in the Top 100 Women in Engineering in the
@FinancialTimes
today. We caught up on
@AmberMichelleH
’s journey to becoming an entrepreneur, from multitasking to tattoos:
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🧵 ⬇️ This week, a new cohort of founders joined Entrepreneur First sites across the world as we launched a fresh look for the future of EF. Read more from our cofounders
@Alicebentinck
and
@matthewclifford
on the blog now ➡️
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“I wanted to do something in health but I didn’t want to be a doctor” says
@Jack_O_Meara
(co-founder,
@OchreBio
).
@OchreBio
is tackling chronic liver disease, and is now on target to nominate its first drug candidate for clinical testing next year.
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"You don't have to be In Silicon Valley to become a world class founder" - here's what EF Co-Founder
@Alicebentinck
had to say at our first multi-site Demo Day, bringing teams together from our tenth London cohort and our first Berlin Cohort
#entrepreneurfirst
#eur10
#demoday
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Thinking about starting a company? Apply to EF's next cohort in London by midnight GMT on 31 Dec -
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We’re running a Defensive AI program for a curated group of exceptional technologists interested in building defensive solutions to technological risk, starting in July.
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Congratulations to
@TeamOmnipresent
, founded by Matthew Wilson and Guenther Eisinger, who have raised $120M in Series B funding - just over 2 years on from being founded at Entrepreneur First.
Read more in
@Bloomberg
:
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EF are proud to announce that Alex Diaz will be joining our London team as our Company Building Lead
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Entrepreneur First is excited to announce that it is opening an office in Hong Kong. Why Hong Kong? Because of its “leading universities, its burgeoning venture ecosystem and its unmatched business environment”
@matthewclifford
. Our first cohort will begin in July.
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If you’re building a moonshot company, how do you know when you’re really on track to make the impossible happen - or when you’re deluding yourself?
Psychologist Dr
@Gena_I_Gorlin
shares her top 3 tips for being radically honest with yourself:
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Want to learn more about how EF builds world-class companies from scratch? Then check out this first episode of our new podcast with EF Co Founder
@matthewclifford
on Scaling Your Ambition
#ScalingAmbition
#StartupStories
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Join our live stream this Friday and see what our EF8 cohort have built over the last 6 months.
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EF's first podcast series '21st Century Alchemy' premieres next week featuring
@RashMansoor
and
@Phoebe
in Episode 1 and 2.
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Living in an AI World: How Startups are Shaping Tomorrow - Come and be part of the conversation. July 19 at EF HQ with Chris Mairs CBE,
@devamratia
of nPlan,
@gosialoj
of
@AIGlobalGov
, author
@jamiesusskind
and our very own
@Alicebentinck
. Sign up .
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Meet the startups that pitched at our eighth Demo Day in London
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Great to see team and cohort members marching for equality and women’s rights, from London to Boston.
#womensmarch
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We've just launched Three and a Half Founders, a podcast featuring roundtable discussions with four EF cohort members. Here's a sneak peek from episode 1...
LISTEN NOW
Apple Podcasts -
Spotify -
Stitcher -
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We're thrilled to see
@VineHealth_
(EUR11) raise a seed round of £1.2m to revolutionise cancer care.
Georgina and I are delighted to announce our £1.2m seed round, led by Playfair Capital. Thanks to all who've supported us in getting here!
#announcement
#investment
#vc
#founders
#femalefounders
#startupstories
#health
#cancer
#technology
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When music industry professional
@hazelsavage
met data scientist Aron Pettersson at Entrepreneur First in 2018, they began building an AI startup for music.
Today, their company
@Musiio
has been acquired by
@SoundCloud
.
Read more in
@TechCrunch
:
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Did we mention it's Demo Day today?
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Huge congratulations to
@efldn
co-founder
@Alicebentinck
for winning the
@VeuveClicquot
new generation award!
#bwa2017
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We celebrated our 5th birthday yesterday w the EF community- what an inspiring evening! Can't wait for the next 5!
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Though as
@ethereumJoseph
says, “it’s hard to get to full radical decentralisation straight away.”
#JoeLubinEF
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Entrepreneur First is the world’s leading talent investor.
To date we have helped over 1,200 individuals build more than 200 companies, with a total valuation of $1.5 billion.
To be part of the team that makes it happen, apply for one of our openings below.
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New podcast ‘The Founder’s Mindset’ is now live.
Psychologist
@Gena_I_Gorlin
joins
@Alicebentinck
and a series of entrepreneurs to explore the mindsets and behaviours that can supercharge or sabotage a founder’s journey. Listen now:
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Today, on Ada Lovelace Day, the
@EveningStandard
launched the next season of their Women Tech Charge podcast. This season, hear from
@join_ef
co-founder
@AliceBentinck
,
@RachelRileyRR
,
@Charmainesmchan
,
@SeyiAkiwowo
,
@Ems_Lawton
, and
@Susie_Wolff
.
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We are excited to see more EF alum in the Forbes
#30under30
, this time in the Europe Industry list. Congratulations to
@rohan_kamdar
,
@PaeNatwilai
and Jamie Potter.
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Want to know what
@ArlanWasHere
of
@Backstage_Cap
looks for in a founder? Here's what she told us when she visited us in London earlier this year
#vc
#founders
#entrepreneurship
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