Entrepreneur First

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

429

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

309

Rounds per year

33.00

Lead investments

63

Follow on index

0.28

Exits

15

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSEnterprise Software

Summary

Entrepreneur First appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.

When the investment is from Entrepreneur First the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Opposing the other organizations, this Entrepreneur First works on 24 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016.

The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SEPPURE, Code Kingdoms, GTN. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Software, Machine Learning.

This organization was formed by Alice Bentinck, Matt Clifford. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Entrepreneur First, startups are often financed by Innovate UK, Isomer Capital, Charlie Songhurst. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Isomer Capital, SparkLabs Global Ventures, Wendy Tan White. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by LocalGlobe, Pitch@Palace, Episode 1.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Pre-SeedSeedSeries ASeries B
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBahrain Show 75 more
Check size
80K — 100K

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 158000000
Fund raised date
2022-06-28

Analytics

Total investments
429
Lead investments
63
Exits
15
Rounds per year
33.00
Follow on index
0.28
Investments by industry
  • Artificial Intelligence (135)
  • Software (122)
  • Machine Learning (76)
  • Information Technology (53)
  • FinTech (42)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (187)
  • Singapore (105)
  • France (27)
  • India (43)
  • Germany (22)
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Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
6M
Group Appearance index
0.56
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
3.82
Strategy success index
0.30

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
CamPlan AI 01 Mar 2024 Seed 198K England, London, United Kingdom
Phasio 11 Oct 2023 Information Technology, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Software Engineering, Industrial Manufacturing Seed 2M Central Region, Singapore, Singapore

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