Network On Tap | Entrepreneur First

When you join EF, you’ll join a network of some of the world’s best founders, investors, and operators.

OUR ADVISORS

We believe the best advisors are those that have a deep relationship with the founders. That’s why we’ve designed a mentoring program with former founders and operators who will push you to greatness.

Once you’ve formed your team, you’ll meet them weekly. They’ll support you with developing your initial idea all the way through to fundraising. Often, your advisor will maintain a long term advisory relationship with you and your company as you scale.

You’ll also have a dedicated Talent Investor to support you as an individual and to ensure you can maximise your chances of success during the program.

OUR INVESTOR NETWORK

Joining EF gives you unparalleled access to our extensive global fundraising network. We have relationships with some of the world’s best VCs and angels to support you to raise the best seed round possible.

For example, we’ve recently coinvested with a16z, Sequoia, First Round Capital and Khosla Ventures.

OUR BACKERS

We’re backed by the founders behind some of the world’s most successful tech startups, including Stripe, LinkedIn, GitHub and WordPress. Hear their off-the-record founder stories in our Luminary Series delivered throughout the program.

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Ed Alun-Jones
Cofounder and CEO Worldover

“Fundraising is a momentum game. Entrepreneur First were instrumental in getting us the outcome we did. Having raised money both inside and outside of EF, the difference is night and day. You still have to build an amazing company, but if you do they get you the other crucial element you need - exposure.”

OUR ADVISORS

Some of our world-class advisors

Andrew Brackin

Cofounder, Vial & Thiel Fellow, 2013

Andrew is a 2013 Thiel Fellow and cofounder of Vial, a tech-enabled clinical trials platform that raised $108M from General Catalyst, Box Group and Byers Capital. Prior to Vial, he was one of the first employees and founding Head of Growth at Newfront Insurance (valued at $2.5B), and at Jobr (acquired by Monster).

Charles Jolley

Founder & Investor

Charles has spent 15 years in Silicon Valley, and has built and sold three companies to the likes of Apple and Facebook. He is currently an angel investor.

Phoebe Hugh

Cofounder & CEO, Brolly

Phoebe is the cofounder and CEO of Brolly, an AI insurtech that exited to Direct Line Group in 2020. She is an EF alum, founding Brolly in 2016 in London.

She is now at Monzo running insurance, and previously led innovation at DLG Ventures. She holds qualifications with the Chartered Insurance Institute and a BSc in Psychology from the University of Manchester.

Zehan Wang

Cofounder & CTO, Magic Pony Technology (acq. Twitter)

Zehan is the cofounder and CTO of Magic Pony Technology, a video processing startup that was acquired by Twitter. He cofounded Magic Pony Technology with Rob Bishop at Entrepreneur First in 2014.

Zehan holds a PhD in Computer Vision and Biomedical Image Analysis from Imperial University in London.

Bay Gross

Cofounder, Cityblock Health

Bay cofounded Cityblock Health, a novel healthcare provider and technology company, spun out of Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs in 2017.

Prior to that he spent time with Thrive Capital and as a product manager at Google.

Chris Mairs

Cofounder & CTO, Metaswitch Networks (acq. Microsoft)

Chris is an active early stage investor across AI, semiconductor and computational bio deep technologies, with a portfolio of around 150 investments. He was a cofounder and CTO at Metaswitch Networks, funded by Sequoia Capital and acquired by Microsoft in 2020.

Rob Bishop

Cofounder & CEO, Magic Pony Technology (acq. Twitter)

Rob is the cofounder and CEO of Magic Pony Technology, a video processing startup that was acquired by Twitter. He cofounded Magic Pony Technology with Zehan Wang at Entrepreneur First in 2014.

After exiting to Twitter, he stayed on as Director of Product, Media Infrastructure and Machine Learning before leaving to start another company.

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If you’re interested in advising the next generation of founders on our programs, get in touch today.