We believe that the world is missing some of its best founders. We exist to help those with the potential to build unicorns when they are unleashed from the status quo.

We back founders at the earliest stage and have created $11B in value to date. We amplify ambition, enabling founders to work at the cutting edge of tech and alter their life trajectory; building conversational AI enterprise solutions, to privacy layers for a decentralized world, to machine learning platforms for enhanced drug efficacy.

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Barney Hussey-Yeo;
CEO of Cleo
“Entrepreneur First completely reframed what I thought I could achieve so early on in my career... it put me on a different trajectory.”

We back outliers

We look for a very specific type of person. Those that have high expectations for themselves and the people around them. Those that have excelled in all the games others told them were critical to play, but realized that the work worth doing is found elsewhere.

Are you restless; impatient to make an impact, and dissatisfied with the pace and trajectory others have suggested for you?

Have your achievements and the challenges you’ve overcome made you confident you have talent, but you still haven’t found your limit?

If you believe that you’ve found the direction that will give you the agency you’re looking for: you want to start and grow a company, but who to start it with and how to start it still feel like open-ended questions, then we can help.

We reframe what’s possible for exceptionally talented individuals. We look for the builders, technologists and early professionals from diverse backgrounds, who are tired of winning at the wrong game.

We identify outliers, and help them find their way.

That’s why we exist.