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Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch.
Joined August 2011
4/ Mirantus Health (Dominik Pederzani CEO / Claus Gruber cofounder) raises €5.5M Seed round Mirantus Health has secured €5.5M in a Seed round to expand its mira eye screening service across the DACH region. The company has created a low threshold screening service that gives
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3/ Interface (Thomas Lee Young CEO / Aaryan Mehta CTO) closes $3.5M Seed to scale AI safety platform Interface has raised $3.5M in a Seed round, led by @defyvc with participation from @PrecursorVC, @RockYardVC and angels including Charlie Songhurst. The recently founded San
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2/ @fleetcraft_aero (Finn Quinlan CEO / Ammar Naseer CTO) raises $3.2M Seed to modernize aircraft maintenance with AI Fleetcraft has raised $3.2M in a Seed round led by @SusaVentures to bring AI-powered efficiency to aircraft maintenance and overhaul operations. Fleetcraft has
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1/ Fit Collective (Phoebe Gormley CEO) raises £3M pre-Seed Fit Collective has raised £3M in a pre-Seed round to tackle fashion’s fit crisis. The London-based startup uses artificial intelligence to help fashion brands fix sizing and reduce returns by analyzing returns data,
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How do you test a system that’s aware it’s being tested? On Monday @AnthropicAI released @claudeai Opus 4.5 and it delivered strong results across major benchmarks (SOTA on ARC-AGI, SWE-Bench, Computer Use, etc.). Anthropic’s moved on from @jackclarkSF simple ‘helicopter
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AI agents are getting incredibly smart. But they still don’t really know you. Having worked on consumer products powered by Open Banking (@meetcleo) and IoT data (Omnia), @MaxAlbarello and I started https://t.co/5xLMauTp1T at @join_ef because we believe something is missing:
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Cool to see Thomas Lee Young and Aaryan Mehta from the S24 London cohort on the cover of @TechCrunch, with a great piece by Editor-in-Chief @ConnieLoizos. Thomas came to EF’s selection day after his employer refused to let him build the safety tool he knew the industry needed.
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Today, we’re proud to announce Fleetcraft’s $3.2M seed round to accelerate our mission of building a faster, safer, and more resilient aviation MRO industry with AI 🛫 📘 Check out our recent article with Aviation Week Network:
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Fleetcraft raises $3.2M to boost aircraft maintenance efficiency with AI
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BREAKING: Aztec just shipped the Ignition Chain, the first fully decentralized L2 on Ethereum. This launches the decentralized consensus layer that powers the Aztec Network. https://t.co/nYyD7cykz2 🧵
ignition.aztec.network
The first decentralized L2 on Ethereum. Sequencers can participate in decentralizing the network by staking, earning block rewards, and coordinating block production.
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“In California today, you can raise twice as much at twice the valuation in half the time.” @matthewclifford speaks with @Siftedeu about the UK’s AI ambitions, what he learned working inside government leading ARIA, and the tension between backing Britain’s startup scene
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"We have a ton to be proud of in this country. The engine of economic growth is science and technology. It's the ability to do more with less, to have ideas where by piecing together the building blocks of the world you get amazing things" Matt Clifford (@matthewclifford),
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@matthewclifford and @Alicebentinck have created enormous value, not just by backing founders, but by building one of the most powerful, high-trust networks in the UK. I’ve lost count of how many friends have landed meaningful, life-changing roles because of the ef network. And
@edsuh ef has
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The $AZTEC token sale is live. An onchain, community-owned sale where you set the terms. No airdrops. No mysterious allocations. https://t.co/wlRDDzJvU6
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“Builders, Scientists, Technologists - you are not an asset that can be milked” Matt Clifford gave an exclusive interview with the @etnshow boys yesterday following his viral speech at Looking For Growth. They talked about backing builders to deliver economic growth in Britain
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