Entrepreneur First

Entrepreneur First Operations Limited is an accelerator focused on seed funding for technology startups, founded in 2011 and headquartered in London, with additional offices in Singapore, Berlin, Paris, Bangalore, and Hong Kong. The firm specifically invests in individuals at the "pre-team, pre-idea" stage, selecting participants based solely on their technical talent. Its intensive six-month program aims to provide comprehensive support during the critical early stages of startup development. Entrepreneur First offers stipends to participants during the program, with varying amounts based on location. The firm typically invests in startups in London, Singapore, Bangalore, Berlin, Paris, and Hong Kong, taking a 10 percent equity stake. Over the years, it has successfully launched more than 100 startups, collectively valued at over $1 billion, and is backed by notable investors such as Y Combinator, Index Ventures, and Octopus Ventures.

Alex Crompton

Managing Director

Tim Davey

Venture Partner

Allister Furey

Managing Director

Joe White

Chief Financial Officer and General Partner

Madison Wright

Advisor

Past deals in Hong Kong

Waste Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Waste Labs is a Singapore-based Artificial Intelligence company that helps to optimise waste collection and enable recycling and circular supply chains. Waste Labs’ AI platform provides cities and waste managers with data-driven insights and prescriptive recommendations to map out waste flows and to design and operate efficient, sustainable and scalable waste collection systems anywhere in the world. Waste Labs serves leading waste management companies and sustainable producers in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and the UK.

Waste Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Waste Labs is a Singapore-based Artificial Intelligence company that helps to optimise waste collection and enable recycling and circular supply chains. Waste Labs’ AI platform provides cities and waste managers with data-driven insights and prescriptive recommendations to map out waste flows and to design and operate efficient, sustainable and scalable waste collection systems anywhere in the world. Waste Labs serves leading waste management companies and sustainable producers in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and the UK.

Carnot Innovations

Seed Round in 2019
Carnot Innovations Limited provides automation and data driven based predictive maintenance solutions for HVAC. It serves commercial buildings, hotels/resorts, railway facilities, and schools. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

Volt14

Seed Round in 2019
Volt14 Solutions develops ultra-high performance materials for Li-ion batteries - which will double the energy density of batteries mass-produced today. Volt14's anodes will boost battery energy density by upto 70% - and such a radical improvement would eliminate range anxiety and $/kWh storage costs by nearly 40% In comparison to other battery materials startups, Volt14 uses a wet chemistry approach - meaning a battery producer can use their existing production lines to mass produce our anodes, without any manufacturing bottlenecks.

Wavebook

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Digital music licensing is a really hard problem :(. So we solved it, and made it easy :D. Register your copyright on our ledger to claim and license your music across internet services.