GBx Community News: Entrepreneurs First raise $200M & reach Unicorn valuation

Huge congratulations to GBx member Alice Bentinck and the Entrepreneurs First team on their recent $200M fundraise and reaching a unicorn valuation!

If you haven’t come across them yet, Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. They bring together talented outliers to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise money from the world’s best investors.

This is a remarkable milestone for EF, bringing its portfolio net worth to over $16Bn.

The numbers are impressive, but the story behind it and the focus on the UK and US Tech bridge is even more remarkable…

Two years ago, EF made a bold call: require all companies that progress through their talent accelerator to spend at least 12 weeks in Silicon Valley. Eyebrows were raised, but it worked.

What the EF team have built is a powerful proof point that the best European founders, given the right exposure and access, can compete with, and raise from, the very best in the world.