Entrepreneur First Co-Founder and CEO Matt Clifford interviews EF Hong Kong General Manager Lavina Tien exploring her background and the Hong Kong startup ecosystem. In this episode they discuss: - Lavina’s background and why she was excited by

#22 Joe White on Pioneering SAAS in the UK and Picking the Right VC

Apr 25th, 2019 29m 57s

Joe White, Entrepreneur, CFO and General Partner at Entrepreneur First. An entrepreneur at heart, Joe founded his first business - a digital design agency - while still at university racking up big name clients like Disney, LSE and Bain & Compa

#21 Sai Ranganathan of SensorFlow on Making Buildings Energy Efficient through IoT

Apr 16th, 2019 29m 9s

Saikrishnan Ranganathan is the Co-Founder of SensorFlow, a company making buildings energy efficient at zero upfront cost. Hotels spend $40 billion on energy each year and commercial buildings spend $120 billion. These are not insignificant cos

#20 Entrepreneur First VP Chris Mairs on The Art of Angel Investing and Pre-Internet Entrepreneurship

Apr 5th, 2019 28m 46s

Chris Mairs is an entrepreneur, Angel Investor and Venture Partner at EF. He is the co-founder of MetaSwitch, a communications technology business, where he was CTO for many years including a 2-year stint in Palo Alto working with his investors

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Special Episode: Esha Tiwary on Launching EF Bangalore and the Indian Startup Ecosystem

Jan 10th, 2019 28m 37s

Today’s episode is a special one to celebrate the opening of EF Bangalore and in it, EF CEO Matt Clifford interviews EF Bangalore General Manager Esha Tiwary, exploring her background and the Indian startup ecosystem. When EF Co-Founders Matt &

#18 Tom Pocock of CreditMint on Decentralising Corporate Lending and the Death of Utility Tokens

Sep 12th, 2018 27m 59s

Tom Pocock is the Co-Founder of Credit Mint, a company that’s decentralising corporate lending by using a public blockchain as the shared ledger for corporate debt. The corporate debt industry is migrating from a bank-led model towards smaller

#17 Rohit Jha of Transcelestial on Transforming Communications Technology and Maximising Your Personal Impact

Aug 15th, 2018 27m 39s

Rohit Jha is the Co-Founder of Transcelestial a company developing a laser communication solution to replace existing wireless communication technology. In the next decade 3 billion people and 50 billion devices will come online – but the globa

#16 Nadav Rosenberg on Successful Selling, The Art of Investing and The Future of Cryptocurrencies

Jul 17th, 2018 28m 43s

Nadav Rosenberg is a General Partner and Head of Commercial at EF. Previously, he flew helicopters in the Israeli army for 10 years, worked as a consultant with McKinsey after earning an MBA from INSEAD and was a member of the founding team of

#15 Jesse Shemen of Papercup on Auto-Translating The World's Video and Raising Your First Round

Jun 26th, 2018 27m 31s

Jesse Shemen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Papercup, a company that auto-translates the voice track on videos into the world’s languages. People spend an average of 5 hours watching video every single day but the problem for creators looking to

#14 Hannah Burrow of Kiroku on Disrupting Dentistry, Pitching at the Palace and Low Tech "Pretotyping"

Jun 12th, 2018 27m 7s

Hannah Burrow is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kiroku, a company that automatically writes clinical notes for dentists. Kiroku which is Japanese for "to document or record” uses a unique combination of speech recognition and natural language proce

#13 Vadim Toader of Proportunity on Outperforming the Property Market with AI

Jun 5th, 2018 29m 34s

Vadim Toader is the CEO Co-Founder of Proportunity a company that uses machine learning to form accurate real estate forecasts, so investors can make better decisions. By comparing more than 100 sets of data, including historical price growth

#12 David Hunter of Optimal Labs on Revolutionising Human Nutrition

May 29th, 2018 28m 43s

David Hunter is the CEO and Co-Founder of Optimal Labs a company that applies cutting-edge deep reinforcement learning to create intelligent autopilots for farms, improving the efficiency, reliability and quality of food production. High tech

#11 Current Cohort Member Jake Woodhouse on his First Six Weeks at EF

May 23rd, 2018 28m 3s

Jake Woodhouse is a member of the current EFLD10 cohort. Up to this point on the podcast I’ve spoken to EF Co-Founders Matt Clifford and Alice Bentinck as well as the founders of some of EF’s most exciting companies. But who better to speak to

#10 Dev Amratia of nPlan on Rebuilding Construction with AI

May 14th, 2018 29m 9s

Dev Amratia is the CEO and Co-Founder of nPlan a company that uses machine learning to analyse construction schedules, determine where the biggest risks lie and then recommend improvements. Whether it’s a new stadium or transport system, const

#9 Alice Bentinck on Finding Your Co-Founder

May 8th, 2018 25m 13s

Alice Bentinck co-founded EF with Matt Clifford in 2011, back when people thought the idea of inorganic team building was crazy. Seven years on, with the EF model validated from a number of successful exits and investment from Linkedin Co-Found

#8 Joe Root of Permutive on Customising User Experience in Real Time

May 1st, 2018 25m 28s

Joe Root is the Co-Founder of Permutive a company that helps publishers and marketers to customize user experience in real-time - on every device, across every channel. Joe and his co-founder Tim were on EF2 and their company has gone from str

#8 Joe Root of Permutive on Customising User Experience in Real Time

May 1st, 2018 25m 28s

#7 Rafael Jorda Siquier on Democratising Satellites for Space Missions

Apr 24th, 2018 27m 27s

Rafael Jorda Siquier is the founder of Open Cosmos, a company making space missions simple and affordable. They provide customers with a development kit and simulator so they can build the technology at their own pace and when they’re ready, Op

#7 Rafael Jorda Siquier on Democratising Satellites for Space Missions

Apr 24th, 2018 27m 27s

#6 Alex Appelbe of Metis Labs on Building the Factory of the Future

Apr 17th, 2018 21m 19s

Alex Appelbe is the Co-Founder of Metis Labs a company providing general intelligence for industrial systems by using deep reinforcement learning to build the factory brain. Alex and his co-founder Bashir were on EF8 and they started Metis Lab

#5 Alesis Novik of AimBrain on Using Biometrics to Kill the Password

Apr 10th, 2018 21m 2s

Alesis Novik is a Co-Founder of AimBrain, AimBrain, a Biometric Identity as-a-Service platform for global financial institutions. Alesis and his co-founder Andrius were on EF3 and what they’re doing in simple terms is effectively replacing sta

#4 Ed Miller of Scape on Using Augmented Reality to Map Urban Environments

Apr 4th, 2018 18m 53s

Ed Miller is the Co-Founder of Scape, which is building the location infrastructure for city-scale augmented reality & location-based services. Ed and his co-founder Huub were on EF7 and their mapping and location technology allows devices to

#3 Mostafa El Sayed on Revolutionising Robotics

Mar 27th, 2018 23m 50s

Mostafa El Sayed, Co-Founder of Automata, which is working to make robotics affordable and accessible by installing it in the workplace. Mostafa and his co-founder Suryansh were on EF4 and their first product, Eva is a bench top robot arm that

#2 Noor Shaker of GTN on Disrupting Drug Discovery

Mar 6th, 2018 22m 34s

Noor Shaker, Co-Founder of GTN, a company that uses quantum physics and machine learning to search the huge space of potential drug molecules and discover drugs that were previously hidden from view. This means GTN can discover better drugs, mo

#1 Theo Saville of Cloud NC on Transforming Manufacturing

Mar 6th, 2018 19m 42s

Theo Saville is the Co-Founder of Cloud NC, whose mission is to make the CNC milling machines used in many manufacturing processes one click devices that can produce a part easily and efficiently, effectively halving their cost. Theo and his c