Alice Bentinck

CEO at Entrepreneurs First, cofounder Code First: Girls

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Experience

  • Entrepreneurs First (Full-time · 11 yrs 11 mos)
    • Chief Executive Officer
      Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

    • Co-founder, General Partner
      Aug 2014 - Dec 2023 · 9 yrs 5 mos

      Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. We bring together talented outliers to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise money from the world’s best investors in San Francisco. We recognize individuals with extraordinary futures before anyone else, embedding them in a community of ambitious peers and giving them the tools they need to succeed, fast. We back them before they have a company, a team, even before they have an idea, based purely on talent. The startups cofounded on our programs are now worth over $11B, and include Tractable, Magic Pony Technology, Cleo, La Vie, Aztec, Sonantic, and many more. EF is backed by some of the world's leading founders and investors, including Patrick and John Collison (Stripe); Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Tom Blomfield (GoCardless and Monzo), Sara Clemens (Whatnot and Twitch); Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind); and Matt Mullenweg (Wordpress). We exist to make great companies happen that otherwise wouldn’t. For more information about Entrepreneurs First, visit [www.joinef.com] We're hiring! Come join our team of 100+ across London, Paris, Bangalore and the US.

  • Co-founder, NED at Code First: Girls
    Oct 2012 - Present · 13 yrs 9 mos

    Code First: Girls enables young women to access technical skills and career paths. CFG has taught 55,000 women to code for free, with 57% from underrepresented ethnicities. We work with >50 univerities and 70 corporates across Europe. www.codefirstgirls.org.uk

  • Author at How to be a Founder
    Sep 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

    Published by Bloomsbury. Winner of the Startup Business Book of the Year. You can buy it on Amazon here

  • Board Trustee at Generation
    Apr 2019 - Jul 2025 · 6 yrs 4 mos

    Empowering young people to build thriving careers and providing employers the highly skilled, motivated talent they need.

  • Imperial Innovations Seed Fund Investment Committee at Imperial College London
    May 2020 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

    The Imperial University early-stage fund investing in IP-based technologies that will impact the world