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Name: James Dacombe started his first company at 18. Backing a teenager building a brain-computer interfa
Uploaded: 2026-06-15T14:00:25.561Z
Channel: Entrepreneurs First
Description: James Dacombe started his first company at 18. Backing a teenager building a brain-computer interface medical device felt like a high-risk bet at the time. But then we saw the velocity, the determin

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James Dacombe started his first company at 18. Backing a teenager building a brain-computer interface medical device felt like a high-risk bet at the time. But then we saw the velocity, the determination, the speed of learning and his ability to get a product into hospitals in the US while still basically a teenager. Today, James is 25 and building again. His new company, OLIX, has raised $220M to build a new kind of AI chip using photonics instead of traditional GPU architecture. James is a great example of something we believe deeply at EF: The best way to learn how to be a founder is to be a founder.

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