Alice Bentinck

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States16 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led Entrepreneurs First to support startup founders.
  • Co-founded Code First: Girls to empower women in tech.
  • Authored award-winning book on entrepreneurship.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Startup Ecosystem Leader with a focus on Education and Entrepreneurship.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipTechnical Skills Development

Experience

16 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
6 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
13 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Entrepreneurs first

2 roles

Chief Executive Officer

Dec 2023Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

Co-founder, General Partner

Aug 2014Dec 2023 · 9 yrs 4 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.
Entrepreneurship

How to be a founder

Author

Sep 2021Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · On-site

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

Imperial college london

2 roles

Imperial Innovations Seed Fund Investment Committee

Promoted

May 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

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

Computer Science Department Industrial Liaison Board

Apr 2015Jan 2020 · 4 yrs 9 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Generation

Board Trustee

Apr 2019Jul 2025 · 6 yrs 3 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

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

Code first: girls

Co-founder, NED

Oct 2012Present · 13 yrs 7 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

  • 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
Technical Skills Development

Entrepreneur first community interest company

Co-Founder

Sep 2011Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

  • EF CIC was a not-for-profit education company working with tech graduates.

Mckinsey & company

Consultant

Sep 2009Sep 2011 · 2 yrs · London

Education

Nottingham University Business School

Management Studies

Jan 2005Jan 2008

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