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London, United Kingdom

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Deep Tech Team Formation

Overview

Entrepreneur First pioneered the talent investor model: it recruits outstanding technical and commercial individuals, pays them a stipend, and helps them find co-founders and build companies from nothing.

The premise is that the binding constraint on deep technology company formation is not ideas or capital but getting the right people into a room together.

Program Structure

Individuals accepted before any company exists
Stipend paid during the team formation phase
Co-founder matching within the cohort
Investment decision after teams and ideas are formed
Programmes in several international cities

What They Look For

Exceptional technical depth or unusual domain expertise
Evidence of ambition and prior achievement
Willingness to leave a secure position to found
Ability to work productively with a new co-founder quickly
Interest in deep technology rather than incremental software

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Tractable · Cleo · Aztec Protocol · Omnipresent

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