Entrepreneurs First
Entrepreneurs First London, San Francisco, United Kingdom, United States, India
Talent-first program that recruits individuals before they have a cofounder or idea, helps them form teams, and funds the strongest teams to continue building with a San Francisco launch phase.
Free to start · no account needed
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About
What it offers: Up to $250,000 equity investment for teams passing Investment Committee, plus an equity-free grant.
Also: cofounder matching; 12-week local FORM phase; 12-week LAUNCH phase in San Francisco; founder advisors.
Who can apply: Best suited to early-career people with exceptional achievements, mostly technical; no cofounder or idea needed; apply to one hub at a time.
Free to apply.
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis for upcoming cohorts in each hub. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
How to apply: through the organiser's own application portal (you need an account there).
What to prepare: application form.
From the official page (checked 2026-10-21): “We turn exceptional individuals into funded founders.”
Who can apply
- Open to working professionals, researchers, students, people in a career transition, founders
- Best suited to early-career people with exceptional achievements, mostly technical; no cofounder or idea needed; apply to one hub at a time.
What you will need
- Application form answersOnward Scout drafts it from your sourced profile; you approve every line.
How to apply
Applications go through the official page (own portal), which needs an account in your name.
How Onward Scout helps
This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done.
Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.
Let Onward Scout prepare this application
Get a pitch deck and a one-pager for this programme, drafted from what you already have in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to Entrepreneurs First without your tap.
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