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July 19, 2025

Entrepreneurs First CEO Alice Bentinck: 'There’s a lot of nationalism in VC'

Sifted sat down with the EF cofounder to discuss life as CEO, changing European tech and the accelerator's shift to the US

It’s 11am and Alice Bentinck has already been up for eight hours. 

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Entrepreneur First cofounders Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford
Alice Bentinck and EF cofounder Matt Clifford
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EF cohorts from London, Paris and Bangalore spend 12 weeks in San Francisco. Credit: Unsplash
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Tom Blomfield, Monzo CEO and Cofounder
Monzo cofounder Tom Blomfeld is among those to have backed EF
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Alice Bentinck brunch receipt
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Kai Nicol-Schwarz

Kai Nicol-Schwarz was a senior reporter at Sifted. He covered AI and UK tech.

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