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April 17, 2024

Entrepreneur First hosts first demo day in San Francisco after US move

32 companies are pitching and — you guessed it — they're primarily working on applied AI

Amy Lewin

4 min read

Company builder Entrepreneur First (EF) — which started out in 2011 as Europe’s answer to Y Combinator — is hosting its first-ever demo day in San Francisco, after launching in the US last October.

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Amy Lewin

Amy Lewin is Sifted’s editor and host of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow her on X, LinkedIn and Bluesky

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