# Entrepreneurs First

Founders make terrible employees — here’s why every startup should hire them

They’re stubborn and don’t like being managed. I’ve hired nine of them

UK Budget: Capital gains, work visas and young entrepreneur allowances

Finance minister unveils new measures aimed at improving conditions for British startups and scaleups

Exclusive: British Business Bank puts £180m into six AI funds, including Evantic and EF

‘The British Business Bank understands growth-stage risk as we do,’ says Evantic’s Matt Miller

Ineffable, Recursive, Fractile call on UK to limit non-competes

London neolab Inherent has coordinated an open letter — and removed non-competes in its own contracts

Europe’s leading pre-seed investors in 2026

From London to Helsinki: the VC funds consistently backing Europe's earliest-stage startups

Inside London's weirdest neolab

Inherent was founded by DeepMind alumni and has been backed with $50m from Index and Radical

Europe’s 50 most active equity investors in H1 2026

Mapped: the AI labs taking over King’s Cross

The area is home to a fast-growing cohort of buzzy labs

From post-Soviet farming to rewriting Europe's startup rulebook: Meet EU Inc's Iwona Anna Biernat

EU Inc co-lead on life on the farm, moving to London and the future of European tech

Entrepreneurs First crowned a unicorn following $200m fundraise

EF founders are moving faster than ever thanks to relocation to Silicon Valley, says CEO Alice Bentinck

Entrepreneurs First scraps France and Germany schemes in favour of US

Better access to funding and faster revenue-generation in the US is driving the shift, says EF chief Alice Bentinck