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Rising voice in Venture Capital
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Alice Bentinck

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LinkedIn Rank
15,705
Benchmarker Score
120
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13,821
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Total Engagement
123
Engagement Rate
4.1
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14,084 followers

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20 posts

Most VCs are funds. EF isn't. We're a company that invests off our balance sheet and that structure is intentional. It means we don't just deploy capital. We build products. We find exceptional ...

Fund News & Milestones Image Founder Journey Product Development Team Building Apr 07, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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very cool. Congrats Lodestar Space!

Portfolio Company Wins Video (LinkedIn Source) Space Tech Aerospace Apr 02, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Lodestar Space is killing it right now. Thomas Santini and Neil Buchanan are building the first autonomous AI fighter-pilot for space. Exciting times!

Portfolio Company Wins Video (LinkedIn Source) Space Tech Autonomous Systems Artificial Intelligence Defense Tech Mar 31, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Over the past year, we've co-invested with Benchmark, Menlo Ventures, Index, Founders Fund, Box Group, Khosla Ventures and many others, who have backed our seed companies. Join the team that works...

Team & Firm Culture Image Seed Stage Product-Market Fit Go-to-Market Sales Strategy Fundraising Mar 27, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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When Matt Francis met Aidan Holmes at Entrepreneurs First we knew magic was about to happen… They’re now building Rama and are tackling one of the most challenging supply chains in the world. They...

Investment Announcements Image Supply Chain Logistics Hardware Fundraising Seed Stage Mar 26, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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What does it really take to find the next generation of Zucks, Collisons and Perkins? I spoke to Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott for the The Times and Sunday Times Tech podcast. Link in the co...

Events & Speaking Engagements Image Founder Journey Mar 17, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Career advice is broken. What should a highly ambitious young person aspire to do? Matt Clifford and I sat down with one of the world's great thinkers on this subject - Charlie Songhurst. Charl...

Events & Speaking Engagements Image Mentorship Founder Journey Leadership Mar 17, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Taking our first cohort to 10 Downing Street was one of the best hacks we ever did. Ten years ago, being a startup founder in London still felt vaguely embarrassing. The trip to Number 10 legiti...

Ecosystem & Community Building Image Founder Journey Mentorship Mar 13, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Check out the latest from Limbic - their breakthrough study in Nature Portfolio, shows how Limbic turns frontier language models into behavioral health specialists. In their pre-registered, doubl...

Portfolio Company Wins Video (LinkedIn Source) Mental Health Tech Large Language Models Artificial Intelligence Clinical Trials Digital Health Mar 13, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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I’m hugely excited about what Rahul Samat and the team are building in India at Entrepreneurs First. The founders we’re seeing are exceptional. They're insanely strong technically and just as sha...

Ecosystem & Community Building Image Emerging Markets Founder Journey Team Building Mar 13, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Proud to back Lemrock in their $7M round to build the infrastructure for agentic commerce. Consumers are increasingly discovering and buying products directly inside AI assistants like ChatGPT, Ge...

Investment Announcements Image Artificial Intelligence AI Agents AI Infrastructure E-commerce Mar 12, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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We hosted a big party in London to bring together the people who made EF what it is today; founders, team past and present, and everyone who believed in EF when it wasn't obvious. An enormous tha...

Fund News & Milestones Image Fundraising Fund Management Seed Stage Founder Journey Mar 12, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Competition makes founders better. That’s why we relocate our companies to the Bay Area. The result? Valuations more than doubled. Fundraising has been compressed from weeks to days. By being ...

Investment Thesis & Strategy Video (LinkedIn Source) Fundraising Valuations Competitive Advantage International Expansion Investment Thesis Mar 12, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Great to chat to Amy Lewin at Sifted about our most recent fundraise: + $200m of new capital to back the next generation of great founders + Entrepreneurs First now valued at $1.3bn + The companies...

Fund News & Milestones Image Fundraising Valuations Mar 12, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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“We don’t have a thesis on a particular technology; our thesis is on the individual, on the talent. The people who know the trends best are those 22-year-old technologists building in their bedroo...

Fund News & Milestones Image Investment Thesis Fundraising Founder Journey Mar 11, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Today, we're announcing Entrepreneurs First's Series D: $200M of fresh capital, at a unicorn+ valuation. We're in a golden age of entrepreneurship. More individuals than ever before are taking the...

Fund News & Milestones Video (LinkedIn Source) Fundraising Late Stage Valuations Investment Thesis Mar 11, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Just back from a brilliant couple of days with the Entrepreneurs First leadership team in Sussex, UK. One of our core values is 'together we are formidable' - except when playing padel where the ...

Team & Firm Culture Image Company Culture Team Building Leadership Mar 10, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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From an 8 week bet to $350M ARR. In 2014, Barney Hussey-Yeo had a stable path lined up: a PhD at UCL and a data science job. Then Matt Clifford took him for a beer in London and presented EF as a...

Portfolio Company Wins Video (LinkedIn Source) Fintech WealthTech Artificial Intelligence B2C Revenue Growth Mar 10, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Simone wanted to be number one. When we first met her, she was finishing her maths degree at St Andrews: top of her year, building a company on the side, competing at a national level in tennis. F...

Portfolio Company Wins Video (LinkedIn Source) Artificial Intelligence Digital Health Healthcare Fundraising Mar 09, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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We back megalomaniacs. Without the irrational conviction that you can bend reality in your favor, you’ll never push through the inevitable skepticism, and long odds that come with building somethi...

Founder & Startup Advice Video (LinkedIn Source) Founder Journey Fundraising Investment Thesis Mar 03, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Rank History

Apr 2026
#29

Content Categories

Investment Announcements 28
Events & Speaking Engagements 24
Ecosystem & Community Building 22
Founder & Startup Advice 15
Portfolio Company Wins 13

Topics & Themes

Fundraising Founder Journey Seed Stage International Expansion Team Building Artificial Intelligence Co-founder Dynamics Mentorship Robotics Investment Thesis Hiring & Talent Valuations Leadership Portfolio Management Go-to-Market Company Culture Growth Stage Healthcare Natural Language Processing Fund Management

Top Quartile Benchmarks

Based on top 94 of 376 in Venture Capital

Posts
51
Alice: 147 ↑
Likes
21,855
Alice: 14,282 ↓
Comments
1,662
Alice: 989 ↓
Avg Likes
291.4
Alice: 97.2 ↓
Avg Comments
20.9
Alice: 6.7 ↓
Benchmarker Score
25,178
Alice: 16,260 ↓
Posts/Week
2.4
Alice: 4.1 ↑
Avg Post Length
447 chars
Alice: 412 ↓
Trending Topics (Top Quartile)
Artificial Intelligence Regulation & Policy Industry Trends Founder Journey Fundraising