Alice Bentinck, co-founder of Entrepreneur First and Code First: Girls, talks to Brian Rose about building technology start-ups from scratch and making the tech industry more diverse. She explains Entrepreneur First’s unconventional model, which invests in exceptional individuals rather than existing companies and brings together people with different skills and backgrounds to find co-founders and develop ideas together.
Alice also discusses the gender gap in technology and why she co-founded Code First: Girls, which offers coding courses, mentoring and a supportive community to help women build skills and thrive in a male-dominated industry, and why she believes great founders can come from anywhere.
Who is Alice Bentinck?
Alice Bentinck was born in the UK and studied at the University of Oxford, where she developed an interest in technology and innovation. In 2011 she co-founded Entrepreneur First (EF), an accelerator and venture builder, with Matt Clifford, and as its CEO has led it to global recognition, with its alumni founding many successful tech companies. She also co-founded Code First: Girls and is a vocal advocate for diversity and inclusion in entrepreneurship and technology.
