Successful founders get a lot of praise and glory - as well as money. But success rests on innumerable of elements of luck and opportunity that others haven't had, so when things work out well it's great to have a way to give back systematically to the people with the greatest need.
Matt is co-founder of Entrepreneur First which identifies and invests in Europe's top technologists. Entrepreneur First focuses on supporting technical founders at the very earliest stage - usually pre-company - and works closely with them for six months to help them turn deep technology into fast-growing companies, which include AdBrain, Prizeo, Blaze Components, Sparrho, ClickMechanic, Mavrx, Spacious, Permutive, Code Kingdoms, Echobox, Magic Pony Technologies, Tractable, Pi Top, CaseHub and many more. Prior to founding Entrepreneur First, Matt spent his time studying at MIT fuelled by an obsession with R, Python and unusual datasets.
