Tanguy Montandon

Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. We bring together talented outliers to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise money from the world’s best investors. Since pioneering Talent Investing in 2015, we’ve learned to recognize individuals with extraordinary futures before anyone else, embedding them in a community of ambitious peers and giving them the tools they need to succeed, fast. We back them before they have a company, a team, even before they have an idea, based purely on talent. EF’s portfolio is now collectively valued at over $16B, and includes companies such as Aztec, Cleo, Magdrive, Neptune, Omnea, Opply, PolyAI, Tractable, and many more. EF is backed by some of the worlds leading founders and investors, including Founders Fund, Greylock, John Collison (founder – Stripe), Patrick Collison (founder – Stripe), Reid Hoffman (founder – LinkedIn), Eric Schmidt (former CEO - Google), Demis Hassabis (founder – Google DeepMind ), Taavet Hinrikus (founder – Wise), Matt Mullenweg (founder – WordPress), Charlie Songhurst (Board member – Meta), Christa Davies (Board member – Stripe), Lachy Groom (founder – Physical Intelligence), Aidan Gomez (founder – Cohere), Mati Staniszewski (founder – ElevenLabs), Danny Rimer (Partner - Index Ventures), Matt Cohler (former General Partner - Benchmark). We exist to make great companies happen that otherwise wouldn’t. For more information about Entrepreneurs First, visit www.joinef.com Were hiring! Join our global team and experience firsthand the workings of a globally unique talent investor working with cutting edge entrepreneurs on world changing technologies: https://www.joinef.com/about/careers

At Spring Impact Capital, we aim to scale innovations for a more sustainable, healthy and equitable world. We invest in Canadian changemakers at the early stages of their company journeys to promote scalable innovation in planet and human health. Our objective is attractive performance and meaningful impact. We are built on Spring Activator’s national impact investing platform. Spring Activator was founded in 2014 with a simple but bold mission to change the world through innovation. We act globally, leveraging our know-how to provide the tools, knowledge, network, and mentorship needed to change the world. Spring Impact Capital is a natural extension of Spring Activator. We bring together a deep network of Canadian impact companies, talented start-ups advisors, extensive accelerator programing, investment capital and expertise. Spring Impact Capital has a unique ability to source deals, support founders and connect them to our wider community. We leverage our deal flow from both activator programs (such as the Impact Investor Challenge programs) and from the wider ecosystem.

Previously the Montreal Social Value Fund. After five years of leading experiential learning programs for youth interested in impact investing, and mobilizing capital at the community level, we are super proud to announce that our parent organization, the National Social Value Fund, has merged with the Social Innovation Academy to form Propel Impact. Together, we are now part of Canadas largest experiential learning platform for social innovation & impact investing. Check out the new website: www.propelimpact.com