Entrepreneur First Virtual Open Office
The Entrepreneur First team is hosting a Virtual Open Office for the next generation of founders who want to learn more about our programme. In this AMA we have one of our alumni as a guest speaker! Jiale Tan, Co-founder and CEO of ESGnie will be joining us to share her personal entrepreneurial journey.
We'll be having conversations about:
Why entrepreneurship is the career path to scale your ambition
Applying to EF & what the programme looks like in detail
The mission and impact of her company ESGnie
About Jiale Tan:
Jiale co-founded ESGnie with the mission to support organisations' sustainable transition affordably, equitably and profitably. Her prior experience includes scaling a fintech as an early employee, as well as working with enterprise clients (CIOs/CTOs) on their technology advisory. ESGnie was recently chosen as an Urban Innovation Champion at Cities of the Future 2022.
About ESGnie:
ESGnie supports financial institutions in their ESG risk due-diligence, by synthesizing self-disclosed corporate information with independent information sourced from supply chain activity and satellite images, to provide a comprehensive and objective view of ESG profile of companies that is financially material, and aligned to various regulatory requirements.
About Entrepreneur First:
Entrepreneur First is the world’s leading talent investor. We believe the best way for the most impactful and ambitious people to fulfill their potential is to build companies. We transform their lives by enabling them to become founders.
We have built over 500 companies from scratch; have over 3000 alumni worldwide; and our portfolio is valued at over $5bn.
EF companies include Tractable (Computer Vision, currently valued at $1bn as of June 2021), Magic Pony Technology (AI, acquired by Twitter for a reported $150m), Represent (social commerce, acquired by CustomInk), BloomsburyAI (acquired by Facebook), Cleo (fintech), OpenCosmos (space), CloudNC (manufacturing), Transcelestial (satellite communications) and many more.
We're backed by some of the world's best tech founders and investors, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Greylock Partners, Founders Fund, Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind) and Taavet Hinrikus (Wise).