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Why can't every app or website be more fun?


The power of high fidelity, fluid and dynamic animations in telling stories helps us instantly connect with our users. And yet, a simple problem many of us face today is the fact that gifs often take a long time to load.


Enter Andrew Ologunebi, co-founder and CEO of LottieLab, whose goal is to build the world’s best end-to-end editing platform for animation.


Drew joins Entrepreneur First’s co-founder and CEO, Matt Clifford as he shares about how a basic problem like improving gif loading times inspired him to create LottieLab’s editing platform. His platform is now becoming increasingly well known among developers, who are using it to create everything from Duolingo characters to unique user experiences online, significantly improving user engagement and conversion rates.


Thanks to Cofruition for consulting on and producing the show. You can learn more about Entrepreneur First at www.joinef.com.

This week we'd like to introduce you to a new show from Entrepreneur First: The Founder's Mindset.


Throughout this series, Alice Bentinck and Dr Gena Gorlin will aim to find out how to better understand the way our minds work in the early days of founding a company by exploring common mental challenges that founders face.


Each week, Gena will be talking to a different guest at various stages of their start-up journey. Then Alice and Gena will be debriefing on the session, taking away valuable learnings which you can apply to your own founder experience.


When Gena first met Fabien Koutchekian, he was struggling to communicate the magnitude of his business to investors. Throughout his EF journey, he learned the value of openness and honesty, which is what we explore in this week’s episode.


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Thank you to Cofruition for consulting on and producing the show.

AI is set to transform medicine in the near future by enabling faster and more effective cancer diagnosis and treatment.


In this episode, we speak with Pahini Pandya, founder of Panakeia, whose technology aims to provide reliable results in minutes rather than the days or weeks that are currently the norm. Panakeia's AI breast cancer diagnosis technology was approved for UK and EU use last year, which represents a crucial milestone for their work.


Pahini joins Entrepreneur First’s co-founder and CEO, Matt Clifford as she shares about how her startup is revolutionising cancer treatment and saving lives.


Thanks to Cofruition for consulting on and producing the show. You can learn more about Entrepreneur First at www.joinef.com.

Privacy is one of the biggest topics in technology today. As consumers, most of us are aware that companies know a lot about who we are, what we buy, where we go, the information we consume, and lots more - and lots of us don’t like it. But the reality is that this use of data today underpins how advertising works online - and by extension the whole internet economy.


In this episode, we speak with Joe Root, co-founder, and CEO of Permutive. His company is on a mission to rebuild data in advertising, starting with protecting user privacy. Permutive is dedicated to a privacy-first web with publishers at its core. They exist to help advertisers deliver relevant ads, without compromising user privacy and trust. To do that, they’ve had to build some cutting-edge technology and rethink the adtech stack from the ground up.


Enjoy this conversation with Joe Root and Entrepreneur First’s co-founder and CEO, Matt Clifford as he shares how he started his entrepreneurial journey straight out of university with no ad tech experience.


Thanks to Cofruition for consulting on and producing the show. You can learn more about Entrepreneur First at www.joinef.com.

In this episode, we’re looking at how two pandemic-era startups are shaping the new normal.


The Covid-19 pandemic has upended economies and had an impact on nearly every aspect of human life. Individuals and companies around the world had to respond in real-time to wholesale changes in how we work, shop, socialise and organise.


One consequence was the need for new and rapid solutions to the whole raft of challenges this created.


Dishpatch partners with restaurants in the UK to prepare delicious, top-quality meal kits and deliver them to your doorstep for home finishing, anywhere in the country.


Omnipresent helps companies hire and manage remote teams around the world by offering payroll advice, legal compliance, and technologies which facilitate remote work.


In this episode, we speak with Pete Butler, co-founder and CEO of Dishpatch, and Matt Wilson, co-founder, and CEO at Omnipresent. They join host and Entrepreneur First’s co-founder and CEO, Matt Clifford on how their business accelerated at breakneck speed during the pandemic.


Thanks to Cofruition for consulting on and producing the show. You can learn more about Entrepreneur First at www.joinef.com.

Climate change has become the defining crisis of our time and its consequences are increasingly devastating. It’s clear that business as usual is not good enough, and now is the time for bold action. Divigas and Green Li-ion are two companies tackling the future of energy and our planet.


Divigas has invented a new kind of hydrogen membrane that can save billions of dollars per year for existing industries and avoid up to 750 million tons of CO2 emissions per year. Green Li-ion is creating sustainable models for battery recycling and their current product is able to reduce the carbon footprint for e-recyclers and lithium-ion battery recyclers by up to 8 times.


In this episode, we speak with Andre Lorenceau, co-founder and CEO of Divigas, and Leon Farrant who holds the same position at Green Li-ion. They join host and Entrepreneur First’s co-founder and CEO, Matt Clifford, and share their perspectives about being at the forefront of technology and driving this change.


Thanks to Cofruition for consulting on and producing the show. You can learn more about Entrepreneur First at joinef.com.