Alice Bentinck

Alice Bentinck
Bentinck in 2016
Born	July 1986 (age 30) New Forest, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Technology consultant, educator and blogger
Years active	2011 to present
Known for	Co-founder and COO, Entrepreneur First co-founder, Code First: Girls

Alice Bentinck MBE (born July 1986) is a British technology consultant, educator and blogger. She is the co-founder and COO of Entrepreneur First, a London-based startup accelerator for UK and Central European tech graduates, and also the co-founder of the Code First: Girls free web programming courses for women in university. An advocate for the entry of more women to the tech field, she was named one of the Fifty Most Inspiring Women in European Tech by the Inspiring Fifty organisation in 2015.

Bentinck grew up in the New Forest region of southern England. She attended the Godolphin School in Salisbury, an all-girls boarding school. There she enrolled in Young Enterprise, creating a business model for handmade purses. She then attended the Nottingham University Business School, graduating with a bachelor of arts in management studies, with first class honours.

In 2008 Bentinck interned in the office of Tony Blair in London, where she also assisted the Africa Governance Initiative. From 2009 to 2011 she was a management consultant in the London office of McKinsey & Company.

In 2011 Bentinck and Matthew Clifford, a McKinsey colleague, founded Entrepreneur First, an accelerator that assists promising university graduates in the computer science and engineering fields to create their own startups and access seed funding. Bentinck serves as COO while Clifford is CEO. The six-month, cohort-based program receives more than 1,500 applications per year and accepts 100. In its first four years, Entrepreneur First helped establish 75 startups valued at $450 million.

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