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Sam Barnett

President of Entrepreneur First

Sam is the President of Entrepreneur First, a $200M fund which invests in individuals to find a co-founder and build a deep technology business.

Sam has experience building early stage startups and unicorns in Europe and the US. He founded Struq in London (which used machine learning to personalise ads), scaled it across 7 territories and exited to Quantcast.

After the acquisition he spent four years as an executive in SF running the 5th largest data processor in the world. Sam is also on the board of Refunite, Levelapp and Tyve.

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