Jobs and Wozniak. Brin and Page. Gates and Allen. Hewlett and Packard. Behind some of the largest companies in the world are a pair of founders.

It’s not a surprise that finding a great co-founder is the most important thing a startup can do. But it can also be the hardest.

Where to find them? Who should I be looking for? And how do I make the relationship work?

Entrepreneur First is the world's first talent investor. We’ve helped thousands of individuals to find their co-founder. We run a six-month programme to help the world's leading researchers, product builders, and domain experts meet, and build tech startups, from scratch. At Entrepreneur First, we fund individuals even before they have an idea or a team.

We’re bringing together some of our alumni to share with you their experience on finding the right co-founder, we will cover:

- What you need in a co-founder

- Where to find them

- What makes a great co-founding team

We’ll also hear from our own Entrepreneur in Residence on how he found a co-founder without Entrepreneur First and his view of this crucial step on the longer run.

Speakers at the event are:

- Maria Silvia Scetta, CEO & co-founder of DeltaBlock

- Hardik Thakkar, CEO & co-founder of PacketAI

- Timothy Bouley, CEO & co-founder of BioFeyn

- Jonny Everett, Entrepreneur in Residence at Entrepreneur First

More on our speakers:

Maria Silvia Scetta (PA1) is the co-founder and CEO of DeltaBlock. Maria is an experienced trader and portfolio manager who has spent 7 years working for investment funds and institutions such as J.P. Morgan. She is a financial engineer and holds a MSc. in Finance. She has experience in highly illiquid markets such as frontier markets and in High Frequency Trading. DeltaBlock adapts traditional capital liquidity services for Digital Assets. DeltaBlock uses cutting edge research in math and liquidity modeling to build algorithms which perform about 20x better when applied to Digital Assets.

Hardik Thakkar (PA1) is the co-founder and CEO of PacketAI. Hardik holds a B.E in Telecoms, a MSc in Business and has over 10 years of experience working for large companies such as Thales & Alstom. Recently he was the Regional Head of Operations for Uber in UKI and in the past has co-founded a VC-backed startup which today employs over a 100 employees. PacketAI uses AI to automate IT Operations. They leverage the power of Deep Learning to predict incidents before they impact customers and reduce the mean time to repair by up to 50%.

Timothy Bouley (PA3) is the co-founder and CEO of BioFeyn. Timothy has a physician and environmental scientist background and has founded a program at the World Bank to advance health and environmental outcomes. He has over 9 years of experience working on climate change, health and environment. BioFeyn is a new biotechnology company, they are applying the latest developments in medical nanotechnology to aquaculture. The result is increased species survival, profitability, and environmental sustainability.

Jonny Everett is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Entrepreneur First. He devotes his time to help the amazing talent that joins EF to build the game-changing companies of tomorrow in tech and deep tech. Previously, he co-founded The Chat Shop, bootstrapping the business to 100 employees over 7 years.

Join us at Station F, 5 Parvis Alan Turing - 75013, on Thursday February 25th at 6:30 pm. *Mandatory registration*