Rise Through The Ranks - Speakers Anne Marie Droste

Anne Marie Droste



Anne Marie Droste


Anne Marie is a partner at Entrepreneur First, the world’s leading company builder. EF brings together extraordinary people to build startups from scratch in London, Singapore, Berlin, Hong Kong, and Paris. They fund individuals and help build cofounding teams, develop ideas, and accelerate through fundraising from the world's best investors.Their 150 portfolio companies are worth over $1.5B, and includes notable exits such as Magic Pony, and Bloomsbury AI.

Anne Marie runs EFs global expansion strategy, currently managing their Berlin, Hong Kong, and Paris offices, and figuring out where EF should go next. Previously, she set up and ran Entrepreneur First in Singapore, where she grew the team to about 25 people. She was part of the early EF team in London,

Before EF, she finished degrees at Cambridge and Utrecht, wrote a thesis on thermodynamics in windmills, and ran a travel agency to North Korea.

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