Founded in 2017 by Spencer Crawley and Brent Hoberman, firstminute capital is a $500m AUM seed fund supported by over 130 unicorn founders.
firstminute is a team of 16 investors & operators across the UK, Germany and France.
We have backed, at seed, generational companies such as Wayve, Tessl, Mistral, Storyblok, n8n and more...
Our mandate is Pre-seed & Seed. We write cheques of between £1m to £3m.
We are generalist, with deep expertise in vertical AI applications and deeptech. We are proudly pan-European.
Our goal at firstminute is to back European founders at seed, building global technology businesses.
How We Invest
We seek talent magnets whose passion, expertise and maverick thinking attracts top-tier talent who will queue up to join the founder’s mission.
We lead investments in Europe and the UK so we can offer boots-on-the-ground support. We have a committed founder-first thesis and strong links to the US and beyond, so on occasion, we will back the best founders wherever they may be.
We are sector agnostic. We love meeting founders who show us what the future will look like. Our job is to find the game changers in tech and we keep an open mind about what that might look like.
We invest at seed or pre-seed with tickets of £250k to £3m. The earlier we can team up, the more we can help. From talent to fundraising to intros to just having someone to call - we want to be there from the very first minute.