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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 14 investors & operators across the UK and Europe.
We have backed, at seed, generational companies such as Wayve, Mistral, Storyblok, Tessl, 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.
Our goal at firstminute is to back European founders at seed, building global technology businesses.
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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 £1m 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.
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We supercharge the values our founders feel.
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Outstanding partners since day one - helping us restructure our cap table in our seed; introducing us to our Series A investor and helping us achieve more in less time by understanding our business/market as well as we do.
Get them in as early as possible to get you off the ground.
Dominik Angerer — Founder & CEO, Storyblok
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firstminute is a unique combination of thoughtful and action-oriented. They understand what it takes to find product market fit and help us push obstacles out of the way.
We’ve talked to so many VCs since our raise. If we had to do it again, we would 100% choose firstminute. Their culture of collaboration and getting things done is what every startup needs from their seed investor.
Soo Choi-Andrews — Co-Founder & CEO, Mondoo
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The network that firstminute and Founders Forum bring together has been awesome. Whether it's catalysing investment rounds or strategic partnerships, or facilitating high-level government engagement...it’s been a great partnership.
Alex Kendall — Co-Founder & CEO, Wayve
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firstminute are always there for help, advice, tips or to have a brainstorming session with on company strategy, hiring, fundraising and business development.
Jan Oberhauser — Founder & CEO, n8n
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Whole-heartedly believed in me from day one. They don’t scare away from wild ambition. There isn’t an introduction that they can’t make and they’ll go out of their way to make it happen. They also have a response time of 5 minutes or less to any email or request.
Lucrezia Bisignani — Founder & CEO, Kukua
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firstminute has the strongest network I have seen from any investor so far.
This is hiring, customer intros (huge amount of our customers come from their intros) and, most important for a Seed Fund: great connections to the Tier 1 VCs for Series A.
Maik Wehmeyer — Co-Founder & CEO, Taktile
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High energy. No Drama. Generous network. Gracious team. firstminute is an outstanding partner that has consistently had our back.
They don’t hesitate to make big swings on your behalf, and provide thoughtful counsel when you need. They just want to help you crush it.
Koda Wang — Co-Founder & CEO, Block