Firstminute Summit

Our Investor Summit brings together firstminute investors, portfolio founders, partners from the top US and European multi-stage funds, and friends who are all bright lights in the tech community and share a deep commitment to nurturing this entrepreneurship ecosystem.

With a well articulated day of content and a range of side events the summit is able to bring the firstminute capital network together and showcase the talented founders we are backing. Each year the summit and the community have grown and come together in London to create an annual celebration of the firstminute world. 

Previous guests, speakers and contributors from firstminute events

Ajay Royan (Founder, Mithril), Barry Smith (Co-Founder, Skyscanner, Noah Media Group), Charles Dunstone (Executive Chairman, TalkTalk & Co-founder and former Chairman, Carphone Warehouse), David Helgason (Founder, Unity Technologies), Fatou Bintou Sagnang (Investor, Mubadala Capital Ventures), Federico Marchetti (CEO, Yoox Net-A-Porter Group), Hanzade Dogan Boyner (Founder and Chairwoman, Hepsiburada & Chairwoman, Doğan Online), Ian Davis (Chairman, Rolls-Royce), Ilkka Paananen (Supercell), Dr. Jeannette zu Fürstenberg (Founding Partner, La Famiglia), Jeff Immelt (GE, NEA), Jim Mellon (Founder, Mann Bioinvest & Chairman, Burnbrae Group), Jimmy Wales (Co-founder, Wikipedia), Jonathan Newhouse (Chairman and CEO, Conde Nast International), John Curtius (Tiger Global), Jose Neves (Founder, Farfetch), Julia Hartz (Eventbrite), Juliet de Baubigny (General Partner, Bond Capital), Kevin Hartz (A*, Eventbrite), Linda Avey (23andMe), Linda Fayne Levinson (Non-Executive Director, Jacobs Engineering Group, NCR, Kount, Clearpath Robotics, BitPesa, Knotel), Dr Ling Ge (Chief European Representative, Tencent), Luke Nosek (Co-Founder, Paypal, Founders Fund, Gigafund), Martha Lane-Fox (Founder, Doteveryone), Sir Martin Sorrell (WPP, Founder S4 Capital), Matt Brittin (President, Business & Operations, EMEA, Google), Max Conze (Former CEO, ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, Dyson), Max Levchin (PayPal, Affirm, SciFi VC), Michael Acton Smith (Calm), Miki Kuusi (Wolt), Nellie Levchin (SciFi VC, Glow, Clarium), Nico Rosberg (Former Formula 1 Champion and Founder of GreenTech Festival), Nikesh Arora (Palo Alto Networks), Niklas Adalberth (Founder, Klarna, Norrsken Foundation), Niklas Zennström (Founder, Skype, Atomico, Zennström Philanthropies), Paul Forster (Co-Founder, Indeed), Peter Fenton (Benchmark), Rajeev Misra (CEO, SoftBank Vision Fund), Rana Yared (General Partner, Balderton), Riccardo Zacconi (Co-founder, King Digital Entertainment & Sweet Capital), Roelof Botha (Sequoia), Ross Mason (MuleSoft, Dig Ventures), Rytis Vitkauskas (LSVP), Samantha Cameron (Founder, Cefinn), Sonali De Rycker (Partner, Accel), Stephanie Eltz (Co-founder and CEO, Doctify), Thomas Heatherwick (Founder and Design Director, Heatherwick Studio), Tom Blomfield (Monzo), Tim Berners-Lee (Inventor, World Wide Web & Director, W3C), Tim Westergren (Founder of Pandora, Advisor at Allen & Company), Tony Blair (former UK Prime Minister), Victoria van Lennep (Co-Founder, Lendable),...