Lina Wenner
Partner at Firstminute Capital
Berlin Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2017 - Current
$300m AUM seed fund backed by 100+ unicorn founders and star CEOs. We partner with founders at pre-seed and seed stage globally. Our ticket size ranges from $250k to $5m. Our team comprises 20 operators and investors from the likes of Index Ventures, DeepMind, Monzo, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs and more - sitting across London and Berlin. Launched in 2017, the firstminute portfolio today comprises 90+ companies re-shaping industries through technology and brilliant product. Our aim: to earn their trust through grit, empathy and copious numbers of introductions, and to deliver on our brand promise of being Europe’s most helpful seed fund.
Board Director
2021
Lindus Health is a next-gen CRO running clinical trials for the health and biotech sectors.
Raised $24,545,079.00 from Seedcamp, Peter Thiel, Page One Ventures, Salica, Calm/Storm Ventures, Amino Collective, Firstminute Capital and Creandum.
Investor
2021
Xata is a fully-managed PostgreSQL database platform. Designed for businesses to build faster, ship reliably and scale infinitely.
Raised $35,000,000.00 from Index Ventures and Redpoint.
Investor
2020
Frontier is an online hiring platform that helps businesses in finding qualified candidates.
Raised $2,800,000.00 from The Raine Group, Alex Bouaziz, Scribble Ventures, Firstminute Capital, Cyan Banister, NFX, Ilkka Paananen, Liquid 2 Ventures, FJ Labs and Alarko Ventures.
Investor
2021
EngFlow is an information technology company that helps to build software faster.
Raised $21,700,000.00 from Firstminute Capital, Spencer Kimball, Andreessen Horowitz, Mike Scarpelli, Matt Klein, Rachel Potvin, Tiger Global Management and Tom Preston-Werner.
Investor
2019
Investor
2021
Investor
2020
Taktile empowers decision-makers to build and evaluate automated decision flows faster than ever before.
Raised $24,700,000.00 from Leblon Capital, Tiger Global Management, Dig Ventures and Index Ventures.
Investor
2021
Investor
2018
Education
Master's Degree
2014 - 2015
Bachelor's Degree
2011 - 2014