Spencer Crawley

Managing Partner at firstminute capital

Managing Partner & Co-Founder
2016 - Current
firstminute capital, $400m AUM seed fund, headquartered in London and backed by over 100 unicorn founders. 🌱 Pre-seed and seed. Love being first money in. 🌎 We like to lead or co-lead rounds in Europe, and we co-lead in the US. 💥 Fund I launched 2017; Fund II launched 2020; Fund III launched 2023. ⭐ Portfolio of 145 companies. 😎 Generalist, with sector focuses on: deeptech & climate; healthcare; financial services; developer tools & SaaS; and increasingly, verticalized Generative AI businesses. 💸 Ticket size: $250k to $5m. 💜 Team of 19 across UK, Germany and France.

Founding Team, Associate
2012 - 2014
Emerging Markets Special Opportunities Fund, based in London. Founded by three senior Goldman Sachs partners, the former Head of TPG Europe, the former CFO of Index Ventures and the former Chairman of Lazard International. Joined at inception as first hire. Founding partners: 1. Ed Eisler - former Global co-Head of Securities, Goldman Sachs; currently founder and CEO of Eisler Capital ($5bn macro hedgefund). 2. Philippe Costeletos - former Head of TPG Europe; former Chairman of International, Colony Capital (listed PE fund with $19bn AUM). 3. Sam Wisnia - former Global co-Head of Strats and Structuring, Goldman Sachs; former Head of Fixed Income & Currencies, Structuring and Head of Strategic Analytics for Corporate Banking and Securities, Deutsche Bank AG; co-Head at Eisler Capital. 4. Chris Barter - former Head of Russia/CIS, and co-Head of European Financial Institutions Group, Goldman Sachs; co-founder of King River Venture Capital. 5. Charlie Power - former CFO/COO Index Ventures; currently Founding Partner and CFO of Henderson Park ($1bn Real Estate fund).

FICC, Russia & CIS
2010 - 2012
Graduate financial analyst programme. - Based full-time in Moscow from September 2010 to August 2012. NYC analyst training. - Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) Sales. - Covered Russia/CIS clients, including local banks, hedge funds and Sovereign Wealth Funds. - Cross-asset coverage.

Total Funding: $30M

Total Funding: $11M