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Firstminute Capital

Founders Brent Hoberman Spencer Crawley

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Total investments 160
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 111
Rounds per year 22.86
Lead investments 22
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Exits 2
Key employees 8
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • FinTech
Summary

In 2017 was created Firstminute Capital, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Firstminute Capital, startups are often financed by LVP, Techstars, Novator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Third Kind Venture Capital, Novator, Notion. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Novator, Northzone, Makers Fund.

This organization was formed by Brent Hoberman, Spencer Crawley. We also calculated 7 valuable employees in our database.

Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile Apps, Cryptocurrency. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline StatusToday, Harness Wealth, ASYSTEM For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ClaimSorted

Auto Insurance
Commercial Insurance
Health Insurance
Infrastructure
Insurance
InsurTech
Life Insurance
Property Insurance
12 Oct 2024 New York, New York, United States

TreQ

Computer
Hardware
Manufacturing
07 Oct 2024 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Landbase

Marketing
Marketing Automation
Sales
Sales Automation
Software
$12M11 Sep 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Passionfruit

Freelance
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$9M23 Jul 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Storyblok

CMS
IaaS
Information Technology
Internet
PaaS
SaaS
Web Design
Web Development
Web Hosting
$86M04 Jun 2024 Linz, Upper Austria, Austria

Oka, The Carbon Insurance Company

Insurance
$10M28 Mar 2024 -

Holdbar

Software
Travel
$3M09 Feb 2024 -

Arcane Intelligence

Information Technology
$5M14 Dec 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Layla

Software
Travel
$3M29 Nov 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
News
TikTok and Snap alums launch mayk.it, a social music creation app, with $4M in seed funding

– Social music app mayk.it launches on iOS and announces its $4m seed round from investors including Greycroft, Chicago Ventures, Slow Ventures, firstminute, Steven Galanis, Randi Zuckerberg, YouTuber Mr. Beasts’ Night media, Spotify’s first CMO Sophia Bendz, Cyan Banister, artist T-Pain and music industry veteran Zach Katz, among others.
– The app lets users create, own and share music that they can create using just their phone.
– Users can upload their own beat or select an existing beat from another user, then add vocals (voice effects and somewhat corny lyric generators are available if you’re shy), and then add a visual from Giphy.

Robocorp Closes $21M Series A Investment Round and Launches Robocorp Control Room, a Self-Managed Bot Automation Platform

– Robocorp, the open-source process automation platform, has closed a $21m Series A investment round led by Canvas Ventures with participation from Benchmark, Uncorrelated Ventures, Slow Ventures, Firstminute Capital, Harpoon Ventures, Artisanal Ventures, Haystack Ventures and a host of angels in the intelligent automation and open source space.
– Additionally, Robocorp is releasing Robocorp Control Room, a self-managed automation orchestration platform for solutions integrators, robots-as-service providers, and enterprises that want to power automations at scale with governance and control.
– Businesses are looking to automate manual tasks and tedious processes for business functions that include HR, IT, finance, data management, customer communications, and IT operations. In fact, 50% of CIOs will be accelerating robotization and automation by 2024 according to IDC.

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Total investments 160
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 22.86
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 22
Follow on index 0.30
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

ClaimSorted

Auto Insurance
Commercial Insurance
Health Insurance
Infrastructure
Insurance
InsurTech
Life Insurance
Property Insurance
12 Oct 2024 New York, New York, United States

TreQ

Computer
Hardware
Manufacturing
07 Oct 2024 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Landbase

Marketing
Marketing Automation
Sales
Sales Automation
Software
$12M11 Sep 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Passionfruit

Freelance
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$9M23 Jul 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Storyblok

CMS
IaaS
Information Technology
Internet
PaaS
SaaS
Web Design
Web Development
Web Hosting
$86M04 Jun 2024 Linz, Upper Austria, Austria

Oka, The Carbon Insurance Company

Insurance
$10M28 Mar 2024 -

Holdbar

Software
Travel
$3M09 Feb 2024 -

Arcane Intelligence

Information Technology
$5M14 Dec 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Layla

Software
Travel
$3M29 Nov 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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