1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Spencer Crawley of Firstminute Capital (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: In a nutshell, you are still looking at unicorn exits as the preferred investment thesis. Spencer Crawley: Correct. Sramana Mitra: It is the conventional wisdom of venture capital. Spencer Crawley: We debated it at length. It’s not something that we took as gospel from day one. It’s a more organic process of building

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Spencer Crawley of Firstminute Capital (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What are some of the highlights of your portfolio? Tell us about what stage and what condition you encountered when you chose to invest in them. What is it about them that caused you to place the bet? Spencer Crawley: I have to think through my head about which ones are public and

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Spencer Crawley of Firstminute Capital (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: We just announced a partnership with EIT Health. They are going to be accelerating 115 companies with us. The first 15 have been named. Spencer Crawley: How did that come about? That seems really impressive and exciting. Sramana Mitra: We have very deep connections in Europe. I am married to a European. My

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Spencer Crawley of Firstminute Capital (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about your definition of seed. What do you like to invest in stage-wise? I’ll pre-qualify that question by giving you some context. At least in Silicon Valley, seed has fragmented into pre-seed, seed, post-seed, pre-Series A, small Series A, and then the traditional Series A. How does it look like from

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Spencer Crawley of Firstminute Capital (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Spencer Crawley was recorded in November 2018. Spencer Crawley is Co-Founder of Firstminute Capital, based in London and focused on European startups. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about your firm and yourself.  Spencer

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413th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Spencer Crawley, Firstminute Capital

Spencer Crawley is Co-founder of Firstminute Capital, based in London and focused on European startups.