Spencer Crawley

Spencer Crawley
Born	Spencer Henry Crawley (1987-08-05) 5 August 1987 (age 37) Westminster, London, England
Education	Harrow School
Alma mater	Exeter College, Oxford
Known for	firstminute capital
Personal information
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm off break
Relations	Douglas Nation (grandfather) Aidan Crawley (grandfather) Arthur Crawley (great-grandfather) Henry Crawley (great-uncle) Eustace Crawley (great-uncle) Cosmo Crawley (great-uncle)
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2008	Oxford University
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 1 Runs scored 24 Batting average 24.00 100s/50s –/– Top score 20* Catches/stumpings –/–
Source: Cricinfo, 18 February 2020

Spencer Henry Crawley (born 5 August 1987) is co-founder and General Partner at firstminute capital, a $320m venture capital firm based in London, investing across Europe and North America.^[1] He is also a former first-class cricketer.

Biography

Born into a large cricketing family, Crawley was born at Westminster on 5 August 1987.^[2] He was educated at Harrow School, before going up Exeter College, Oxford.^[2] While studying at Oxford, Crawley a single first-class appearance in The University Match for Oxford University against Cambridge University in 2008 at Oxford.^[3] Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 4 runs in the Oxford first-innings by Tom Hemingway, while in their second-innings he was unbeaten on 20.^[4]

Spencer started his career at Goldman Sachs in Moscow in the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities division, before becoming the first hire at DMC Partners, a Special Opportunities fund spun out of Goldman Sachs.^[5]

In 2020, Crawley and his co-founder Brent Hoberman launched firstminute capital's second fund, taking firstminute's investor base to over 100 unicorn founders.^[6][7][8]

References

1. "100 unicorn founders back London-based VC fund Firstminute Capital | Sifted". sifted.eu. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
2. "Player profile: Spencer Crawley Profile". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
3. "First-Class Matches played by Spencer Crawley". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
4. "Oxford University v Cambridge University, 2008". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
5. "Spencer Crawley, Firstminute Capital LLP: Profile and Biography". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
6. "Firstminute Capital launches second $111M fund, featuring a who's-who of founders as LPs". TechCrunch. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
7. Shead, Sam (30 November 2020). "Eric Schmidt is backing a new $111 million European venture capital fund". CNBC. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
8. "Global tech founders back London-based start-up fund". Financial Times. 30 November 2020. Retrieved 23 May 2022.

External links

• Spencer Crawley at ESPNcricinfo