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| 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 | ||||||||||||||
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| 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) | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||
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| 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. He is also a former first-class cricketer.
Biography
Born into a large cricketing family, Crawley was born at Westminster on 5 August 1987. He was educated at Harrow School, before going up Exeter College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, Crawley a single first-class appearance in The University Match for Oxford University against Cambridge University in 2008 at Oxford. 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.
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.
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.
References
- "100 unicorn founders back London-based VC fund Firstminute Capital | Sifted". sifted.eu. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
- ^ "Player profile: Spencer Crawley Profile". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
- "First-Class Matches played by Spencer Crawley". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- "Oxford University v Cambridge University, 2008". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- "Spencer Crawley, Firstminute Capital LLP: Profile and Biography". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
- "Firstminute Capital launches second $111M fund, featuring a who's-who of founders as LPs". TechCrunch. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
- Shead, Sam (30 November 2020). "Eric Schmidt is backing a new $111 million European venture capital fund". CNBC. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
- "Global tech founders back London-based start-up fund". Financial Times. 30 November 2020. Retrieved 23 May 2022.