Spencer Crawley
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Spencer Crawley | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | Spencer Henry Crawley 5 August 1987 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.[1] He is also a former first-class cricketer.
Biography
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "100 unicorn founders back London-based VC fund Firstminute Capital | Sifted". sifted.eu. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
- ^ a b "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.