Firstminute Summit

Our Investor Summit brings together firstminute investors, portfolio founders, partners from the top US and European multi-stage funds, and friends who are all bright lights in the tech community and share a deep commitment to nurturing this entrepreneurship ecosystem.

With a well articulated day of content and a range of side events the summit is able to bring the firstminute capital network together and showcase the talented founders we are backing. Each year the summit and the community have grown and come together in London to create an annual celebration of the firstminute world. 

Previous guests, speakers and contributors from firstminute events

🌐 Global Leaders

Sir Tony Blair (former UK Prime Minister), Nico Rosberg (Former Formula 1 Champion and Founder of GreenTech Festival), Sir Nick Clegg (former UK Deputy Prime Minister, and formerly President of Global Affairs at Meta), Anne Keast-Butler (Director of GCHQ, the UK's Intelligence, Cyber and Security Agency), Dominic Cummings (Former Chief Adviser to the UK Prime Minister), Rio Ferdinand (former England and Manchester United men's football captain), The Rt Hon George Osborne CH (former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Chairman of The British Museum and Partner at Robey Warshaw), Sir Clive Woodward (former England rugby team coach), Varun Chandra (UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's Special Advisor on Business and Investment), Dame Professor Angela McLean (The UK Government Chief Scientific Advisor), Princess Beatrice of York (Founder of BY-EQ Limited, Co-founder of Big Change and patron of several education and youth charities including Outward Bound and Teenage Cancer Trust), The Rt Hon The Lord Willetts (Chair of the Regulatory Innovation Office - RIO), The RT Hon Peter Kyle (UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology), Blaise Metreweli (Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service - MI6), Zanny Minton Beddoes (The Economist)

🦄 Founders & CEOs of $10bn+ businesses 

Andrey Khusid (Miro), Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity), Arkady Volozh (Nebius, Yandex), Bill Winters (Standard Chartered), Brian Halligan (Hubspot), Cal Henderson (Slack), Cameron Adams (Canva), David Helgason (Unity Technologies, Transition, Foobar), Eric Schmidt (Relativity, former CEO and Chairman of Google), Greg Jackson (Octopus Energy), Dr Hermann Hauser (ARM), Igor & Dmitry Bukhman (Playrix), Ilkka Paananen (Supercell), Jim McKelvey (Block - formerly Square, Invisibly, LaunchCode & Author of The Innovation Stack), Joe Lonsdale (Palantir, 8VC, The Cicero Institute), John Caspers (Adyen), Kevin Ryan (MongoDB, Gilt, Zola, Business Insider, AlleyCorp), Marius Nacht (Check Point, 1E Therapeutics), Max Levchin (PayPal, Affirm, SciFi VC), Nikesh Arora (Palo Alto Networks), Niklas Adalberth (Klarna, Norrsken Foundation), Oli Pomel (Datadog)

🚀 Leading Founders & Technology leaders

Alex Kendall (Wayve), Arthur Mensch (Mistral), Barry Smith (Skyscanner, Noah Media Group), Sir Charles Dunstone (TalkTalk, Carphone Warehouse), Corinne Vigreux (TomTom, Codam), Florian Otto (Cedar), Guy Podjarny (Snyk, Tessl), Hanno Renner (Personio), Hanzade Dogan Boyner (Hepsiburada, Doğan Online), James Vincent (FNDR), Jim Mellon (Mann Bioinvest, Burnbrae Group), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), Jochen Engert (Flix), Jon Reynolds (Swiftkey), Jonathan Newhouse (Conde Nast International), Jose Neves (Farfetch), Julia Hartz (Eventbrite), Justas Janauskas (Vinted), Kathleen Breitman (Tezos), Kevin Hartz (A*, Eventbrite), Lars Rasmussen (Google Maps, Weav Music), Linda Avey (23andMe, Precise.ly, Humain Ventures), Linda Fayne Levinson (Jacobs Engineering Group, NCR, Kount, Clearpath Robotics, BitPesa, Knotel), Baroness Martha Lane Fox of Soho (President of the British Chambers of Commerce), Sir Martin Sorrell (WPP, S4 Capital),  Michael Acton Smith (Calm), Michele Romanow (Clearco), Miki Kuusi (Wolt), Professor Dame Molly Stevens (John Black Professor of Bionanoscience at the Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, formerly Royal Academy of Engineering), Oskari Petas (Wolt), Paul Forster (Indeed), Riccardo Zacconi (King Digital Entertainment & Sweet Capital), Robby Yung (Animoca Brands), Ross Mason (MuleSoft, Dig Ventures), Shuo Wang (Deel), Taylor Francis (Watershed), Thomas Heatherwick (Heatherwick Studio), Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), Tom Blomfield (Monzo, YC), Toyin Ajayi (Cityblock), Sir Tim Berners-Lee (World Wide Web, W3C), Tim Westergren (Pandora, cr8tr), Tony Fadell (iPod, iPhone and Nest Labs), Victoria van Lennep (Lendable).

🎯 Investors

Cathie Wood (ARK Invest), Divesh Makan (Iconiq Capital), Gabriel Caillaux (General Atlantic), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Ibrahim Ajami (Mubadala Capital Ventures), Jeff Immelt (NEA, former CEO of GE), Dr. Jeannette zu Fürstenberg (General Catalyst), the late David Bonderman (TPG), Jeppe Zink (Northzone), Josh Kushner (Thrive Capital), Juliet de Baubigny (BDT & MSD Partners), Dr Ling Ge (Tencent), Luke Nosek (Founders Fund, Gigafund, Paypal), Maggie Fanari (J. Rothschild Capital Management), Matt Robinson (Accel, GoCardeless, Nested), Neil Mehta (Greeonoaks), Nellie Levchin (SciFi VC, Clarium, PayPal), Niklas Zennström (Skype, Atomico, Zennström Philanthropies), Pete Flint (NFX, Trulia), Peter Fenton (Benchmark), Rajeev Misra (formerly SoftBank Vision Fund), Rana Yared (Balderton), Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital), Ryan Nece (Next Legacy, former NFL player), Scott Shleifer (Tiger Global), Shaun Maguire (Sequoia Capital), Sonali De Rycker (Accel), Tom Stafford (DST Global), Victoria Treyger (Felicis), Walter Kortschak (Summit Partners)