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), Dominic Cummings (Former Chief Adviser to the UK Prime Minister), Rio Ferdinand (former England and Manchester United men's football captain), George Osborne (Former Chancellor of the Exchequer), Sir Clive Woodward (former England rugby team coach)

Unicorn founders & CEOs

Alex Kendall (Wayve), Barry Smith (Skyscanner, Noah Media Group), Cal Henderson (Slack), Cameron Adams (Canva), Sir Charles Dunstone (TalkTalk, Carphone Warehouse), Corinne Vigreux (TomTom, Codam), David Helgason (Unity Technologies, Transition, Foobar), Florian Otto (Cedar), Greg Jackson (Octopus Energy), Guy Podjarny (Snyk, Tessl), Hanno Renner (Personio), Hanzade Dogan Boyner (Hepsiburada, Doğan Online), Dr Hermann Hauser (ARM), Ilkka Paananen (Supercell), James Vincent (FNDR), Jim McKelvey (Block - formerly Square, Invisibly, LaunchCode & Author of The Innovation Stack), 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), Kevin Ryan (MongoDB, Gilt, Zola, Business Insider, AlleyCorp), 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), Dame Baroness of Soho Martha Lane-Fox (Doteveryone, President of the British Chambers of Commerce), Sir Martin Sorrell (WPP, S4 Capital), Matt Brittin (Google), Max Levchin (PayPal, Affirm, SciFi VC), Michael Acton Smith (Calm), Michele Romanow (Clearco), Miki Kuusi (Wolt), Nikesh Arora (Palo Alto Networks), Niklas Adalberth (Klarna, Norrsken Foundation), Oli Pomel (Datadog), 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), Tom Blomfield (Monzo, YC), Sir Tim Berners-Lee (World Wide Web, W3C), Tim Westergren (Pandora, Allen & Company, cr8tr), Victoria van Lennep (Lendable)

Investors

Adam Valkin (General Catalyst), Ajay Royan (Mithril), Anne Glover (Amadeus Capital Partners), Divesh Makan (Iconiq Capital), Fabrice Grinda (FJ Labs), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Jeff Immelt (GE, NEA), Dr. Jeannette zu Fürstenberg (General Catalyst), David Bonderman (TPG), John Curtius (Cedar VC), Josh Kushner (Thrive Capital), Juliet de Baubigny (BDT & MSD Partners), Dr Ling Ge (Tencent), Luke Nosek (Founders Fund, Gigafund, Paypal), Luna Schmid (GV), Matt Miller (Sequoia Capital), Mika Salmi (Lakestar), Nellie Levchin (SciFi VC, Glow, Clarium), Nicole Quinn (Lightspeed Ventures), Niklas Zennström (Skype, Atomico, Zennström Philanthropies), Pete Flint (NFX), Peter Fenton (Benchmark), Rajeev Misra (formerly SoftBank Vision Fund), Rana Yared (Balderton), Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital), Ryan Nece (Next Legacy), Rytis Vitkauskas (Dig Ventures), Sarah Cannon (Warburg Pincus, formerly Coatue), Scott Stanford (ACME Capital), Scott Shleifer (Tiger Global), Seth Pierrepont (Iconiq), Shaun Maguire (Sequoia Capital), Somesh Dash (IVP), Sonali De Rycker (Accel), Thibaut Ceyrolle (Atomico), Tom Stafford (DST Global), Victoria Treyger (Felicis Ventures), Walter Kortschak (Summit Partners)