Spencer Crawley

Spencer Crawley
Born	Spencer Henry Crawley (1987-08-05) 5 August 1987 Westminster, London, England
Education	Harrow School
Alma mater	Exeter College, Oxford
Known for	firstminute capital
Personal information
Height
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	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. 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.

External links

• Player profile: Spencer Crawley from ESPNcricinfo