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Firstminute Capital
Venture capital firm · Founded 2017 · Active in 2026
Firstminute Capital is a venture capital firm based in UK, founded in 2017. The page below shows 5 Power Law outcomes from Firstminute Capital's portfolio — 5 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in AI · Transportation; top portfolio geographies are UK · Germany · France. Firstminute ranks #488 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Firstminute’s selected top holdings.
An estimate of Firstminute’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 2 companies where Firstminute is a named shareholder, worth about $130M in estimated equity value.
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1
Wayve
1.51%
$8.6B
$130M
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2
Elephant Healthcare
0.56%
$80M
$448K
Estimated value = Firstminute’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Firstminute also appears inside investor groups in N8n, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
The 5 Firstminute Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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UK2
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Germany1
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France1
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USA1
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AI4
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Transportation1
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Series A1
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Seed4
Firstminute's 5 Power Law outcomes.
How does Firstminute stack up?
Firstminute in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere Firstminute's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
21 founders across the 5 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. University of Cambridge and Digital Domain are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Firstminute.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Firstminute Capital
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Firstminute on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
Latest news about Firstminute Capital
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Firstminute — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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