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Lina Wenner

Partner at Firstminute Capital

Berlin Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Lina Wenner is a Partner at firstminute capital, with a Master's Degree from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor's Degree from Utrecht University. She has successfully invested in companies like EngFlow (Series A) and Infraspeak (Seed), specializing in sectors such as Gaming/eSports, Digital Health, and AI.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2017 - Current

    firstminute capital, $500m AUM seed fund, headquartered in London and backed by over 130 unicorn founders. 🌱 Pre-seed and seed. Generalist. Love being first money in. 💥 Fund I launched 2017; Fund II launched 2020; Fund III launched 2023. ⭐ Portfolio of 160 companies. 💸 Ticket size: $250k to $5m. 💜 Team of 19 across UK, Germany and France.

  • Board Director

    2021

Lindus Health is a next-gen CRO running clinical trials for the health and biotech sectors.

Raised $24,545,079.00 from Seedcamp, Peter Thiel, Page One Ventures, Salica, Calm/Storm Ventures, Amino Collective, Firstminute Capital and Creandum.

  • Investor

    2021

Xata is a fully-managed PostgreSQL database platform. Designed for businesses to build faster, ship reliably and scale infinitely.

Raised $35,000,000.00 from Index Ventures and Redpoint.

  • Investor

    2020

Frontier is an online hiring platform that helps businesses in finding qualified candidates.

Raised $2,800,000.00 from The Raine Group, Alex Bouaziz, Scribble Ventures, Firstminute Capital, Cyan Banister, NFX, Ilkka Paananen, Liquid 2 Ventures, FJ Labs and Alarko Ventures.

  • Investor

    2021

EngFlow is an information technology company that helps to build software faster.

Raised $21,700,000.00 from Firstminute Capital, Spencer Kimball, Andreessen Horowitz, Mike Scarpelli, Matt Klein, Rachel Potvin, Tiger Global Management and Tom Preston-Werner.

  • Investor

    2021

  • Investor

    2020

Taktile empowers decision-makers to build and evaluate automated decision flows faster than ever before.

Raised $24,700,000.00 from Leblon Capital, Tiger Global Management, Dig Ventures and Index Ventures.

  • Investor

    2021

  • Investor

    2018

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