Brent Hoberman
Co-Founder & General Partner @ Firstminute Capital
London, United Kingdom
Brent Hoberman is a seed investor at Firstminute Capital in London focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Brent Hoberman is the Co-Founder and Executive Chair of Founders Forum. He previously worked at Royal Academy of Arts as a Corporate Advisory Board. Brent Hoberman attended the University of Oxford.
- Total investments:
- 40
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 30%
Last updated:
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Industries Brent Hoberman invests in
Stages Brent Hoberman invests in
Countries Brent Hoberman invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$5.8M
- Series A
- $1.6M–$21M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (23%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (18%)
- Information Technology 6 (15%)
- E-Commerce 5 (13%)
- Travel 4 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 23 (57%)
- Series A 9 (23%)
- Angel 2 (5%)
- Series B 2 (5%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (3%)
Country
- United Kingdom 17 (43%)
- United States 4 (10%)
- France 3 (8%)
- Germany 3 (8%)
- India 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Holdbar is here to assist you in giving wonderful experiences and managing your business better. | $14.1M / Series A / Sep 08, 2025 | ||
| Stitch is a payments infrastructure company that helps businesses seamlessly connect to the financial system, so they can deliver a better user experience and optimize operations. Headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, Stitch launched in February 2021 and has global staff. Stitch offers all popular online payment methods and operates as aPayments Service Provider. Its platform supports a variety of pay-in methods and solutions; financial and payment management solutions; and Payouts. Learn more at stitch.money. | $55M / Series B / Apr 11, 2025 | ||
| Holdbar is here to assist you in giving wonderful experiences and managing your business better. | $3.5M / Seed / Feb 09, 2024 | ||
| Layla operates as a travel discovery platform. | $3.3M / Seed / Nov 29, 2023 | ||
| Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans. | $5M / Pre-Seed / Jul 24, 2023 | ||
| Founders Makers provides brand marketing, social media management, graphic design, photography, and digital marketing services. | Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 16, 2022 | ||
| Airly empowers individuals and communities with knowledge about the air they breathe. Airly is changing the way people see the air they breathe by providing accurate, hyper-local data about air pollution. | $5.5M / Series A / Nov 09, 2022 | ||
| Syrup Tech is a machine-learning decision-support engine for inventory in commerce. The company uses advanced demand forecasting and stochastic optimizations. Syrup Tech's software empowers brands and retailers to significantly increase full-priced inventory sell-through by (1) preventing stock-outs and end-of-season markdowns, (2) decreaseunnecessary excess inventory and reduce overproduction, and (3) reduce the time spent on manual tasks for stretched merchandising and planning teams. | $6.3M / Seed / Jul 13, 2022 | ||
| Founders Law is a full-service firm, covering all aspects of the start-up and scale-up operations. | Seed / Jun 09, 2022 | ||
| Nous is a software company that deals with household utilities. Nous was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in London. | $9M / Seed / Feb 18, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Firstminute Capital
Firstminute Capital is a European seed fund based in London. Moreover, Firstminute invests in European early-stage tech companies. The firm was founded in 2017 by Brent Hoberman and Spencer Crawley.
Firstminute Capital Contacts
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Spencer Crawley
Co-founder & Managing Partner
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Adriana Vitagliano
VC investor
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Alexander Erikstrup
Entrepreneur in Residence
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Brent Hoberman
Co-Founder & General Partner
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Henry Fox
Partner
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FAQ
What does Brent Hoberman invest in?
Brent Hoberman invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 40 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Brent Hoberman's check size?
Brent Hoberman typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$5.8M at Seed and $1.6M–$21M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Brent Hoberman participates in.
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When did Brent Hoberman last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Brent Hoberman closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 40 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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