Lina Wenner

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Firstminute capital
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Partner

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Lina Wenner is a partner at firstminute capital. The fund currently has >$500m AUM, and invests at the seed-stage across technology sectors, focused on Europe and the US. It is a seed investor in the two leading European AI companies, Wayve and Mistral. Over 130 unicorn founders have invested in firstminute, and they form part of a broad community that helps turbo-charge firstminute's portfolio companies. Lina joined firstminute capital from the Boston Consulting Group as the first member of the investment team in 2017. 

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