Spencer Lake

Partner at 13books Capital

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2025
VC🌍 United KingdomInvested this year
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Board Member; Group Audit & Risk Committee
Oct 2025
corporate content never felt like Monzo.
late stageBanking
Investor, Board Observer
Jul 2019
At Abroad, leadership evolution in an immersive, transformative experience. As we navigate the new frontiers of leadership in an increasingly complex and interconnected world, we act as your trusted ally, fostering the growth of wise, purposeful leaders equipped to navigate todays challenges and shape tomorrows world. Our transformative programs are designed to develop essential leadership qualities, cultivate mindsets of continuous growth, and unlock latent potential.
Board Member, Investor
Sep 2018
NowCM is the leading market infrastructure and issuance provider within the primary debt capital markets. It offers a market-leading, cloud-native data platform for creating, negotiating, and managing debt, along with an end-to-end secure, digital workflow platform. These tools enable all participants in the primary bond markets to collaborate in real-time, fostering an open and cooperative environment. NowCM facilitate access to primary markets for inaugural and infrequent issuers through its Treasury-as-a-Service (TaaS) facility. This entity is regulated by the CSSF in Luxembourg and operates as a “funding subsidiary” using standardised yet flexible documentation and fully automated digital workflows. NowCM’s 360-degree suite of services is completed by a multi-lateral trading facility (MTF) that NowCM owns and operates. It stands as the world’s first and only regulated primary marketplace, subject to the supervision of the ACPR and AMF in France.
Board Member, Investor
Sep 2018
We’re Duco, and we make managing mission-critical data easy. Our vision is to cut time spent on data-related work in financial services Operations and Finance departments by 90%. Why? Because firms in the industry spend millions of dollars and tens of thousands of hours every year trying to solve data problems. We give you the tools you need to automate all data across your enterprise (regardless of format or source) on one platform, driven by the end-user. It’s a no-code, cloud-native, AI-powered solution that enables you to start trusting your data. This eliminates manual work, cuts cost, reduces risk, turbocharges agility and creates transparency. Our customers are saving money and time, simplifying their businesses, ditching old technology and changing their legacy – are you? Find out more at https://du.co/.
Board Member; Investor; Chair of Nominating & Corp Governance Comm.; Compensation Comm.
Feb 2018
nCino (NASDAQ: NCNO) is powering a new era in financial services. 🚀 nCino was founded to help financial institutions digitize and reengineer business processes to boost efficiencies and create better banking experiences. With over 1,800 customers worldwide - including community banks, credit unions, independent mortgage banks, and the largest financial entities globally - nCino has developed a trusted platform of best-in-class, intelligent solutions. By integrating artificial intelligence and actionable insights into our platform, nCino is helping financial institutions consolidate legacy systems to enhance strategic decision-making, improve risk management, and elevate customer satisfaction by cohesively bringing together people, AI and data. Working at nCino means you dont have to choose between joining a great culture or building great products - were proof you can do both. Our core values are deeply entrenched in our culture (#LiveTheSix!), and our growth relies on our employees’ abilities to learn new skills, accept new responsibilities, and assume leadership roles on our growing teams. At nCino, we understand that diversity is a large part of what drives our success, and our inclusive environment is a place where all perspectives and experiences are welcome. We believe that supporting our employees is more than encouraging them to add pronouns to their Slack profiles or providing mental health resources (though we do those things, too!). We strive to create a safe space where employees feel they can come to work as their true selves. 💛 By providing our employees with resources to further their knowledge in their roles, we enable nCino to continue powering the next era of financial services.
Investor, former NED (July ‘17 - Jan ‘19)
Aug 2017
Astuta is an ambitious UK software group with a passion for breathing new life into technology companies through platform modernisation and profitable business expansion. We have a particular talent for transforming software firms with data management solutions that help customers meet increasingly demanding reporting obligations in highly regulated markets. Our value is intrinsically linked to the pedigree of our founding team and our rich heritage in next generation software platforms and intelligent automation, and in successful technology investment. Our passion for technology, especially the latest digital platforms and tools, is critical to our vision for the transformation of the companies we acquire and develop.
Advisory Board (since 8/21), Investor, former Board Member
Jul 2016
Fenergo develops leading SaaS financial technology solutions to improve client lifecycle management (CLM) and support regulatory compliance. We connect the world’s financial institutions with their customers to transform the overall experience and relationship. We help firms feel safe by continuously monitoring risks and ensuring regulatory compliance. By enabling operational efficiency and digital transformation, we drive value creation to solve the problems of today and anticipate those of tomorrow. Our technology enables financial institutions to transform the end-to client onboarding and lifecycle experience; continuously monitor risks and ensure regulatory compliance (across KYC, AML, ESG, Tax, SFTR, and Data Privacy frameworks); and enhance operational efficiency. Since 2009 we have developed best-in-class technology to help future proof financial institutions across the buy- and sell-sides. Today, with a global footprint across 14 countries, we remain committed to creating solutions that enable you to operate in complete confidence.
Experience · 10 entries
All (10)
Investments (7)
Board (4)
2025
Board Member; Group Audit & Risk Committee
Oct 2025
corporate content never felt like Monzo.
late stageBanking
2019
Partner
Dec 2019
13books Capital partners with Europes best fintech founders with ambitions to scale globally, investing at late Seed and Series A stage.
Investor, Board Observer
Jul 2019
At Abroad, leadership evolution in an immersive, transformative experience. As we navigate the new frontiers of leadership in an increasingly complex and interconnected world, we act as your trusted ally, fostering the growth of wise, purposeful leaders equipped to navigate todays challenges and shape tomorrows world. Our transformative programs are designed to develop essential leadership qualities, cultivate mindsets of continuous growth, and unlock latent potential.
2018
Board Member, Investor
Sep 2018
NowCM is the leading market infrastructure and issuance provider within the primary debt capital markets. It offers a market-leading, cloud-native data platform for creating, negotiating, and managing debt, along with an end-to-end secure, digital workflow platform. These tools enable all participants in the primary bond markets to collaborate in real-time, fostering an open and cooperative environment. NowCM facilitate access to primary markets for inaugural and infrequent issuers through its Treasury-as-a-Service (TaaS) facility. This entity is regulated by the CSSF in Luxembourg and operates as a “funding subsidiary” using standardised yet flexible documentation and fully automated digital workflows. NowCM’s 360-degree suite of services is completed by a multi-lateral trading facility (MTF) that NowCM owns and operates. It stands as the world’s first and only regulated primary marketplace, subject to the supervision of the ACPR and AMF in France.
Board Member, Investor
Sep 2018
We’re Duco, and we make managing mission-critical data easy. Our vision is to cut time spent on data-related work in financial services Operations and Finance departments by 90%. Why? Because firms in the industry spend millions of dollars and tens of thousands of hours every year trying to solve data problems. We give you the tools you need to automate all data across your enterprise (regardless of format or source) on one platform, driven by the end-user. It’s a no-code, cloud-native, AI-powered solution that enables you to start trusting your data. This eliminates manual work, cuts cost, reduces risk, turbocharges agility and creates transparency. Our customers are saving money and time, simplifying their businesses, ditching old technology and changing their legacy – are you? Find out more at https://du.co/.
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