Sam Warren

Sam is part of Phoenix Court’s special projects team, bringing a decade working at the intersection of investments and startups since graduating from the University of Oxford in 2016.

His investment career started at Artemis Investment Management as an equity analyst where he worked on a multi-asset long-short hedge fund strategy, looking at everything from Bitcoin to pub companies. He subsequently spent 3 years at Horsley Bridge, a globally renowned venture capital fund-of-funds, before 3 years at Lantern Ventures, the largest quantitative crypto hedge fund in the world at the time.

This builds on Sam’s experience as an early stage operator, working at companies including Tilt, an a16z-backed fintech that was acquired by Airbnb, and Beeline, a London-based micromobility company.

He spends a lot of his time considering the evolution of venture capital in response to radically different technology cycles, geopolitical contexts, and asset class maturity. He is particularly energised by evaluating new capabilities for early-stage technology investment firms that differ substantially from prior cycles. He was drawn to Phoenix Court by its firm-wide embrace of evolution and innovation, value alignment around inclusive growth, and strengths in key emerging capabilities, such as full lifecycle investing and complex stakeholder orchestration.

Sam grew up very far from technology and the New Square Mile, on a dairy farm near Wales. He vividly remembers being laughed at in an internship interview by a smooth-talking investment banker for his teenage experience milking cows. In his spare time, Sam is an active trail runner and aspiring backgammon player. He spends as much time in the mountains as possible, whether hurtling down them in winter or climbing them in summer.