Founder and CEOSpire Ventures
Mr. Faisal Butt is an entrepreneur and investor based in Mayfair, UK. His investment focus has a recurring theme in property, property services, and property related technology. He invests through his vehicle Spire Ventures and through his PropTech investment fund Pi Labs.
Faisal’s investment portfolio includes 20+ companies, spanning a diverse range of ventures including 90 North, a real estate investment management business with over £1bn assets under management, The Accouter Group, a furniture supply business, emoov, one of the UK’s leading online estate agents, Trussle, the UK’s first digital mortgage advisor, Hubble, an office space marketplace, and Pi Labs, Europe’s first ‘PropTech’ investment platform.
Faisal is a recipient of several noteworthy industry and academic awards, including the Estates Gazette Power List, the 40 under 40 award by Property Week, and Young Entrepreneur of the Year by Shell Livewire. Faisal is also a recipient of the Skoll Scholarship for social entrepreneurship, awarded by the University of Oxford.
Faisal completed his Bachelors degree at UCLA in 1999 in Business Economics and Computer Science and earned an MBA with Distinction from the University of Oxford in 2009.