Exhibit 31.1



CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

RULES 13a-14(a) AND 15d-14(a) UNDER THE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY
ACT OF 2002



I, Scott Gordon, Chief Executive Officer of Silver Spike Investment
Corp., certify that:



1. I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 10-K of Silver Spike
Investment Corp. (the “registrant”) for the year ended March 31, 2022;



2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such
statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this Annual Report;



3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations, and cash
flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this Annual Report;



4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible
for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal
control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:



a)Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused
such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant
is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this Annual Report is being prepared;



b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting,
or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding
the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles;



c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure
controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures,
as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and



d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s
internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant's fourth
fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s
internal control over financial reporting; and



5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed,
based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee
of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing equivalent functions):



a)All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the
design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s
ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and



b)Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management
or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.









|Date: June 29, 2022 |  | By: | /s/ Scott Gordon                                         
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|                    |  |     | Scott Gordon                                             
|                    |  |     | Chief Executive Officer
    (Principal Executive Officer)