Balderton Capital is a venture capital firm in London that focuses on technologies. Founded 2000 in London, England, United Kingdom by Suranga Chandratillake, it invests in debt, early stage ventures, late stage ventures, private equity, seed, series A, series B, series C, and debt financing. Its portfolio companies include Revolut, The Org, Funnel, and Jolt. As of March 2020, Balderton Capital has made 292 investments. Their most recent investment was on February 20, 2020, when The Org raised $8.5M. Balderton Capital has had 49 exits, the most notable of which include Recorded Future, Digital Surgery, and Talend. Balderton Capital has raised eight funds, their latest being Balderton Capital VII. This fund was announced on November 27, 2019 and raised a total of $90.8M.
Timeline
Funded Companies
ComplyAdvantage is a company developing machine learning and big data based financial crime fighting software.
Revolut is a London-based Fintech startup and bank offering mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange services.
GoCardless is a payments company that developed global payments network based on the bank to bank payment systems. It participated in the S11 cohort of Y Combinator
Tessian (formerly Checkrecipient) is an artificial intelligence email security platform.
A software company offering application programming interfaces (APIs) for managing, integrating, and delivering content to any device or service.
Cloud based phone system and call center software with integrations into CRMs & helpdesk software.
Talend is a software vendor specializing in big data integration founded by Bertrand Diard.
Zopa is a Peer-to-Peer lending platform, designed to connect peers willing to invest in individual borrowers.
Nutmeg is a London-based investment management company offering an online portal for managing investments, ISAs and pensions.
Banjo is a Redwood City, California-based company founded by Damien Patton.
Carwow is a London-based car company founded by Alexandra Margolis, David Santoro and James Hind.
Sketchfab is a virtual reality company founded by Pierre-Antoine Passet, Alban Denoyel and Cedric Pinson.
Uk-based provider of dvd-by-mail and streaming video on demand in the uk and germany
Internet technology company based in somerville, ma, usa
Citymapper is a London-based company that helps users of their app find methods of transportation near them.
Associated investment funds
People
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen
Partner
Alison Brownhill
CFO & Head Of Portfolio Finance Services
Diane Albouy
Research Associate
Jerome Misso
Operating Partner
Tim Bunting
Partner
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
Containous
Detectify
Dream Games
Funnel
The Org
Toucan Toco
VOI Technology
Wayve