Industry Venture capital Headquarters London Number of employees 25 | Website www.balderton.com Founded 2000 Total assets 2.2 billion USD | |
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Key people Bernard Liautaud, Mark Evans, Tim Bunting, Daniel Waterhouse, Suranga Chandratillake Type of business Limited liability partnership | ||
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Balderton Capital is a London, UK-based venture capital firm that invests early-stage, primarily in Europe-based technology and Internet startup companies.
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- Vc pitch james wise balderton capital at capital on stage london 2014
- Vc pitch charlotte anne nelson balderton capital
- General partners
- Investments
- Exits
- References
Founded in 2000 as Benchmark Capital Europe, Balderton Capital became fully independent in 2007.
Balderton Capital made over 100 early-stage investments between 2000 and 2014, including Betfair, The Hut Group, MySQL (sold for $1B to Sun Microsystems), Yoox, Bebo (sold for $850m to AOL), NaturalMotion, Kobalt Music Group, Lovefilm, Globoforce, HouseTrip and Carwow.
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General partners
The partners of the firm are Bernard Liautaud, Daniel Waterhouse, Tim Bunting, Suranga Chandratillake, Lars Fjedlsoe-Nielsen, Rob Moffat and James Wise.
Investments
Balderton invested in more than 100 startups between its inception in 2000 and 2014. Notable investments have included:
Exits
Since 2008, Balderton has had many prominent exits, including Betfair ($2bn IPO), Bebo ($850m sale to AOL), NaturalMotion ($527m sale to Zynga), Scansafe (sale to Cisco), Lovefilm (sale to Amazon.com), Yoox ($700m IPO), Icera ($367m sale to Nvidia), MySQL ($1bn sale to Sun Microsystems), Big Fish Games (sold to Churchill Downs for $885m), Sunrise (sold to Microsoft) and Magic Pony Technologies (sold to Twitter).