Limited liability partnership | |
Industry | Venture capital |
Founded | 2000 |
Headquarters | 28 Britannia Street, London, WC1X 9JF United Kingdom |
Key people
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Bernard Liautaud, Tim Bunting, Daniel Waterhouse, Suranga Chandratillake, James Wise, Rob Moffat |
Total assets | $2.2 billion |
Number of employees
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25 |
Website | www |
Coordinates: 51°31′47″N 0°07′08″W / 51.529792°N 0.118778°W
Balderton Capital is a London, UK-based venture capital firm that invests early-stage, primarily in Europe-based technology and Internet startup companies.
Founded in 2000 as Benchmark Capital Europe, Balderton Capital became fully independent in 2007.
Balderton Capital has made over 100 early-stage investments between 2000 and 2017, 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, Magic Pony (sold to Twitter in 2016) and Carwow.
The partners of the firm are Bernard Liautaud, Daniel Waterhouse, Tim Bunting, Suranga Chandratillake, Lars Fjedlsoe-Nielsen, Rob Moffat and James Wise.
Balderton invested in more than 100 startups between its inception in 2000 and 2014. Notable investments have included: