Balderton Capital

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Balderton Capital
Limited liability partnership
Industry Venture capital
Founded 2000
Headquarters 28 Britannia Street, London, WC1X 9JF United Kingdom
Key people
 Bernard Liautaud, Mark Evans, Tim Bunting, Daniel Waterhouse, Suranga Chandratillake
Total assets $2.2 billion
Number of employees
 25
Website www.balderton.com

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 made over 100 early-stage investments between 2000 and 2014, including Betfair, MySQL, Yoox, Bebo (sold for $850m to AOL), NaturalMotion, Kobalt Music Group, Lovefilm, Globoforce, HouseTrip and Carwow.

General partners

The partners of the firm are Bernard Liautaud, Daniel Waterhouse, Tim Bunting, Suranga Chandratillake, Lars Fjedlsoe-Nielsen, Rob Moffat and James Wise.[1][2][3][4][5]

Investments

Balderton invested in more than 100 startups[6] between its inception in 2000 as and 2014. Notable investments have included:

Exits

Since 2008, Balderton has had many prominent exits, including Betfair ($2bn IPO),[13] Bebo ($850m sale to AOL),[14] 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),[8] Sunrise (sold to Microsoft)[15] and Magic Pony Technologies (sold to Twitter).[16]

References

  1. ↑ Bradshaw, Tim (15 June 2008). "Liautaud joins Balderton Capital". Financial Times. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  2. ↑ Li, Charmaine (17 October 2013). "Balderton Capital hires Wellington Partners' Daniel Waterhouse". venturevillage.eu. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "Suranga Chandratillake joins Balderton Capital as GP". Thomson Reuters. 20 January 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  4. ↑ Uber executive joins London venture capital firm Balderton - Telegraph
  5. ↑ Balderton Capital Promotes Rob Moffat And James Wise To Partner | TechCrunch
  6. ↑ "Balderton Capital". CrunchBase. 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  7. ↑ Fowler, Nina (27 August 2013). "Balderton Capital backs crowdsourced 3D printing network 3D Hubs". venturevillage.eu. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  8. 1 2 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/business/churchill-downs-to-buy-big-fish-games-for-up-to-dollar885-million.html
  9. ↑ Portfolio - Balderton Capital
  10. ↑ Sun Picks Up MySQL For $1 Billion; Open Source Is A Legitimate Business Model | TechCrunch
  11. ↑ Edwards, Cliff (31 January 2014). "Zynga Buys NaturalMotion to Bolster Mobile, Cut Staff". Bloomberg. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  12. ↑ Grant, Rebecca (17 July 2013). "Vivino uncorks $10.3M to turn anyone into a wine snob". VentureBeat. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  13. ↑ McDermid, Riley (22 October 2010). "Betfair's IPO soars as investors embrace social gaming". VentureBeat. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  14. ↑ Johnson, Bobbie (14 March 2008). "Bebo sale to AOL nets founders a fortune in 3 years". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  15. ↑ "Microsoft acquires Sunrise calendar".
  16. ↑ "Twitter is buying Magic Pony technology".

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