Balderton Capital
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Balderton Capital is a venture capital firm based in London, investing in European-founded technology companies from seed to IPO. It has raised $5.7 billion and backed over 300 companies since 2000.
Balderton Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2000. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in AI & machine learning, consumer, cyber security and digital health. $5.7bn under management and 300 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Europe’s leading venture firm focused exclusively on backing European-founded tech companies”
— Balderton Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Invests in
- Europe
- Sectors
- AI & machine learning, Consumer, Cyber security, Digital health, Enterprise, Fintech, Resilience, Sustainable tech
- Founded
- 2000
- Assets under management
- $5.7bn
- Portfolio
- 300 companies
Team, as Balderton Capital publishes it
- Shikha Ahluwalia Principal
- Greta Anderson Managing Director
- Lindsey Armstrong Senior Legal Counsel
- Ryan Baker Head of Investor Relations
- Fiona Blakemore CFO & Head of Portfolio Finance Services
- Danny Bloom Head of Legal
- Solène Brébant Principal
- Rachel Bremer Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
- Tim Bunting Senior Advisor
- Phil Chambers Partner
- Suranga Chandratillake Partner
- Adam Critchley Head of Compliance
Names and roles exactly as listed on balderton.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 63 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Omnes Capital 3 shared companies: exploration.space, quantum-systems.com, proximafusion.com
- Molten Ventures 3 shared companies: aircall.io, revolut.com, appearhere.co.uk
- Index Ventures 3 shared companies: revolut.com, beautypie.com, citymapper.com
- EQT Ventures 2 shared companies: exploration.space, meetcleo.com
- Plural 2 shared companies: exploration.space, proximafusion.com
- Episode 1 Ventures 2 shared companies: adludio.com, carwow.co.uk
- Cherry Ventures 1 shared company: exploration.space
- EQT Ventures 1 shared company: exploration.space
- Red River West 1 shared company: exploration.space
- Rymdkapital 1 shared company: exploration.space
and 53 more — the graph.
Limited partners that disclose a commitment
From the LP's own published fund list — the LP is the source, not the manager.
- California Public Employees' Retirement System → Balderton Capital Growth II, S.L.P. · vintage 2024 · $63,000,000 committed · source
- California Public Employees' Retirement System → Balderton Capital IX, S.L.P. · vintage 2024 · $56,000,000 committed · source
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Balderton Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.balderton.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, status, confidence
- https://www.balderton.com/companies/stage_min, sectors
- https://www.balderton.com/about-balderton/stage_max, description, founded, aum, portfolio_count
- https://www.balderton.com/team/people
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Record 260 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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