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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 63 co-investors found.
- 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 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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