07 08 w 51.529792 n 0.118778 w 51.529792 ; 0.118778 balderton capital type 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 . originally founded in 2000 as benchmark capital europe balderton capital became fully independent in 2007 . balderton capital has made over 100 early stage investments since 2000 including betfair mysql yoox bebo sold for 850m to aol naturalmotion kobalt music group lovefilm globoforce housetrip and carwow . contents 1 general partners 2 investments 3 exits 4 references 5 external links general partners edit 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 edit balderton has invested in more than 100 startups 6 since its inception in 2000 . notable investments have included 3d hubs 7 bebo sold to aol for 850m betfair public on london stock exchange dead link big fish games sold to churchill downs for 885m 8 carwow 9 circle healthcare partnership globoforce gocardless housetrip kobalt music group lovefilm lyst mysql sold to sun microsystems for 1b 10 naturalmotion sold to zynga 11 rebtel revolut setanta sports liquidated sketchfab sunrise calendar talend the hut group tictail vivino 12 wooga wonga.com yoox exits edit 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 edit bradshaw tim 15 june 2008 . liautaud joins balderton capital . financial times . retrieved 1 july 2014 . li charmaine 17 october 2013 . balderton capital hires wellington partners daniel waterhouse . venturevillage.eu . retrieved 1 july 2014 . suranga chandratillake joins balderton capital as gp . thomson reuters . 20 january 2014 . retrieved 1 july 2014 . uber executive joins london venture capital firm balderton telegraph balderton capital promotes rob moffat and james wise to partner techcrunch balderton capital . crunchbase . 2014 . retrieved 1 july 2014 . fowler nina 27 august 2013 . balderton capital backs crowdsourced 3d printing network 3d hubs . venturevillage.eu . retrieved 1 july 2014 . a b http www.nytimes.com 2014 11 13 business churchill downs to buy big fish games for up to dollar885 million.html portfolio balderton capital sun picks up mysql for 1 billion ; open source is a legitimate business model techcrunch edwards cliff 31 january 2014 . zynga buys naturalmotion to bolster mobile cut staff . bloomberg . retrieved 1 july 2014 . grant rebecca 17 july 2013 . vivino uncorks 10.3 m to turn anyone into a wine snob . venturebeat . retrieved 1 july 2014 . mcdermid riley 22 october 2010 . betfair s ipo soars as investors embrace social gaming . venturebeat . retrieved 1 july 2014 . johnson bobbie 14 march 2008 . bebo sale to aol nets founders a fortune in 3 years . the guardian . retrieved 1 july 2014 . microsoft acquires sunrise calendar . twitter is buying magic pony technology . external links edit official website v t e private equity and venture capital basic investment types buyout venture mezzanine growth secondaries equity co investment history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s terms and concepts buyout financial sponsor management buyout divisional buyout buy sell agreement leveraged recapitalization dividend recapitalization venture angel investor business incubator post money valuation pre money valuation seed money startup company venture capital financing venture debt venture round structure private equity firms and funds limited partnership limited liability company carried interest management fee publicly traded private equity business development company venture capital trust private investment in public equity pipe pledge fund investors corporations institutional investors pension funds insurance companies fund of funds endowments foundations investment banks merchant banks commercial banks high net worth individuals family offices sovereign wealth funds crowdfunding related financial terms aum cap table capital call capital commitment capital structure distribution waterfall ebitda envy ratio high yield debt ipo irr leverage liquidation preference m & a pme taxation of private equity and hedge funds undercapitalization vintage year private equity and venture capital investors private equity firms venture capital firms angel investors portfolio companies retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title balderton capital & oldid 742446703 categories venture capital firms of the united kingdomcompanies based in londoncompanies established in 2000hidden categories coordinates not on wikidataall articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2016official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 october 2016 at 19 26 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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