[2][3] The company made over 100 early-stage investments between 2000 and 2020, including Revolut, Betfair, The Hut Group, MySQL, Yoox, Depop, Talend, Recorded Future, NaturalMotion, Kobalt Music Group, GoCardless, CityMapper, and Sophia Genetics.
[5] In 2018, Balderton announced the first fund dedicated to buying equity from existing shareholders of European technology startups.
[6] In 2021, Balderton announced the first fund dedicated to growth, with $680M under management and a further $600M for early stage investing, bringing its total assets to over $5B.
[7][8] The partners of the firm are: Bernard Liautaud, Tim Bunting, Suranga Chandratillake, Rob Moffat, Daniel Waterhouse, James Wise, David Thevenon, and Rana Yared.
Since 2008, Balderton has had many prominent exits, including Betfair ($2bn IPO of which they owned 3.95%),[25] Bebo ($850m sale to AOL),[26] Depop ( sale to Etsy for $1.65B ),[27] Scansafe (sale to Cisco, 30% stake[28]), Lovefilm (sale to Amazon.com, 5% stake[29]), Yoox ($700m IPO), MySQL ($1bn sale to Sun Microsystems, 15% stake[30]), Big Fish Games (sold to Churchill Downs for $885m),[17] Recorded Future ($780m sale to Insight Partners,[31] Sunrise (sold to Microsoft),[32] Talend (2016, Nasdaq IPO at $1.5B), Sophia Genetics ( 2021, Nasdaq IPO at $1.2B), Darktrace (2021, FTSE IPO at $3.5B ), Frontier Car Group (majority bought by OLX in 2019 for $700M),[33] and Magic Pony Technologies (sold to Twitter).