After two decades as one of the leading European Series A venture firms, Balderton is building on the success of its Liquidity Fund and is now expanding to primary growth investing With this
Balderton Capital unveils $680m early growth stage fund
Balderton Capital s management team. Image: Balderton Capital
The firm is celebrating 20 years of investing in European start-ups and will now be deploying capital in this new growth segment.
To mark 20 years, investment firm Balderton Capital has announced a new $680m fund for backing early growth stage companies in Europe.
The firm, through its various funds, backs companies at the seed and Series A stages but has stepped into growth investing through its Liquidity I fund. Its portfolio of investments include Darktrace, Revolut, Depop and GoCardless in recent years while in its early days it was the only venture backer of Bebo.
Investors placing capital in earlier and earlier tech deals has been a historical trend for the last few years, but this strategy was generally reserved for the traditional, ‘high-growth’ VC arena. VCs needed to snag earlier ad earlier deals otherwise they would be diluted at a later stage. But with startups coming up with models […]