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David Thevenon

General Partner at Balderton Capital

Greater London, England

Invests in

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $20,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $10,500,000.00

Skills

Strategic Partnerships
Business Development
Mobile Devices
Strategy
Partner Management
Product Management
Mobile Applications
E-commerce
Go-to-market Strategy
Start-ups
Mobile Marketing
Business Model Development
Wireless
Mobile Internet
New Business Development
Entrepreneurship
Product Marketing
Telecommunications
Content Strategy
Competitive Analysis

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2020

    Balderton Capital is a multistage venture firm with more than two decades of experience supporting Europe’s best founders from Seed to IPO.

  • Partner

    2014 - 2019

    Managing Director and founding member of global investment team for SoftBank Group (2014-2017). Founding partner at the Vision Fund (from 2016)

2017 - 2019

  • Board Member

    2017 - 2019

    Acquired by American Express in October 2020. Kabbage provides financial services, including financing, to small businesses using real-time, verified data to acquire customers, underwrite and manage risk. It has deployed over $16 billions in capital to over half a million small businesses.

2017 - 2019

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2017 - 2019

    NYSE IPO in 2021. DiDi is the world’s leading mobile transportation platform with 550M users across China, LATAM, Japan and Australia.

2015 - 2019

  • Board Member

    2015 - 2019

    NASDAQ listing in 2021. Grab is a technology company that offers ride-hailing, ride sharing transport solutions, food delivery, logistics services and financial services across South-East Asia.

  • Director

    2016 - 2019

    CloudMinds is operating cloud-based systems for intelligent robots.

  • Director

    2016 - 2019

    Ola is one of the world’s largest ride-sharing companies, being the largest player in India, and operating also in Australia and the UK.

2018 - 2018

  • Board Director

    2018 - 2018

    Led Series C. NYSE IPO in 2020. Lemonade is a licensed insurance carrier, offering homeowners and renters insurance powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics. By replacing brokers and bureaucracy with bots and machine learning, Lemonade promises zero paperwork and instant everything.

2015 - 2018

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2015 - 2018

    American online personal finance company. $600M+ revenue and 1.8M+ members in 2020. Nasdaq listing in 2021.

2014 - 2018

  • Managing Director

    2014 - 2018