Colin Hanna

Partner

Contact

Social

Executive assistant

Colin Hanna

Partner

Overview

Colin joined Balderton in 2016. At Balderton, Colin invests in purpose-driven, product-focused founders spanning verticals including Cloud, Consumer, Crypto, and Fintech. He is also part of the team at Balderton responsible for driving the firm’s Sustainable Future Goals initiatives.

Prior to joining Balderton, Colin worked at SoundCloud in Berlin where he led Emerging Market Growth. He began his career at Goldman Sachs in New York where he focused on raising capital for Asian internet companies, including Qunar (NASDAQ: QUNR), Tencent, Nexon, Vipshop (NASDAQ: VIPS), and Tarena (NASDAQ: TEDU).

Colin has a B.A. from Princeton University in Political Science, where he was Captain of the Men’s Swimming Team.  A father of two, Colin spent his childhood in Indonesia and Hong Kong, speaks Mandarin, German and Spanish, and is most comfortable in the ocean.

Board positions

Berlin, Germany

Anytype

A privacy first, peer-to-peer web builder

  • Seed 2023
Berlin, Germany

Clue

Science-backed leader in femtech and most trusted brand in menstrual and reproductive health

Berlin, Germany

Finoa

The leading European digital asset custody and financial services platform for institutional investors and corporations

  • Series A in 2021
London, UK

Fuse Energy

Delivering clean, cheap electricity to consumers to help solve climate change.

  • Seed in 2022
Munich, Germany

Ory

Open source identity platform

  • Seed in 2020
Stockholm, Sweden

Supernormal

A generative AI-powered note-taking platform

  • Seed in 2023
Düsseldorf, Germany

Vivenu

API-first events platform for venues and event owners

  • Series A in 2020

Related investments

Berlin, Germany

Frontier Car Group

Automotive marketplaces in emerging markets.

  • Series A in 2016
  • Investment by OLX Group in 2019 to become majority shareholder
London, UK

Hiya

Provides caller profile products and services designed to make the phone experience better.

  • Series A in 2017
London, UK

Luno

Luno makes it safe and easy for people and businesses to store, buy, use, and learn about bitcoin.

  • Series B in 2017
  • Acquired by Digital Currency Group in 2020
San Francisco, USA

Odyssey Therapeutics

Creating next generation precision medicines for patients with cancer and inflammatory diseases.

  • Acquired Rahko in 2022
London, UK

Rahko

Unlocking discovery with quantum machine learning for chemical simulation

  • Seed in 2019
  • Acquired by Odyssey Therapeutics in 2022
Lyon, France

Traefik Labs

Cloud-native networking that just works.

  • Series A in 2020
Berlin, Germany

Violet

Privacy preserving, reusable on-chain compliance.

  • Seed in 2023