DANIEL WATERHOUSE

Partner

Daniel joined Balderton as a General Partner in 2013 and has a current focus on the areas of sustainability, data driven health, transformative software tools and eCommerce.

Daniel currently sits on the boards of and/or works with Revolut, Merama, Vivenu, Infarm, Attio, Delli, Workable, Tesseract, Lovecrafts and others. He previously worked with Frontier Car Group (OLX), Thread (M&S), Tictail (Shopify), Curious.ai (undisclosed buyer) and Trademarknow (Coresearch). He also worked on Balderton's Liquidity Fund and led this Fund's investments in (amongst others) Darktrace (IPO), Truecaller (IPO), Housecall Pro, Lendable and McMakler.

Prior to Balderton, Daniel spent five years as a partner at Wellington Partners and worked on investments, including Spotify (IPO on NYSE), Hailo (FREE NOW), Qype (Yelp), Readmill (Dropbox), and Bookatable (Michelin).

Before Wellington, Daniel was a sector partner at 3i where he worked on all of their venture and private equity investments in the internet sector in North America and Europe.

Before that, he was at Yahoo! for six years from 1999 in the European corporate development team. He has a PhD and MA in applied mathematics from Oxford University and a Chartered Diploma in Accounting and Finance.

Contact

[email protected] 
T. +44 (0)20 7016 6800 

Executive assistant

Isabelle Lewis
[email protected]

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