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Daniel Waterhouse

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Daniel Waterhouse

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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, Zoe, Merama, Vivenu, Uncommon, Attio, Delli, Sylvera, Workable and others.

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.

Daniel has a PhD and MA in applied mathematics from Oxford University and a Chartered Diploma in Accounting and Finance.

Related investments

Cambridge, UK

Uncommon

  • Series A 2023
London, UK

Sylvera

  • Series B 2023
London, UK

Delli

Delli is a community-focused platform that brings together food lovers and makers.

  • Seed in 2022
London, UK

ZOE

Understand how your body responds to food so you can take back control of your health & weight

  • Series B in 2021
London, UK

Attio

The data-driven CRM 
for modern teams

  • Seed in 2021
Mexico City, Mexico

Merama

Merama helps the leading brands in Latin America to supercharge growth

  • Series A in 2021
Berlin, Germany

Omio

Search and book trains, coaches and flights to anywhere in the UK, the U.S., Canada and Europe.

  • Secondary in 2020
San Diego, USA

Housecall Pro

A full-service tool that enables small business service professionals to run their entire business, workflow and operations.

  • Secondary in 2020
London, UK

Lendable

Personalised loans with personalised rates and instant decisions.

  • Secondary in 2019
Düsseldorf, Germany

Vivenu

API-first events platform for venues and event owners

  • Series A in 2020
London, UK

Kbox Global

Utilising commercial kitchen capacity to prepare multiple delivery brands.

  • Pre-Series A in 2020
Copenhagen, Denmark

The Org

Explore org charts for all the world’s public and private companies

  • Series A in 2020
Berlin, Germany

McMakler

Property buying and selling platform

  • Secondary in 2019
Stockholm, Sweden

Lifesum

Healthy living. Simplified.

  • Secondary in 2018
Cambridge, UK

Darktrace

World-leading cyber AI responds to threats in seconds.

  • Secondary in 2018
  • IPO on London Stock Exchange in 2021
Athens, Greece

Workable

Complete candidate sourcing solution for enterprises

  • Series B in 2015
London, UK

Revolut

The digital banking alternative.

  • Seed in 2015
London, UK

Lovecrafts

A global community for makers.

  • Series A in 2014
Berlin, Germany

Infarm

Urban farming services company that develops farming tech for grocery stores, restaurants, and local distribution centres.

  • Series A in 2018
Stockholm, Sweden

Furhat Robotics

Social robots that communicate with us, as we do with one another.

  • Series A in 2017

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Related videos

Nik Storonsky, CEO of Revolut in conversation with Daniel Waterhouse and Tim Bunting of Balderton Capital
Daniel Waterhouse & Dr Tim Spector, co-founder of ZOE
How the worlds leading climate companies work with leading VCs - ClimateTech @ London Tech Week 2021