James joined Balderton in 2013. Since then, he has led Balderton's investments in a number of sectors and geographies, covering healthtech, manufacturing, mobile productivity, developer tools and virtual and augmented reality. He sits as a board member and observer for multiple portfolio companies including Sophia Genetics, Sunrise ( acquired by Microsoft ), Cloud9IDE ( acquired by Amazon ), 3DHubs, Sketchfab and Crowdcube.
Prior to joining Balderton, James helped to launch and run one of the UK's first social venture funds, providing support and capital to social enterprises with a special focus on the education, healthcare and financial sectors. Before this James worked with entrepreneurs and businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with Atomico Ventures, the Guardian Media Group and as a consultant with McKinsey & Company.
As well as the professional experiences above, James has worked as an adviser to a number of start-ups and social enterprises, and in 2011 as a Specialist Adviser to Parliament.
James has an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University and occasionally lectures for the University on aspects of responsible capitalism and the social impact of technology.
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Amanda Aust
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Nice summary on the people and vision behind @sketchapp , another under praised giant in the European tech space: https://t.co/SCH2pHCgl3
@JP_wise
Walked out of a board meeting and accidentally into a photo shoot @depop’s new offices - no community like it
@JP_wise
3D Hubs is an online 3D printing service platform, facilitating transactions between 3D printing services (Hubs) and engineering/product designers that want to make 3D prints.
Crowdcube is a platform that allows entrepreneurs to raise money from their own network of friends, family, customers and strangers.
Depop is a peer-to-peer social shoping app that allows creative entrepreneurs to build a social shopping network.
GoCardless is an online direct debit provider that makes collecting payments easy, from individuals to multi-national corporations.
myTomorrows is an online platform that enables its users to obtain healthcare services in the form of diagnostic tests and drugs.
Pusher is a developer tools company that makes realtime APIs powering communication and collaboration apps all over the world. Worldwide developers, from one-person operations to multi-national brands, use Pushers' APIs for in-app notifications, activity streams, chat, dashboards, collaboration features and much more.
Sketchfab is a platform to publish, share, and discover 3D content online and in VR.
Sophia Genetics is a tech company that created SOPHiA AI to help healthcare professionals better diagnose and treat patients.
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