SURANGA
CHANDRATILLAKE

Partner

Suranga joined Balderton as a General Partner in 2014. He was previously an entrepreneur and engineer. Suranga founded blinkx, the intelligent search engine for video and audio content in Cambridge in 2004. He then led the company for eight years as CEO through its journey of moving to San Francisco, building a profitable business and going public in London where it achieved a peak market capitalisation in excess of $1Bn. Before founding blinkx, Suranga was an early employee at Autonomy Corporation - joining as an engineer in the Cambridge R&D team and ultimately serving as the company's US CTO in San Francisco.

Suranga has a MA in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge. He holds patents in the area of video discovery and online video advertising, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012 and was chosen as one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders in 2009. In 2017, Suranga joined the UK Government's Council for Science and Technology and serves on the Investment Board of the University of Cambridge. Suranga was granted an OBE for services to technology and engineering in the 2018 UK New Year's Honours.

Contact

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

Executive assistant

Lucie Anderson
[email protected]

Board positions

Cobee

Cobee
Madrid, Spain
Employee benefits management platform
Series A in 2021

Contentful

Contentful
Berlin, Germany
API-first content management infrastructure to create, manage and distribute content to any platform or device.
Seed in 2012

Funnel

Funnel
Stockholm, Sweden
Gives businesses the complete picture of their advertising -- all costs and results -- in one place, all the time.
Series A in 2017

GitGuardian

GitGuardian
Paris, France
A developers-first solution scanning GitHub activity in real-time.
Series A in 2019

Healx

Healx
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Accelerating treatments for rare diseases.
Series A in 2018

Latana

Latana
Berlin, Germany
AI-powered brand tracking
Series A in 2016

MiiM

MiiM
Salt Lake City, United States
The power of computer vision and AI to help understand and optimize experiences as people in the physical world.
Series B in 2012

riff

riff
London, United Kingdom
Voice-chat tool to make working from home feel more like being in the office
Seed in 2020

smol

smol
London, United Kingdom
A revolution in laundry; powerful & eco-friendly detergent, dishwashing tablets, and fabric conditioner. Delivered through your front door.
Series A in 2018

Tessian

Tessian
London, United Kingdom
Machine intelligence to prevent human failure and data loss on email
Series A in 2018
Exited in 2024

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JOKR

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Machine-learning for visual processing on web and mobile.
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Mojiworks

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Series A in 2017

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