David Thevenon
General Partner at Balderton Capital
Greater London, England
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2020 - Current
Balderton Capital is a multistage venture firm with more than two decades of experience supporting Europe’s best founders from Seed to IPO.
Partner
2014 - 2019
Managing Director and founding member of global investment team for SoftBank Group (2014-2017). Founding partner at the Vision Fund (from 2016)
Board Member
2017 - 2019
Acquired by American Express in October 2020. Kabbage provides financial services, including financing, to small businesses using real-time, verified data to acquire customers, underwrite and manage risk. It has deployed over $16 billions in capital to over half a million small businesses.
KServicing is a fintech firm that offers loans, commercial lending, credit, personal finance, and working capital.
Member Board Of Directors
2017 - 2019
NYSE IPO in 2021. DiDi is the world’s leading mobile transportation platform with 550M users across China, LATAM, Japan and Australia.
Board Member
2015 - 2019
NASDAQ listing in 2021. Grab is a technology company that offers ride-hailing, ride sharing transport solutions, food delivery, logistics services and financial services across South-East Asia.
Director
2016 - 2019
CloudMinds is operating cloud-based systems for intelligent robots.
Director
2016 - 2019
Ola is one of the world’s largest ride-sharing companies, being the largest player in India, and operating also in Australia and the UK.
Board Director
2018 - 2018
Led Series C. NYSE IPO in 2020. Lemonade is a licensed insurance carrier, offering homeowners and renters insurance powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics. By replacing brokers and bureaucracy with bots and machine learning, Lemonade promises zero paperwork and instant everything.
Lemonade is a digital insurance company that uses artificial intelligence and behavioral economics.
Raised $618,500,000.00 from General Catalyst.
Member Board Of Directors
2015 - 2018
American online personal finance company. $600M+ revenue and 1.8M+ members in 2020. Nasdaq listing in 2021.
SoFi is a finance company that offers a range of lending and wealth management services.
Raised $4,845,067,367.00 from Coatue, Baron Capital, Chamath Palihapitiya, T. Rowe Price, BlackRock, Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), Altimeter Capital, Hedosophia and Durable Capital Partners.
Managing Director
2014 - 2018