Harry Briggs
Entrepreneur turned AgriFood VC investor at Astanor & farmer. Early investor in Revolut, GoCardless, Paddle, Touch Surgery, THG, Gousto, Deliverect, Flagstone. Believe better agriculture can save the planet.
London, England
Skills
Education
Work Experience
2024
Partner
2024
2024
Investor / Board Member
2024
2020 - 2024
Investor / Board member
2020 - 2024
2020 - 2024
Investor / Board observer
2020 - 2024
2019 - 2024
Investor / Board Member
2019 - 2024
2022 - 2024
Investor / Board member
2022 - 2024
2018 - 2024
Managing Partner
2018 - 2024
Set up new European investment team for OMERS Ventures, launching in 2019. Made 25 Venture investments including Deliverect, Wefox, Container XChange, Fonoa, Birdie, Flagstone, Helloself, Altana, Medal.tv and Ultimate AI (Acq'd by Zendesk).
2016 - 2018
Investor / board member
2016 - 2018
2015 - 2018
Partner
2015 - 2018
Founding partner of £200M Venture Capital fund based in London. Led early stage UK Venture investments such as Paddle, Gousto, Garrison.
2009 - 2015
Principal
2009 - 2015
Balderton is one of Europe's largest and most successful Venture Capital funds. At Balderton I led or sourced early-stage investments including The Hut Group (IPO’d at $5B valuation), Revolut (raised from SoftBank & Tiger at $33B valuation), Magic Pony (acq'd by Twitter), Touch Surgery (exited to Medtronic at 50x), Tictail (acq’d by Shopify), GoCardless (recent $1.5B valuation), etc. More about my time at Balderton here: https://medium.com/@H4ryB/farewell-balderton-b66167d7d3b2