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

Work Experience

  • Partner

    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