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Ballpark Ventures
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Ballpark Ventures is a small, boutique fund investing in early-stage technology startups, with partners who are all successful entrepreneurs investing their own capital. The firm looks for European startups it can help accelerate to success by applying a judicious mix of deep sector knowledge, influential personal networks, and hands-on operational experience. Investment criteria centre on a single question: 'Can we add significant incremental value to this venture?' Given the partners' backgrounds in mobile, retail, and media, those sectors represent the firm's sweet spots. The firm also emphasises that in exponential times, speed to market and speed of decision-making are crucial factors for startup success.
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“Our investment criteria are very simple. We ask 'Can we add significant incremental value to this venture?' Given the wealth of our experience in sectors like mobile, retail and media, these tend to be our sweet spots.”
“We're looking for European startups that we can help accelerate to success by applying a judicious mix of deep sector knowledge, influential personal network and a healthy dollop of been-there-done-that. Plus the knowledge that in exponential times, speed to market and speed of decision-making are crucial factors for success.”
“The mobile will do to the PC, what the PC did to the mainframe.”
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adzact | Unattributed VC | — | 2025-02-01 |
| Depop | Seed | — | 2013-01-01 |
| Tray.io | Seed | — | 2014-01-01 |
| Blis | Seed | — | 2012-01-01 |
| Sendbird | Seed | — | 2016-01-01 |
| Appear Here | Seed | — | 2014-01-01 |
| Kalo | Unattributed VC | — | 2022-09-30 |
| Quantemplate | Seed | — | 2015-01-01 |
| Adludio | Seed | — | 2015-01-01 |
| Touch Surgery | Seed | — | 2014-01-01 |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Passion Capital | 3 |
| Seedcamp | 3 |
| Balderton Capital | 2 |
| HV Capital (Holtzbrinck Ventures) | 2 |
| Seedrs | 2 |
| Summit Peak Investments | 1 |
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