Ballpark Ventures
VC Fund
Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Ballpark Ventures is a small, boutique fund investing in early stage technology startups. Their partners are all successful entrepreneurs and at this stage, investing their own money.
- Total investments:
- 26
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
Last updated:
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Industries Ballpark Ventures invests in
Artificial IntelligenceMobileAdvertisingSoftwareAdvertising Platforms
Stages Ballpark Ventures invests in
SeedAngelSeries AVenture - Series UnknownFunding Round
Countries Ballpark Ventures invests in
United KingdomUnited StatesChinaSpainIsrael
Round sizes
Seed $71k–$1.9MAngel $28k–$393kSeries A $656k–$1.7M
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $71k–$1.9M
- Angel
- $28k–$393k
- Series A
- $656k–$1.7M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (27%)
- Mobile 6 (23%)
- Advertising 6 (23%)
- Software 5 (19%)
- Advertising Platforms 4 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 14 (54%)
- Angel 4 (15%)
- Series A 3 (12%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (12%)
- Funding Round 1 (4%)
Country
- United Kingdom 15 (58%)
- United States 3 (12%)
- China 1 (4%)
- Spain 1 (4%)
- Israel 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Charles Canning-Smith
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Eric Newnham
Founding Member
|
Founding Member | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Harry Dewhirst
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jeffrey Cooper
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Oliver Bishop
Member
|
Member | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sendbird is the omnichannel AI agent platform enterprises choose to elevate customer experience, by initiating autonomous support & sales conversations, keeping humans in the loop for complex inquiries, and re-engaging customers with proactive business messages. Combining omnichannel AI and a battle-tested, award-winning communication APIs,Sendbird enables businesses to build AI agents and meaningful customer connections at scale. Trusted by 4,000+ leading apps—including DoorDash, Match Group, Noom, and Yahoo Sports—Sendbird powers over 7 billion conversations every month, offering exceptional reliability, security, and compliance that meet enterprise-level demands.Headquartered in California, Sendbird is backed by ICONIQ, SoftBank, Tiger Global, Y Combinator, and other reputable investors. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 01, 2022 | ||
| Lingvist is an innovative language learning platform that uses artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning algorithms to make the learning process faster and more efficient.Lingvist is a subscription service for language learning, accessible via three platforms (web, iOS, and Android) worldwide.Lingvist waslaunched in 2013 and is operated from Tallinn, Estonia. | $5.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 27, 2021 | ||
| GeoSpock enables data fusion for the connected world with GeoSpock DB – the space-time analytics database. GeoSpock DB is a unique, cloud-native database optimised for querying for real-world use cases, able to fuse multiple sources of Internet of Things (IoT) data together to unlock its full value, whilst simultaneously reducing complexity andcost. GeoSpock DB enables efficient storage, data fusion, and rapid programmatic access to data, and allows you to run ANSI SQL queries and connect to standard analytics tools via flexible JDBC/ODBC connectors. Users are able to perform deep analysis and share insights using familiar toolsets, with plug and play support for common BI tools (such as Tableau™, Amazon QuickSight™, and Microsoft Power BI™), and Data Science and Machine Learning environments (including Python Notebooks and Apache Spark). The database can also be integrated with proprietary applications, web services, and internal tools – with compatibility for open-source and customisable visualisation libraries such as Kepler and Cesium.js. | $5.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 02, 2020 | ||
| Adludio is the AI-powered platform that delivers interactive mobile advertising.By using data to design your ad creative, and algorithms to optimize your campaigns, Adludio makes sure you win the battle for brand attentionWe create, deliver and optimize advertising campaigns at scale, using mobile-first creative technology, data and algorithmsto deliver amazing creative and engage with audiences on their first screen.Adludio is a recognized leader in mobile brand advertising, and our clients include the world's biggest brands, including Nike, Microsoft, Chanel and LVMH, as well as some of the newer DTC challengers.We embrace diversity and a global outlook. Our offices are in New York, Los Angeles, London, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, Hong Kong, Taipei and Singapore, but we also have remote workforce operating from 17 countries. We maintain a start-up culture as we grow, where every employee believes in our vision and everyone has the opportunity to pitch in with their ideas.Adludio won 'Best Mobile Campaign' at The Drum APAC Awards in 2018. Recently, Adludio has been listed in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 'Ones to Watch', and ranked in the Deloitte Fast 50 for the second year running, making it one of the fastest-growing Ad Tech companies in the UK.Adludio are creators of Sensory Ad Science, mobile-first technique that is changing advertising for the better. They take the best of learning science and combine it with data science to deliver brand experiences that are compelling, effective and memorable. | $1.7M / Series A / Sep 07, 2016 | ||
| Pronto, we care deeply about the meals we deliver to you. We want them to be very good; for you, the community and the environment. All our healthy meals are freshly cooked from scratch, just like at home - they won’t see the inside of a freezer. | $1.1M / Series A / Jun 03, 2016 | ||
| eRated (http://erated.co) creates a single identity for e-commerce sites, allowing online buyers and sellers to utilize their already existing reputation everywhere they go. By using a universal identity, sellers are able to operate in more marketplaces, reach more customers and increase their conversion rates and sales as they nolonger need to re-build their reputation (ratings, reviews and comments) in each site. eRated uses a widget displayed in partner sites that aggregates and summarizes the sellers ratings and feedback earned across various marketplace, increasing user trust.The founders are all veterans of elite Israeli army tech units and alumni of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program (Israel's most prominent student accelerator program). | $1.7M / Seed / Jan 19, 2016 | ||
| Unmade are changing fashion design and manufacture. By controlling industrial knitting machines in a new way, the startup can make a different garment every time turning these machines into 3D printers for clothes, but using high quality, natural fibres instead. Launching this winter in Somerset House, Unmade gives customers the chance to remix thework of prominent artists and designers to create their dream jumper that is then made in front of them. Customers can also see their designs on models before sending to knit with Unmade’s unique preview technology.No-one else has been able to offer custom production in knitwear due to the high programming cost. Unmade’s patent-pending technologies remove this cost and makes one-off production possible at a similar cost to local mass production.Through Unmade, brands can then offer bespoke, customised or limited edition knitwear to their customers. Using the same machines as major brands such as Burberry or Benetton, Unmade is running factory trials early next year to prove their technologies at an industrial scale.Unmade’s long-term aim is to create a platform and marketplace through which brands and small designers can offer custom clothing to their customers and taking the mass custom production of knitwear to an industrial level. | $2.6M / Seed / Jun 18, 2015 | ||
| Tapdaq helps mobile developers to maximize their revenue with unbiased ad mediation, and retain their most valuable users through powerful cross-promotion campaigns. It also monetizes on autopilot, or take advantage of direct network deals and provides a powerful set of server-side features that are trusted by thousands of the world's toppublishers. Tapdaq provides app developers with the easiest and efficient way of mediating premium demand partners. Tapdaq was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. | $1.4M / Seed / Sep 03, 2014 | ||
| Adludio is the AI-powered platform that delivers interactive mobile advertising.By using data to design your ad creative, and algorithms to optimize your campaigns, Adludio makes sure you win the battle for brand attentionWe create, deliver and optimize advertising campaigns at scale, using mobile-first creative technology, data and algorithmsto deliver amazing creative and engage with audiences on their first screen.Adludio is a recognized leader in mobile brand advertising, and our clients include the world's biggest brands, including Nike, Microsoft, Chanel and LVMH, as well as some of the newer DTC challengers.We embrace diversity and a global outlook. Our offices are in New York, Los Angeles, London, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, Hong Kong, Taipei and Singapore, but we also have remote workforce operating from 17 countries. We maintain a start-up culture as we grow, where every employee believes in our vision and everyone has the opportunity to pitch in with their ideas.Adludio won 'Best Mobile Campaign' at The Drum APAC Awards in 2018. Recently, Adludio has been listed in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 'Ones to Watch', and ranked in the Deloitte Fast 50 for the second year running, making it one of the fastest-growing Ad Tech companies in the UK.Adludio are creators of Sensory Ad Science, mobile-first technique that is changing advertising for the better. They take the best of learning science and combine it with data science to deliver brand experiences that are compelling, effective and memorable. | $656K / Series A / Jul 04, 2014 | ||
| Appear Here is an online marketplace for retail space. Since the company was founded in 2012, it has facilitated the opening of over 10,000 stores in the UK, US, and France. Appear Here has raised a total of $21.4 million in VC funding from the previous backers of Spotify, Pinterest, Hailo and Trivago. | $1.9M / Seed / Nov 22, 2013 | ||
| See all 26 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Ballpark Ventures invest in?
Ballpark Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Mobile and Advertising startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Ballpark Ventures's check size?
Ballpark Ventures typically joins rounds of $71k–$1.9M at Seed, $28k–$393k at Angel and $656k–$1.7M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ballpark Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Ballpark Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Ballpark Ventures?
The team at Ballpark Ventures includes Charles Canning-Smith (General Partner), Eric Newnham (Founding Member) and Harry Dewhirst (Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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