# Oliver Bishop

> Oliver Bishop is a startup investor at Ballpark Ventures. See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ballpark Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ballpark-ventures)
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/oliver-bishop/2/754/508

Oliver Bishop is a startup investor at Ballpark Ventures. Ollie runs STEAK. He founded STEAK in 2005, built it into an award winning, global business and sold it to media giant Dentsu a few years later. Previous roles included being in the founding team at Espotting and Customer Care at British Gas dealing with complaints when an engineer had failed to arrive.

## About 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.

5 contacts available at Ballpark Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Charles Canning-Smith | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-canning-smith |
| Eric Newnham | Founding Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-newnham |
| Harry Dewhirst | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harry-dewhirst |
| Jeffrey Cooper | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeffrey-cooper-3 |
| Oliver Bishop | Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oliver-bishop |

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