USA – Balderton Capital announced the appointment of Dan Teodosiu as its latest Executive In Residence (EIR), providing technical and engineering-focused support for Balderton’s portfolio companies.
He joins existing EIRs Dave Kellogg (sales and marketing), Andrew Wigfall (legal), and David Vismans (product).Teodosiu has over 30 years of experience building and managing high-performing engineering and research teams, and delivering platforms and infrastructure that can support billions of users. Most recently, he spent two years as the CTO of Onfido, where he oversaw the development of Onfido’s new solutions stack. This includes the Atlas document verification technology that uses AI to deliver fair, fast and accurate results in a fully automated manner, the Smart Capture face matching offering, and the Studio and Verification Suite product line.Prior to Onfido, Teodosiu spent over six years as the CTO of Criteo, Europe’s leading ad tech company. At Criteo, he supported the company’s successful IPO and subsequent growth of 6x in six years to an annual revenue of $2.4B. Teodosiu built a world-class engineering and ML research team of over 600 people that enabled Criteo to compete with some of the top contenders in the ad tech space. He oversaw the development and scaling of Criteo’s infrastructure and platform to support serving several billion ads per day, covering about half of the global Internet population.Teodosiu has also held senior positions at Google in Paris, at Microsoft in Redmond and Dublin, and at HP Labs in Palo Alto. A former entrepreneur, he also co-founded two companies in the Bay Area, one of which was acquired by Microsoft in 2002.Teodosiu holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and is the author of over 50 US and international patents. He serves on the board of QIMA and is an advisor to several technology companies. He was born in Romania and has been living in Paris for the last fourteen years.Balderton Capital is a venture firm focused on backing the best European-founded technology companies. In the two decades since its founding, Balderton has worked with hundreds of extraordinary founders and raised $4.5bn across ten funds to support businesses at both early and growth stage. Previous investments include Depop (Etsy), Digital Surgery (Medtronic), Frontier Car Group (OLX Group), Flywire (NASDAQ: FLYW), Nutmeg (JPMorgan Chase), Peakon (Workday), Recorded Future (Insight Partners), Sunrise (Microsoft), Talend (NASDAQ: TLND) and Yoox Net-a-Porter (BIT: YNAP). Balderton’s current portfolio includes: Aircall, Beauty Pie, Carwow, Citymapper, Contentful, ComplyAdvantage, Darktrace (LSE: DARK), Dream Games, GoCardless, Graphcore, Healx, Infarm, Kobalt Music, Labster, Lendable, Prodigy Finance, Revolut, Sophia Genetics (NASDAQ: SOPH), Tessian, VanMoof, Vestiaire Collective and Zego.17/01/2022
