Suranga Chandratillake OBE

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Suranga Chandratillake is a General Partner at Balderton Capital, the London-based pan-European venture capital firm where he has invested in early-stage technology companies across consumer, deep tech and AI since 2014.

Suranga is best known as the founder of Blinkx, the AI-powered video and audio search engine he started in Cambridge in 2004 after spinning it out of Autonomy Corporation, where he had served as US CTO. He led Blinkx as CEO for eight years, taking the company public on the London Stock Exchange in 2007 and growing it to a peak market capitalisation in excess of $1 billion before stepping back as Chief Strategy Officer in 2012. The company later became RhythmOne.

He holds an MA in Computer Science from King's College, Cambridge, and patents in video discovery and online video advertising. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012, named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2009, and received an OBE in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to engineering and technology. He sits on the UK Government's Council for Science and Technology.