Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Suranga joined Balderton as a General Partner in 2014, he was previously an entrepreneur and engineer.

Suranga founded blinkx, the intelligent search engine for video and audio content in Cambridge in 2004. He then led the company for eight years as CEO through its journey of moving to San Francisco, building a profitable business and going public in London where it achieved a peak market capitalization in excess of $1Bn. Before founding blinkx, Suranga was an early employee at Autonomy Corporation, where he ultimately served as the company's US CTO in San Francisco.

In 2017, Suranga joined the UK Government's Council for Science and Technology. Suranga was granted an OBE for services to technology and engineering in the 2018 UK New Year's Honours.