Atomico promotes SaaS and enterprise-focussed investor Ben Blume to partner

Atomico, the European venture capital fund that typically invests at Series A and Series B, has made a number of internal promotions, including making SaaS and enterprise-focussed investor Ben Blume a partner at the firm.

The step up from principal to partner comes after 8 years spent at Atomico, which Blume first joined in 2013 as an associate. In 2017, he was promoted to principal and has built a reputation within the VC firm and beyond after leading an array of promising and successful investments.

They include Spacemaker, a startup that has developed AI-supported software for urban development and was acquired by Autodesk late last year. He also led Atomico's investments into Onna, and Automation Hero, where he currently sits on the board. In addition, he is said to have helped manage Atomico's early backing of U.K. chip company Graphcore, and sourced the VC's original Series A investment in recent unicorn Hinge Health, where he currently also serves as a board member.

Prior to joining Atomico, he was a consultant at Bain & Company and a software engineer at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He holds a first class BA in Computer Science from Queens' College, Cambridge.

Also being promoted are associates, Hillary Ball and Luca Eisenstecken, both stepping up to principal. Eisenstecken has supported Atomico's investments into Infarm, MessageBird and Scoutbee. And Ball has supported investments into Masterclass and Framer, among others.

Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost explains the strategy behind acquiring Spacemaker