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| 24.07.2025 | Xelix Secures $160M for AI-Powered Finance Transformation | Xelix secured $160 million in Series B funding. This investment, led by Insight Partners, propels their agentic AI platform. Xelix transforms Accounts Payable. It combats fraud, eliminates errors, and automates workflows. The funding accele... |
| 22.07.2025 | Xelix: $160 Million Series B Raised For Advancing Agentic AI In Accounts Payable | Xelix, a leading agentic AI software company in the Accounts Payable (AP) space, announced a $160 million Series B funding round led by Insight Partners, with follow-on investments from Passion Capital and LocalGlobe. This funding will acce... |
| 21.07.2025 | Xelix Raises $160M in Series B Funding | Xelix, a London, UK-based agentic AI software company, raised $160M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from Passion Capital and LocalGlobe.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate platf... |
| 18.07.2025 | CEE Tech Weekly: Founders Abroad Making Global Headlines | Company:
Welcome to The Recursive’s new weekly roundup covering key tech developments across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the growing impact of CEE-born founders on the global stage. Each edition brings you the latest in funding, ... |
| 16.07.2025 | Bulgarian FinTech platform Paypercut lands €2 million to build a multi-provider BNPL hub | Paypercut, a Sofia-based FinTech that lets small and mid-sized merchants offer Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) through a single integration, has raised €2 million in pre-Seed funding – among the region’s largest pre-Seed rounds for a payments-foc... |
| 16.07.2025 | Paypercut Raises €2M in Pre-Seed Funding | Back row, standing (left to right): Gareth Walsh – COO, Stoil Vasilev – CEO, Emil Savov – CRO. Front row, seated (left to right): Stoyan Genov – CTO, Nevin Hasanova – CPO.
Paypercut, a Sofia, Bulgaria-based fintech company that lets small a... |
| 16.07.2025 | €2M Investment Fuels Paypercut’s Mission to Simplify BNPL for Small Merchants | Bulgaria ~
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Bulgarian-founded Paypercut raises €2M pre-seed to launch a BNPL aggregator for emerging Europe, streamlining pay-later options for underserved SMBs through a single integration.
👯 Founders: Stoil Vasilev (CEO), Emil Sav... |
| 01.03.2025 | The Rise of AI in Hospitality and Beyond: A New Era of Automation | In the bustling world of technology, artificial intelligence (AI) is the engine driving innovation. Two recent funding rounds highlight this trend, showcasing how AI is reshaping industries like hospitality and software optimization. Runnr.... |
| 25.02.2025 | LangWatch bags €1 million for reliable and fast AI optimisation platform | Amsterdam-based LangWatch, a startup building the “world’s first” LLMops (Large Language Model Operations) platform to monitor, evaluate and optimise LLM-powered applications, has raised a €1 million pre-Seed round.
Passion Capital, a Europ... |
| 25.02.2025 | Dutch LangWatch raises €1M for LLM optimisation | LangWatch, a Dutch startup building the world’s first LLMops (Large Language Model Operations) platform to monitor, evaluate and optimise LLM-powered applications with a scientific approach, has raised €1M in pre-seed funding.
The round was... |
| 28.10.2024 | The Pulse of Innovation: Venture Capital in the UK | In the heart of the United Kingdom, a dynamic venture capital (VC) ecosystem pulses with energy. It’s a landscape where ideas bloom and startups thrive. The UK is home to some of the most active VC firms globally, each playing a pivotal rol... |
| 24.10.2024 | The Top 10 Most Active Venture Capital Firms in the UK Today In the United Kingdom, a vibrant venture capital (VC) landscape has given rise to some of the world's most active firms supporting the grow... | We dug into the data and present to you the 10 most active VC firms in the UK, highlighting their significant contributions to the startup ecosystem based on the EMEA VC Investor Prominence Rank developed by Dealroom. The algorithm uses a c... |
| 11.10.2024 | Monzo Hits Record High £4.5bn Valuation | Digital bank Monzo’s valuation has soared to £4.5 billion after issuing additional shares to major investors, including Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund and StepStone Group.
The secondary market sale will allow for the challenger bank’s em... |
| 08.10.2024 | London-based Round Treasury secures €1.9 million to simplify treasury management for founders and CFOs | Round Treasury, all-in-one banking and treasury platform specifically designed to make life easier for founders and CFOs, announced the closure of its €1.9 million pre-seed funding round. The investment round was led by Passion Capital (ear... |
| 18.07.2024 | CultureAI Secures $10 Million in Series A Funding to Revolutionize Cybersecurity Landscape | In a significant development for the cybersecurity industry, CultureAI, a pioneering human risk management platform, has successfully raised $10 million in Series A funding. The funding round, jointly led by Mercia Ventures and Smedvig Vent... |
| 17.07.2024 | CultureAI Raises $10 Million in Series a Funding to Evolve the Way Organisations Manage Human Risk | CultureAI has raised $10 million in capital
Mercia Ventures and Smedvig Ventures led the funding round
This funding will power CultureAI’s product development and market expansion plans
Leading Human Risk Management Platform, CultureAI, tod... |
| 24.05.2024 | PolyAI Optmizes its Conversational AI to Automate Customer Services | What is The News About?
NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), and Zendesk supported the recent €46 million Series C funding round that the London-based AI startup PolyAI completed. Khosla Ventures, Georgian, Point72 Ventures, Sands Capi... |
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| 09.03.2024 | Monzo's Meteoric Rise in the Digital Banking World | Monzo, the UK-based digital bank, has secured a whopping $430 million in funding, led by Alphabet's CapitalG. This investment propels Monzo to a post-money valuation of $5 billion, marking a significant milestone in the company's journey. W... |
| 05.03.2024 | Monzo, the UK challenger bank with 9 million customers, raises $430 million | London-based fintech company Monzo raised a late-stage funding round of $430 million (£340 million), confirming a report from the Financial Times from a few weeks ago. Following this round, the company has reached a post-money valuation of ... |
| 05.03.2024 | UK’s digital bank Monzo raises over €397.9M at a €4.6B valuation: Know more | Read this article in:
London-based Monzo, a digital bank, announced that it has secured £340M (nearly €397.91M) in a fresh round of funding. The round values the bank at £4B (nearly €4.68B).
The investment was led by CapitalG, Alphabet’s gr... |
| 05.03.2024 | Monzo hits $5bn valuation with new funding round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG | Monzo has secured a new $430m (£339m) funding round led by Alphabet-owned CapitalG valuing the digital challenger bank at $5bn (£3.9bn).
The firm was previously valued at $4.5bn (£3.5bn) in 2021 after a funding deal with investors including... |
| 05.03.2024 | UK’s Digital Bank Monzo Secures $400 Million at $5 Billion Valuation | UK’s challenger bank Monzo has finalized a heavily-trailed $400 million investment round, which has increased the firm’s valuation to $5 billion.
The funding round, an incentive for pushing the banking platform towards profitability, was re... |
| 05.03.2024 | Monzo, UK's largest digital bank, raises £340M for expansion | Today Monzo, the UK's largest digital bank, announced that it has raised £340 million in a funding round to boost its expansion plans.
Monzo was founded in 2015 and now serves more than 9 million customers, making it the largest digital ban... |
| 06.02.2024 | Investor Insights: Everything You Need To Know About Passion Capital | 0 shares
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| 17.11.2023 | Sofia Angels Ventures joins €9M round for German AI startup Retorio | Sofia Angels Ventures joins €9M round for German AI startup Retorio
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| 21.09.2023 | Former Passion Capital's Malin Posern joins Project A to focus on UK, Nordic startups | Malin Posern joins early-stage tech VC Project A to head up its London office as Partner and Managing Director. Posern will be returning to her Nordic roots as she concentrates her efforts on UK and Nordic tech startups.
Previously with ear... |
| 21.07.2022 | Massage-booking platform Urban responds to reports of alleged sexual assaults by some therapists | Urban, a popular UK-based startup that allows customers to find self-employed massage therapists who can be booked to attend customers’ homes, has been named in an investigation into alleged abuse by unlicensed freelance therapists.
The sta... |
| 04.07.2022 | Invoice intelligence platform Xelix nets $5 million | Betting big on CFOs rushing to adopt new technology to transform their financial operations, London-based SaaS company Xelix has raised $5 million to boost intelligent automation solutions. The Series A investment was led by Fintop Capital,... |
| 10.02.2022 | Hullabalook raises $8.2m Series A led by Nauta Capital and also backed by Conviction VC and Passion Capital | 10/02/2022
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HULLABALOOK RAISES $8.2M SERIES A TO TRANSFORM THE ECOMMERCE USER EXPERIENCE.
The Hullabalook Platform builds high performance progressive web applications to enable key parts of the ecommerce storefront
Hullabal... |
| 24.11.2021 | Attio wants to build the CRM for the Airtable generation | Meet Attio, a new CRM for people who are familiar with modern collaboration tools, such as Airtable, Notion and Zapier. The startup wants to create a product that can hold all important information about your customers, suppliers and partne... |
| 07.10.2021 | Spotahome cierra una ronda de €25M liderada por 14W. Acuden también Kleiner Perkins, Seaya Ventures, Passion Capital y Mundi Ventures | 07/10/2021
Nota de prensa
SPOTAHOME CIERRA UNA RONDA DE FINANCIACIÓN DE €25 MILLONES CON LA PARTICIPACIÓN DE SEAYA VENTURES Y MUNDI VENTURES.
En Spotahome hemos completado una nueva financiación con una inversión de 29 millones de dólare... |
| 20.08.2021 | Construction Management Startup Remato Gets Additional $1.7m in Funding to Further Digital Vision | Estonian construction management startup Remato has raised $1.7m during a seed investment round led by London-based Passion Capital.
Several other investors joined the ranks of Remato backers including Superangel and the founders of Pipedri... |
| 10.08.2021 | Gourmet dog food maker Butternut Box chows down on £40 million | London-based direct-to-consumer dog food brand Butternut Box has raised £40 million in new funding round. The new funding is expected to add some gravy to existing operations, as well as throw new channels, products, and markets a bone. To ... |
| 15.06.2021 | Startup Nation Series: The burgeoning startup ecosystem of the United Kingdom | Great Britain has a great history. When we think about the United Kingdom, a few things that instantly come to our mind are the monarchy, the Queen and the beautiful architecture. But did you know that the capital of Britain – London ranks ... |
| 12.05.2021 | London-based, (former) McLaren engineers designed, streaming analytics platform Quix starts its engine with £2.3 million in seed round | London’s real-time streaming analytics platform Quix has raised £2.3 million in a seed funding round led by Project A Ventures that also saw participation from Passion Capital and a number of angel investors including Frank Sagnier, Ian Hog... |
| 09.04.2021 | London-based YHANGRY raises $1.5 million to ensure no one is ever hangry | Serving the need to make the most out of social gatherings in a COVID world, YHANGRY has raised $1.5 million, making it possible to book a private chef in a matter of seconds.
The seed funding comes from angel investors including Eileen Bur... |
| 15.03.2021 | Cambridge/Bristol-based next gen positioning firm FocalPoint raises £6 million in Series B round | UK based deep-tech company FocalPoint has closed a Series-B round which saw a fresh £6 million line the coffers.
The round was fully funded by Draper Esprit, and no further details were provided. This now brings FocalPoint’s total raised to... |
| 12.03.2021 | Crowdfunding limits are poised to change next week, but most VCs aren’t paying attention — yet | Passion Capital, the early-stage venture firm in London, told TechCrunch earlier this week that — in an apparent first for a European fund — it plans to crowdfund the final stage of its third and latest vehicle. Specifically, it’s carving o... |
| 10.03.2021 | UK tech VC Passion Capital opens £45M fund for crowd investors | One of the early-stage tech venture capitalists from the UK tech scene, Passion Capital has recently announced to open up 3rd fund for crowd investors.
As per the company press release, Passion Capital collaborated with Seedrs to deploy the... |
| 09.03.2021 | In a first for Europe, Passion Capital will crowd-fund part of its new $62M fund from retail investors | Passion Capital, one of the UK’s first early-stage VCs, is to crowd-fund the final stage of its latest £45 million fund ($62.5m), Passion Capital Fund III. TechCrunch understands this is the first time retail investors have been invited to ... |
| 31.12.2020 | Warren Aims to Take Its Cloud Infrastructure Technology Further After Passion Capital Investment | Warren is an Estonian startup that provides regional cloud infrastructure technology to small and mid-sized businesses.
The company has recently earned an additional €1.2M in funding.
They have already found footing in Estonia and Indonesia... |
| 24.11.2020 | Startup ecosystem of London
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Spaces, hubs, accelerators
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What’s next? | Startup ecosystem of London |
| 24.11.2020 | Стартап-экосистема Лондона | Стартап-экосистема Лондона |
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| 11.04.2019 | Stefan Glänzer, Founding Partner of Passion Capital, will speak at our EU-Startups Summit on May 2-3 in Barcelona! | Today we’re excited to announce another great speaker for this year’s EU-Startups Summit on May 2-3 in Barcelona. It’s Stefan Glänzer, a German entrepreneur, Founding Partner of Passion Capital, and one of Europe’s most active angel investo... |
| 18.02.2019 | Apply now to join the finals of our big Pitch Competition at the EU-Startups Summit on May 2-3 in Barcelona! | On May 2-3, we’re going to host this year’s edition of the EU-Startups Summit in sunny Barcelona. We’ll have inspiring speakers like GoEuro CEO Naren Shaam, AirHelp CEO Henrik Zillmer, Funderbeam CEO Kaidi Ruusalepp (…and many more!), great... |
| 20.11.2018 | London’s startup ecosystem at a glance | Without a doubt, London is an exceptional place for startup development. The third largest tech hub in the world, and leading startup hub in Europe, is known for its vibrant community, a high concentration of capital and a massive concentra... |
| 06.06.2018 | Spotahome cierra una ronda de $40M (€34M) liderada por Kleiner Perkins, acuden Seaya y Passion Capital | 06/06/2018
SPOTAHOME CIERRA UNA RONDA DE $40 MILLONES (€34 MILLONES) LIDERADA POR KLEINER PERKINS, ACUDEN SEAYA Y PASSION CAPITAL.
Spotahome ha cerrado una ronda de $40 millones (€34 millones) liderada por la entidad de capital riesgo (ve... |
| 05.04.2018 | ‘The end of my VC career’ — Stefan Glaenzer quits Passion Capital to clear way for third fund | Stefan Glaenzer, the prominent European VC and former chairman of Last.fm and founder of Ricardo.de, has quit his role as Partner at Passion Capital. He co-founded the London-based early-stage firm seven years ago with partners Eileen Burbi... |
| 16.02.2018 | FanDuel Founders to Keynote EIE | Nigel and Lesley Eccles and Rob Jones, co-founders of FanDuel will keynote EIE 2018, Scotland’s leading technology investment showcase. The company is one of EIE’s many success stories, having appeared at the event as a start-up in 2010.
La... |
| 18.10.2017 | Spotahome cierra una nueva ronda de €13,6M liderada por Passion Capital y Seaya | 18/10/2017
SPOTAHOME CIERRA UNA NUEVA RONDA DE €13,6 MILLONES LIDERADA POR PASSION CAPITAL Y SEAYA.
Spotahome, ha cerrado una ronda de financiación Serie A por importe de €13,6 millones liderada por las entidades de capital riesgo (ventur... |
| 17.07.2017 | Butternut Box raises £1M for its algorithm-driven natural dog food startup | You’ve probably heard of HelloFresh-style businesses where you are given tailored ingredients for your meals. Well now the concept has come, literally, to dog food.
Butternut Box is a London startup now bringing tailored, delivered meals to... |
| 03.10.2016 | Singapore: Infocomm Investments participates in $1.94m seed of Prowler.Io | Premium
Cambridge-based startup PROWLER.io has secured £1.5 million ($1.94 million) in seed investment to fund development of its sophisticated decision-making AI engine designed to revolutionise autonomous system design. The investors in t... |
| 27.06.2016 | 'IoT industry needs to focus on demand rather than need' - Future of Wireless conference | 'IoT industry needs to focus on demand rather than need' - Future of Wireless conference
27-06-2016
The Internet of Things industry is confusing need with demand said Mischa Dohler, Professor, King's College London and Co-founder of Worldse... |
| 23.03.2016 | UK fintech startup GoCardless raises $13 million and pushes into the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden | Online direct debit provider GoCardless has raised $13 million in a new funding round led by Notion Capital with participation from previous investors Accel Partners, Balderton Capital, and Passion Capital.
The UK-based fintech startup has ... |
| 26.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 26, 2016 | AppCard raised $20M; Vicampo closed third financing round; CREXi secured $4.3M Seed funding
An online store for party supplies, Funcart, raised $70,000 in its first round of funding from a group of HNIs. Launched in March 2015 by Funcart is... |
| 15.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 15, 2016 | Snapdeal received $200M; Entouch Controls completed an $8M funding; Mondo got funded
Habble, an Italian provider of a platform to monitor and optimize the use and costs of fixed and mobile telephony in different business areas, closed an an... |
| 15.02.2016 | UK mobile bank Mondo to raise £6 million from investors and crowdfunding | UK-based Mondo, which bills itself as a mobile-first bank, is looking to raise £6 million by inviting customers to invest in the bank via crowdfunding platform Crowdcube along with VCs. The startup has secured £5 million from Passion Capita... |
| 09.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 9, 2016 | Fuze raised $112M; Trifacta received $35M funding; Digital Shadows snagged $14M funding
Stash, an investment app for millennials, raised $3 million in seed funding to continue the company’s growth. The round was led by Silicon Valley-based ... |
| 24.12.2015 | Daily funding roundup - December 24, 2015 | Palantir Technologies raised $880M; Rowheels raised $1.5M; HomeTouch secured funding
HomeTouch, an online platform to find vetted and experienced home carers, has secured investment financing from one of London’s leading venture capital fir... |
| 23.12.2015 | HomeTouch Raises Venture Capital Funding | HomeTouch, a London, UK-based online home care platform, raised a venture capital funding of undisclosed amount.
The round was led by Passion Capital.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate expansion across London, increase the ... |
| 22.09.2015 | Eileen Burbidge appointed chair of Tech City UK | Eileen Burbidge, one of the Venture Capitalists behind Passion Capital has been named the new chair of Tech City UK, an organisation which aims to be the link between the UK's technology sector and the Government.
Although not a huge shock,... |
| 04.08.2015 | UK Trade Mission Brings Bitcoin and FinTech to Southeast Asia | Last week, wallet provider Blockchain represented the bitcoin industry in an official government trade mission.
CEO Peter Smith was one of 31 executives to take part in a trade delegation, led by Prime Minister David Cameron, to promote the... |
| 28.07.2015 | Tech City UK’s Downing Street Breakfast | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Last Friday Tech City UK convened a breakfast at Number 10 Downing Street between leading policymakers and some of the UK’s most exciting Founders and CEOs to discuss how the ... |
| 29.05.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 5/29/15 | DocuSig, Flywheel, Enervee, Notion, VitalFields, jobandtalent, EverCompliant, Tegile Systems, Ubimo
Seed stage
Home sensor startup Notion raised a $2 million seed round from Draper Nexus Ventures, Gabriel Investments, Galvanize Ventures, Fo... |
| 29.05.2015 | Passion Capital Closes Second Ventire Capital Fund at £45M | London, UK-based venture capital firm Passion Capital closed its second fund at £45m (approx. $69m).
Passion Capital Fund II was backed by the British Business Bank, which committed £17.5m, as well as family offices in Europe and in Southea... |
| 28.05.2015 | London’s Passion Capital Raises $69M For Its Second Early Stage Fund | London-based Passion Capital has raised a second fund for investing in early stage U.K.-based startups — today announcing a coffer of £45 million ($69M) to power its next phase of investments.
Passion Capital Fund II is another ECF (Enterpr... |
| 15.05.2015 | Join TechBBQ in celebrating the Danish startup environment | One of Denmark’s most spectacular scenes provide the framework for TechBBQ 2015 – a festival for the country’s startup environment.
By Torben Kloster
The event frames investors, the national Nordic Startup Awards final, barbeque, big busi... |
| 17.03.2015 | Vicampo Raises €3.75M in Funding | Vicampo, a Mainz, Germany-based wine ecommerce startup, raised €3.75m in funding.
Backers included Passion Capital, e.ventures and angel investor Heinz Werner Nienstedt.
The company intends to use the funds for the technological development... |
| 12.03.2015 | Ravelin Raises Seed Funding from Passion Capital | Ravelin, a London, UK-based fraud prevention platform, raised a seed round of investment from Passion Capital.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed. In conjunction with the transaction, Robert Dighero, Partner at Passion Capital, joined... |
| 17.02.2015 | 12 Companies Selected to Pitch at No 10 in Association with Tech City UK | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Pitch 10 is back, this time with a focus on showcasing some of the country’s most exciting digital businesses from across the UK to leading investors.
A celebration of the st... |
| 17.02.2015 | 12 Companies Selected to Pitch at No 10 in Association with Tech City UK | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Pitch 10 is back, this time with a focus on showcasing some of the country’s most exciting digital businesses from across the UK to leading investors.
A celebration of the st... |
| 10.02.2015 | Guest Post: FinTech is King in UK Capital | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
This post originally appeared on the Gordon & Eden blog.
By: Sam Gordon & Sophie Eden
The secret’s finally out: Financial technology (FinTech) in the capital is a gr... |
| 12.01.2015 | London and Partners Report Points to a Record-Breaking Year for Tech Sector | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
London & Partners have compiled statistics on the level of investment in the UK technology sector, which attracted record levels of venture capital funding in 2014.
With ... |
| 05.10.2014 | London Tech Sector Booms; Over $1 Billion Raised by Tech Firms in 2014 | Peer to Peer Lender Funding Circle Leads Claims Largest Deal for 2014.
According to a report from London & Partners, tech in London is booming and setting record levels of investment. So far for 2014 technology firms have captured over ... |
| 08.09.2014 | Narrative Raises $8M in Funding | Narrative, a Stockholm, Sweden and San Francisco, CA-based provider of a wearable camera, raised $8m in funding.
The round was led by Khosla Ventures with participation from existing investors True Ventures and Passion Capital. In conjuncti... |
| 31.08.2014 | Startup Mentors — How Do You Filter Out The Good, The Bad And The Ugly? | In light of the recent brouhaha over the actions of a particular European investor who had a habit of attaching himself to accelerators as a ‘mentor’, it seems an appropriate time to do a quick rundown on the kinds of things entrepreneurs n... |
| 11.03.2014 | Meet the real queen of the London startup scene | This story was originally published in TheTelegraph
Through mentorship, investments, and co-working, Eileen Burbidge is making a big impact in the UK’s cozy tech world.
The software engineer turned investor is one of a trio of partners at P... |
| 11.03.2014 | Meet the real queen of the London startup scene | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This story was originally published in TheTelegra... |
| 03.03.2014 | DueDil Closes $17M Series B Financing | DueDil, a London, UK-based business discovery platform, closed a $17m Series B financing.
The round was led by Oak Investment Partners with participation from Notion Capital and Passion Capital. In conjunction with the funding, Oak Investme... |
| 31.01.2014 | The 6 hottest startups in London in 2014 | Silicon Roundabout, the still-gritty tech cluster in East London, is bustling with fast-growing startups. Investors from both sides of the Atlantic are paying attention.
But it wasn’t a foregone conclusion. Back in 2010, the U.K. government... |
| 14.12.2013 | Eileen Burbidge's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week | It should be fairly easy to spot which are my favorite posts every week because I might be one of only a handful who uses flattr here. To be honest the flattr button is how I first found Techdirt 3 years ago and one of the reasons I regular... |
| 04.11.2013 | State of the European VC landscape | Ahead of Splash London, a look at why conditions are good, but VCs are shying away from Series A
It is now five years since the start of the financial crisis and as the investment environment appears to improve, it is a good time to conside... |
| 01.11.2013 | Coinfloor Receives VC Backing | Coinfloor, a London, UK-based digital currency exchange, raised a venture capital funding of undisclosed amount.
Backers included Passion Capital and Taavet Hinrikus (Transferwise).
The company intends to use the funds to launch operations.... |
| 29.10.2013 | UK bitcoin exchange Coinfloor opens for business | A UK-based bitcoin exchange has beat competitors to the post as it opens for business today. London-based Coinfloor begins registering customers at 9am this morning.
The site, launched by Mark Lamb and Amadeo Pellicce, hopes to get in on th... |
| 02.07.2013 | Why London has all the ingredients for a successful startup ecosystem | LONDON — Just a few years ago, startups seemed like the purview of a niche circle of hipsters, probably living somewhere trendy like Shoreditch or Dalston.
But as I write this at a Starbucks in a leafy and residential suburb of West London,... |
| 27.06.2013 | Passion Capital Cracks Open Data On Investments, Deal-Flow, Founder Salaries, And More | It’s not every VC that publishes annual stats on things like deal-flow, average size of investment, average founder salary, number of exits and startups dead-pooled. But openness — within no doubt carefully crafted limits — is part of Londo... |
| 20.06.2013 | A Term Sheet Written In Plain English? Put That In Your Silicon Valley Pipe And Smoke It | From the painstakingly obvious why did nobody think of it before department: London-based early-stage VC Passion Capital has updated its standard Term Sheet so that it’s written entirely in plain English. For those of you who have never had... |
| 14.06.2013 | Silicon Valley To London, Passion Capital Hires Ex-Facebook Recruiter As Head Of Talent | It would be getting ahead of ourselves to suggest that the London tech scene is facing anything on the scale of a Silicon Valley-style ‘talent crunch’. In fact, given the city’s huge financial sector, it could even be argued that, post-fina... |
| 19.04.2013 | GoCardless Raises $3.3M in Funding | GoCardless, a London, UK-based payments company, raised $3.3m in funding.
Backers included Accel Partners and Passion Capital.
Founded in January 2011 by Matt Robinson, Tom Blomfield, and Hiroki Takeuchi, GoCardless offers a service for e-c... |
| 21.02.2013 | Smarkets Raises $2.3M in Funding | Smarkets, a London, UK-based social provider of a platform to bet on sport, TV shows and politics, raised $2.3m in funding.
Backers included T-Venture, and existing investor Passion Capital.
The company intends to use the funding to expandi... |
| 15.10.2012 | ‘Fake it until you make it’ – Eileen Burbidge’s astonishing tale of Skype’s early days | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
There’s nothing better than a true story, well to... |
| 23.07.2012 | Amazon Just Put A Rocket Under London’s Biggest Tech Startup Cluster | With the news that Amazon will open an R&D hub in London focused on developing services and APIs for TVs, games consoles, smartphones and PCs, we’ve reached a big inflection point in the development of London’s largest single cluster of... |
| 16.05.2012 | As Earlybird Lands LinkedIn Co-Founder, Euro VCs Look To The Valley | Lately a trend has emerged: European VCs putting down more roots in Silicon Valley to take advantage of the current scene and act as a bridge for European companies trying to form local partnerships, and of course as a mechanism for M&A... |
| 03.05.2012 | One Year On, Passion Capital Proves Its Mettle As A Go-To Seed VC In Europe | Although it’s a year this week since Passion Capital appeared on the tech scene in London, it feels like they have been around a lot longer. It was in July 2009 I sat on the sun-kissed roof of what became known as their White Bear Yard base... |
| 01.05.2012 | Loopc.am Stops Being A Gimmick And Starts Getting Funding | Loopc.am has lately become a little bit of a craze amongst some iPhone users I know. Frankly, at first it seemed like something of a gimmick. Recording and sharing short gif-based videoclips called loops seemed like a temporary blip. I mean... |
| 14.04.2012 | Open Office Hours With TechCrunch Europe | Doing meetups and attending conferences is great for uncovering new startups and entrepreneurs, but sometimes you just want to sit down over coffee for a few minutes and explain what you’re doing. So I’m starting a new series of one-to-one ... |
| 08.04.2012 | An Open Letter To IBM CEO Virginia Rometty | Eileen Burbidge (@eileentso) is a partner at Passion Capital, a premier early-stage venture capital fund in London. She was formerly the investment director for Ambient Sound Investments and a products director at Skype and Yahoo! after 10 ... |
| 16.02.2012 | Flattr Raises €1.6M in Funding | Flattr, a Malmö, Sweden-based social micro-payment system, has raised €1.6m in funding.
Backers included Passion Capital and Federico Pirzio-Biroli.
The company intends to use the capital to improving its service, growing the user base with... |
