Pollen is a technology company on a mission to build, curate, and deliver the best experiences all over the world leveraging a data-driven, customer-led mindset, and a network of global partners.
We have two offerings: Pollen Presents and Pollen+. Pollen Presents curates experiences around your tastes and preferences you can’t find anywhere else. These experiences bring together music, sports, wellness and beyond to enable you and your friends to connect around one-of-a-kind itineraries in exciting destinations. Pollen+ always gets you more at music festivals and events when you book through us. Pollen+ partners with the biggest promoter brands and music festivals, including We Are FSTVL, Austin City Limits, Bonnaroo, C3, Electric Zoo, Live Nation and more.
Pollen was founded in 2014 by brothers Callum & Liam Negus-Fancey. Pollen is backed by prominent investors including Kindred, Northzone, Sienna Capital, Backed and Draper Spirit. Pollen has raised over $100 million in VC funding.
Location: United Kingdom, England, London
Member count: 501-1000
Total raised: $210M
Founded date: 2014
Investors 6
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Generation... | generation... |
| - | Molten Ven... | moltenvent... |
| - | True True | true.globa... |
| 23.04.2022 | SGH Capita... | sghcapital... |
| - | Northzone ... | northzone.... |
| - | Draper Esp... | draperespr... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors | Deal News |
| 22.04.2022 | Series C | $150M | - | techstartu... |
| 25.10.2019 | - | $60M | Northzone ... | techstartu... |
Mentions in press and media 14
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| 26.04.2022 | Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Here’s what comes next | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign ... | fortune.co... |
| 22.04.2022 | Pollen weathers the storm, adds another $150 million to the ... | London-based Pollen, which bills itself as a travel and entertainment technology company, has raised... | tech.eu/20... |
| 22.04.2022 | After witnessing “stellar” growth in 2021 despite pandemic, ... | London-based Pollen, the travel and entertainment technology company, announced on Thursday that it ... | siliconcan... |
| 21.04.2022 | Pollen Raises $150M in Series C Funding | Pollen, a Los Angeles, CA and London, UK-based travel & entertainment technology company, raised... | finsmes.co... |
| 21.04.2022 | Travel tech startup Pollen raises $150M Series C to scale it... | Pollen, a London, England-based travel tech startup that curates and delivers travel experiences, ha... | techstartu... |
| 02.06.2020 | Former Pollen employees were asked to sign an ‘NDA masked as... | Pollen, the U.K.-headquartered travel and events marketplace, describes its company culture as built... | techcrunch... |
| 19.05.2020 | Experience marketplace Pollen lays off 69 North America staf... | As the coronavirus pandemic continues, throwing countries into lockdown and recession, two of the ha... | techcrunch... |
| 25.10.2019 | Pollen, an invite-only marketplace tech startup, raises $60 ... | Generation Z, group ages between 16 to 21, already represent up to $143 billion in buying power, acc... | techstartu... |
| 24.10.2019 | Pollen closes $60m in financing led by Northzone | Invite-only marketplace Pollen, formerly known as Verve, has raised $60 million in new financing, br... | uktech.new... |
| 24.10.2019 | Pollen Raises $60M in Financing | Pollen, formerly known as Verve, a London, UK-based invite-only marketplace that enables people to b... | finsmes.co... |
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