The oversubscribed seed round was co-led by firstminute Capital and Playfair to support product expansion and international growth.
"Instead of yet another freelancer platform that simply digitizes transactions that could and would happen without it, Passionfruit is bringing a completely new workforce to the market. Gen Z will represent 27% of the global workforce by 2025 and it has been so inspiring to see our specialists as they say goodbye to the Victorian-age structure of the 9-5, and begin a new life working on their own terms. Better still, companies love working with them this way. Smart businesses are realizing that there’s a more elastic and efficient way to manage their relationship with talent."
The London-based startup secured backing from Samaipata, Nemetschek, Pi Labs and Accel to grow its team and platform.
"This funding, with the clear support of a great investor base, allows us to grow our team, launch our freemium subscription and expand the platform. Our vision is to become the industry standard for construction site communication."
Accel led the Series A round with participation from GV, existing investors, and various angel backers.
"3D design is the backbone of our consumer economy; integral to the production of every car we drive, every shoe we wear, every film we watch, and every video game we play. Yet the modern design process remains inefficient, convoluted and costly, with teams forced to alternate between 2D and 3D tools not fit for purpose in our hyper-collaborative, remote-working era. At Gravity Sketch, our aim is to combat these challenges by empowering teams to create and communicate their 3D ideas in the quickest and most intuitive ways possible — whether they’re designers or otherwise. We’re excited to continue disrupting 3D design with this new investment round."
The London-based financial modelling startup has raised $20m from Coatue, Accel, and prominent angel investors to scale its team and product.
"Despite being used every day across the globe, spreadsheets haven't fundamentally evolved over the past 40 years. Spreadsheet models are hard to build and maintain, disconnected from the rest of a company's tech stack, and actively hinder collaboration across teams. We're building a next-generation tool to solve these problems, and are delighted that Coatue and Accel have led our Series A to take the company into the next stage of growth."
The financing round was led by Tiger Global Management with participation from a group of prominent institutional investors.
"The Genesis platform is already trusted by leading institutions from Citi, who is also a strategic investor from previous funding rounds, and ING to Alliance Bernstein and B3 to speed innovation and accelerate delivery of purpose-built financial markets applications,"
