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."
Protocol Labs and Metaplanet led the Series B round to accelerate product development for mainstream users and enterprises.
"We’re delighted to have been in a position to choose two more mission-driven investors who back companies that will improve the internet to benefit humankind,"
AllegisCyber Capital led the financing round with participation from a roster of new and existing investors.
"The emergence of Continuous Controls Monitoring as a new cybersecurity category demonstrates a 'coming of age' for cybersecurity. Cyber is the existential threat to the global digital economy. All levels of the enterprise, from the CISO, to Chief Risk Officer, to the Board of Directors are demanding comprehensive visibility, transparency and hard metrics to assess cyber situational awareness. Panaseer has demonstrated itself as the leader in this critical new category and we are excited to be working with the team to further advance its leadership role in this essential market."
Notion Capital led the follow-on investment round, backed by existing supporters including M12 and Nationwide.
"We are incredibly excited to be part of this funding round in Hazy. We believe that synthetic data will open a world of opportunities for large enterprises to use their data, extract insights and train their models among others, without compromising their customers’ information."