Founded in 2009, Passion is a prominent seed venture capital fund in the UK and European ecosystem, having backed over 100 companies and managed multiple exits and unicorns. The firm invests from its fourth fund, Passion IV, focusing on European founders in fintech, AI, and risk.
The Manchester-based cyber security platform raised £3m from backers including Senovo and Passion Capital.
"We successfully gain access to organisations’ data and systems every time and it’s almost always as a result of human behaviour or error. As an example, multi-factor authentication (MFA) is often touted as a key cyber defence – yet we find that an average of 32% of employees accept MFA authentication requests sent by attackers, essentially opening the door for them. The traditional awareness training approach simply doesn’t improve behaviours like this – hacking people is still too easy."
The London-based customer relationship management platform has secured seed backing from Point Nine Capital, Balderton Capital, and Headline to scale its engineering operations.
"Modern businesses need flexible and collaborative tools that grow and adapt as their operations do, but too many teams are stuck using rigid, unyielding CRM tools that aren't built for the 21st Century. Attio is the antidote. It allows companies to remove manual data entry, drawing from existing data streams like email and calendars, to create a complete dataset before building total customizable workflows on top, empowering teams with the exact workflow they need. We're really excited about the potential for Attio to transform how companies approach CRM and are looking forward to working with our brilliant investors to achieve it."
The seed round was led by PROfounders Capital to support product development and team expansion.
"We’re now seeing a huge rise in demand for preventative mental health solutions, especially as work from home isolation becomes the norm, and we’re drawing a lot of parallels with what happened in the digital fitness market. We’re excited to have the minds behind some of the biggest consumer and media businesses in the world helping us build the next big consumer brand in the mental health space. Our mission remains unchanged: we want to make the world a happier place by making looking after your mental health as normal as going to the gym."
The fresh dog food brand secured backing from L Catterton alongside existing investors White Star Capital, Five Seasons Ventures and Passion Capital.
"Butternut is driven by our founding purpose – to deliver health and happiness to dogs and their humans all over the world. We are delighted about the recent investment as it will facilitate us caring for more dogs than ever before."
Project A Ventures led the seed round alongside Passion Capital and angel investors to support the platform's public release.
"At Quix, we believe that it will soon be essential for every organisation to automatically action data within milliseconds of it being created. Whether it’s personalising digital experiences, developing electric vehicles, automating industrial machinery, deploying smart wearables in healthcare, or detecting financial fraud faster, the ability to run machine learning models on live data streams and immediately respond to rapidly changing environments is critical to delivering better experiences and outcomes to people,"
