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Passion Capital

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Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators applying our experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. We are Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbidge and Robert Dighero.

We have been personally involved in the largest European technology exits of the past decade, including the biggest exits of the year for 4 of the past 10 years by market value (Ricardo.de acquired by QXL, Skype purchased by Ebay, Last.fm acquired by CBS, and QXL/Tradus acquired by Naspers) and want to be involved in many more.

We believe that the critical differentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders.

We are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe. As an example of this, White Bear Yard is our own hub for activities, ambitions and energy and where have fun in the process.

Recent Milestones

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  Passion Capital — Passion Capital invests in Digital Spin (5/7/13)
  Posted 5/10/13 at 12:57am via ft.com
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  Passion Capital invested in GoCardless. (4/18/13)
  Posted 4/20/13 at 2:49am via techcrunch.com
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  Passion Capital invested in Duedil. (4/12/13)
  Posted 4/12/13 at 4:50am via gigaom.com
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  Passion Capital — Mendeley acquired by Reed Elsevier (4/9/13)
  Posted 5/10/13 at 12:51am via techcrunch.com
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  Passion Capital — Passion Capital Invested in Toothpick (4/2/13)
  Posted 4/14/13 at 6:28am via techcrunch.com
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  Passion Capital invested in Smarkets. (2/21/13)
  Posted 2/21/13 at 7:45pm via finsmes.com
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  Passion Capital invested in Lulu. (2/5/13)
  Posted 2/5/13 at 8:47pm via techcrunch.com
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  Passion Capital — Passion Capital Invested in Mendeley (1/17/13)
  Posted 4/14/13 at 6:37am via techcrunch.com
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  Passion Capital — Passion Capital Invested in GoSquared (1/1/13)
  Posted 4/14/13 at 6:33am via jessicafurseth.com
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  Passion Capital — Passion Capital Invested in Mixlr (12/20/12)
  Posted 4/14/13 at 6:35am via techcrunch.com
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  Passion Capital — Passion Capital Invested in Memoto (10/23/12)
  Posted 4/14/13 at 6:31am via gigaom.com
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  Passion Capital — Passion Capital Invests in OpenSignal (9/18/12)
  Posted 4/14/13 at 6:27am via opensignal.com
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  Passion Capital invested in Toothpick. (8/10/12)
  Posted 11/19/12 at 6:53am
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  Passion Capital — Picklive acquired by Sports Millions (7/23/12)
  Posted 5/10/13 at 12:53am via intergameonline.com
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  Passion Capital invested in Car Throttle. (7/1/12)
  Posted 11/20/12 at 5:23am
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  Passion Capital invested in Loopcam. (5/1/12)
  Posted 5/3/12 at 6:00am via techcrunch.com

Investments

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1. Passion Capital Emerges In London With $60 million To Seed Startups (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Smarkets raises a $1 million funding round led by Passion Capital (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
ReadMill’s Disrupt encounter makes them launch early (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
Duedil secures a second round of Angel investment (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
EyeEm app picks up the pace as European startups fight for the photo crown (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
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Introducing 3 new partners and an API (opensignal.com) [edit]
As ZocDoc Readies To Cross The Pond, Toothpick Quietly Exits Beta And Expands Beyond The UK (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Life-logging for the masses? Memoto smashes Kickstarter goal on launch day (gigaom.com) [edit]
London startups: The fundraising experience (jessicafurseth.com) [edit]
Social Live Audio Platform Mixlr Gets iOS App For Broadcasting And Listening On The Go (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Elsevier In Advanced Talks To Buy Mendeley For Around $100M To Beef Up In Social, Open Education Data (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Confirmed: Elsevier Has Bought Mendeley For $69M-$100M To Expand Its Open, Social Education Data Efforts (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Sports Millions CEO behind Picklive acquisition (intergameonline.com) [edit]
Can crowdfunding help venture capitalists identify the best start-ups? (blogs.ft.com) [edit]
2. UK Online Payments Platform GoCardless Raises $3.3 Million Series A, Plans To Expand Across Europe (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Duedil rakes in $5M for its open data-powered due diligence services (gigaom.com) [edit]
4. Smarkets Raises $2.3M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
5. Lulu Raises Another $2.5M From Yuri Milner And Angels For Its Girls-Only App To Rate Guys (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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8. TechCrunch on our funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. Tripbirds Picks Up $740k From Path’s Dave Morin, Others. Now In Public Beta (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. Flattr Raises €1.6M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
11. Accel, SV Angel, Y Combinator Put $1.5M In Online Bank Payments Platform GoCardless (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. Adzuna Raises New Funding To Make Job Ads Fully Social (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. Luluvise Gets Funding To Monetise ‘Girl Time’ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. wireWAX Raises Funding from Passion Capital (finsmes.com) [edit]
15. EyeEm Receives Seed Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
16. Adzuna.co.uk Secures £300k Investment to Transform the way People Search for Jobs (prnewswire.com) [edit]
17. Pusher Raises $1M From Heroku Founders And More To Bring Realtime Tech To Your Apps (techcrunch.com) [edit]