Investments
133Portfolio Exits
18Funds
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Latest Passion Capital News
May 3, 2023
CultureAI Secures £7 Million Seed Funding to Reduce Human Security Risks CultureAI announces it has raised £7 million in seed funding, with investment from Conviction VC, Passion Capital; Senovo; and angel investors Paul Forster, founder of Indeed; and Guntram Friede, formerly Head of Marketing EMEA at Mulesoft. The investment will be used to improve the platform further and double the size of the company’s team, with a strong focus on R&D and new GTM strategies. This builds on a period of impressive growth. To date, CultureAI has helped to manage the security behaviours of more than 250,000 employees across customer organisations. This includes NatWest, Three and Dojo, and more recently Royal Mail Group and business banking platform Tide. CultureAI also opened a second UK office in London in February, ahead of its plans to expand internationally. Most corporate cybersecurity breaches are a result of employee security behaviour, such as clicking on phishing emails, using the same passwords across multiple applications, or storing corporate data in unapproved SaaS apps. Typically, organisations are unable to capture or measure this, because they lack visibility of employee security behaviour, beyond running phishing simulations. CultureAI is a data-driven, cloud-based human risk management and automation platform for security and awareness teams that helps organisations measure, reduce, and respond to all cyber risks created by their workforces. The platform integrates with an organisation’s existing tech stack to surface actionable employee security behaviour insights. This data drives personalised security awareness coaching to reduce risky behaviours, reinforced by automated technical interventions if the behaviours persist, and security nudges to empower employees to fix their own security risks all in a single click. Since first launching in 2018, CultureAI has quickly gained recognition from prominent organisations in various sectors, including finance and government, seeking to transform their security cultures. In the last 12 months, CultureAI has quadrupled revenues and moved from being a founder-led business to a growth business driven by a best-in-class sales and marketing function. The team has more than tripled in size (to 35) attracting talent from prominent cyber security organisations.
Passion Capital Investments
133 Investments
Passion Capital has made 133 investments. Their latest investment was in CultureAI as part of their Seed VC - II on May 5, 2023.

Passion Capital Investments Activity

Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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5/3/2023 | Seed VC - II | CultureAI | $8.76M | No | 4 | |
2/27/2023 | Seed VC | Cordless | $2.3M | Yes | 4 | |
1/26/2023 | Seed VC - III | Salv | $4.36M | No | Andrew Prozes, ff Venture Capital, Fly Ventures, Giesecke+Devrient Ventures, Maximilian Tayenthal, Passion Capital, Rain Lõhmus, Seedcamp, Specialist VC, Sten Tamkivi, Superangel, and Undisclosed Investors | 12 |
11/24/2022 | Pre-Seed | |||||
11/14/2022 | Series A |
Date | 5/3/2023 | 2/27/2023 | 1/26/2023 | 11/24/2022 | 11/14/2022 |
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Round | Seed VC - II | Seed VC | Seed VC - III | Pre-Seed | Series A |
Company | CultureAI | Cordless | Salv | ||
Amount | $8.76M | $2.3M | $4.36M | ||
New? | No | Yes | No | ||
Co-Investors | Andrew Prozes, ff Venture Capital, Fly Ventures, Giesecke+Devrient Ventures, Maximilian Tayenthal, Passion Capital, Rain Lõhmus, Seedcamp, Specialist VC, Sten Tamkivi, Superangel, and Undisclosed Investors | ||||
Sources | 4 | 4 | 12 |
Passion Capital Portfolio Exits
18 Portfolio Exits
Passion Capital has 18 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Sugar on June 15, 2022.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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6/15/2022 | Acquired | 4 | |||
6/1/2022 | Acquired | 4 | |||
11/10/2021 | Acquired | 2 | |||
Date | 6/15/2022 | 6/1/2022 | 11/10/2021 | ||
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Exit | Acquired | Acquired | Acquired | ||
Companies | |||||
Valuation | |||||
Acquirer | |||||
Sources | 4 | 4 | 2 |
Passion Capital Fund History
3 Fund Histories
Passion Capital has 3 funds, including Passion Capital Fund III.
Closing Date | Fund | Fund Type | Status | Amount | Sources |
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3/10/2021 | Passion Capital Fund III | $62.5M | 1 | ||
5/28/2015 | Passion Capital II | ||||
4/1/2011 | Passion Capital I |
Closing Date | 3/10/2021 | 5/28/2015 | 4/1/2011 |
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Fund | Passion Capital Fund III | Passion Capital II | Passion Capital I |
Fund Type | |||
Status | |||
Amount | $62.5M | ||
Sources | 1 |
Passion Capital Team
1 Team Member
Passion Capital has 1 team member, including current Investment Partner, Mark Zaleski.
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
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Mark Zaleski | DailyMotion, Qxl Ricardo, Webvan Group, Nielsen, and FedEx | Investment Partner | Current |
Name | Mark Zaleski |
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Work History | DailyMotion, Qxl Ricardo, Webvan Group, Nielsen, and FedEx |
Title | Investment Partner |
Status | Current |
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