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Passion Capital

Venture capital firm · Founded 2011 · Active in 2026

Passion Capital is a venture capital firm based in London, UK, founded in 2011. The page below shows 11 Power Law outcomes from Passion Capital's portfolio — 6 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · eCommerce & Marketplaces · Other; top portfolio geographies are UK · Belgium · China. Passion Capital ranks #174 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

11 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #174 · Global · 11 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
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Thoroughbreds ↑ 600% 5y
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01 · Exits

Sequoia’s biggest exits.

Sequoia portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 1999
Entered SeedNow $5.2T
IPO · 2004
Entered Series ANow $4.6T
IPO · 1980
Now $4.5T
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $306B
$214B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $20.1B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $207B
$82.0B IPO · 2019
Now $153B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $103B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $69.1B
$93.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $58.4B
$24.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $73.3B
$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $67.6B
$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $67.5B
$41.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $64.4B
$60.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $28.0B
$55.5B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $55.5B
$52.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $49.6B
IPO · 2013
Now $45.0B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $39.4B
IPO · 2002
Entered SeedNow $39.1B
$32.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
$12.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $29.5B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $28.6B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $28.2B
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 11 Passion Capital Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. UK9
  2. Belgium1
  3. China1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech7
  2. eCommerce & Marketplaces1
  3. Other1
  4. Biotech & Life Sciences1
  5. Energy1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+2
  2. Series A1
  3. Seed7
Estimated holdings

Passion Capital’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Passion Capital’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 8 companies where Passion Capital is a named shareholder, worth about $2.0B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 Monzo BankFintech · Unicorn 22% $5.9B $1.3B
  2. 2 LendableFintech · Unicorn 8% $4.8B $380M
  3. 3 MarshmallowFintech · Unicorn 13.5% $2.0B $270M
  4. 4 PolyAIEnterprise Software · Colt 5.82% $750M $44M
  5. 5 Butternut BoxFood · Thoroughbred 2.06% $660M $14M
  6. 6 AdzunaJobs Recruitment · Colt 13.36% $63M $8M
  7. 7 21.4% $4M $847K
  8. 8 12.82%

2 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Passion Capital’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Passion Capital’s biggest exits.

Passion Capital portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

$1.7B IPO · 2025
Now $799M
$1.2B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
04 · Portfolio market map

Passion Capital's 11 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
11 of 11 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Passion Capital stack up?

Passion Capital in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

25 founders across the 11 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. University of Oxford and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United Kingdom16
Germany5
Belgium1
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UniversityCount
University of Oxford10
Paris-Panthéon-Assas University2
University of Wolverhampton2
London School of Economics and Political Science2
Loughborough University1
Glasgow Caledonian University1
University of Exeter1
University of Liverpool1
University of Cambridge1
Eton College1
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Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google3
Starling Bank3
Esure Group1
Meta1
Apple1
Canonical1
Zopa1
Rocket Internet1
GoCardless1
eBay1
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Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
07 · Key people

Key people at Passion Capital.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Passion Capital

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Passion Capital on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

In the news

Latest news about Passion Capital

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Passion Capital — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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