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UK’s Marshmallow raises $85M on a $1.25B valuation for its more inclusive, big-data take on car insurance

Marshmallow — a U.K.-based car insurance provider that has made a name for itself in the market by providing a new approach to car insurance aimed at using a wider set of data points and clever

Private chef parties at home startup Yhangry raises $1.5M seed from VC angels and Ollie Locke

There’s an “Uber for everything” these days, and now there are “Ubers for personal chefs”. Just take a look at PopTop or 100 Pleats for instance. Now in London, there is Yhangry (which brand

Digging into the next wave of tech IPOs

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Daily Crunch: Google commits $1B to pay publishers

Google is paying a lot of money for its news licensing program, Microsoft announces an affordable laptop and Facebook says it won’t accept ads casting doubts on the election. This is your Daily

Daybridge, a time management app by former Monzo engineer Kieran McHugh, raises £750K seed

Daybridge, a productivity and time management app by former Monzo engineer Kieran McHugh, has picked by £750,000 in a seed round led by early Monzo backer, Passion Capital. Also participating is a nu

Passion Capital has backed Fronted, the startup that wants to offer loans to cover rent deposits

Fronted, the new London-based startup aiming to make life easier for renters, including lending the cash needed for a deposit, has picked up seed investment from Passion Capital. The investment showed

14 VCs discuss COVID-19 and London’s future as a tech hub

The UK has created 63 tech unicorns in the past decade (according to Dealroom), and it almost goes without saying that the vast majority of those companies were based out of London, the country’s la

Trump’s immigration order sends ripples of dismay through UK tech community

Reactions to President Trump's executive order placing a three-month ban on entry to the U.S. from seven majority Muslim countries have been rippling out across the Atlantic over the past 48 hours --

Want to Understand VC in Europe? Catch These Top Investors at Disrupt London

Passion Capital’s Eileen Burbidge Appointed Chair Of Tech City UK

You'd be forgiven for thinking venture capitalist and self-described recovering work and tech-aholic Eileen Burbidge didn't have a day job. Adding to a plethora of additional roles she holds in suppor

Eileen Burbidge Joins Speakers At Disrupt London

Here are the next round of speakers who'll be appearing at TechCrunch Disrupt London conference on December 7-8, 2015. The conference will feature an outstanding number of global startups, influential

Listen To VC Eileen Burbidge On Being Fired At Skype, Founder Psychosis, And Close Ties To U.K. Gov

TechCrunch interviews Eileen Burbidge, Partner at London VC firm Passion Capital, where we discuss her early days working at Skype and Apple, the types of startups she invests in, her close ties to th

London’s Passion Capital Raises $69M For Its Second Early Stage Fund

London-based Passion Capital has raised a second fund for investing in early stage U.K.-based startups -- today announcing a coffer of £45 million ($69M) to power its next phase of investments.

Europe Gets A Cyber Security Incubator

London's crowded startup accelerator scene is getting a new addition. Not fintech-related, this time -- rather the focus is cyber security. The Cyber London (CyLon for short) 12-week program, has been