Passion Capital

Our mission: Fostering a sustainable future through impact investment in entrepreneurial teams! Our belief: Prosperity goes hand in hand with the needs of a sustainable global future. As a cleantech venture capital fund manager, we are pioneers in our field. Our commitment: To partner with entrepreneurs and investing in leading cleantech companies producing more with less, using less resources and transforming those efficiencies into significant returns. Our goal: Building and growing companies focused on disrupting their industries by challenging the status quo and creating large scale market value and sustainable benefits. Sustainable Prosperity: a bold vision requiring dedicated, committed and seasoned professionals who share a common belief and desire to grow the leading companies of tomorrow today: Fueled by the participation of our strategic partners, we direct venture capital investment to the best early or growth stage companies, supported by our seasoned team of financiers, engineers, operators working in collaboration with the best entrepreneurial teams to maximize returns on investment. Our “smart money” approach also leverages our vast network of contacts with industrial and business partners. From agriculture technologies to green chemicals, including the new generation of biofuels, biomass transformation, smart grid, energy storage technologies, renewable energies, energy efficiency, Internet of Things (IoT) applied to resources management, big data and technologies dedicated to Smart Cities, we are working with companies that are rapidly and continuously changing the way we live and how we will be doing business in the years to come. Cycle Capital is a part of Beyond the Billion, a pledge campaign aimed at mobilizing a global consortium committed to invest $1 BILLION in women founders.

IP Group's core business is the creation of value for its shareholders and partners through the commercialisation of intellectual property originating from research intensive institutions. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and create value out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group's extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders.

Founded in 1928, Wellington Management Company is an investment managing firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm provides provides services to to high net worth individuals, banking and thrift institutions, pension and profit sharing plans, endowment and foundations, insurers, intermediaries and wealth managers, state and municipal government entities, charitable organizations, family offices and consultants. The firm invests in growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap and large-cap companies. It launches and manages equity, fixed income, balanced mutual funds and hedge funds for its clients.

Founded by celebrated technologist and entrepreneur, Mike Lynch OBE FREng FRS, Invoke Capital founds, invests in and advises fast-growing fundamental technology companies in Europe. With deep expertise in identifying and commercialising artificial intelligence research and a close relationship with the University of Cambridge, Invoke exists to realise the commercial possibilities of Britain’s extraordinary science and deep technology base.

Beringea is a private equity firm which seeks to invest across a range of sectors such as media, healthcare, life science, internet technologies, advanced manufacturing, clean-tech and specialized consumer goods. The firm was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan with an additional office in London, United Kingdom.

Jenny joined Lansdowne Partners in April 2014. Prior to this, Jenny was the Investor Relations representative at Habrok Capital Management, a global long/short equity hedge fund based in London. Jenny began her career at Habrok in 2006 (then part of Trafelet Delta Funds), where she managed all client relationships globally.