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Quix raises $3.2M from Project A and others for its ‘Stream centric’ approach to data
Quix, a platform for Python developers working on streaming data, has secured a £2.3 Million ($3.2M)Seed funding round led by Project A Ventures in Germany, with participation from London’s Passion Capital and angel investors. The Quix Portal is also providing developers with a free subscription to a real-time data engineering platform.
Quix attracted angel investors including Frank Sagnier (CEO, Codemasters), Ian Hogarth (Co-author, State of AI Report), Chris Schagen (CMO, Contentful), and Michael Schrezenmaier (COO, Pipedrive).
Quix wants to change the way data is handled and processed from a database-centric approach to a ‘stream-centric’ approach, connecting machine learning models to real-time data streams. This is arguably the next paradigm in computing.
Passion Capital Lists £45 Million Fund on Seedrs
Passion Capital, an early-stage tech VC firm, has listed its
Passion Capital Fund III on
Seedrs. Registered investors on the Seedrs platform will have the opportunity to invest in the £45 million fund. Seedrs reports that this partnership is the first time a Europe-based private VC fund is opening up to crowd investors.
Passion Capital’s third fund includes new General Partner
Malin Posern, who joins existing partners
Robert Dighero and
Investors on the Seedrs platform who
self-certify as either “high net worth” or “sophisticated” investors may invest in the fund. To date, Passion Capital has made 81 tech investments in companies worth more than £3 billion, including Monzo, GoCardless, Butternut Box, Adzuna, and Marshmallow.