Passport Capital

Passport Capital, established in 2000, is a San Francisco-based global investment firm managing approximately $4.2 billion in assets. Led by John H. Burbank III, the firm specializes in thematic investing, focusing on long-term, secular trends across various sectors such as agriculture, energy, technology, and healthcare. Passport Capital employs a multi-faceted investment approach, combining macroeconomic analysis, fundamental research, and quantitative tools to identify undervalued opportunities and construct portfolios aimed at delivering superior risk-adjusted returns.

Seth Spalding

Portfolio Manager

28 past transactions

TomoCredit

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2018, TomoCredit is a fintech company based in San Francisco. It offers an AI-powered platform designed for millennials and small business owners to build credit history and qualify for loans using alternative data sources. The company provides a smart credit card and a mobile application for account management.

Solana

Series A in 2019
Solana is a decentralized blockchain platform that aims to deliver a scalable network for decentralized applications and marketplaces. The platform provides fast, low-cost transactions by employing a proof of history consensus alongside other innovations, enabling developers to build scalable apps without sharding. The network is secured by thousands of independent nodes, offering robustness and resistance to censorship. Solana supports a broad ecosystem of decentralized apps and digital assets, emphasizing sustainability and high throughput to power a wide range of use cases from gaming to finance.

Dharma Labs

Series A in 2019
Dharma Labs Inc. is a company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing a suite of smart contracts and tools for the issuance and crowdfunding of debt on blockchain technology. Established in 2017, Dharma Labs provides a decentralized protocol that facilitates the origination, risk assessment, and underwriting of peer-to-peer loans, allowing for innovation in the lending industry. Its platform supports a variety of applications, enabling entrepreneurs to create lending companies that leverage blockchain capabilities for consumer lending, margin lending, and crowdfunding municipal bonds. By promoting open and permissionless development, Dharma Labs aims to transform traditional lending practices through its tokenized debt agreements.

Clear Labs

Series B in 2018
Clear Labs is a biotechnology company specializing in next-generation sequencing and data analytics for infectious disease surveillance and food safety testing. Its platforms, Clear Dx™ and Clear Safety™, enable rapid identification of pathogens, supporting public health initiatives and enhancing safety across various sectors.

Republic

Initial Coin Offering in 2018
Founded in 2016, Republic is a global equity crowdfunding platform headquartered in New York City. It provides access to startup, real estate, crypto, and gaming investments for over one million members worldwide, facilitating over $500 million in investments. Backed by prominent investors, Republic aims to create a diverse, sustainable, and connected world.

Prosper Marketplace

Series D in 2015
Founded in 2005, Prosper Marketplace is a leading online lending platform that connects borrowers with investors. It facilitates fixed-rate, unsecured personal loans through its transparent marketplace, benefiting both parties financially and socially.

Zuora

Series F in 2015
Zuora offers a cloud-based platform that empowers businesses across diverse industries to adopt and manage subscription-based models. Its core product, Zuora Central, serves as an intelligent hub automating the subscription order-to-cash process, including quoting, billing, collections, analytics, and revenue recognition.

Hortonworks

Series D in 2014
Hortonworks, Inc. is a provider of data management platforms and solutions that cater to a diverse range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, and telecommunications. The company specializes in the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), which is based on Apache Hadoop, allowing enterprises to store, manage, and analyze large datasets efficiently. In addition to HDP, Hortonworks offers Hortonworks DataFlow for real-time streaming analytics, Hortonworks DataPlane Service for data management across hybrid environments, and the Hortonworks Cybersecurity Platform for security analytics. The company also provides educational resources such as training, support services, and the Hortonworks Sandbox for testing and development. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Hortonworks operates globally and focuses on enabling organizations to harness the power of big data through its open-source solutions. As of early 2019, Hortonworks operates as a subsidiary of Cloudera, Inc.

Apartment List

Secondary Market in 2014
Apartment List is an online rental marketplace in the United States that connects renters with landlords. The platform offers a search experience with details on prices, locations, and amenities through web and mobile interfaces. The company emphasizes a fair, transparent, and simple renting process and provides a personalized search that learns user preferences to streamline finding suitable apartments. Based in San Francisco, it serves tenants and property owners by helping users discover listings and make informed decisions, reducing time and hassle in the search. Established in the late 2000s, Apartment List aims to make the home-finding process more personal, flexible, and efficient.

Pixalate

Series A in 2013
Pixalate, Inc. is a global intelligence platform specializing in fraud protection and data analytics for the advertising industry. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, the company provides a suite of solutions designed to combat various forms of advertising fraud, including cookie click fraud, domain masking, and device click fraud. Pixalate's offerings include network and campaign analytics, real-time campaign tracking, and a comprehensive rating system for programmatic advertising, which encompasses domain quality and seller quality ratings. The company also delivers threat intelligence services, hardware appliances for fraud prevention, and mobile seller rankings. Serving a diverse clientele that includes publishers, supply-side platforms, demand-side platforms, and advertising networks, Pixalate aims to enhance transparency and trust in programmatic advertising across multiple channels and devices.

Bright.com

Series B in 2013
At Bright, they believe that finding the right job should be easier than splitting an atom. Steeped in data science, Bright eliminates the noise in the hiring process by efficiently connecting job seekers to their best opportunities, and employers to their top prospects. They unlock the power of artificial intelligence to identify and establish a one-to-one signal between candidates and successful outcomes. Bright is not just an innovation in online job search — it’s a mission to move the labor markets faster. Their machine-learning algorithm, the Bright Score, examines thousands of data points to find the best fit between job seekers and job openings. By reducing time to hire, Bright is changing the way the world thinks about the hiring process.

QD Vision

Series E in 2013
Founded in August 2004, QD Vision is a nanotechnology company focused on developing advanced display and lighting solutions that enhance color quality across various industries. By leveraging the unique light-emitting properties of quantum dots, QD Vision produces products that deliver superior color purity, brightness, and power efficiency, along with cost savings. The company's technology is designed to meet the demands of consumer electronics, flat-panel displays, electronic signage, solid-state lighting, and national security applications. With a strong patent portfolio originating from research conducted at MIT, QD Vision sets new standards in design flexibility and performance for modern visual technologies.

CashStar

Venture Round in 2012
CashStar develops and operates a cloud-based digital gifting platform that enables merchants to enhance customer experiences while driving revenue growth. Its solutions include CashStar Consumer for personalized gift cards, CashStar Marketing for promotional management, CashStar Business for B2B gift card solutions, and CashStar Cloud Platform for secure transaction services and operational reporting.

MiaSolé

Debt Financing in 2012
MiaSole is a pioneer in the development of Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS) thin film photovoltaic products. Their goal is to enable grid parity solar energy by 2012 through high volume manufacturing of low cost solar modules.

CashStar

Series C in 2011
CashStar develops and operates a cloud-based digital gifting platform that enables merchants to enhance customer experiences while driving revenue growth. Its solutions include CashStar Consumer for personalized gift cards, CashStar Marketing for promotional management, CashStar Business for B2B gift card solutions, and CashStar Cloud Platform for secure transaction services and operational reporting.

Bridgelux

Venture Round in 2011
Founded in 2002, Bridgelux is a leading innovator in solid-state lighting technologies. It designs, manufactures, and supplies high-power, energy-efficient LED solutions, including chips, arrays, and subsystems. The company's products cater to diverse applications such as retail, hospitality, office spaces, industrial facilities, healthcare, entertainment venues, and outdoor lighting worldwide. Bridgelux offers application engineering services and strategic partnerships with industry leaders like Kaistar and Epistar.

TrueCar

Venture Round in 2011
TrueCar is an information and technology platform operating in the United States that provides market-based pricing data for new and used cars and connects buyers with TrueCar certified dealers through its website and mobile apps. The company offers real-time pricing information for consumers and dealers, Trade-in value guidance, and digital retailing tools through DealerSync and DealerScience to help dealers manage, market, and grow their businesses. It also provides residual-value forecasting and related advisory services used by financial institutions to underwrite auto loans and measure risk across portfolios. The platform is customized for financial institutions, affinity groups, membership-based organizations, and large enterprises, delivering tailored solutions for banks, consumer groups, and employee programs. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, TrueCar operates on a unified data-driven platform and network of certified dealers to support pricing transparency and retail efficiency in the auto market.

QD Vision

Series D in 2011
Founded in August 2004, QD Vision is a nanotechnology company focused on developing advanced display and lighting solutions that enhance color quality across various industries. By leveraging the unique light-emitting properties of quantum dots, QD Vision produces products that deliver superior color purity, brightness, and power efficiency, along with cost savings. The company's technology is designed to meet the demands of consumer electronics, flat-panel displays, electronic signage, solid-state lighting, and national security applications. With a strong patent portfolio originating from research conducted at MIT, QD Vision sets new standards in design flexibility and performance for modern visual technologies.

CashStar

Series B in 2011
CashStar develops and operates a cloud-based digital gifting platform that enables merchants to enhance customer experiences while driving revenue growth. Its solutions include CashStar Consumer for personalized gift cards, CashStar Marketing for promotional management, CashStar Business for B2B gift card solutions, and CashStar Cloud Platform for secure transaction services and operational reporting.

NEOS GeoSolutions

Private Equity Round in 2011
NEOS GeoSolutions, Inc. is a geosciences company specializing in multi-measurement subsurface interpretation solutions. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, with additional offices in Pleasanton, California; Lakewood, Colorado; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, NEOS integrates various geological and geophysical data, including seismic, gravity, magnetic, electromagnetic, radiometric, and hyperspectral information. This integration occurs within a proprietary data management system that aids geoscientists in the onshore oil and gas and mining industries by determining the subsurface distribution of minerals, hydrocarbons, and rock properties. NEOS offers several solutions, including neoSCAN for general interpretation, neoBASIN for enhanced resolution, neoPROSPECTOR for identifying potential drillable prospects, and Eco-Assurance for additional insights into surface and subsurface conditions. The company serves a diverse clientele, including energy ministries, national oil companies, international mining and oil companies, junior and independent operators, and various governmental agencies both in the United States and internationally. NEOS was previously known as TTI Exploration, Inc. before rebranding in January 2011.

Range Fuels

Series B in 2008
Range Fuels is a privately held company funded primarily by greentech venture capital companies, including Khosla Ventures, LLC, arguably the top venture firm in the U.S. focusing on alternative, clean energy systems. Their leadership team melds experience from the technologically intensive oil, chemical, petrochemical, coal gasification, power and gas-to-liquids industries, the renewable fuel industry, and the pulp and paper industry.

Sense Networks

Series A in 2008
Sense Networks is a company specializing in predictive analytics through the analysis of mobile location data. Utilizing its technology platform, MacroSense®, it develops proprietary mobile user profiles that incorporate over 1,000 behavioral attributes derived from real-time location data. The platform processes approximately 170 billion location points each month, leveraging historical data to gain insights into human activity and enhance mobile advertising strategies. Sense Networks operates an AdMatch™ real-time bidding platform, functioning as a Demand Side Platform (DSP) that effectively targets and serves advertisements in mobile ad exchanges. The integration of MacroSense profiles also provides a sophisticated Data Management Platform (DMP) for advanced mobile ad targeting. Founded in 2003 and incorporated in 2006, the company was established by a team of computer scientists from MIT and Columbia University and has received multiple accolades for its innovative approaches, including recognition as a Cool Vendor by Gartner and inclusion in Business Week's list of intriguing startups.

HelioVolt

Series B in 2007
HelioVolt's FASST process eliminates the expense of slicing photovoltaic circuits and assembling individual solar cells into modules. Its line of integrated platform circuits can be adapted to a range of sizes and shapes and applied to almost any construction material including glass, steel, metal, composites and some polymers. Resultant solar cells are thinner, easier and cheaper to manufacture than silicon panels.

Summize

Angel Round in 2007
Summize Limited, founded in 2018 and based in Manchester, United Kingdom, specializes in developing software that simplifies the process of reviewing legal documents. The company's platform integrates directly within existing business tools like Outlook, Gmail, and Salesforce to streamline contract requests, reviews, and storage. By utilizing AI for automation and contract analysis, Summize enables legal teams to operate more efficiently. Additionally, Summize provides a unique approach to contract lifecycle management, offering an intelligent document review platform that instantly extracts key information from contracts and displays it in an interactive summary or table view for analysis and comparison.

Quotient Technology

Series E in 2006
Quotient Technology is a digital media and promotions technology company that specializes in creating integrated brand-building and sales-driving opportunities for advertisers, retailers, and consumers. The company offers tailored media amplification through a vast partner network, allowing clients to optimize their promotional spending. Quotient's platforms provide a suite of omnichannel solutions that enable advertisers to plan, target, deliver, and measure both performance and brand marketing efforts. This approach enhances the effectiveness and impact of promotional campaigns. The company’s extensive network encompasses digital properties from retail partners, non-retail publishers, consumer packaged goods (CPG) customers, social media platforms, and its own consumer brand, Shopmium. By leveraging proprietary and licensed data, Quotient aims to drive consumer action and improve sales outcomes for its clients.

Quotient Technology

Series D in 2006
Quotient Technology is a digital media and promotions technology company that specializes in creating integrated brand-building and sales-driving opportunities for advertisers, retailers, and consumers. The company offers tailored media amplification through a vast partner network, allowing clients to optimize their promotional spending. Quotient's platforms provide a suite of omnichannel solutions that enable advertisers to plan, target, deliver, and measure both performance and brand marketing efforts. This approach enhances the effectiveness and impact of promotional campaigns. The company’s extensive network encompasses digital properties from retail partners, non-retail publishers, consumer packaged goods (CPG) customers, social media platforms, and its own consumer brand, Shopmium. By leveraging proprietary and licensed data, Quotient aims to drive consumer action and improve sales outcomes for its clients.

Quotient Technology

Series C in 2005
Quotient Technology is a digital media and promotions technology company that specializes in creating integrated brand-building and sales-driving opportunities for advertisers, retailers, and consumers. The company offers tailored media amplification through a vast partner network, allowing clients to optimize their promotional spending. Quotient's platforms provide a suite of omnichannel solutions that enable advertisers to plan, target, deliver, and measure both performance and brand marketing efforts. This approach enhances the effectiveness and impact of promotional campaigns. The company’s extensive network encompasses digital properties from retail partners, non-retail publishers, consumer packaged goods (CPG) customers, social media platforms, and its own consumer brand, Shopmium. By leveraging proprietary and licensed data, Quotient aims to drive consumer action and improve sales outcomes for its clients.

Quotient Technology

Series B in 2005
Quotient Technology is a digital media and promotions technology company that specializes in creating integrated brand-building and sales-driving opportunities for advertisers, retailers, and consumers. The company offers tailored media amplification through a vast partner network, allowing clients to optimize their promotional spending. Quotient's platforms provide a suite of omnichannel solutions that enable advertisers to plan, target, deliver, and measure both performance and brand marketing efforts. This approach enhances the effectiveness and impact of promotional campaigns. The company’s extensive network encompasses digital properties from retail partners, non-retail publishers, consumer packaged goods (CPG) customers, social media platforms, and its own consumer brand, Shopmium. By leveraging proprietary and licensed data, Quotient aims to drive consumer action and improve sales outcomes for its clients.
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