Seed · Social & Creator Economy · Berlin, Germany · Founded 2021 · 11–50 employees
Passionfroot is a Berlin-based marketplace and toolkit connecting business, productivity, and thought leadership-focused content creators with brands for sponsorship and advertising partnerships. The platform enables creators to build digital storefronts for their ad inventory across newsletters, YouTube, LinkedIn, and TikTok, while also offering CRM, scheduling, and payment processing tools. It has attracted marquee brand partners including HubSpot, Notion, and Freshbooks, and takes a 15% take rate on partnerships brokered through its network. Founded in 2021 by Jen Phan, Jens Joseph Mannanal, and Michelle Tian, the company has raised a total of $7.2M across two rounds, with the most recent $3.8M seed round in October 2024 led by Supernode Global and joined by s16vc, Sequoia, Accel's Scout Fund, and Creandum.