Robert Dighero
Co-Founder & Partner @ Passion Capital
London, United Kingdom
Robert Dighero is a seed investor at Passion Capital in London focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Robert Dighero has over 20 years operational experience, the last 15 working with the internet. He is a partner at White Bear Yard and an active investor across Europe focused on early stage e-commerce, payment and marketplace businesses. He has led a number of investment syndicates and taken on a number of board and advisory roles.Robert waspreviously CFO of QXL ricardo from 1998 to 2008, overseeing development from start-up to its eventual sale to Naspers. He managed a diverse range of corporate actions including its dual listing IPO, consolidating the European online auction market with nine acquisitions, the largest over $1 billion and launching an MBO.The QXL Group was the best performing share on Main Market in both 2004 and 2005 and in the All-Share in 2007 with an over 35,000% share price increase in 5 years. Robert was short-listed for CBI / Real FD, FD of the Year in 2007 and the following year negotiated the £1 billion sale of QXL via a public take-over offer.Prior to QXL, Robert was CFO of AOL UK and previous roles included that of M&A at Bertelsmann USA and at Verulam Investments. Robert started his career at Bain & Co, having left Cambridge with a First class degree and a post-graduate degree in Engineering and has an MBA from Insead.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Robert Dighero invests in
Stages Robert Dighero invests in
Countries Robert Dighero invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$6.5M
- Angel
- $223k–$828k
- Series A
- $2.3M–$3.7M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 4 (20%)
- Financial Services 4 (20%)
- Payments 3 (15%)
- Real Time 3 (15%)
- E-Commerce 3 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (30%)
- Angel 4 (20%)
- Series A 2 (10%)
- Series C 2 (10%)
- Funding Round 2 (10%)
Country
- United Kingdom 10 (50%)
- Serbia 1 (5%)
- Sweden 1 (5%)
- Denmark 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets | $75M / Series C / Feb 12, 2026 | ||
| Our embedded credit solution provides platforms with a flexible end-to-end lending program that enables them to offer fast and attractive financing for their merchants, to grow their ecosystems and businesses. | $9.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 12, 2024 | ||
| Atoa Instant Bank Pay allows UK merchants to receive payments at a flat fee which is up to 70% cheaper than card machines. Merchants receive funds in their bank accounts instantly instead of having to wait 1-2 days as is the usual case with card machines and debit cards. Using Atoa involves no contracts (pay as you go), no hardware fees and nochargeback fraud risk (all payments are approved via bank app and have Strong Customer Authentication).You can sign up in minutes by downloading the "Atoa Merchant" app or by visiting www.paywithatoa.co.uk. | $6.5M / Seed / Jun 08, 2023 | ||
| Atoa Instant Bank Pay allows UK merchants to receive payments at a flat fee which is up to 70% cheaper than card machines. Merchants receive funds in their bank accounts instantly instead of having to wait 1-2 days as is the usual case with card machines and debit cards. Using Atoa involves no contracts (pay as you go), no hardware fees and nochargeback fraud risk (all payments are approved via bank app and have Strong Customer Authentication).You can sign up in minutes by downloading the "Atoa Merchant" app or by visiting www.paywithatoa.co.uk. | $2.2M / Pre-Seed / Nov 24, 2022 | ||
| Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud by examining customer behavior data and spotting fraudsters while there is still time to block them. The company imports a client’s visitor, registration, and payment data in real-time, via an API, inspects data using an AI, identifies andblocks fraudsters, and enables systems to prevent such crimes in the future. | $20.7M / Series C / Jul 15, 2020 | ||
| Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud by examining customer behavior data and spotting fraudsters while there is still time to block them. The company imports a client’s visitor, registration, and payment data in real-time, via an API, inspects data using an AI, identifies andblocks fraudsters, and enables systems to prevent such crimes in the future. | $10.4M / Series B / Sep 11, 2018 | ||
| Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud by examining customer behavior data and spotting fraudsters while there is still time to block them. The company imports a client’s visitor, registration, and payment data in real-time, via an API, inspects data using an AI, identifies andblocks fraudsters, and enables systems to prevent such crimes in the future. | $3.7M / Series A / Oct 18, 2016 | ||
| Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud by examining customer behavior data and spotting fraudsters while there is still time to block them. The company imports a client’s visitor, registration, and payment data in real-time, via an API, inspects data using an AI, identifies andblocks fraudsters, and enables systems to prevent such crimes in the future. | $2M / Seed / Sep 29, 2015 | ||
| Lendino er en markedsplads for lån, hvor private og professionelle investorer kan låne direkte til kreditværdige virksomheder til begge parters fordel. Ved at bruge lånemarkedspladsen sparer man tid, penge og besvær — både som investor og låntager. Du kan læse mere om hvordan Lendino virker her. | May 18, 2015 | ||
| Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud by examining customer behavior data and spotting fraudsters while there is still time to block them. The company imports a client’s visitor, registration, and payment data in real-time, via an API, inspects data using an AI, identifies andblocks fraudsters, and enables systems to prevent such crimes in the future. | Seed / Mar 23, 2015 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Passion Capital
Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators who are applying our experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. We are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe, and we believe that the critical differentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders. We take pride in the calibre and success of all of our founders and teams including but nowhere near limited to GoCardless, Tray.io, Mendeley, Digital Shadows, Adzuna, Smarkets, Ravelin, Tide, Marshmallow, Butternut Box, PolyAI, Lendable and Monzo Bank
Passion Capital Contacts
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Andrew Jenkins
Partner
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Robert Dighero
Co-Founder & Partner
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Sandra Lyness
Head Of Operations
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Stefan Glänzer
Founding Partner
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Will Neale
Investor (LP)
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FAQ
What does Robert Dighero invest in?
Robert Dighero invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Robert Dighero invest in?
Robert Dighero typically joins rounds of $1M–$6.5M at Seed, $223k–$828k at Angel and $2.3M–$3.7M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Robert Dighero's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Robert Dighero took part in.
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When did Robert Dighero last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Robert Dighero closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 20 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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