Rotterdam’s Passionfruit secures €350K from UNIIQ to enhance its AI-driven compliance questionnaire platform

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Rotterdam-based Passionfruit, a software startup, has secured €350K in fresh funding from UNIIQ, the innovation investment fund for South Holland. 

Passionfruit’s platform aims to simplify and speed up the labour-intensive task of responding to questionnaires related to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), safety, and quality standards.

Jasper Geselschap, Fund Manager at UNIIQ, says, “Passionfruit solves a major problem that companies face every day. Through the expertise of the team, combined with the power of their AI-driven platform, we see enormous potential to unburden companies and at the same time increase their impact on sustainability.”

Earlier this year, the company received investments from Antler and an innovation loan from Rabobank, bolstering its platform development.

Automate any ESG, quality, or safety questionnaire

Passionfruit’s solution is designed to cut down the time compliance, quality, and sustainability teams spend on manually completing questionnaires—a process that often requires extensive document searches and data entry into various formats like Excel or proprietary portals. 

With its AI-driven technology, the platform automates up to 90 per cent of these tasks, offering companies insight into data sharing, reducing repetitive workload, and enhancing the efficiency of responses for clients and auditors alike.

Passionfruit was founded by Maikel Fontein, a former business lead at Unilever with extensive compliance experience, and Lars Kuijpers, a seasoned product designer and software engineer.

Co-founder Fontein, says, “Transparency in sustainability is essential, but sharing information efficiently remains a challenge. Companies in different supply chains are inundated with hundreds of customer questionnaires every year, each with their own requirements and formats. Every customer has their own online portal or a specific Excel file that needs to be filled in.” 

Co-founder Kuijpers, adds, “Sustainability and quality managers can spend up to 40 per cent of their working week filling in these questionnaires. That is simply not why they chose these positions.”

“Furthermore, many companies are not aware of what information they share externally and with whom, which can lead to significant risks. With Passionfruit we make this process smoother and give companies more control over what they share and with whom.”

The company claims to have gained traction, especially in the food and logistics sectors, with clients such as FrieslandCampina.

Capital utilisation

Passionfruit will use the funds to refine its platform and expand into new markets, as demand grows for compliance solutions that meet standards like CSRD, CSDD, and EUDR, as well as ratings like Ecovadis and CDP.

By streamlining compliance responses, Passionfruit offers a scalable platform that helps companies navigate the increasing regulatory demands in a manageable, transparent way.

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