Backbone Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Zurich and Frankfurt am Main. Founded in 2018, we started out by investing without a fund, on a deal-by-deal basis. In four years we invested in 26 teams, mostly in Switzerland but also in Germany, the US, and Israel. Since September 2022 we have invested almost exclusively out of our Backbone Ventures 5502 Fund, a EUR 20m pre-seed fund with a strong geographical focus on Germany and Switzerland.

We strive every day to justify the trust that our investors and our founders put in us and to become the trusted partner for the best founders who are still about to start their ventures.

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👏🏼 We are thrilled to announce that 1.5 years after our initial investment, World Fund is now leading a 3M round in Faircado. Joining this journey with us are world-class investors Accel, Northzone, Lightspeed, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), and General Catalyst.

Congratulations to the Faircado team, and welcome aboard to all new partners. 

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🦁 Yesterday's episode of Höhle der Löwen on @VOX was a powerful reminder of the significance of mental health. Witnessing Julia, Sophie and Maximilian from peers. tackling the topic stirred emotions among the lions and highlighted the pressing need to address mental well-being.

🚀 Our Partner, Jan Claudio (JC) Muñoz gave journalist Madita Lege from Gründerszene insights into his personal story and our investment philosophy with the 5502 Fund - including a surprising deal-breaker as well as hints with which founders may convince us.

Are resilience and humbleness the deciding elements? Find out as JC revealed in detail the rational for our investment in Dr. Jonathan Apasu and Maximilian Schubert from Adon Health in the article (GER).

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🎉We closed our oversubscribed 5502 Fund above the €20m target mark🥳 
 
1.5 years ago we started out with the idea to build a fund that would fill a gap we had observed since we started investing as BackBone Ventures in 2018. While many great funds focus on startups once they have proven product-market fit, founders who are just starting their entrepreneurial journey are often forced to gather smaller angel tickets or join accelerators. Moreover, we felt that many of the best founders we had seen in the past were either 1st or 2nd generation migrants or women who had prevailed in male-dominated environments. But while in the past many great funds and angel syndicates had started to focus on women in tech — pre-seed investments in migrant founders mostly had a charitable character.
 
So we decided to raise the 5502 Fund: A pre-seed fund that would lead and fill around 50% of the pre-seed round of underrepresented founders and help them, raise the remaining portion of the round. Full focus on founders in Germany & Switzerland with a sector-agnostic approach.
 
Despite the difficult fundraising environment in 2023 we managed to even surpass our €20m goal and are now fully focused on deploying!
 
Today we want to take the opportunity and say thank you:

✍🏼 To all the LPs who trusted us and joined our journey and
👫 To the founders of our first eight investments Dais Group GmbH, Kickbite, Fabrikatör, Aepsy, Faircado, liftOS, Proofcheck and adon health.

To celebrate our final closing we treated ourselves with a website makeover — we hope you like it: https://www.backbone.vc

🌟 Please join us in extending a warm welcome to Yannick, who has officially become a part of our Backbone Ventures Family as esteemed Venture Partner. 
 
Together with Yannick, we look forward to source and get in contact with the most promising startups from the Romandie. 
 
Bienvenue à bord, Yannick! 🌐🚀
 
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We are delighted to announce that our BackBone Ventures team has been strengthened with the addition of two outstanding Board of Directors.
 
Josef Ming: Partner and former global board member of Bain & Company. Previously, Josef served as the CEO of KKR Capstone and was a key member of the global portfolio committee of the private equity pioneer KKR.
 
Heinrich Baumann: Former CEO of HSBC Guyerzeller Bank and a former member of the Board of Directors of Julius Baer, where he served as Chairman of the Audit Committee.
 
Their extensive experience in finance and private equity will undoubtedly be a significant asset to our strategic mission.
 
Welcome aboard, Josef and Heinrich! We look forward to exciting times ahead as we collaborate to drive innovation.

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Backbone Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Zurich and Frankfurt am Main. Founded in 2018, Backbone has a track record of 28 investments with already three successful exits so far. With a pioneering investment- and a strong ecosystem approach, Backbone’s mission is to achieve a positive impact for the next generation by supporting outstanding entrepreneurs to reach new levels of success and to become the trusted partner for founders and investors in pre-seed/seed venture capital in Germany and Switzerland.

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Backbone is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies, particularly those in the consumer space. They provide funding, mentorship, and operational support to startups, aiming to help them scale and succeed in competitive markets.

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