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Backbone Ventures: investing in entrepreneurs, building futures
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.
Discover some of our innovators
Industry: HealthTech
Adon Health is the first digital care platform for hormone health in Europe. The platform covers the entire patient journey and will offer preventive treatment. The first step is to address the testosterone deficiency of around 10 million men in Germany, which requires lifelong treatment. Adon Health will then launch further products relating to men's health.
Industry: D2C
The Amsterdam-based company develops and sells premium sleep and recovery supplements directly to consumers. Its core product is a scientifically formulated, doping-free supplement that enhances sleep quality and athletic recovery. It operates mainly through its own e-commerce platform and targets the premium health and performance market.
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Industry: Robitics
The Cologne-based company is developing autonomous harvesting robots for greenhouses, aiming to become the operating system for controlled-environment agriculture. With software and data at the core of its long-term vision, the company is initially focusing on tomato and cucumber harvesting and is already operating live at customer sites, cutting produce autonomously.
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