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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.
Industry: ClimateTech
With its browser extension, Faircado replaces e-commerce with sustainable re-commerce. The innovative system automatically displays second-hand alternatives on re-commerce websites when browsing e-commerce platforms. This eliminates the tedious search for a desired item on a multitude of second-hand platforms. Faircado has thus created a highly innovative and novel technology aimed at an already large, but above all rapidly growing market.
Industry: ClimateTech
The Zurich-based deep tech spin-off from ETH Zurich, was founded in 2022 by Dr. Imad Abdallah, Aris Mukherjee, and Dr. Konstantinos Tatsis. Their flagship product, Aerosense, is an ultra-thin, wireless sensor patch that adheres to wind turbine blades to capture high-frequency aerodynamic and structural data – such as pressure, vibration, strain, motion, and temperature.
