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BackBone Ventures

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Total investments 45
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 27
Rounds per year 7.50
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Financial Services
  • Information Technology
  • FinTech
  • Software
  • Credit
Summary

In 2018 was created BackBone Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Zurich. The company was established in Europe in Switzerland.

Besides them, we counted 7 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the BackBone Ventures, startups are often financed by btov Partners, VI Partners AG, Tamedia. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are btov Partners, Tamedia, Stray Dog Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tamedia.

The important activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The real fund results show that this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Israel. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Food Delivery, Drones. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Flytrex. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Adon Health

04 Apr 2024 München, Bayern, Germany

Dropz

15 Feb 2024 -

Proofcheck

Software
$590K02 Feb 2024 -

CareerFairy

College Recruiting
Employment
Information Technology
Recruiting
Video Streaming
$4M19 Sep 2023 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Squake

Environmental Consulting
Renewable Energy
Sustainability
$4M21 Jun 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Fabrikatör

B2B
E-Commerce
Innovation Management
Manufacturing
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
Supply Chain Management
$708K04 Apr 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Aepsy

Health Care
26 Oct 2022 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Amplo

Predictive Analytics
Software
$1M08 Sep 2022 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Findependent

Financial Services
FinTech
$1M13 Jul 2022 Aarau, Aargau, Switzerland
News
Threatray Raises €2.3M in Funding

– Threatray is a Swiss cyber-security analytics company.
– The company raised €2.3M in funding.
– The round was led by Verve Ventures with participation from existing investors Hammer Team, SICTIC, BackBone Ventures and the innofund by SZKB.
– The new investment will be aimed at expanding Threatray’s team.

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Total investments 45
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 7.50
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.40
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Adon Health

04 Apr 2024 München, Bayern, Germany

Dropz

15 Feb 2024 -

Proofcheck

Software
$590K02 Feb 2024 -

CareerFairy

College Recruiting
Employment
Information Technology
Recruiting
Video Streaming
$4M19 Sep 2023 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Squake

Environmental Consulting
Renewable Energy
Sustainability
$4M21 Jun 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Fabrikatör

B2B
E-Commerce
Innovation Management
Manufacturing
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
Supply Chain Management
$708K04 Apr 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Aepsy

Health Care
26 Oct 2022 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Amplo

Predictive Analytics
Software
$1M08 Sep 2022 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Findependent

Financial Services
FinTech
$1M13 Jul 2022 Aarau, Aargau, Switzerland
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