Many team members at Unicorn Nest are Ukrainians affected by Russian aggression. We do our best to solve any issues and answer your questions in the shortest possible time frames but some delays are possible.

Backed VC

Founders Alex Brunicki Andre de Haes Sonia Maciuszewicz

Overview

Investments

Unlock datapoints

Portfolio analytics

Team

News & Media

Add fund to favorites
info
Save this fund for later to form your own custom list of funds
This summary is composed by our algorithm based on the analysis of the deals. If you think that some of this information is not accurate, please let us know about it and provide any supporting evidences if possible. Such cases will be analyzed by our ML-algorithm and implemented in our database, which will improve this summary.

Need help with fundraising?

We offer an assisted fundraising option for startups

Learn more
Total investments 74
Average round size
info
The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 47
Rounds per year 9.25
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
info
How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 3
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • Financial Services
  • Information Services
Summary

Backed VC appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

This organization was formed by Alex Brunicki, Andre de Haes. We also calculated 3 valuable employees in our database.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Pollen, Foundries.io, Jukedeck.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The important activity for fund was in 2015. When the investment is from Backed VC the average startup value is 5-10 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Backed VC works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Backed VC, startups are often financed by Techstars, Right Side Capital Management, Kindred Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kindred Capital, SAATCHiNVEST, Playfair Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kindred Capital, e.ventures, Valar Ventures.

Read more

Related Funds

Funds investing in previous rounds
These funds often invest in the rounds preceeding the rounds of Backed VC:
Typical Co-investors
Backed VC is more likely to invest in rounds together with the following funds:
There are no funds here. If we find new data, we will add it here.
Funds investing in following rounds
These funds have a tendency to invest in the following rounds after Backed VC:
There are no funds here. If we find new data, we will add it here.

Funds with similar focus

Funds from United Kingdom
Funds with similar focus located in United Kingdom:
Funds with the same geo focus
Funds with similar geography of portfolio companies:
Funds doing lead investments
Funds with similar focus acting as lead investors:

Look at other 50 related and similar funds Collapse list
Fund NameLocation
Adjacent -
AE Ventures Easton, Massachusetts, United States
Altera California, San Jose, United States
Ark Angels Activator Fund Belgium, Hasselt, Limburg
Beijing Huitong Dingsheng Touzi Guanli Zhongxin Beijing, Beijing, China
BR Startups Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro
Bunge New York, United States, White Plains
GCI United States, Waukesha, Wisconsin
Itochu Techno-Solutions -
RBO Ventures California, Santa Monica, United States
Reid Hoffman Foundation -
Shanxi Heling Touzi guanli Co., Ltd. China, Shaanxi, Xian Shi
Strategic European Technologies 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, North Brabant
The Photonics Fund California, Redwood City, United States
TopMonks Startup Studio Czech Republic, Prague, Prague
Ventegis Capital Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Westpool Investment Trust England, London, United Kingdom
Xiamen Qingwa Juncheng Venture Capital China, Fujian, Xiamen

Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lopay

Financial Services
Payments
$8M11 Oct 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Borderless

Information Technology
Software
$3M22 Aug 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

The Engineering Company

Aerospace
Enterprise Software
Industrial Engineering
Industrial Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
$8M06 Dec 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Hoxton Farms

Biotechnology
$27M20 Oct 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Ochre Bio

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$30M10 Oct 2022 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Unstoppable Finance

Blockchain
Financial Services
FinTech
$14M10 Aug 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Legl

Cloud Computing
Legal
Software
$18M17 May 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Pillar

Credit
FinTech
$17M21 Apr 2022 Peterborough, England, United Kingdom

Pollen

Adventure Travel
Customer Service
Events
Marketing
Marketplace
Ticketing
Travel
$169M20 Apr 2022 London, England, United Kingdom
News
Foundries.io Raises $8M Series A Funding to (Actually) Secure the Internet of Things

– Foundries.io has raised $8M in Series A funding, led by IQ Capital, with participation from Crane Venture Partners and Backed VC.
– Foundries.io delivers FoundriesFactory, the world’s first cloud-native solution for embedded technologies that reinvents IoT, and counts tier one OEMs, silicon industry leaders and SoC companies among its customers and partners, including ARM, NXP Semiconductors, MontaVista, STMicroelectronics and WINSYSTEMS.
– Led by technology industry pioneers, George Grey and Ian Drew, Foundries.io has developed a transformative, open source platform that provides OEMs and Systems Integrators a common software base to develop, test, deploy, manage and maintain secure IoT and Edge devices through a single cloud-native solution.

Ochre Bio Closes $9.6M Seed Financing Led by Khosla Ventures

– Ochre Bio, a biotech company developing RNA medicines for chronic liver diseases, announced the closing of a $9.6M seed financing round led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Backed VC, Apollo Health Ventures, Selvedge, Hoxton and Hermes-Epitek.
– The funding will be used to advance the development of Ochre Bio’s RNA therapies and expand their deep phenotyping platform to identify and validate new liver targets.
– Using deep phenotyping (‘phenomics’), the company digitizes liver biology at scale, from healthy through to advanced liver disease.
– Ochre Bio has already generated massive amounts of spatial genomics data from freshly donated human livers, and have uncovered hundreds of novel potential liver targets that are currently being validated in their labs.

Review

  • No reviews are submitted yet.
Do you want more?
We provide dozens of additional datapoints about this fund.
Sign up and get access to full fund profile and advanced analysis.
Full team
Industries heatmap
Stages heatmap
Georgaphy breakdown
Coinvestors
Portfolio analysis
Performance indexes
Latest highlights
Unlock all data
Do you represent Backed VC?
Get access to manage this page
Get in touch
Found incorrect info? Let us know!
Total investments 74
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 9.25
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.95

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Lopay

Financial Services
Payments
$8M11 Oct 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Borderless

Information Technology
Software
$3M22 Aug 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

The Engineering Company

Aerospace
Enterprise Software
Industrial Engineering
Industrial Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
$8M06 Dec 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Hoxton Farms

Biotechnology
$27M20 Oct 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Ochre Bio

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Therapeutics
$30M10 Oct 2022 Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Unstoppable Finance

Blockchain
Financial Services
FinTech
$14M10 Aug 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Legl

Cloud Computing
Legal
Software
$18M17 May 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Pillar

Credit
FinTech
$17M21 Apr 2022 Peterborough, England, United Kingdom

Pollen

Adventure Travel
Customer Service
Events
Marketing
Marketplace
Ticketing
Travel
$169M20 Apr 2022 London, England, United Kingdom
Crunchbase icon

Content report

The following text will be sent to our editors: