Investors in Underrepresented Founders

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.

We are an early-stage diversity VC fund. We back underrepresented founders and diverse teams developing frontier technologies and solving vital issues We seek misprized opportunities. We favour startups generating market-leading returns with scaled impact and dominating the fastest growing global markets. We specialize in catalysing cross-border innovation between Europe and Asia (South Korea, India) for our portfolio companies. We believe in investing in the technology of the future and a better world for all. We prioritize investments in companies with a Deep Tech approach or Fintech solutions in the early stage, from pre-seed to Series A. We are not only a fund but also an institution fostering next generation of emerging VCs and GPs as well as founders. We are one-of-its-kind in Europe providing true change from the top-down and the bottom-up with the initiation of Simsan Academy. Join us during the exciting time of this revolution in VC we are leading!