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Backed
Venture capital
Backed is a venture capital firm that leads and invests early in European startups, describing itself as a human-centric seed fund. It invests in founders building frontier technology, with average ticket sizes of $500K to $5M.
Invests inFintechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsfintechblockchainstablecoinsfrontier technologyseedeurope
Your fit with Backed
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Or find every investor that fitsBacked lists 74 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 13 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 42% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (18%), AI & Machine Learning (18%) and Healthcare & Biotech (13%). 48% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside Entrepreneurs First, Y Combinator and Crane Venture Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Backed, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Backed's whole history. Rounds on record name 13 companies; its own site lists 74. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 8% |
| Seed | 42% |
| Series A | 33% |
| Series B | 8% |
| Growth | 8% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 1 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 5 | 0 |
| '26 | 7 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 92th | 74 companies |
| Recent activity | 91th | 7 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 79th | 11% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 10th | 18% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 98th | 13 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 18% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 13% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 13% | 8% |
| Gaming | 7% | 1% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 7% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 4% | 6% |
| Consumer | 3% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Entrepreneurs First | 11 |
| Y Combinator | 6 |
| Crane Venture Partners | 5 |
| Seedcamp | 5 |
| BY Venture Partners | 4 |
| BlueYard Capital | 4 |
| LocalGlobe | 4 |
| Octopus Ventures | 4 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers7399%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company11%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Entrepreneurs First
Compare Backed head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Backed| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 8 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 13 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 25 Mar 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Series A | |
| 11 Nov 2025 | Series B |
Round details for Backed
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Backed's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
74 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aerska develops RNA medicines to treat diseases of the brain | Healthcare & Biotech | Oct 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Afrocenchix sells curly hair care products. | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Amenitiz provides an all-in-one hotel management system for independent hotels | Legal & ComplianceReal Estate & Construction | Nov 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| Andium provides industrial AI infrastructure and remote field monitoring services for the energy industry | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Armada Interactive is creating global gaming experiences | Gaming | Portfolio page | ||
| The company invests in and supports early-stage companies in frontier technology | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Nov 2025Series A | Funding round | |
Fintech | Portfolio page | |||
| BCB Group delivers regulated payment infrastructure that helps businesses move money securely, efficiently and reliably | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| The company organizes events and offers video and audio content, as well as a shop and editorial section. | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Cloud Capital helps companies manage and optimize their cloud and AI infrastructure spend | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| CloudNC integrates AI with computer-aided manufacturing software to generate machining strategies and toolpaths | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| CoMind develops non-invasive neurotechnology to measure and treat the brain | Healthcare & Biotech | Oct 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| CoSyne Therapeutics uses AI for precision medicine drug discovery | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Datapane connects catalogs, dashboards and business knowledge through a shared meaning-and-trust layer. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Dataseat helps brands, apps and games drive programmatic success in today’s privacy-centric ad landscape. | Media & EntertainmentFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Dubsof provides infrastructure for economic coordination and offers services such as job scheduling, crew management, and quoting for construction and driveway projects. | Consumer | Oct 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| DXOS is an open source framework for building real-time, collaborative web applications that run entirely on the client and communicate peer-to-peer, without the need for centralized servers. | Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a corporate alumni management software platform to help businesses engage with their former employees | Enterprise SoftwareHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| The company invests in engineers building in critical industries. | Industrial & ManufacturingFintech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- backed.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 29 Nov 2021
- Companies checked
- 74
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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