BackBone Ventures

We are honored to be nominated for The Spark - Der Deutsche Digitalpreis in the category Diversity Accelerator. We feel this nomination is less a recognition for ourselves but more for the amazing founders of our 5502 Fund! While they are certainly one of the most diverse founder communities around, they are above all one thing: excellent! Shoutout to our fellow nominees: Our fellow Frankfurter Jungs & Mädchen from ADAN Impact GmbH who are making diversity visible for more than 10 years already! Founderland who empower women of color to become successful entrepreneurs. Jan Claudio & Janic are already looking forward to the Award Gala in Berlin!

🚀 Exciting Milestone for our portfolio company Voliro 🚀 We are thrilled to congratulate Voliro on securing their 12 million Series A funding round! 🎉 Welcome on Board - Cherry Ventures 🦾 🔙🦴

🎉 We are happy to announce our pre-seed investment into knowing01. Nikola and her team combine advanced AI with the power of biomedical data, transforming how researchers unlock insights from complex datasets 🔬. This integrated approach helps biotech and pharmaceutical companies 💊 make smarter decisions, reducing the costs and risks of drug discovery in ways traditional methods cannot achieve. 👏🏼 We are very much looking forward to work with Nikola, her team and business angels such as Veronika Chrestin, Johannes Stiber, Björn W. Schäfer and Dr. Julia Ju Press release: https://lnkd.in/dcTR9M25 🔙🦴 #5502

Congrats to our portfolio company exakt health for raising their Seed Round from our friends at Barmenia Next Strategies and ESB Invest Vorpommern GmbH. Since we led the pre-seed round in 2022 Lucia and Philip have continuously improved their app, monetized it and gained traction with users. With new AI-powered running plans, Exakt Health is taking a big step forward to support runners and prevent injuries. Stay tuned for exciting developments ahead! 💪 Press release: https://lnkd.in/ee4fKHsv 🔙🦴

🚀 What a day! 🚀 One week ago we hosted our Backbone Ventures 5502 Fund Portfolio Day.   We asked 🎥 Joshua to join us in Zurich and take some pictures and videos. We didn't expect it to turn into a full-blown promotional video that makes our founders all look like Hollywood actors.    Anyway - here is the official video of our 2024 Portfolio Day.    Vince, Juan, Jonas, Eva, Grace, Bahadir, Demirhan, Jonathan, Maximilian, Filip, Sangwoo, Ege, Alexandre, Tara, Stefan, Süleyman, Daniel, Evoléna, Simon, Michael, Nicolas, Hiep, Nikola, Mo, Florian, Eva, Matthias, Pascal, Philip, Thomas and Zafar 🔙🦴 #5502

🌍 Our next ClimateTech company is finally ready to be announced! Evoralis, a Cambridge spin-off around Josephin Holstein, Mariana Rangel Pereira and Daniel Kaute, developed an ultrahigh-throughput screening platform to find and develop plastic recycling enzymes. As they are focusing on PET and nylon for the fashion industry, they truly have the potential to be world-changing and to facilitate a circular economy. ♻ Looking very much forward to be on board with LIFTT, Juergen Eck (Ph.D.), Archipelago Ventures, Parkwalk Advisors, Cambridge Enterprise Ventures, CPI and angel investors.    Missing on the picture – Josephin Holstein. 🔙🦴 #5502

🌱 We are thrilled to share that our #5502 Fund has made an investment into Meloon GmbH, an innovative #ClimateTech company. We're excited to partner with their visionary founders, Stefan & Süleyman, alongside IBB Ventures and Berlin Angel Fund. Meloon is pioneering nanoporous membranes for post-combustion CO2 separation, a game-changer for capturing carbon emissions at their source. With a strong focus on industries like cement or natural gas, this technology promises to filter out the CO2 emissions and drive progress toward a cleaner future. ♻ 🔙🦴 #5502

🚨We are pleased to announce that Creaitor.ai is the latest investment out of our #5502 Fund!   Simon & Michael have developed an AI-driven platform to streamline the content marketing lifecycle. We led the 500k pre-seed round and are delighted to join forces with Gentian Investments AG again after our successful joint investment into Alaya by Benevity 🙌. Press release: https://lnkd.in/e58jvnvg 🔙🦴 #5502

👏🏼 We are thrilled to announce that 1.5 years after our initial investment, World Fund is now leading a 3M round in Faircado. Joining this journey with us are world-class investors Accel, Northzone, Lightspeed, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), and General Catalyst. Congratulations to the Faircado team, and welcome aboard to all new partners. https://lnkd.in/ej7B8KMb

🦁 Yesterday's episode of Höhle der Löwen on @VOX was a powerful reminder of the significance of mental health. Witnessing Julia, Sophie and Maximilian from peers. tackling the topic stirred emotions among the lions and highlighted the pressing need to address mental well-being.