Backbone Ventures
backbone.vc Direct + LP
Backbone Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Zurich and Frankfurt. It invests in pre-seed and seed rounds, focusing on underrepresented founders in Germany and Switzerland, with a generalist industry approach.
Backbone Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, founded in 2018. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from pre-seed to seed, in generalist, B2B and B2C. Its stated cheque size is Our typical round is below EUR 1m and we are happy to lead the round with an investment around EUR 300k-400k.. EUR 20m pre-seed fund under management and 26 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We want to invest in the best founders. We look for certain character traits and abilities and believe, we'll find them overproportionally in underrepresented founders.”
— Backbone Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Invests in
- Germany, Switzerland, Europe
- Sectors
- generalist, B2B, B2C
- Cheque size
- Our typical round is below EUR 1m and we are happy to lead the round with an investment around EUR 300k-400k.
- Founded
- 2018
- Assets under management
- EUR 20m pre-seed fund
- Portfolio
- 26 companies
Team, as Backbone Ventures publishes it
- Philippe Bernet Partner
- Miklos Stanek Partner
- Dr. Jan Claudio Muñoz Partner
- Louis-Paul Zuppinger Partner
- Mark Hoffmann Board of Directors
- Dr. Heinrich Baumann Board of Directors
- Josef Ming Board of Directors
- Joel Roos Venture Partner
- Marcel Kubli Venture Partner
- Yannick Ritschel Venture Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on backbone.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Backbone Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.backbone.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, description, founded, aum, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.backbone.vc/focusinvests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://www.backbone.vc/teampeople
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Record 6091 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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