Backed VC
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Backed VC is a European seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in frontier technology companies. It leads early investments with ticket sizes ranging from $500K to $5M.
Backed VC is a venture capital firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in frontier Technology, blockchain, fintech and healthtech. Its stated cheque size is $500K - $5M. $100M under management and 100 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We are your human centric seed fund. We’re determined to do European venture differently.”
— Backed VC, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Invests in
- Europe, UK, USA, Africa, Asia, Australia, LATAM
- Sectors
- Frontier Technology, Blockchain, Fintech, Healthtech, Manufacturing, Other
- Cheque size
- $500K - $5M
- Assets under management
- $100M
- Portfolio
- 100 companies
Team, as Backed VC publishes it
- Andre de Haes Co-Founder and General Partner
- Alex Brunicki Co-Founder and General Partner
- Clare Hunter Head of Brand, Communications and Marketing
- Tom Hopkins Chief Operating Officer
- Dominic Barnard Finance Director
- Lucia Cerchlan Head of Portfolio & product
- Adena Wallingford EA to Founders
- Yasmin Siraj Investment Manager
- David Linsey Investment Manager
- Vinay Chaudhri Head of Special Projects
- Olivia Moss Finance Manager
- Sasha Dickinson Marketing Associate
Names and roles exactly as listed on backed.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 125 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Seedcamp 6 shared companies: flowengineering.com, thosebeyond.io, getjelly.co.uk, peony.ink…
- Air Street Capital 5 shared companies: flowengineering.com, thoughtmachine.net, optimal.ag, labgeni.us…
- Crane Venture Partners 5 shared companies: harbrdata.com, olix.com, comind.io, foundries.io…
- BY Venture Partners 5 shared companies: enterprisealumni.com, infinityconstellation.com, cosyne.com, eatcala.com…
- BlueYard Capital 4 shared companies: aerska.com, dxos.org, cytosolix.com, sensible.bio
- Manta Ray 3 shared companies: this.co, eatcala.com, phytoformlabs.com
- Entrepreneurs First 2 shared companies: ochre-bio.com, cloudnc.com
- Cambridge Angels 2 shared companies: thoughtmachine.net, zerogravity.co.uk
- Endeit Capital 2 shared companies: fundrbird.com, generalintuition.com
- Alliance Venture 2 shared companies: generalintuition.com, medal.tv
and 115 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Backed VC publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.backed.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, aum, status
- https://www.backed.vc/portfolioinvests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, portfolio_count
- https://www.backed.vc/teampeople
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Record 449 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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