Building,Evolving,Scaling

Exceptional founders never stop evolving - and they scale faster by surrounding themselves with exceptional people.


At BACKED, we help you build faster—by backing you with the people, insight, and support that makes scaling possible.

We partner with founders to help them grow into who their company needs next—and connect them with people who raise the bar.

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Unicorns
03
Latest Investment
Feb
2025
Event Attendees In 2024
4800+
FOUNDER COMMUNITY
99+
NETWORK ACCESS
4K
STRATEGIC SUPPORT
Lifetime

The BACKED Edge

We host an awe-inspiring annual Founder Retreat

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BACKED FOUNDER EXPERIENCE

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Founder community
  • - Founder Retreat - our flagship annual gathering, designed to help founders step back, reconnect, and grow alongside fellow BACKED founders.
  • - Quarterly Gatherings - regular, informal gatherings of BACKED portfolio founders to share hard-won insights, celebrate milestones, and strengthen the ties across BACKED founder community
  • - Founder Exchange - ongoing peer-to-peer learning and knowledge exchange opportunities for BACKED founders
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Access to network
  • - Advisory Network – a trusted circle of seasoned operators, investors, and specialists available to help you navigate key decisions, pressure-test strategy, and avoid common pitfalls.
  • - Design Partner Programme – Early-stage collaboration with forward-thinking customers and peers to validate product direction, get rapid feedback, and de-risk go-to-market.
  • - CxO Network – A curated pool of experienced executives open to fractional, full-time, or advisory roles—ready to help you scale your leadership bench.
  • - Domain Experts – High-calibre specialists across hiring, GTM, regulatory, finance, and more.
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Founder Portal

A scalable, self-serve platform designed for BACKED founders. It provides direct access to key parts of the BACKED network, curated discounts on essential tools, and a vetted list of high-quality service providers to help you move faster.

  • - Curated Service Providers & Partners: a trusted network of legal, financial, marketing, design and technical experts
  • - Marketplace: access discounts and credits for cloud providers and back office resources
  • - Salary Benchmarking: salary data and compensation insights
  • - Co-Working Space: Use our central London office as your workspace or meeting hub whenever you need it.
  • - Hive: access to network of BACKED founders
  • - Next: knowledge base (board meetings, performance management, operating model)
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Long-term strategic support

Lifelong support, from seed to Series A and beyond

  • - Hands-On Support: our team works directly with you on your most pressing challenges, from go-to-market strategy to hiring and scaling.
  • - Leadership Development:
  • - Series A Fundraising guidance: Expert support to help you navigate every stage of your fundraising journey.
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BACKED FOUNDER EXPERIENCE

FOUNDER COMMUNITY
01/04
Access to Network
02/04
Founder Portal
03/04
Long-term Strategic support
04/04

We focus on building Founder edge in 4 areas

Meet the portfolio

FOUNDER COMMUNITY

Founder Retreat

Our flagship annual gathering, designed to help founders step back, reconnect, and grow alongside fellow BACKED founders.

Read the 2025 Retreat strategy here
Quarterly Gatherings

Regular, informal gatherings of BACKED portfolio founders to share hard-won insights, celebrate milestones, and strengthen the ties across BACKED founder community.

Founder Exchange

Ongoing peer-to-peer learning and knowledge exchange opportunities for BACKED founders

ACCESS TO NETWORK

Advisory Network

A trusted circle of seasoned operators, investors, and specialists available to help you navigate key decisions, pressure-test strategy, and avoid common pitfalls.

Design Partner Programme

Early-stage collaboration with forward-thinking customers and peers to validate product direction, get rapid feedback, and de-risk go-to-market.

CxO Network

A curated pool of experienced executives open to fractional, full-time, or advisory roles—ready to help you scale your leadership bench.

Domain Experts

High-calibre specialists across hiring, GTM, regulatory, finance, and more.

Testimonial

Francis
Pedraza
Founder
Invisible Technologies

The only investments that really matter are the unpopular ones. That other investors don't want to fund, and the only times that "value add" really matters, are when the startup needs the help... [Backed] made a big contrarian bet on us and came through, over and above the call of duty,
with game-changing help when we needed it most.

FOUNDER PORTAL

A scalable, self-serve platform designed for BACKED founders.

It provides direct access to key parts of the BACKED network, curated discounts on essential tools, and a vetted list of high-quality service providers to help you move faster.

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Our
Ethos

We are your human centric seed fund. We’re determined to do European venture differently.

We invest at seed with average ticket size €500K - €2.5M

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"BACKED are my people. They think like one of us - entrepreneurs"

Emma Sinclair MBE, Founder of Enterprise Alumni

We build relationships based on our foundational values to Plant the flag, Put People First, Seek the truth and Keep our word

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