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Covers fundraising and investing. Sees founders like pro athletes — relentless and hungry to grow. Building a new kind of venture culture grounded in trust, craft, and ambition.

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Half philosopher, half venture athlete. Fully BACKED.

⁠Leads the investment team and post-investment support. Founder-centric approach to investing: believes early-stage venture is a human-capital game defined by the patient search for authentic, generational entrepreneurs and the decisiveness to invest with utter conviction. Believes good ideas are rare and exceptional founders even more so. Inspired by polymathic technical founders with a unique secret about their market.

Leads marketing across brand, digital, PR, and events. Keeps BACKED’s storytelling bold and human while helping founders amplify their voices.

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Powered by cups of English Breakfast tea and bold brand ideas.

Leads operations, fundraising, and investor relations — scaling BACKED as fast and smart as the founders we back. Over 15 years in venture and still buzzing about Europe’s founders.

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Runs on spreadsheets and strong espresso.

Runs finance and reporting, liaising with auditors, LPs, and partners. Previously at JPMorgan, Brown-Forman, and IG Group. Combines rigour with purpose to help founders grow.

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Half spreadsheets, half sleep deprivation. 100% BACKED.

Champions founders building transformative frontier-tech companies. Brings a decade in startups and co-founded LUMUS, Europe’s largest female angel syndicate.

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Game, set, match — on and off the court.

Keeps BACKED HQ running and thriving. From founder care to office culture (with help from Teddy the dachshund), ensures our space buzzes with energy and intent.

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Ask me who’s harder to manage: founders or my toddler.

Leads biotech investing - backing founders transforming healthcare through data and discovery. With roots at Harvard, Cambridge, and RA Capital, she thrives where science meets scale.

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Former figure skater, now skating through biotech deals.

Focuses on fintech and the future of finance. Previously co-founded JiPay, learning firsthand what it takes to build from zero to one.

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Usually found between a term sheet and a trattoria in Italy.

I'm part time working on special projects from our Slush takeover to the frontier-tech summit VISIONQUEST.

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Keep an eye out — there’s always something new up my sleeve.

Turning spreadsheets into stories and ensuring the money and the message add up. After eight years at VISTRA managing VC and PE funds, Liv joined BACKED to scale finance and investor ops from the inside.

From Jersey to London, she’s traded island life for the city — and after watching BACKED grow for eight years, she knows we’re only just getting started.

Drives marketing, content, and events - telling the stories that connect founders, investors, and ideas across Europe. Believes venture should always be human-first.

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Once a biologist, now cultivating communities instead of cultures.

Biotechnology specialist with a career spanning academia, startups and VC. Obsessed with the intersection of molecular biology and data science — generating the right biological datasets, extracting real insight, and building companies that turn those insights into impact.

Ask me how biology and data will rewrite the next decade.