Today we launch BACKED 3 - $100M seed fund to back generational frontier tech founders - right alongside our 100th investment. Read the full announcement here: sifted.eu/articles/backed-vc…

Film makers, investors, founders and artists sipped chai over conversations ranging from how to create a cap table, to making your first angel bet. For the 7th edition of the Female Angel Investors Power Breakfast hosted alongside @Lumus_invest . This time partnered with Anouska d'Abo and the @sxswlndn team to bring together an extraordinary mix of perspectives from across industries. The conversation went far beyond the mechanics of angel investing. Around the table were voices from the arts and media, biotech, venture capital, entrepreneurship, and community building - all exploring how we can unlock more capital, more opportunities, and better outcomes for female founders. What made this breakfast special was the collision of worlds. Venture investors exchanged ideas with operators, creators, and strategists. Different industries, different experiences, but a shared belief that diverse founders deserve more backing. Most importantly, these breakfasts continue to be about more than conversation. They're about building a community that takes action - one that actively puts more money, expertise, and support behind women building the future. We encouraged the guests to take away a challenge. NB: For this SXSW edition we opened our doors to male allies. For the September edition, we'll be dialling up the focus for experienced angels so if that's you, or you'd like to recommend a wise investor, DM us for a seat at our Power Breakfast table. We partner with LUMUS Investment Collective who are Europe's largest community of female angel investors. They aim to bring more women onto the cap tables of startups via education, community and syndication, and have a lot of fun doing it. This is why they are a perfect partner for us, with our mission to back Europe’s frontier founders.

BACKED x @twifintech present: Fintech Fight Night 🥊 Tuesday 23rd June. London. We are replacing the traditional corporate snooze-fest with a glorious anti-panel. We are putting three highly contested topics on the table and throwing six industry fighters into the mix who absolutely refuse to play it safe. Stepping into the ring: @PaulTaylorCEO — Founder & CEO, @thoughtmachine EdwardBarrow — Founder & CEO, Cloud Capital @kmgrose — Senior Country Director, @coinbase More fighters to be announced. 🛎️Ding ding. The bell's rung. Register your interest here: gatsby.events/backed-vc/rsvp…

BACKED and @Lumus_invest are back. And this time, @sxswlndn are joining the table. Thursday 4th June, Dishoom Shoreditch, 8:30–10:30am. A curated morning for women actively investing at early stage. Peer conversation, Chatham House Rules, no performance. Seats are limited. Request to join here: dub.sh/iHscwbI

We back founders building the future of healthcare. 🧬 Companies working at the frontier: fixing brain disease, engineering cell-based mRNA, discovering new medicines through AI and fungi. Real breakthroughs. Near-term impact. The people building these companies are hiring. Here's who's looking 👇 Aerska Using RNA medicines to treat, delay, and prevent brain disorders. talent.backed.vc/companies/a… @CoMind_ Building non-invasive brain-computer interfaces that connect the neocortex with AI — no surgery required. talent.backed.vc/companies/c… @Molecule_sci The infrastructure layer for Decentralised Science - making biotech research community-owned and open. molecule.to/careers?ashby_ji… @OchreBio Developing genomic medicines to rejuvenate donor livers before transplant. Based in Oxford, 15 years in liver genomics. talent.backed.vc/companies/o… See all open roles → talent.backed.vc/jobs #HiringMonday #FutureOfHealthcare

We invest in the Future of Finance - and right now, it's hiring. 🏦 You may have seen one of our recent investments (shoutout Round Treasury 👀). 3 portfolio companies are hiring right now. All building in and around financial infrastructure: 🧠 @thoughtmachine Cloud-native core banking tech designed to replace the legacy systems quietly breaking everyone's experience. Their platform, Vault, lets banks actually move at pace. → talent.backed.vc/companies/t… 💳 @BCBcrypto Banking and payments infrastructure built for the crypto industry. Accounts, FX, transaction processing - the institutional plumbing that makes digital assets work at scale. → talent.backed.vc/companies/b… 🪙 @GetOnramper Fiat-to-crypto, simplified. They aggregate payment methods, currencies, and providers so users can actually get in without the friction. → talent.backed.vc/companies/o… Finance not your thing? The rest of the board is worth a scroll. → talent.backed.vc/jobs

Creatives, this is your sign ✨ We’ve got some seriously fun creative roles live across the BACKED portfolio right now. Whether you’re a storyteller, brand builder, or even vibe specialist, there’s something here for you 👇 🪐 Head of Marketing – Supernal at @_InfinityConst Infinity builds and scales a portfolio of AI-native companies designed to redefine entire industries - Supernal is one of its newest ventures, built for ambitious growth from day one. talent.backed.vc/companies/i… 💡 Founding Product Marketer at @tryhighlight Highlight is rethinking how teams understand and act on user feedback - turning real customer insight into better products, faster. talent.backed.vc/companies/h… ⚙️ Technical Writer at @thoughtmachine Thought Machine is building cutting-edge AI systems that help enterprises deploy and scale intelligent solutions across complex workflows. talent.backed.vc/companies/t… 🏝️ Senior Product Marketing Manager at @amenitiz Amenitiz provides all-in-one software that helps hotels and rentals manage operations, grow bookings, and deliver better guest experiences. talent.backed.vc/companies/a… ✈️ Content Marketer at Borderless Borderless makes global hiring seamless - helping companies find, hire, and manage talent anywhere in the world without the usual friction. talent.backed.vc/companies/b… 🕹️ Vibe & Experience Specialist at @Immutable Immutable is building the infrastructure for web3 gaming - powering the next generation of digital ownership and player-driven economies. talent.backed.vc/companies/i… So stop doodling. (Unless it’s in Figma, then carry on.) 👉 Apply here: talent.backed.vc/jobs

COMPANY FINANCE FUNCTIONS ARE OPERATIONALLY HEAVY. ROUND TREASURY RAISED $6M TO AUTOMATE THEM. Congratulations to @POS_js and @hayyaan, founders of Round Treasury, on raising $6M in a seed round. We’re excited to be a part of the journey. Round is building an automated finance function for high-growth companies - starting with treasury, and moving toward fully-automating payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, expenses and FX. Round manages payment approvals, funds payment runs and payroll, and reconciles books to invoices - removing 75% of the manual work that absorbs finance teams’ time. In less than a year, Round has already processed over $500m in transactions! Pac brings incredible execution speed and commercial leadership; Hayyaan, previously a senior engineer at Amazon, brings the experience to build autonomous systems and scale an engineering platform. The ambition is simple: finance functions should run themselves (their operations should be automated), so the humans can focus on making decisions rather than moving the money around. Round, we are going to help you scale and get you in front of CFOs. We have got your back 🏴

Our first LONDON BIO in the Bay Area brought together 70 founders, scientists, operators, and investors building at the frontier of therapeutics - and the energy in the room said it all. It wasn’t just optimism. There was a real sense that how we build in biology is shifting - with new computational approaches, evolving drug modalities, and AI starting to change how discovery actually happens. Huge thank you to our speakers @nanli, @SGRodriques, and @LakshAithani - and to our partners @SiliconVlyBank, @CooleyLLP, and @awscloud. Take a glimpse of the evening 👇 See you back in London soon 🇬🇧

We started Q1 2026 at full speed. A few moments we loved being part of: Founders doing their thing: 🏴$60M for Aerska (RNA treatments for brain disease) 🏴$220M for @OLIXComputing (photonic AI chips) 🏴$40M for @tryhighlight (your desktop’s shared intelligence layer) 🏴£2M for Keith (a new kind of AI law firm) 🏴£56M for Vuelo (Book Now, Pay Later for travel) And 250 people through our doors: 🪩AI VC Hackathon (20 funds at BACKED HQ) 🪩Founder Exchange Drinks with @edsteele_ 🪩Female Angel Investor Power Breakfast (International Women's Day edition) 🪩BACKED AGM with 100 LPs friends 🪩LONDON BIO in San Francisco 🪩BACKED x @StrandVentures hackathon Much more to come. See you BACKERS in Q2 👋

Huge congratulations to co-founder @PimDeWitte and the whole Highlight team on their $40M Series A led by @khoslaventures. More than a desktop assistant, @tryhighlight turns ephemeral knowledge into collective intelligence. Replacing manual prompting with autonomous action, always-on presence throughout your workflows, shared team memory and scaled collective intelligence. Originally spun out of @gen_intuition - a frontier world model company and the creator of @Medal_TV, the largest games recording platform globally used by millions of gamers worldwide. But they’ve just levelled up. Welcome to the team, @sergeisorokin, as Highlight’s new CEO. Sergei helped scale Discord from the early days to 150M users, building the product org and monetisation engine along the way, with previous experience at Yahoo and Facebook. Bold thinking. Built by operators who’ve done it before 🏴

San Francisco, you did not disappoint! For our first ever BAY BIO, we brought the 11th edition of LONDONBIO across the Atlantic for an evening with people building the future of biology. A huge thank you to @SGRodriques, @LakshAithani, and @nanli for your candid conversations. There was a clear thread throughout the evening: biology isn’t just accelerating - it’s being fundamentally reshaped. With new tools, new company models, and a new generation of founders rethinking the fundamentals. We got into what it really means to build AI-native biotech companies, where today’s models still fall short, and what it actually takes to turn them into real drugs. With a very exciting real-world example… watch this space 👀 A huge thank you to our partners @SiliconVlyBank, @CooleyLLP, and @awscloud for backing the vision and making this happen. And of course, to everyone who joined — you’re the reason we do this 🙏 But for now… London is calling 🇬🇧 See you all for our next event, back at the home of LONDON BIO. #LONDONBIO #Biotech #AIBio #SanFrancisco @yasminsiraj_usa @Jack_O_Meara