BACKED is a European seed venture fund that backs early-stage frontier-technology companies with first-check investments ranging from $500,000 to $5 million. BACKED's Twitter Score is 18 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #55,423 among 485,821 tracked accounts.
BACKED was co-founded by Andre de Haes and Alex Brunicki, both serving as General Partners. The fund focuses on AI-native therapeutics, blockchain and banking infrastructure, and manufacturing automation. Its earlier strategy encompassed crypto, Web3 gaming, and decentralized finance, with portfolio companies including Sky Mavis, the studio behind Axie Infinity, as well as Immutable, BCB Group, Onramper, and Reya, among others.
BACKED's third fund, Backed 3, closed at its $100 million cap in November 2025, with close to half of commitments coming from ten institutional funds of funds and more than fifty family offices and entrepreneurs also participating as investors. The firm also reached a milestone of one hundred pre-seed and seed investments that same month. Its second fund and Encore I were launched in 2022, raising €150 million to support European founders. Backers of the firm include Isomer Capital and Wunderland Capital.
BACKED's fund portfolio includes Axie Infinity, BlackPool Finance, Molecule, Reya, Ultimate Wallet, Those Beyond, BOILER ROOM and BCB Group.
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The accounts that follow BACKED include 90 founders, 39 angel investors, 16 influencers and 28 VCs. Among them are Kyle Samani, Matthew Graham, VCs Congratulating Themselves, Andrew Steinwold, Gabby Dizon and Mark W. Yusko - Two Point One Quadrillion. BACKED has been mentioned by 59 accounts, with 127 total mentions. BACKED has published 1,198 posts on the platform since joining in 2015.