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Backtrace Capital
Munich, Germany
We are a pre‑seed/seed fund investing in foundational technology components that power modern infrastructure, focusing on software, developer tools, AI, and hardware startups. We seek ambitious founders building platform...
Portfolio
15+
Employees
5+
Founded
2024
AUM
≈ $33.0M
Investment focus
Stages
Pre-Seed → Seed
Industries
Software OnlyHardwareArtificial IntelligenceDeveloper Tools
Fund details
Funds
Backtrace Fund I
Vintage 2024 • $33.0M
Sources
Backtrace Capital
We are a pre‑seed/seed fund investing in foundational technology components that power modern infrastructure, focusing on software, developer tools, AI, and hardware startups. We seek ambitious founders building platforms, developer tooling, and infrastructure that enable other companies to scale.
Portfolio
15+
Employees
5+
Founded
2024
AUM
≈ $33.0M
Funds
Backtrace Fund I · Vintage 2024 • $33.0M
Stages
Pre-Seed → Seed
Industries
Software OnlyHardwareArtificial IntelligenceDeveloper Tools
Sources
Showing 11 of 11 matched portfolio companies
Adjust provides a mobile measurement platform that aggregates install and in‑app event data from iOS and Android apps into a unified analytics layer. It uses deterministic and probabilistic attribution models to assign conversions to specific ad impressions, offering real‑time dashboards, cohort analysis, and fraud detection for performance‑marketing teams.
250+
50K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $227.0M
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Funding: $227.0M
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ArangoDB offers a graph‑native Contextual Data Platform that unifies graph, vector, document, key‑value, and search workloads in a single multimodel database, providing a persistent, queryable context layer for AI agents and applications. Built‑in tools such as AutoGraph and AutoRAG, along with enterprise features like high‑availability, RBAC, and elastic scaling, accelerate the creation of reliable, explainable AI pipelines and reduce time‑to‑production.
Funding: $27.8M
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Funding: $27.8M
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Commutator Studios provides an automated service that evaluates quantum circuits—submitted in any major quantum programming language—and selects optimal execution parameters across multiple quantum backends.
Funding: $1.7M
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Funding: $1.7M
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The startup offers an open-source platform that automates the provisioning of ready-to-code development environments, enabling developers to set up prebuilt workspaces with minimal configuration. By providing tools for language engineering, modeling, and code reviews, the platform eliminates the complexities of managing different environments, allowing developers to focus on coding efficiently.
50+
5K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $41.0M
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Funding: $41.0M
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Instana provides an enterprise observability platform that utilizes AI-driven automated monitoring to deliver real-time insights across cloud-native microservices and infrastructure. The platform minimizes downtime by enabling rapid identification and remediation of application performance issues, enhancing operational efficiency for DevOps teams.
Kerys Software provides YS::Desktop, a local workstation‑virtualization platform that runs multiple isolated domains on a single hardware unit. It enforces per‑environment device control, network segmentation, and clipboard isolation while delivering near‑native CPU/GPU performance and offline operation, and integrates with existing VPN, SSO, and MFA solutions. Centralized fleet‑management tools enable remote provisioning, patching, and compliance reporting for enterprise security teams.
Funding: $7.3M
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Funding: $7.3M
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Qovery is a DevOps automation platform that enables developers to provision and manage secure cloud infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes in hours, eliminating the need for extensive DevOps hiring. By automating environment setup and integrating with existing tools, Qovery enhances developer efficiency and reduces cloud costs by up to 57%.
Funding: $17.0M
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Funding: $17.0M
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Seqera provides a unified bioinformatics platform that integrates data, pipelines, and compute infrastructure for scientific teams. It enables the building and scaling of reproducible workflows across on-premises systems and major cloud providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure. The platform facilitates high-throughput computation and secure collaboration, accelerating research from discovery to development.
Funding: $27.6M
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Funding: $27.6M
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SOC.OS provides a security alert investigation and triage tool that enhances threat detection and response through continuous monitoring and expert-led analysis. This platform enables organizations to efficiently manage security incidents, reducing the risks and costs associated with data breaches.
Funding: $2.5M
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Funding: $2.5M
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Taktile provides an Agentic Decision Platform that combines AI automation, business rules, and human judgment into configurable decision workflows for financial institutions. The platform offers pre‑built, domain‑specific AI agents with traceable reasoning, guardrails, and real‑time analytics to accelerate onboarding, fraud detection, and compliance while maintaining full auditability.
Funding: $54.0M
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Funding: $54.0M
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The startup provides an operating system specifically designed for edge computing environments, enabling efficient data processing and management at the network's edge. This technology addresses the challenges of latency and bandwidth limitations by facilitating real-time analytics and decision-making for IoT devices and applications.
Funding: $150.0K
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Funding: $150.0K
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