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Backwards Capital
New York, United States
Backwards Capital is an early‑stage venture capital fund that partners with outlier founders before they become obvious. It focuses on investing in technology‑driven and consumer‑focused companies across sectors such as...
Portfolio
54+
Employees
<3
Founded
2025
AUM
N/A
Investment focus
Stages
Pre-Seed → Series A
Industries
No industries listedGeographic scope
North America
Fund details
Funds
Backwards Capital Fund I
Vintage 2024
Sources
Backwards Capital
Backwards Capital is an early‑stage venture capital fund that partners with outlier founders before they become obvious. It focuses on investing in technology‑driven and consumer‑focused companies across sectors such as software, media, and entertainment. The firm leverages its network to provide strategic introductions and hands‑on support.
Portfolio
54+
Employees
<3
Founded
2025
AUM
N/A
Funds
Backwards Capital Fund I · Vintage 2024
Stages
Pre-Seed → Series A
Industries
No industries listedGeographic scope
North America
Sources
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Agentio is an automated advertising platform that connects brands with a network of premium creators, utilizing advanced matching technology to ensure optimal alignment between brand messages and creator content. This platform addresses the inefficiencies in traditional ad buying by providing real-time analytics and significantly improving return on ad spend, achieving 4x-10x better results compared to conventional digital video channels.
Alongside provides AI agents that continuously monitor blockchain activity across multiple chains and protocols for crypto operations. These agents automate threat detection, compliance screening against sanctions lists, and opportunity surfacing for DeFi users. Alerts are delivered directly to established communication channels like Slack or Telegram, enabling proactive risk management and alpha discovery.
Funding: $20.0M
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Funding: $20.0M
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Alt is a financial services platform that facilitates the investment in alternative assets by providing a marketplace for trading collectibles and sports memorabilia. This approach enables investors to unlock liquidity and value from traditionally illiquid asset classes, addressing the challenge of accessing and monetizing these investments.
Aviato provides a deep and accurate intelligence layer featuring extensive people and company datasets. Their real-time API delivers over 90 people datapoints and 240 company datapoints, including headcount, web traffic, and tech stack information. This data integrates seamlessly with existing CRMs and tools to support data-driven decision-making.
Funding: $4.6M
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Funding: $4.6M
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Babylon Biosciences is developing small-molecule therapeutics targeting the underlying mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease to improve cognitive function and prolong quality time for families affected by the condition. Their research focuses on identifying and optimizing compounds that can effectively modulate neurodegenerative pathways associated with Alzheimer's.
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Bazar is an e-commerce platform that connects consumers with overstock and returned inventory from various brands, facilitating sustainable shopping by extending the lifecycle of garments. By offering significant discounts on quality products, Bazar helps reduce waste and prevent clothing from ending up in landfills, contributing to environmental conservation.
Cloverly provides a digital platform that connects carbon credit suppliers with buyers, utilizing commerce software to streamline the procurement process and enhance market access. The company addresses the inefficiencies in the carbon credit market, enabling businesses to achieve their climate goals through transparent and reliable carbon credit transactions.
Funding: $23.1M
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Grotech Ventures
Grotech Ventures
Funding: $23.1M
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Conduit provides an AI‑powered CoPilot platform that integrates a wholesale distributor’s ERP, WMS, OMS, CRM, price books and communication channels to deliver real‑time context within the tools reps already use, such as Gmail, Outlook or SMS. The system automatically drafts personalized outreach for promotions, restocks and reorder windows, classifies inbound messages into actionable categories, and routes communications to the appropriate sales rep, allowing teams to handle routine inquiries faster and focus on high‑value selling.
dub provides a copy trading platform allowing users to automatically mirror the investment trades of selected external creators. Users open a brokerage account to link their capital with chosen portfolios for automated trade execution. This service connects retail investors with established trading strategies through a regulated financial framework.
Funding: $24.0M
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Funding: $24.0M
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Editframe is a developer platform that enables the rapid creation and delivery of personalized video content through simple libraries and APIs, eliminating the need for complex client-side dependencies and rendering processes. By streamlining video integration, it allows developers to enhance user-generated content and automate workflows without the overhead of traditional video hosting and storage solutions.
Funding: $2.7M
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Funding: $2.7M
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Hanover Park provides an AI-native platform unifying fund administration, portfolio intelligence, and the limited partner experience for investment firms. The system automates tasks like cash reconciliation and KPI collection, enabling same-day capital activity. This unified operating system allows fund CFOs to focus on proactive financial strategy rather than manual data management.
Provides a branded metal credit card for employees that integrates expense management, stipends, and perks into a single platform. This solution reduces corporate spending, streamlines expense reporting with instant reimbursements, and consolidates multiple vendor tools, saving time and costs for businesses.
Funding: $4.5M
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Funding: $4.5M
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The startup has developed a media community network platform that utilizes a proprietary algorithm to analyze cross-platform data and generate daily rankings of emerging musical artists. This platform enables artists to access a media ecosystem for discovering, connecting, and transacting with opportunities essential for their growth and success.
Funding: $1.2M
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Funding: $1.2M
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Intelas provides software that collects and standardizes property-level financial data for real estate asset managers and accountants, significantly reducing the time spent on data aggregation and reporting. By automating workflow processes, Intelas enables users to achieve faster insights and a 50% reduction in overhead costs.
Funding: $11.4M
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Funding: $11.4M
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Internet Game is a social gaming platform designed for remote teams to enhance company culture through interactive gaming experiences. It addresses the challenges of team isolation and engagement by providing a cost-effective solution that fosters socialization and collaboration without the complexities of traditional virtual team-building methods.
Funding: $7.8M
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Funding: $7.8M
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The startup operates an online marketplace that connects luxury goods factories directly to consumers, enabling suppliers to sell unlabeled or private label products at higher profit margins. This platform provides real-time performance data, allowing customers to purchase luxury items at reduced costs compared to traditional retail channels.
Funding: $39.9M
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Funding: $39.9M
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Koodos Labs develops Shelf, a platform for users to collect, control, and connect their personal context data in one centralized location. This infrastructure allows applications and AI agents to access personalized, real-time understanding of the user to perform actions on their behalf. The offering empowers users with data agency while providing developers with the necessary context layer for building agentic products.
Nema provides AI agents designed to accelerate the engineering design process for autonomous machines. These agents streamline the development lifecycle, enabling faster product iteration and deployment. The platform helps robotic systems architects manage complex design challenges efficiently.
Nucleus offers whole-genome sequencing that analyzes 100% of an individual's DNA, providing insights into genetic risks for over 800 health conditions, including cancers and heart disease. This technology enables users to understand their unique genetic predispositions and make informed lifestyle choices to enhance their health outcomes.
Funding: $17.5M
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Seven Seven Six
Seven Seven Six
Funding: $17.5M
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The startup manufactures a low-cost, thermally and optically smart diamond-like carbon coating that can be applied to polymers and transparent media. This technology enables window and windshield manufacturers to create energy control products that effectively reduce heat and light transmission, thereby lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
Funding: $5.9M
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Funding: $5.9M
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Omen provides an AI‑powered forecasting platform that automates feature engineering, model training, and deployment for enterprise data warehouses and streaming sources. It delivers real‑time probabilistic forecasts with explainable AI insights and continuous model monitoring to maintain accuracy across finance, supply‑chain, manufacturing, and energy use cases.
Order.co is a B2B marketplace that automates the procurement process by consolidating purchasing, payment, and vendor management into a single platform. This solution enhances spend visibility and control, reduces unapproved expenditures, and streamlines invoice management, ultimately saving businesses time and money.
Funding: $30.0M
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Ankona Capital PartnersStage 2 Capital
Ankona Capital PartnersStage 2 Capital
Funding: $30.0M
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Otis provides a fully online veterinary service for cats and dogs, allowing owners to submit symptoms via a short intake form and receive same‑day video consultations with licensed vets. The platform prescribes and ships prescription‑grade preventive medications with free shipping and automatic refill reminders, eliminating the need for in‑person visits.
Pipe is a global trading platform that enables businesses to access working capital through embedded finance solutions, allowing for seamless integration of financial tools within existing software. This approach addresses the challenge of limited access to capital for businesses by providing a frictionless experience for managing recurring revenue streams.
Funding: $323.1M
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Victory Park Capital
Victory Park Capital
Funding: $323.1M
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