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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/backe…

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. #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/aers… @CoMind_ Building non-invasive brain-computer interfaces that connect the neocortex with AI — no surgery required. #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/comi… @Molecule_sci The infrastructure layer for Decentralised Science - making biotech research community-owned and open. molecule.to/careers?ashby_… @OchreBio Developing genomic medicines to rejuvenate donor livers before transplant. Based in Oxford, 15+ years in liver genomics. #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/ochr… 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. → #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/thou… 💳 @BCBcrypto Banking and payments infrastructure built for the crypto industry. Accounts, FX, transaction processing - the institutional plumbing that makes digital assets work at scale. → #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/bcb-… 🪙 @GetOnramper Fiat-to-crypto, simplified. They aggregate payment methods, currencies, and providers so users can actually get in without the friction. → #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/onra… 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. #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/infi… 💡 Founding Product Marketer at @tryhighlight Highlight is rethinking how teams understand and act on user feedback - turning real customer insight into better products, faster. #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/high… ⚙️ Technical Writer at @thoughtmachine Thought Machine is building cutting-edge AI systems that help enterprises deploy and scale intelligent solutions across complex workflows. #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/thou… 🏝️ 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. #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/amen… ✈️ Content Marketer at Borderless Borderless makes global hiring seamless - helping companies find, hire, and manage talent anywhere in the world without the usual friction. #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/bord… 🕹️ Vibe & Experience Specialist at @Immutable Immutable is building the infrastructure for web3 gaming - powering the next generation of digital ownership and player-driven economies. #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/immu… 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

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If you haven’t heard (we’ve only mentioned it a few times…), the LONDONBIO community are heading to San Francisco for our first ever BAY BIO 🇺🇸🧬 It’s a big moment for AI x Bio — AI isn’t just supporting research anymore; it’s reshaping how we understand biology from the ground up. If you’re a scientist (or ML engineer) ready to be part of that shift and community, here are some standout roles from the BACKED portfolio shaping the future of Biotech x AI 👇 🧪Research Associate at @OchreBio Ochre Bio is building RNA therapies to treat chronic liver disease — combining cutting-edge wet lab science with computational biology to uncover novel targets. 🔗 #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/ochr… 🧬Research Scientist/ Senior Research Scientist - CRISPR R&D at @PhytoformLabs Phytoform is applying AI to CRISPR-based gene editing in crops — accelerating the development of climate-resilient, sustainable agriculture. 🔗 #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/phyt… 🦠Scientist, Phage Display, Antibody Discovery at @labgeni_us LabGenius is using machine learning to design next-generation antibodies — integrating automation, computation and experimental biology in one tight feedback loop. 🔗#content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/labg… 🧑‍🔬Bioprocess Specialist at @hoxtonfarms Hoxton Farms is building cultivated fat to transform the future of food — scaling cell culture and bioprocessing to make sustainable alternatives viable at commercial level. 🔗#content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/hoxt… 🤖Senior Machine Learning Engineer at @CoMind_ CoMind is developing next-generation brain-computer interface technology — pairing neuroscience with advanced ML to decode human brain activity in real time. 🔗#content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/comi… 👉 If you want to join BAY BIO, register your interest using the link in the comments. And as always, explore these roles, and more, on the BACKED Jobs Board: talent.backed.vc/jobs #HiringMonday

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1 month to go until #LONDONBIO lands in San Francisco 🇺🇸🧬 On Tuesday March 17, we’re bringing our 11th edition to the Bay Area for a special US gathering of founders, investors & scientists at the frontier of AI + biology. Joining us: 💫 @LakshAithani (Viscerality) – building a first-in-class biologic for obesity; previously founded CHARM Therapeutics, pioneering AI-driven drug discovery. 💫 @SGRodriques (@EdisonSci & @FutureHouseSF) – building an AI Scientist (Kosmos) to automate discovery. 💫 @nanli (@_DimensionCap) – backing generational tech & life sciences companies from seed to public markets. Invite-only. Chatham House rules. If you’re in SF and want to join, register your interest via the link in the comments 👇 Hosted with @AWSCloud, @CooleyLLP & @SVB_Financial See you in SF 🌉

Q1’s moving fast. Are you? 💸 This week we’re spotlighting finance-focused roles across the BACKED portfolio - from analytical operators to executive leadership. If you’re commercially sharp and excited by high-growth environments, take a look 👇 📊 Analytics Associate at @InvTechInc Invisible is building the AI operating system for enterprises, combining human expertise with advanced automation to support ambitious companies at scale. As an Analytics Associate, you’ll turn complex data into insights that inform real business decisions. #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/invi… 🦜 Chief Financial Officer at @mybirdbuddy Bird Buddy blends smart hardware, AI, and nature to connect millions of people with wildlife. They’re hiring a CFO to lead financial strategy and help scale a globally loved consumer tech brand. A true leadership seat at the table. #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/bird… 🧠 Accounts Assistant at @CoMind_ CoMind is building next-generation technology to better understand and interface with the human brain. As Accounts Assistant, you’ll help keep the financial engine behind deep tech innovation running smoothly. #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/comi… 📈 Financial Controller at @CoMind_ With broader ownership, the Financial Controller at CoMind will lead reporting, controls, and financial operations as the company scales at the frontier of brain-computer interface technology. #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/comi… 💳 Payment Operations Manager (Maternity Cover) at @BCBcrypto BCB Group provides regulated payment and trading services for the digital asset economy. This role sits at the heart of mission-critical payment flows in a fast-moving fintech environment. #content" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">talent.backed.vc/companies/bcb-… Explore these roles and more on the BACKED jobs board: talent.backed.vc/jobs #HiringMonday

AI isn't just changing what startups build. It's changing how they're run. Nobody has the playbook for building in this era. That's why we brought our founders into one room. Yesterday we hosted our latest edition of Founder Exchange at BACKED HQ, with @edsteele_ from @Jackandjillai, where we explored how AI is changing the way startups operate. The conversation covered how agentic systems are replacing traditional team structures, why building with AI requires a completely different mindset, and what happens when the technology moves faster than your ability to manage it. We run these sessions because we believe the most useful knowledge right now lives with the people building on the frontier. More soon. Same people. Same energy. Slightly better weather 🤞

We’re backing a future we want to be a part of. Congratulations to @Jack_O_Meara and the entirety of the Aerska team on closing their Series A less than a year after closing their seed round, bringing total funding since launch to $60m. The round is co-led by @eqt Dementia Fund and @age1vc. Aerska is tackling one of the most challenging problems in medicine: getting targeted therapies into the brain. Their advanced brain shuttle technology enables systemically delivered RNA medicines to cross the blood brain barrier to treat neurological disease at the source. At BACKED, we believe recent advances in Transferrin Receptor technology combined with highly optimised RNAi payloads offer some of the most compelling potential therapies for complex diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntingdon’s disease. Jack and team Aerska have moved exceptionally fast since seed. It is rare to see such momentum technically and commercially in the biotech space and we are delighted to be doubling down at the Series A and welcoming neuro specialists EQT Dementia Fund to the journey. At BACKED, we back people. And when we back a founder twice, it’s because they are truly exceptional. This is what the #FutureOfHealthcare looks like. And we’re proud to be in Aerska’s corner.

At BACKED, one of our core values is Plant the Flag - a reminder to be brave enough to take a stand, take risks, and break new ground. To show up and represent with pride and purpose. The companies we back are doing exactly that: planting the flag at new frontiers, building at the intersection of technical and engineering breakthroughs with real-world, near-term impact. This week’s roles are with companies pushing the boundaries of what’s possible across AI, biotech, hardware, and deep tech. If you want to help define the future of an ecosystem, take a look 👇 ⚙️ Mechanical Engineer – @Andium Build advanced technology to help the world’s leading energy companies meet Net-Zero and ESG goals through transformative innovation. lnkd.in/eFUXThww 🧠 Operations Associate – Aerska Develop breakthrough brain shuttle technology to deliver RNA medicines across the blood–brain barrier, targeting neurological diseases at the source. lnkd.in/eFR_sJah 👾 Head of AI – @Medal_TV Lead AI strategy behind one of the world’s largest gaming and creator platforms, spanning computer vision and data intelligence. lnkd.in/eJW4tyxN 🌱 Plant Genome Engineer – @PhytoformLabs Engineer plant genomes to create faster, more resilient crops for a changing climate. lnkd.in/e3ExvSE7 🌾 AI Simulation & Control Engineer – @OptimalAg Build AI agents to control the world’s most critical infrastructure - from factories, to data centres, and starting with high-tech greenhouses. lnkd.in/eR7th9fp Planting the flag isn’t about following a path - it’s about creating one. 👉 Explore these roles and more on the BACKED jobs board: talent.backed.vc

🍔 Hungry for a new role in the food space? Or a foodie who wants to build what’s next on the menu? Take a look at BACKED’s portfolio companies shaping the future of food with roles open right now 👇 🍬 Founding Engineer at Jelly Jelly is rethinking how food shows up at work, blending technology, logistics, and great eating experiences. Join early and help build the core product from the ground up. lnkd.in/ea6fZ2rT 🥓 Bioprocess Specialist at @hoxtonfarms Hoxton Farms is developing cultivated animal fat to make alternative proteins taste incredible. This role sits at the heart of scaling real-world biotech for food. lnkd.in/e9fU-kBh 🥗 Connections Development Representative at @getgarten Garten delivers healthy, beautifully designed food programs to modern offices. You’ll help grow partnerships and bring better food to teams everywhere. lnkd.in/ewNVSMeR 🍗 Open Application at @itsmeatable Meatable is pioneering cultivated meat to massively reduce the environmental impact of food. Not seeing the perfect role? Raise your hand anyway. lnkd.in/ej3g6R6C Food tech, biotech, marketplaces, and platforms - these roles show there’s more than one way to work in food. Explore these roles and more on the BACKED jobs board: talent.backed.vc

If AI is eating venture, we’d rather be in the kitchen than the audience🧑‍🍳 Let’s cook!