Andre de Haes

Founder & CEO at BACKED

Speaker

Andre de Haes is the founder and managing partner at BACKED VC. Andre co-founded BACKED in 2015 alongside Alex Brunicki to invest in exceptional early stage founders in European frontier tech.

Andre has built a fund centred around a human centric ethos, building communities through their differentiated event strategy, striving to create the preeminent community of next generation defining entrepreneurs in Europe.

Andre has raised over €240m across 3 funds and overseen 90+ seed, SPV and growth investments. He focuses on investing in Fintech, Biotech, Blockchain and Advanced Manufacturing. He is a board director on 17 portfolio companies including Thought Machine (valuation +$1Bn), Invisible Technologies, THIS and Birdbuddy.

Prior to establishing BACKED, Andre was an investor at VC firms Andreessen Horowitz in Silicon Valley and Index Ventures in London, before that working at Goldman Sachs and McKinsey where he was part of the Entrepreneur First ideation team.