Jan Claudio Munoz
Partner at BackBone Ventures
Frankfurt, Hesse
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2020 - Current
Currently we invest out of our 5502 Fund, which focuses on backing underrepresented founders in Germany & Switzerland at the earliest stages of their entrepreneurial journey. We are generalists and happy to take the lead in your financing round.
Venture Partner
2020
Alter Equity is France's oldest impact VC. We invest out of our 2nd fund EUR3-10m into revenue-generating, impact-driven ventures. I manage our investments in Germany.
Board Member
2021
Board Member
2022
Board Member
2023
Board Member
2022
Board Member
2022 - 2024
Board Member
2019 - 2020
Partner
2018 - 2020
Investment advisory firm with focus on Europe and Middle East: - Advised a middle eastern sovereign wealth fund on early stage investments in the region. - Advised a multi-national corporate on the set up of its corporate venture capital fund. - Structured an early stage venture capital fund, raised 8-digit funding and executed two investments.
Head of Media for Equity
2017 - 2018
* Incorporated and structured Axel Springer Media for Equity GmbH and acted as its first managing director * Sourced and managed investments in: - Clark (Insurtech) - Fineway (Travel AI) - nextmarkets (Trading Platform) - DIPAT (Health-tech) - Kapilendo (Crowdfunding) * Managed portfolio of >10 startup investments
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
2012 - 2013
Dr. jur.
2009 - 2013
1. Staatsexamen
2003 - 2009