JC

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

    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

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