Alex Bäcker

abInventio, Wanderfitness, Top 10, PacMap, Drisit, QLess founder, 101 Clues to a Happy Life author, 40 under 40, Top 100 MIT Technology Alum, board director & chairman, angel investor, multi-TEDx speaker

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 21 investments📅 1 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2026
VC🌍 United States20+ investmentsInvested this quarter
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Jul 2026
Higgsfield is the ultimate production studio for creators by creators. 40% of our team are filmmakers, producers, and creatives who shape our product roadmap, working side by side with our ML engineers in a relentless creative feedback loop. Were on a mission to give everyone with a vision the tools of a world-class studio. Higgsfield is where your ideas become cinema.
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Jul 2026
1mind is a platform that deploys GTM Superhumans for revenue teams so that Every1 Wins, your customers and buyers, your team, and your business. The Superhuman GTM brain is made up of an AI Knowledge Graph + Action Orchestration layer built to function as autonomous employees operating across the entire customer lifecycle. They perform the work of SDRs, first-call AEs, SEs, CSMs, and In-Product Guides (a previously non-existent role). Superhumans integrate seamlessly into existing workflows to qualify buyers, book meetings, deliver pitches, give demos, handle objections, uncover pain points, build value models, and onboard customers. They delight buyers, drive operational efficiency, and scale beyond human limitations that increases revenue, shortens sales cycles, and increases ACV. Core Use Cases: • Website Inbound: Superhumans available 24-7 to do the full pitch, do discovery, share content, demo, qualify and drive to action (book meetings, drive to trial, convert independently without human intervention, or pass to nurture). • Ride-Along Sales Engineer: Superhumans support sellers live on Zoom/Teams/GoogleMeet calls to answer technical questions, share content, do technical discovery and demo. • PLG/SMB Seller: Superhumans engage, guide, support, and convert to free trial, from free users to paid, and paid to committed contracts. Supermans sell, onboard and support at scale and nurture the long tail. Please note that all legitimate communication from 1mind will come only from email addresses ending in @1mind.com. We will never ask for payment, financial information, or personal details outside of our official application process. If you receive a suspicious message, please disregard it and alert us at careers@1mind.com.
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May 2026
Public is the investing platform built for those who take it seriously—with technology that makes building a multi-asset portfolio, fast, frictionless, and secure. Members can invest in stocks, options, bonds, crypto, and contribute to retirement accounts—in the same place. Alongside the robust suite of investing tools, Public offers Alpha, a proprietary AI layer, that provides fundamental data and custom analysis to support informed investment decisions. Since 2019, Public has raised over $300 million. Investors include Accel, Tiger Global, Will Smiths Dreamers VC, The Chainsmokers Mantis VC, and Shari Redstones Advancit Capital, as well as renowned figures in business and culture, like Maria Sharapova, Tony Hawk, and NYU Stern professor Scott Galloway. Member questions: support@public.com Disclosures: http://public.com/disclosures
Investor
Apr 2026
Custom AI agents: secure, connected to your company knowledge and tools, and powered by the best AI models. Join us: https://dust.tt/jobs.
Investor
Apr 2026
DeepInfra is building the infrastructure layer for the next generation of AI, where inference drives real-world impact. Founded in 2022, the company delivers a purpose-built AI inference cloud for high-throughput, production-scale workloads. DeepInfra enables organizations to run open-source and proprietary models, including agentic systems, with speed, efficiency, and control. DeepInfra owns and operates its GPU infrastructure, supports 190+ open-source models, and processes over four trillion tokens per week, offering low-latency performance, OpenAI-compatible APIs, and enterprise-grade security with zero data retention, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 compliance. Careers: https://jobs.gem.com/deep-infra
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Jan 2026
Positron delivers vendor freedom and faster inference for both enterprises and research teams, by allowing them to use hardware and software explicitly designed from the ground up for generative and large language models (LLMs). Through lower power usage and drastically lower total cost of ownership (TCO), Positron enables you to run popular open source LLMs to serve multiple users at high token rates and long context lengths. Positron is also designing its own ASIC to expand from inference and fine tuning to also support training and other parallel compute workloads.
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Jan 2026
Brev eliminates the manual ops busywork between strategy and execution that slows every company down. Deploy Brevs team of AI agents to run your ops coordination layer, end-to-end. Tracking goals, running your cadence, prepping reviews, and keeping teams aligned, automatically. No additional headcount required. Brev is built for the people who run the company: BizOps & Strategy, Finance, Leadership, and Chiefs of Staff.
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Dec 2025
AI that automates construction estimating & streamlines pre-construction from blueprints.
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Nov 2025
Inference is the engine that powers AI, and Groq was built from the silicon up to deliver the worlds fastest inference at scale. We pioneered the LPU—the first processor designed specifically for AI inference—and are transforming that innovation into a global cloud platform powering production AI workloads. With the capital, infrastructure, and team to execute, were uniquely positioned to define the next era of AI infrastructure. The opportunity is massive, and its still wide open. Now lets go build it!
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Nov 2025
Concourse builds AI agents for finance teams. Concourse with the finance teams of Palo Alto Networks, Front, Tecovas, Persona, Coalesce, Curbwaste, Maximus, Descript, Lightmatter, Curbwate, Deck, Unify, and many more. Concourse is backed by a16z, CRV, and YC.
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Nov 2025
Harmonic is the complete startup database. Used by hundreds of leading investors like Accel, Greylock, and Menlo, as well as GTM teams from the likes of Notion, Google, and Retool to find the best startups and founders. Open roles: https://harmonic.ai/careers
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Nov 2025
The world’s leading prediction market platform, where users trade on the outcomes of real-world events. By putting real money behind opinions, Polymarket cuts through noise, bias, and speculation to surface a single powerful signal: what people actually believe will happen. From elections and geopolitics to business, culture, and breaking news, Polymarket transforms headlines into live markets with constantly updating probabilities. The result is a real-time, crowd-driven forecast of the future — more dynamic and often more accurate than traditional polling or expert analysis. Polymarket provides clarity. Not through commentary, but through markets.
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Jul 2025
Rillet is the first accounting platform made to tailor fit the workflows of accountants and a full replacement for legacy ERPs like NetSuite and Sage Intacct. Scaling and hyper-growth companies like BitWarden, Windsurf and Postscript use Rillet to enable a smarter close with native integrations, automated journal entries and AI embedded workflows. Rillet also supports multi-entity, multi-currency and multi-geography. We natively integrate with industry leading solutions like Salesforce, Stripe, Ramp, Brex, Rippling and more. Our open API also enables custom builds. We support SaaS, professional services, ecommerce, fintech companies and more. Were backed by Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, and ICONIQ with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Barcelona.
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May 2025
Neuralink is a neurotechnology company building a generalized input/output platform for the brain. Our work has the potential to restore autonomy to those with unmet medical needs and fundamentally transform how humans interact with the world. Our core technology is an implantable brain-computer interface with ultra-thin, flexible electrode threads placed precisely by a surgical robot, enabling high-bandwidth, bidirectional interaction with neural signals. We’ve received multiple FDA Breakthrough Device designations and are conducting clinical trials around the world. Trial participants are exploring how our implant could enhance their daily lives — controlling digital devices like computers and smartphones, operating physical devices like robotic arms and wheelchairs, and translating thought directly into speech and text. Developing brain-computer interfaces is an interdisciplinary challenge, and we’re looking for exceptional talent across engineering, science, and operations. Explore opportunities to contribute to our mission at neuralink.com/careers.
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May 2025
Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide and over 500,000 business users, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.
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Investor
Jul 2026
Higgsfield is the ultimate production studio for creators by creators. 40% of our team are filmmakers, producers, and creatives who shape our product roadmap, working side by side with our ML engineers in a relentless creative feedback loop. Were on a mission to give everyone with a vision the tools of a world-class studio. Higgsfield is where your ideas become cinema.
Investor
Jul 2026
1mind is a platform that deploys GTM Superhumans for revenue teams so that Every1 Wins, your customers and buyers, your team, and your business. The Superhuman GTM brain is made up of an AI Knowledge Graph + Action Orchestration layer built to function as autonomous employees operating across the entire customer lifecycle. They perform the work of SDRs, first-call AEs, SEs, CSMs, and In-Product Guides (a previously non-existent role). Superhumans integrate seamlessly into existing workflows to qualify buyers, book meetings, deliver pitches, give demos, handle objections, uncover pain points, build value models, and onboard customers. They delight buyers, drive operational efficiency, and scale beyond human limitations that increases revenue, shortens sales cycles, and increases ACV. Core Use Cases: • Website Inbound: Superhumans available 24-7 to do the full pitch, do discovery, share content, demo, qualify and drive to action (book meetings, drive to trial, convert independently without human intervention, or pass to nurture). • Ride-Along Sales Engineer: Superhumans support sellers live on Zoom/Teams/GoogleMeet calls to answer technical questions, share content, do technical discovery and demo. • PLG/SMB Seller: Superhumans engage, guide, support, and convert to free trial, from free users to paid, and paid to committed contracts. Supermans sell, onboard and support at scale and nurture the long tail. Please note that all legitimate communication from 1mind will come only from email addresses ending in @1mind.com. We will never ask for payment, financial information, or personal details outside of our official application process. If you receive a suspicious message, please disregard it and alert us at careers@1mind.com.
Investor
May 2026
Public is the investing platform built for those who take it seriously—with technology that makes building a multi-asset portfolio, fast, frictionless, and secure. Members can invest in stocks, options, bonds, crypto, and contribute to retirement accounts—in the same place. Alongside the robust suite of investing tools, Public offers Alpha, a proprietary AI layer, that provides fundamental data and custom analysis to support informed investment decisions. Since 2019, Public has raised over $300 million. Investors include Accel, Tiger Global, Will Smiths Dreamers VC, The Chainsmokers Mantis VC, and Shari Redstones Advancit Capital, as well as renowned figures in business and culture, like Maria Sharapova, Tony Hawk, and NYU Stern professor Scott Galloway. Member questions: support@public.com Disclosures: http://public.com/disclosures
Investor
Apr 2026
Custom AI agents: secure, connected to your company knowledge and tools, and powered by the best AI models. Join us: https://dust.tt/jobs.
Investor
Apr 2026
DeepInfra is building the infrastructure layer for the next generation of AI, where inference drives real-world impact. Founded in 2022, the company delivers a purpose-built AI inference cloud for high-throughput, production-scale workloads. DeepInfra enables organizations to run open-source and proprietary models, including agentic systems, with speed, efficiency, and control. DeepInfra owns and operates its GPU infrastructure, supports 190+ open-source models, and processes over four trillion tokens per week, offering low-latency performance, OpenAI-compatible APIs, and enterprise-grade security with zero data retention, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 compliance. Careers: https://jobs.gem.com/deep-infra
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