David Linsey

BACKED is the human-centric venture capital fund. We invest in exceptional founders, at Seed, in Europe. We provide founders with an extensive support system to catalyse their development as a company operators and leaders. Through our Founder Experience Platform and energetic portfolio community we help entrepreneurs across all areas of a startup: from talent management to business development, further fundraising and international expansion. Founded in 2015 by partners Andre de Haes and Alex Brunicki, we invest across sectors including BioTech, Financial Services, Blockchain, Advanced Manufacturing and more. Over 80+ investments to date include Hutch (acquired), Thought Machine, Amenitiz, LabGenius, THIS, Enterprise Alumni, and many more. • Seek the Truth • Plant the Flag • Put People First • Keep your Word •

BACKED is the human-centric venture capital fund. We invest in exceptional founders, at Seed, in Europe. We provide founders with an extensive support system to catalyse their development as a company operators and leaders. Through our Founder Experience Platform and energetic portfolio community we help entrepreneurs across all areas of a startup: from talent management to business development, further fundraising and international expansion. Founded in 2015 by partners Andre de Haes and Alex Brunicki, we invest across sectors including BioTech, Financial Services, Blockchain, Advanced Manufacturing and more. Over 80+ investments to date include Hutch (acquired), Thought Machine, Amenitiz, LabGenius, THIS, Enterprise Alumni, and many more. • Seek the Truth • Plant the Flag • Put People First • Keep your Word •

JiPay’s mission is to provide financial independence to migrant workers. The JiPay app and prepaid Mastercard allow helpers and their employers to manage household expenses and build trust in the home. With JiPay Personal, we empower helpers to receive salaries, store money securely, remit money easily and save for their financial futures. Headquartered in Singapore, JiPay is an alumni of Iterative (S21) and is backed by East Ventures, SHL Capital and Hong Kong Government’s Cyberport Incubator.

We are working to establish a regional trauma system in Sri Lanka, preventing deaths and disabilities and creating a template for trauma care in the region. Trauma (defined as wounding due to physical injury) is responsible for over 10% of all deaths in Sri Lanka, a figure which is expected to rise. A trauma system would result in greatly improved responses to mass-trauma events such as the terrorist attacks of Easter Sunday, as well as reductions in mortality from road traffic accidents and other forms of traumatic injury. We are working with McGill University Hospital to develop this system. McGill are amongst the foremost experts on trauma systems, having designed a pioneering trauma system in Canada in the 1990s. The system developed by McGill achieved a fall in mortality from severe trauma from 50% to under 6%, and we aim to replicate these results in Sri Lanka. We have completed an initial site visit to the National Hospital in Colombo, and are in the process of delivering surgical and behavioural training via Zoom due to the COVID 19 Pandemic.