Philippe Bernet

Partner at BackBone Ventures

📍 Switzerland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 19 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2026
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Jun 2026
TimelyAI is building a Marketing Saas for Time-based Businesses. “The idea is to solve the most burning need of our customers- Growing their clientele at an affordable price and being able to build lasting relationships with them for repeat business and referrals.” "Coming soon with something extremely crazy!"
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Jan 2026
At Immitra Bio, we are pioneering a novel genetic medicine platform. Our innovative approach enables precise, durable, and safe gene modifications within blood stem cells, laying the foundation for scalable, curative in-vivo therapies.
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Dec 2025
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
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Aug 2025
Modern organizations no longer operate in static environments. Data continuously moves across engineering systems, cloud infrastructure, APIs, third parties, and increasingly AI workflows. Yet most governance and security models still rely on periodic audits, static documentation, and manual evidence collection. Qala AI is the Governance Control Plane for Software Engineering. We help organizations continuously reconcile governance intent with real engineering implementation and runtime behaviour - providing provable visibility into how sensitive data is actually handled across modern systems. Our platform enables security, governance, and engineering teams to: - Continuously validate controls - Detect operational drift - Trace sensitive data flows - Improve AI and third-party governance - Reduce blind spots across distributed systems - Move from assumptions to continuous evidence Because controls on paper are not the same as controls in production. The AI era is accelerating system complexity, data movement, and governance risk. Traditional governance models were not designed for this reality. Qala was built for it.
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Apr 2025
Autonomous harvesting robots for resilient greenhouse operations. Designed for growers who need certainty today and at scale.
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Mar 2025
We design AI-powered software solutions to automate the application of systems engineering best practices. 10+ years of experience with safety-critical systems for particle accelerators. First start-up participating in the CERN Venture Connect Program. Part of Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub. Winners of Tech4trust Season 6. Microsoft AI Tech Accelerator Community Season 1 cohort.
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Feb 2025
Zeeg is a booking CRM platform that eliminates the common disconnect between scheduling tools and customer relationship management. Unlike standalone scheduling solutions, Zeeg automatically captures and organizes contact information, communication history, and meeting details from every booking (whether online, via forms, or through AI-powered phone agents) into an integrated CRM system. The platform simplifies appointment management by only showing available times based on your calendar availability and automates the entire customer journey through intelligent workflows. Zeeg supports individual, group, collective, and round-robin appointments while automatically building comprehensive customer profiles and company records. Zeeg enables AI phone agents to check real-time availability and book appointments directly, even before a sales conversation takes place. This dramatically optimizes the pre-sales process. No lead is lost because no one was available to answer. All bookings automatically land in the CRM, fully documented and trackable. Zeeg is designed for European businesses of all sizes who need more than just scheduling. They need complete customer relationship visibility and an optimized pre-sales process. The platform offers a free version and four paid tiers (Starter, Professional, Business, and Enterprise) starting at €10 per month. A comprehensive API enables integration with existing business systems, and free 14-day trials are available.
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Jul 2024
Evoralis is an early-stage spin-out from the University of Cambridge with the mission to enable true and sustainable plastic recycling. It uses a unique ultrahigh-throughput screening platform to find and improve enzymes that can break down plastics into their constituent building-blocks to be re-used again within new products. At Evoralis, biocatalysts can be tested at unprecedented speed, making the discovery of plastic-degrading enzymes up to 1,000 times faster than any other current state-of-the-art approach. The high sensitivity of the screening platform used by Evoralis allows the selection of the most interesting and efficient candidates. Our journey is just at the beginning, feel welcome to contact us if you are interested in contributing to a circular plastic economy.
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Apr 2024
Join our journey to offer the cheapest carbon-capturing plants worldwide
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Dec 2023
Proofcheck, the enterprise AI proofing platform, is leading the LLM-powered revolution in content quality assurance. Our platform, powered by state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence, is the ultimate QA tool for professionals who need to create flawless high-stakes longform content like reports, books, ebooks, and white papers. With our innovative in-browser SaaS tool, were not just proofreading texts; were taking a holistic approach to quality assurance, checking for both linguistic and aesthetic issues. In our mission to elevate content standards, we extend AI proofreading capabilities to final file formats like PDF and ePub, which are notoriously challenging.
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Nov 2022
Faircado reinvents second-hand shopping with AI precision. Navigate the second-hand universe with tailored suggestions in a browser plugin. Marrying cost-effectiveness with planet-love, one find at a time. Faircado is your sustainable shopping assistant that aggregates and compares all second-hand offers to make you save time, money and CO2. We wont save the world. At least, not alone. But we are convinced that transforming our linear economy into a circular economy will only be possible by making sustainable choices accessible to all. We need system change, not climate change. Whats good for the planet should be cheaper, more convenient and more attractive than what f*cks it up. Thats it. That is why we have developed a browser plugin that automatically finds you the best second-hand alternatives for exactly what youre looking for online. No need to search for hours anymore. No need to sacrifice your savings to buy sustainable products anymore. No need to finance any ego trips to space anymore. We help you save time, money, and CO2. Our second-hand shopping assistant is now (beta) live. Download it, and let us know your feedback. Cheers!
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Apr 2022
Hello Earth, This is Fermify. We are here to domesticate microorganisms and build super simple and fully automated production platform to address the issue of large scale milk protein production. Since we are all mad scientist - and scientist are know as the worst salespeople on this planet- we would love to hear from you if you are a cheese manufacturing company and want to produce cheese with state-of-art technology - without the cow! Please also reach out if you want to join our team. We promote self-growth and enable an environment free from unkindness and fear. Yours, Fermify
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Sep 2021
SQUAKE is the all-in-one carbon management platform: - Accurate CO₂ Calculations: 20+ methodologies, for any travel activity - Automated CO₂ Reduction and/or Compensation: 150+ curated carbon projects, such as Direct Air Capture or Sustainable Aviation Fuel; - CO₂ Reporting: complete, aggregated and synced with your BI tool; - CO₂ at POS: integrate anywhere, on- or offline. Available via API or no-code. SQUAKE is third-party verified and holds an ISO 27001 certification for excellent information security management.
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Oct 2020
Startchy is a research and developing house industrializing a novel natural,organic and edible coating that extends the shelf life of fresh fruits and vegetables. our first product doubles the marketable shelf life of fresh produce, retaining the color, reducing the respiration and transpiration rate in an ambiant temperature, so it's like a modified atmosphere reduced to a fruit unit scale. www.yumbrella.com
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Aug 2020
Enterprises in Pharmaceutical, Chemicals, and Manufacturing use Acodis Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) to get accurate, high-quality data from documents automatically. Enjoy exceptional business efficiency and more time for high-impact work with a platform that requires no coding.
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2026
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Jun 2026
TimelyAI is building a Marketing Saas for Time-based Businesses. “The idea is to solve the most burning need of our customers- Growing their clientele at an affordable price and being able to build lasting relationships with them for repeat business and referrals.” "Coming soon with something extremely crazy!"
Investor
Jan 2026
At Immitra Bio, we are pioneering a novel genetic medicine platform. Our innovative approach enables precise, durable, and safe gene modifications within blood stem cells, laying the foundation for scalable, curative in-vivo therapies.
2025
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Dec 2025
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
Investor
Aug 2025
Modern organizations no longer operate in static environments. Data continuously moves across engineering systems, cloud infrastructure, APIs, third parties, and increasingly AI workflows. Yet most governance and security models still rely on periodic audits, static documentation, and manual evidence collection. Qala AI is the Governance Control Plane for Software Engineering. We help organizations continuously reconcile governance intent with real engineering implementation and runtime behaviour - providing provable visibility into how sensitive data is actually handled across modern systems. Our platform enables security, governance, and engineering teams to: - Continuously validate controls - Detect operational drift - Trace sensitive data flows - Improve AI and third-party governance - Reduce blind spots across distributed systems - Move from assumptions to continuous evidence Because controls on paper are not the same as controls in production. The AI era is accelerating system complexity, data movement, and governance risk. Traditional governance models were not designed for this reality. Qala was built for it.
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Apr 2025
Autonomous harvesting robots for resilient greenhouse operations. Designed for growers who need certainty today and at scale.
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