Backbone raises €4 million for food-quality software

Brussels-based Backbone has raised €4 million in a pre-seed round led by Pitchdrive, with PROfounders Capital, Passion Capital, existing investor 100IN and Belgian food-industry families participating. The company says it will use the funding for marketing and product development. Backbone provides software for food producers' quality and compliance work, combining supplier documents, laboratory results and regulatory requirements in one platform. It says its system can structure and check data against standards including IFS, BRCGS and FSSC 22000, and that it is developing agents for supplier certificates, lab-result checks and incident logging.