€4m · Pre-Seed · Food quality software · Ghent, Belgium
Backbone, which builds software for food quality and compliance teams, has raised €4m in pre-seed funding. Pitchdrive led the round, joined by PROfounders Capital, Passion Capital and existing investor 100IN. Tech.eu reports participation from food industry investors including Agristo and Darta, with funding intended for product development, commercial expansion and partnerships.
Reaching food producers through existing industry relationships
Backbone brings supplier documents, laboratory results and compliance checks into a shared workflow for food producers. Its company announcement identifies a distribution route alongside the product: an existing partnership with food-quality consultancy AM Norman and planned relationships with certification bodies and ERP implementation partners.
Those organisations already help producers manage quality or install business systems. Working through them could give Backbone access to customers and the practical knowledge needed to connect its software to factory routines. The commercial question is whether those relationships produce sustained use across purchasing, production and quality teams. A shared record becomes valuable when a supplier or recipe change reaches the people responsible for checking its consequences.
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Sources checked: Backbone company announcement · Pitchdrive investor announcement · Tech.eu reporting · Tech.eu Funding Explorer · Backbone product overview.
Updated 16 September 2026 — location corrected to Ghent from Backbone’s announcement; Tech.eu lists Brussels. Related reading includes later-published material.
Date note, clarified 17 September 2026: Backbone’s company page displays 2 September at the top and 3 September below the article. Pitchdrive and Tech.eu reported the round on 3 September, which remains the date displayed here. The company page alone does not resolve the discrepancy.
