Philippe Bernet

Philippe Bernet is a Founding Partner at BackBone Ventures, an early-stage investment firm based in Zurich, Switzerland. Since establishing the venture capital firm in 2018, he has directly led the management of six portfolio companies and executed nine known personal investments across the broader European startup ecosystem. Prior to assuming his current executive role, he graduated from the University of St. Gallen and cultivated his professional network alongside prominent regional institutions like TechQuartier and the ETH Entrepreneur Club. Operating with a core team of four full-time employees, his firm targets early-stage ventures operating within the B2B SaaS, FinTech, and ICT sectors, often collaborating with professionals from entities like Bank Pictet. Bernet currently focuses his investment strategy on allocating capital to innovative business models that integrate food-related technologies and climate tech to generate measurable social and environmental impact.