Pitchdrive leads Backbone €4 million seed round for food, feed compliance platform

• Pitchdrive led Backbone’s EUR 4 million seed round to fund an AI-native compliance platform for food and feed manufacturers.
• Backbone targets quality and regulatory workflows still run on spreadsheets, aiming to flag supplier and production risks before recalls.
• PROfounders, Passion Capital, 100IN, and food-sector investors also participated in the financing.
• Backbone has expanded from Belgium into the UK and the Netherlands, serving companies across the food supply chain.
• The company estimates an initial addressable market of 120,000 GFSI-certified sites, representing a EUR 3 billion software opportunity.

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