Backwards Capital is an early stage venture capital fund founded by Chris Zarou, an experienced operator that invests in exceptional founders.
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
Portfolio 55
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 30.01.2026 | Sentra | sentra.app | $5M | United Sta... |
| 22.01.2026 | 301 Moved ... | hyperexpense.com | - | - |
| - | Type Five | typefive.com | - | - |
| - | Aviato | aviato.co | - | - |
| - | Italic | italic.com | $37M | United Sta... |
| - | Sparx | usesparx.com | - | - |
| - | Otis | otisforpets.com | - | United Sta... |
| - | Bazar | shopbazar.com | - | - |
| - | Cloverly | cloverly.com | $21.1M | United Sta... |
| - | Whatnot | whatnot.com | $709M | United Sta... |
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| 09.02.2026 | Sentra.app Raises $5M in Seed Funding | Sentra.app, a San Francisco, CA-based enterprise general intelligence company, raised $5M in Seed funding. The round was led by a16Z speedrun and Together Fund with participation from Parable, Precursor Ventures, Inovia, Backwards Capital, ... |
| 02.02.2026 | Sentra.app Secures $5 Million for Enterprise AI Memory Platform | Sentra.app secured $5 million in seed funding. A16z speedrun and Together Fund co-led the round. The company builds an advanced AI teammate. This AI organizes crucial enterprise memory. It captures conversations, decisions, and context. It ... |
| 30.01.2026 | Sentra.app: $5 Million Seed Funding Closed To Build Enterprise ‘Organizational Memory’ Platform | Sentra.app has raised a $5 million seed round to develop what it calls an “enterprise general intelligence” layer built around organizational memory: a persistent system designed to capture, connect, and continuously surface the context beh... |
| 28.01.2026 | Sentra.app raises $5M to build AI teammate to organize enterprise memory Send us a News Tip EXTRACT THE SIGNAL FROM THE NOISE Cookies | Sentra.app, also known as Dynamis Labs Inc., today raised $5 million in seed funding co-led by a16z speedrun and Together Fund to build an artificial intelligence teammate to organize enterprise knowledge. Additional investors in the round ... |