Former partners from Speedinvest and Target Partners are today launching a new fund, Backtrace, to invest in early-stage software developer, security and AI infrastructure startups, founding partners Michael Münnix and Dominik Tobschall tell Sifted. The Munich-based fund has raised €10m for its first close out of a planned €30m, which it hopes to complete within the next year.
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