# Andre de Haes

> Andre de Haes is a seed investor at BACKED VC (London) backing Travel and Payments. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [BACKED VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backed-vc)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 88%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andredehaes
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/andredehaes
- Website: https://x.com/andredehaes

Andre de Haes is a seed investor at BACKED VC in London focused on Travel and Payments. Andre de Haes - Founder @ BACKED VC

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Travel | 2 | 25% |
| Payments | 2 | 25% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 25% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 75% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 2 | 25% |
| United States | 2 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 25% |
| Ghana | 1 | 13% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vuelo | Vuelo is redefining how the world plans, books and pays for travel, elevating journeys into richer experiences | $8.7M | Seed | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| Affinity | Affinity is a financial solutions company that provides financial inclusion, advisory, and literacy services. | $8M | Seed | Feb 11, 2025 |  |
| JUST | JUST is a digital solution that enhances e-commerce checkout experiences for brands. It integrates features that reduce cart abandonment and increase conversion rates, driving revenue growth. The platform partners with e-commerce providers to offer a customized, seamless shopping journey for customers. | $8.4M | Seed | Nov 15, 2024 |  |
| Travizory | Travizory operates as a travel management startup. Travizory is a seasoned team with deep technical and industry knowledge in travel identity management, facial biometrics, web and mobile app development that brings a successful joint track record from top government solutions providers. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| Bird Buddy | Bird Buddy is an AI-powered camera bird feeder that notifies owners of bird visitors, takes pictures of them, and then arranges them into a lovely collection to admire and easily share with friends and family. Equipped with AI, the smart camera recognizes over 1,000 bird species. Bird Buddy's built-in camera can be fully controlled by ownersfrom the comfort of their own homes. | $8.5M | Seed | Dec 09, 2021 |  |
| Cala | They are building the first fully robotic pasta restaurant to transform cost structure and experience of fast-casual restaurants. That’s why they created Cala, to bring lunch into a new era and in your plate in less than a minute. It just need a 3m2 kitchen to serve very quickly 800 meals per hour cooked with fresh and organic ingredients. | $6.4M | Seed | Oct 06, 2021 |  |
| Garten | Garten is a health food company that delivers food directly to a company’s doors. Offering healthy office snacks including vegan, gluten-free, organic, and non-GMO options, the company aims to empower the workplace and lead people to make healthier, smarter choices across nutrition, exercise, rest, detox, and overall wellbeing. Ohmygreen offers aone-stop shopping experience that incorporates budget management, office stocking, and food delivery. There are three services to choose from when signing up: Zen, Bliss, or Nirvana. Each of these services is data-driven and food-focused while every service is customized to meet the needs of the client. The company's mission is to empower people to live healthy and blissful lives. Founder Michael Heinrich was inspired in his youth in Berlin, Germany where his Grandmother cultivated an organic garden and served hearty home-cooked meals. As a medical doctor, she would emphasize that if you want to stay healthy eat directly from the garden. Michael took this to heart and started Oh My Green. | $20M | Seed | Oct 17, 2018 |  |
| Flow Engineering | Flow is the first engineering data platform built for agile engineering teams. Flow helps teams stay integrated with the correct data, regardless of which tool they are working in. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2017 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Acequia Capital (AceCap)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acequia-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tiny VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiny-super-computer-investment-company) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiny-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Adjacent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adjacent-9b5a) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About BACKED VC

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

BACKED is the human-centric venture capital fund. We invest in exceptional founders, at Seed, in Europe. We provide founders with an extensive support system to catalyse their development as a company operators and leaders. Through our Founder Experience Platform and energetic portfolio community we help entrepreneurs across all areas of a startup:from talent management to business development, further fundraising and international expansion.Founded in 2015 by partners Andre de Haes and Alex Brunicki, we invest across sectors including BioTech, Entertainment, Financial Services, Industry 4.0 and more. Investments to date include Hutch, Pollen, Thought Machine, LabGenius, THIS, Enterprise Alumni, and many more.

4 contacts available at BACKED VC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Brunicki | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-brunicki |
| Andre de Haes | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andre-de-haes |
| Adi Chhabra | Venture Scout | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adi-chhabra |
| Joe Perkins | Venture Scout | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-perkins-99a7 |

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## FAQ

### What does Andre de Haes invest in?

Andre de Haes invests primarily in Travel, Payments and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Andre de Haes last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Andre de Haes closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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