# Joe Perkins

> Joe Perkins is a seed investor at BACKED VC (Manchester) backing Apps and Education. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [BACKED VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backed-vc)
- Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Feb 2018
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/freshwaterjoe/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/freshwaterjoe
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/freshwaterjoe

Joe Perkins is a seed investor at BACKED VC in Manchester focused on Apps and Education. Joe Perkins is the Founder of Landscape. He previously worked at Coursematch as a Founder and Chief Product Officer. Joe Perkins attended Bangor University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 1 | 100% |
| Education | 1 | 100% |
| Universities | 1 | 100% |
| Social Network | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Course Match | Course Match reinvents access to higher education, connecting students direct to providers. They are trying to revolutionize the way students find degree schemes to pursue at University. Existing support for these prospective students simply isn't good enough, and they believe important educational decisions in a student's life should bemade based on more than an hourly careers advice meeting, a simple survey, or just gut feeling. | $360K | Seed | Feb 01, 2018 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Development Bank of Wales](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/development-bank-of-wales) — 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 Joe Perkins invest in?

Joe Perkins invests primarily in Apps, Education and Universities startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Joe Perkins last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Joe Perkins closed in Feb 2018. Shizune tracks 1 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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