Backbone raises €4M from Pitchdrive and Belgian food families to bring AI to food safety compliance — TFN
Backbone raises €4M from Pitchdrive and Belgian food families to bring AI to food safety compliance — TFN
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Backbone raises €4M from Pitchdrive and Belgian food families to bring AI to food safety compliance
Sofia Chesnokova
September 3, 2026
4 minute read
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Backbone has secured €4 million to help food companies move away from using Excel and email for quality management.
Pitchdrive was at the forefront of the funding round shortly after Europe’s largest baby formula recall.
The same investors who backed the earlier exit of the founders’ previous company are now supporting them.
Louis Opsomer
co-founded the legal drafting startup Henchman and then sold it to LexisNexis in 2024. A year and a half later, baby formula recalls occurred in over 60 countries due to a contaminated ingredient, revealing the same fragmented safety data problems he had dealt with in the legal industry.
Backbone
, his new company, raised €4 million in a pre-seed funding round, with
Pitchdrive
at the helm, to help food producers address this issue.
The company, headquartered in Brussels, consolidates the supplier certificates, laboratory results, and internal records that food producers currently store in Excel, Word and email. It states that 80% of producers still use these tools and that delays in identifying quality problems can result in losses of up to 15% of revenue.
PROfounders Capital, a London-based venture firm founded by Brent Hoberman and known for investing in Made.com and GetYourGuide, took part in the financing. Passion Capital, which was the first institutional investor to invest in
, GoCardless, and Tide, also invested alongside
and a number of Belgian food families, including Agristo and Darta.
“A food company today has all the data it needs to make better quality decisions, but the different data points aren’t talking to each other. R&D knows the recipe, purchasing knows