Rockville Centre, US · Partner
John Backus
Managing Director, Institutional Fig Specialist at KBW Ventures
Latest rounds
- HealthWarehouse.comVenture · $1.5MAug 2011
The firm
KBW VenturesFamily office · AE0cheques in 12 months2all time0ledquietRounds they were named in
- Rounds
- 1
- Led
- 0
- Disclosed
- $1.5M
- Active
- 2011
- HealthWarehouse.comVenture$1.5MUSJoined · +1 investor · historical
Rounds where a report named this person rather than a firm, matched on name: read it as a strong hint, not proof, since people share names.
Where they are named on record
Filings
- SEC Form D · Venture Capital fundNAV Atlas ObscuraExecutive Officersince 2024
- SEC Form D · Venture Capital fundNAV III Opportunity Fund, LLCManaging Member of the Issuer's Managersince 2020
- SEC Form D · Venture Capital fundPROOFManaging Member of the Issuer's Managersince 2020
- SEC Form D · Venture Capital fundRiot Ventures Opportunity V-II C1Directorsince 2019
- SEC Form D · FundVCP PROOF C1, LLCDirectorsince 2019
- SEC Form D · FundDCODE PROOF C1, LLCDirectorsince 2019
- SEC Form D · Venture Capital fundPROOFDirectoron 15 filings · since 2019
- SEC Form D · Other investment fundFCG1 P, LLCDirectorsince 2019
- SEC Form D · FundWonder PROOF C2 LLCDirectorsince 2019
- SEC Form D · Other investment fundBM2 P, LLC, a series of PROOF Master I, LLCDirectorsince 2019
- SEC Form D · Other investment fundRV2 P, LLC, a Series of Proof Master I, LLCDirectorsince 2019
- SEC Form D · Other investment fundFVC2 P, LLCDirectorsince 2019
- SEC Form D · FundLeo PROOF C1 LLCDirectorsince 2019
- SEC Form D · Other investment fundTusk Ro P LLCDirectorsince 2019
- SEC Form D · Venture Capital fundCVC1 PDirectorsince 2019
- SEC Form D · Other investment fundTusk Bird P, LLC, a series of PROOF Master I, LLCManaging Member of the Issuer's Managersince 2019
- SEC Form D · Other investment fundPROOF Sweetgreen, LLC, a series of PROOF Master I, LLCManaging Member of the Issuer's Managersince 2019
- SEC Form D · Other investment fundRiot VenturesDirectorsince 2019
- SEC Form D · Other investment fundOakhouse Partners P1, LLC, a series of PROOF Master I, LLCIssuer's Managersince 2019
- SEC Form D · Other investment fundBOA1 P, LLC, a series of PROOF Master I, LLCIssuer's Managersince 2018
Each row is a document a firm filed with a regulator: somebody signed it, and it carries a date.
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Rethinking The Merits of Decentralization with John Backus
WithJohn Backus
About this episode
On this episode of Venture Stories, Erik is joined by co-host Tony Sheng to interview John Backus (@backus), founder of Bloom and Cognito, two companies working on decentralized lending and identity. Co-host Tony Sheng (@tonysheng) leads product at Decentraland. He also publishes analyses on the… More on the show's page
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🎧Building the Best, with Jillian Williams feat. John and Alain of Cognito
WithJillian Williams
MentionsJohn Backus
About this episode
In this episode, Jillian is joined by the co-founders of Cognito , an ID verification and KYC provider to the fintech world, which was acquired by Plaid in 2021 . Alain Meier , Co-Founder and CEO of Cognito ( acquired by Plaid ) John Backus , Co-Founder and CTO of Cognito ( acquired by Plaid )…
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