Company

Backtick 2021 summary

26 Feb 2022

2021 has without doubt been an eventful year for Backtick. After a bumpy 2020, we managed to stabilize the company and grow the team as intended before the Covid outbreak.

Michal Stypa

Michal Stypa

Founder & CEO

2021 has without doubt been an eventful year for Backtick. After a bumpy 2020, we managed to stabilize the company and grow the team as intended before the Covid outbreak.

Here's a short summary of our 2021.

Team expansion

During 2021, our team has grown by 4 new engineers. We're now a total of 10 full-time employees with two new prospects joining soon.

Economy

After being hit by Covid harder than anticipated, we managed to secure more customers, stabilize the income flow and diversify our projects to hedge ourselves from similar scenarios. The turnover for 2021 came in at just over 10M SEK with a profit of 3,7M SEK. Much of the profits from last year are now actively being allocated in R&D investments and recruitment.

Office

After almost two years at Mindpark Lund, we decided we need a place of our own. In February 2021, we moved in at our current location at Vävaregatan 21 in Lund. The property owner Whilborgs has been very forthcoming in accommodating our needs and we've already decided to move into a larger office later this year. You'll find more information about it here.

Årets Unga Företagare Lund + Skåne

Last year, we had the pleasure of receiving the awards for Årets Unga Företagare in Lund and Årets Unga Företagare in Skåne. We attended the national finals in Stockholm City Hall in October. Unfortunately, we didn't make it all the way to the top but we've received a lot of positive attention ever since and made a number of invaluable business acquaintances - many of which already have created new business opportunities for our company. Read more about the awards here (Skåne) and here (Lund).

Codecation

After a years break, caused by the covid outbreak, we were finally able to go through with the annual hackathon get-away Codecation. It was a well deserved break from every-day life and turned out even better than we expected. Read more about Codecation 2021 here.

Backtick autumn adventure

Yet another tradition at Backtick - the fall adventure. This year, we took the team to Genarp for mountain bike racing with RA Äventyr followed by clay pigeon shooting and SPA at Elisefarm. The event is definitely a team favorite and this year, we discovered one of the best open-fire coffee brews served by Rurik at RA Äventyr.

34 under 34

Our CEO Oskar made it to Rapidus annual 34 under 34 list.

Board expansion

Johan Henriksson and Birger Kleve were elected to join the Backtick board sealing their positions as core members of the Backtick management team.

Cowait

Our open source container orchestration tool Cowait is gaining popularity on Github. Apart from being used by Backtick in various projects, it's also used as a critical part of data processing pipelines by our friends over at Debricked.

New customers and partners

We made a lot of new friends in 2021 - both customers and partners. We would like to thank you all for the trust you have put in us. We are looking forward to the coming year and will do our best to ensure our partnerships continue thriving as we achieve our goals - together.

Announcement

rebase.energy investment announcement

03 Aug 2023

rebase.energy investement announcement - our first step into investments outside the Backtick group

Michal Stypa

Michal Stypa

Founder & CEO

Announcement

Backtick portfolio release

12 Jul 2023

Backtick portfolio release - our investments so far.

Michal Stypa

Michal Stypa

Founder & CEO

Company

Backtick Summary 2022

Backtic Summary 2022 - Cover

22 May 2023

Backtick Summary 2022 - A brief look over our shoulder.

Michal Stypa

Michal Stypa

Founder & CEO

Announcement

Backtick moves to Raffinaderiet

New office at Raffinaderiet - cover

21 Apr 2023

We just moved into our new office, come by and say hi!

Michal Stypa

Michal Stypa

Founder & CEO

Announcement

Announcing Cinter, a big data platform

17 Apr 2023

Backtick is launching Cinter, a fully managed big data platform that will help businesses ingest, store, and analyze big data.

Oskar Handmark

Oskar Handmark

Founder & Venture lead

Announcement

Backtick launches a new website

New Backtick website - cover

13 Apr 2023

An updated look and a ton of new content - Backtick Web 2.0 is here.

Michal Stypa

Michal Stypa

Founder & CEO

Announcement

Backtick wins Årets Unga Företagare Skåne 2021

17 Aug 2022

After making it through to the Skåne finals, we're happy to announce that we've won the regional award and are headed for the national finals in Stockholm!

Michal Stypa

Michal Stypa

Founder & CEO

Company

Backtick 2021 summary

26 Feb 2022

2021 has without doubt been an eventful year for Backtick. After a bumpy 2020, we managed to stabilize the company and grow the team as intended before the Covid outbreak.

Michal Stypa

Michal Stypa

Founder & CEO

Announcement

Backtick signs a new office at Raffinaderiet, Lund

20 Jan 2022

Backtick is expanding and will move into bigger offices at Raffinaderiet in Lund.

Michal Stypa

Michal Stypa

Founder & CEO

Company

Backtick back from Codecation 2021

26 Sep 2021

This year’s Codecation took place at the foot of Sierra Nevada with beautiful surrounding nature and the skyline of Granada, Spain at the horizon.

Michal Stypa

Michal Stypa

Founder & CEO

Announcement

Backtick wins Årets Unga Företagare Lund 2021

18 May 2021

Moving on to the Skåne finals.

Michal Stypa

Michal Stypa

Founder & CEO

Company

Backtick among finalists in the Copernicus Hackathon 2020

16 Dec 2020

Detecting snow and clouds in arctic conditions using computer vision

Michal Stypa

Michal Stypa

Founder & CEO