# Backend Capital

> Backend Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 68 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hollywood, United States
- Total investments: 68
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/backendcapital
- Website: https://backendcapital.com

Backend Capital is an early stage fund focused on investing in brilliant engineers.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Backend Capital. Shizune tracks 2 team members at Backend Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/backend-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 17 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 12% |
| Blockchain | 7 | 10% |
| Internet | 6 | 9% |

106 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 33 | 49% |
| Pre-Seed | 20 | 29% |
| Series A | 3 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 3% |
| Angel | 1 | 1% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 47 | 69% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dave Fontenot | General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-fontenot |
| Lucy Guo | Founder and Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lucy-guo |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tarsal | Tarsal is a data pipeline that builds for security data movement. Tarsal applies normalized fields including IPs, domains, and more to all log records. | $6M | Seed | Mar 21, 2024 |  |
| Usage AI | Usage AI (usage.ai), a platform that empowers companies to reduce their monthly cloud expenditure. The company generates, on average, 35% in monthly AWS savings for its customers. Because the company has collected millions of data points from its opt-in users with a variety of usage patterns, it's been able to identify hard-to-find savingsthat humans can't detect. It takes less than 15 minutes for a company to onboard with the company. Additionally, the company's customers get the deep discounts of reservations with the flexibility of on-demand since companies can sell their reservations back to Usage AI after just 30 days. | $9M |  | Sep 12, 2023 |  |
| UnshETH | UnshETH is a cutting-edge DeFi protocol that promotes validator decentralization and provides the finest Ethereum staking experience for millions of users. | $3.3M | Seed | Aug 07, 2023 |  |
| Spline | Easily create and publish 3D web experiences. Build and iterate fast with production-ready results. | $15M | Seed | Jul 13, 2023 |  |
| Humans Anonymous | Humans Anonymous is an anonymous live audio platform that facilitates safe spaces for communities of people with similar life experiences to share their struggles, get advice, and support each other. | $1.7M | Seed | Sep 02, 2022 |  |
| Humans Anonymous | Humans Anonymous is an anonymous live audio platform that facilitates safe spaces for communities of people with similar life experiences to share their struggles, get advice, and support each other. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Sep 02, 2022 |  |
| BNTO | VIAVIA is a content&social commerce platform building a modern tech infrastructure for Made in Italy fashion and high vibe European brands. | $8M | Seed | Aug 25, 2022 |  |
| Indexer.xyz | Indexer.xyz is an developer platform providing a middleware for applications and blockchains to efficiently communicate with one another. Our goal is to accelerate Web3 adoption be helping developers go-to-market quicker with their products leveraging our API as the backend of their applications. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 11, 2022 |  |
| TradePort | TradePort platform aggregates NFTs from all marketplaces across Stacks, NEAR, Aptos, and Sui. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 11, 2022 |  |
| Alexandria Labs | Creating infrastructure for books using emerging technologies. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 68 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Backend Capital invest in?

Backend Capital invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 68 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Backend Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Backend Capital?

The team at Backend Capital includes Dave Fontenot (General Partner) and Lucy Guo (Founder and Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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