Backstage Capital
VC Fund
West Hollywood, United States
Backstage Capital is a venture capital fund investing in the best startups led by underrepresented founders in the U.S. The firm was founded in 2015 by Arlan Hamilton and is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, United States.
- Total investments:
- 184
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
- Fund size:
- $2.1M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Backstage Capital invests in
Stages Backstage Capital invests in
Countries Backstage Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $100k–$3.5M
- Pre-Seed
- $100k–$1.5M
- Series A
- $4M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 32 (17%)
- Health Care 25 (14%)
- Internet 15 (8%)
- Apps 14 (8%)
- Fashion 14 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 105 (57%)
- Pre-Seed 26 (14%)
- Series A 13 (7%)
- Convertible Note 13 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 9 (5%)
Country
- United States 141 (77%)
- United Kingdom 6 (3%)
- Trinidad and Tobago 2 (1%)
- India 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Brittany Davis
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Susan Kimberlin
Founding Limited Partner, Venture Partner
|
Founding Limited Partner, Venture Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Adam Mutschler
Mentor
|
Mentor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Andre Blackman
Mentor
|
Mentor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Paul Griffiths
Limited Partner and Angel Investor
|
Limited Partner and Angel Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| CreditRich is an AI-powered fintech neobank that helps consumers automatically increase their credit scores in real time by optimizing how their everyday bill payments are applied. Using advanced payment-routing algorithms, CreditRich analyzes users’ banking activity, credit reports, and bill obligations to strategically schedule and allocatepayments for maximum FICO impact, using features like rounded-up spare change, automated pay-downs, and intelligent bill timing. CreditRich combines mobile banking, credit reporting, payments, and financial literacy tools into one seamless platform, giving users a faster, easier path to credit improvement and long-term wealth building. Partnered with major financial institutions and embedded in culturally relevant campaigns, CreditRich is uniquely positioned to serve the 134 million Americans with credit scores below 750, including underserved communities historically excluded from traditional credit systems. The platform leverages culturally resonant engagement strategies, celebrity partnerships, and community-driven financial education to scale rapidly while addressing a deeply entrenched national problem. CreditRich’s AI engine delivers real-time credit score growth, transforming everyday financial behavior into measurable progress and empowering users to access better loans, housing, insurance rates, and wealth opportunities. Built with a mission of economic justice, CreditRich is designed to become the global standard for automated credit optimization, providing consumers, partners, and institutions with a smarter, more equitable financial system. | $4M / Series A / Dec 07, 2025 | ||
| Monetizing mobile games non-intrusively using audio ads! AudioMob are the creators of Audio Enhanced Banners & Rewarded Audio | $5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 25, 2025 | ||
| BoldHue is a beauty tech company that develops a Bluetooth-enabled handheld device to customize beauty needs. Its platform uses AI technology to scan faces, display color, and match the color of the face to dispense pigmentation into the base foundation. BoldHue was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Aurora, Colorado. | $3.4M / Seed / Apr 02, 2024 | ||
| EdLight lets teachers quickly see and give feedback on authentic student work. | $4M / Seed / Mar 27, 2024 | ||
| CloudNine leverages our AI tool to augmented data management by solving interoperability issues for siloed enterprises. Saving months of time and valuable resources enabling non-technical users the ability to take advantage of data driven decisions without any technical expertise. Optimizing AI for sophisticated analytics, data sharing, and dataprivacy. CloudNine AI was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Phoenix Arizona with offices in Santa Monica, California, The Netherlands, Canada and Geneva Switzerland. | $100K / Pre-Seed / Jun 05, 2023 | ||
| Community is a new social engagement platform that makes two-way communication between influencers and their followers simple, effective, and scalable. It connects businesses, brands, governmental and public personalities, creators, singers, celebrities, and others to their consumers at scale via a unique 10-digit phone number. | $25M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 24, 2023 | ||
| Patientory is empowering people to take charge of their own health. They’re revolutionizing the way doctors and patients interact and gain access to information, cutting out all layers and processes that currently are stumbling blocks in care coordination. They connect doctors, care providers, and consumers all within a single, secure platform –creating a care team that works together to provide the best care. | $1.5M / Seed / Apr 05, 2023 | ||
| Plural is a company that provides public policy tools to help teams save time and discover opportunities in workflows. | Seed / Jan 01, 2023 | ||
| Exer Labs uses AI on mobile and tablet devices as well as computer vision to help fitness users experience a more interactive and affordable at-home workout. | $6.5M / Series A / Nov 08, 2022 | ||
| Guava is a digital bank designed for and by black small business owners. It is to help close the racial wealth gap by providing equitable financial products to black entrepreneurs. | $2.4M / Pre-Seed / Jul 26, 2022 | ||
| See all 184 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Backstage Capital invest in?
Backstage Capital invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 184 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Backstage Capital invest in?
Backstage Capital typically joins rounds of $100k–$3.5M at Seed, $100k–$1.5M at Pre-Seed and $4M–$20M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Backstage Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Backstage Capital took part in.
How do I contact Backstage Capital?
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Who are the partners at Backstage Capital?
The team at Backstage Capital includes Brittany Davis (General Partner), Susan Kimberlin (Founding Limited Partner, Venture Partner) and Adam Mutschler (Mentor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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