# Brittany Davis

> Brittany Davis is a seed investor at Backstage Capital (San Francisco) backing Toys and Beauty. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Backstage Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backstage-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittcdavis/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ibrittdavis
- Website: https://x.com/ibrittdavis

Brittany Davis is a seed investor at Backstage Capital in San Francisco focused on Toys and Beauty. Brittany Davis - General Partner @ Backstage Capital

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Toys | 1 | 25% |
| Beauty | 1 | 25% |
| EdTech | 1 | 25% |
| Women's | 1 | 25% |
| Big Data | 1 | 25% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| EdLight | EdLight lets teachers quickly see and give feedback on authentic student work. | $4M | Seed | Mar 27, 2024 |  |
| Cloudnine Augmented Intelligence (AI) | 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 |  |
| Healthy Roots Dolls | Healthy Roots is a toy company that creates dolls and storybooks aimed to teach natural hair care to young girls of color.It aims to empower girls through education, diversity, and positive representation by utilizing a doll, book, and app to teach natural hair care to young girls. The dolls come in different skin tones, facial features, and hairtextures to represent the diversity of the African diaspora. Its first Black doll, Zoe, was launched in 2019, which combines educational play experience with curly hair care. The doll's hair can be styled in a variety of ways with the guidance of the Big Book of Hair. The Big Book of Hair is an illustrated manual for natural hair care. Healthy Roots Dolls' app allows users to track their hair health and get curated content for their specific hair needs to be based on the data they input. Yelitsa Jean-Charles founded the Detroit, Michigan-based company in 2015. | $1M | Seed | Feb 05, 2021 |  |
| Healthy Roots Dolls | Healthy Roots is a toy company that creates dolls and storybooks aimed to teach natural hair care to young girls of color.It aims to empower girls through education, diversity, and positive representation by utilizing a doll, book, and app to teach natural hair care to young girls. The dolls come in different skin tones, facial features, and hairtextures to represent the diversity of the African diaspora. Its first Black doll, Zoe, was launched in 2019, which combines educational play experience with curly hair care. The doll's hair can be styled in a variety of ways with the guidance of the Big Book of Hair. The Big Book of Hair is an illustrated manual for natural hair care. Healthy Roots Dolls' app allows users to track their hair health and get curated content for their specific hair needs to be based on the data they input. Yelitsa Jean-Charles founded the Detroit, Michigan-based company in 2015. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2018 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alpha Bridge Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpha-bridge-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Broadway Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/broadway-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Charter School Growth Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charter-school-growth-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Flybridge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flybridge-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Lightship Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightship-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [New Voices Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-voices-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About 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.

5 contacts available at Backstage Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brittany Davis | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brittany-davis-ba15 |
| Susan Kimberlin | Founding Limited Partner, Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/susan-kimberlin |
| Adam Mutschler | Mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-mutschler |
| Andre Blackman | Mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andre-blackman-796c |
| Paul Griffiths | Limited Partner and Angel Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-griffiths-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Brittany Davis invest in?

Brittany Davis invests primarily in Toys, Beauty and EdTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Brittany Davis last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brittany Davis closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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