# Lucy Guo

> Lucy Guo is a seed investor at Backend Capital backing Software and Information Technology. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Backend Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backend-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-guo-a7804955/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/lucy_guo
- Website: https://www.lucy.ws/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/guoforit

Lucy Guo is a seed investor at Backend Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Lucy Guo is the co-founder of Scale AI, currently worth $7.3B. Scale accelerates its customers' AI development by democratizing access to intelligent data (companies using Scale include Lyft, Cruise, and nuTonomy). She is now the CEO of Passes.com, a Web3 creator platform. Lucy has invested early stage into unicorns such as Pave, Ramp, andFabric and helps founders with her depth of experiences as a viral app creator (15M+ users), product designer (first woman at Snap), and founder. She is a Forbes 30 under 30 recipient and Thiel Fellow.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 42% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 25% |
| Music | 2 | 17% |
| Communities | 2 | 17% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 83% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sieve | Sieve develops AI infrastructure focusing primarily on video data intended to help developers spend less time building data infrastructure and computer vision models themselves. Founded in late 2021 by Mokshith Voodarla and Abhinav Ayalur, the company creates APIs, infrastructure, and abstractions empowering teams to process, search, and understandvideo. | $4M | Seed | Nov 14, 2022 |  |
| Creative Intell | Creative Intell is the artificial intelligence-powered dealmaking platform for the music industry. The AI-powered dealmaking platform for the music industry. Leveling the playing field for artists, producers, and their lawyers. | $3M | Seed | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Myria | Annually, the wealthiest 300,000 people spend $1.3 million each on their lifestyle, but still struggle to find everything they want. - The most sought-after products, services, and experiences are never listed online. - Private events, private clubs, and numerous other categories are not accessible. - The best people don't need the web tofind clients or jobs. Myria is a private marketplace & community where all participants are fully vetted. Our offers are exclusive and otherwise unavailable online. Myria helps off-market sellers reach the nicest, richest, and most quailed buyers on Earth. In turn, we help the world’s most successful people find the best of everything and get the most out of life. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Mar 21, 2022 |  |
| FUEGO.io | AI-Native Mobile Commerce Platform |  | Seed | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Tonic | A community space for musicians of all levels to practice and perform everyday. Backed by angels including cofounders of YouTube, Twitch, and Twitter Spaces. |  | Seed | Nov 08, 2021 |  |
| Flux | Flux is built on a simple belief: hardware design should be as effortless as typing a prompt. Our browser‑native AI hardware engineer turns that vision into reality, shouldering the entire electronics workflow so teams can move from idea to market at record speed. Hand it a high‑level requirement and watch it deliver: schematic capture, PCB layout,instant part procurement, peer‑grade reviews, programmable simulation, real‑time version control, and continuous cost‑versus‑performance optimization. | $12M | Seed | Oct 13, 2021 |  |
| Awning | Awning is a technology platform and brokerage built exclusively for individuals to invest in single-family rental properties, on a mission to make investing in real estate simple and accessible for everyone. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $9.3M | Seed | Sep 23, 2021 |  |
| The Plug Drink | The Plug Drink is a plant-based functional drink with liver-aiding ingredients designed to support the body’s metabolism. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 12, 2021 |  |
| Firstbase | Firstbase is a remote work management platform. They make IT and HR teams' jobs by providing employees with the technology, furniture, and equipment they need to conduct remote work. Their management services include onboarding, order, asset, and inventory management. | $13M | Series A | Apr 29, 2021 |  |
| Yobs | Instantly record, transcribe and analyze Zoom interviews to hire better, faster. | $2.3M | Seed | Mar 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alpaca VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpaca-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Backend Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backend-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Forum Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forumventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lorimer Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lorimer-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Prototype Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/remote-first-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Backend Capital

VC Fund · Hollywood, United States

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

2 contacts available at Backend Capital.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Lucy Guo invest in?

Lucy Guo invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 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 Lucy Guo last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lucy Guo closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 12 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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