# Susan Kimberlin

> Susan Kimberlin is a seed investor at Backstage Capital (San Francisco) backing SaaS and Software. See 8 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: 8
- Last investment: Sep 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susankimberlin/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/SusanSearchPro
- Website: https://x.com/SusanSearchPro

Susan Kimberlin is a seed investor at Backstage Capital in San Francisco focused on SaaS and Software. Susan is an angel investor and startup advisor in San Francisco, where she has a front-row seat to an amazing variety of new ventures. She is passionate about making connections and helping people meet their potential. Susan believes that diversity is an essential and under-utilized asset to all businesses. She focuses on enterprise businessesand technology. Her background is in search and natural language processing technology and her operational experience spans product development roles from coding to product management at both startups and Fortune 500 companies like PayPal and Salesforce.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$4.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 4 | 50% |
| Software | 4 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 38% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 38% |
| Analytics | 2 | 25% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 75% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 88% |
| Kenya | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Question Base | AI-powered knowledge base on top of Slack | $600K | Pre-Seed | Sep 12, 2023 |  |
| Yobs | Instantly record, transcribe and analyze Zoom interviews to hire better, faster. | $2.3M | Seed | Mar 01, 2021 |  |
| Fiifi | fiifi is founded on the belief that private company investing will continue to have exponential growth, and in order for investors to stay competitive, they need to have better decision making tools. Designed to be the product of choice for analysis of portfolio, deal flow, diligence, group collaboration, workflows, and expedient investing. Thesoftware works for scouts, angels, funds, family offices & PE firms.Fintech, Venture Capital, Angel Investing, Seed Investing, SaaS, Private Company Investing |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2020 |  |
| Fireflies.ai | Fireflies works across all the major video-conferencing platforms including Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, etc. Search your meetings and have your meeting data automatically populated inside apps like Salesforce, Slack, and Dropbox.Fireflies.ai was founded in 2016 by Krish Ramineni and Sam Udotong and is based in San Francisco,California, United States. | $4.9M | Seed | Oct 28, 2019 |  |
| Pavilion | CoProcure aims to solve the information gap in public purchasing. Local U.S. governments spend $1.5T / year (7% of U.S. GDP) buying goods and services. Government buyers must purchase from contracts created through formal competitive bidding, a 4-24 month-long process. As an alternative to creating a new contract, buyers may purchase fromcontracts that other governments have created. Today, about 20% of government purchasing flows through shareable contracts, which government buyers discover via phone calls and emails to colleagues. CoProcure’s marketplace of competitively bid contracts can be reused by government buyers, saving government employees time, taxpayers money, and reducing the cost of selling to governments for suppliers. CoProcure does not sell to governments, so we avoid going through procurement ourselves. | $1.5M | Seed | May 16, 2019 |  |
| Visage | Visage automates candidate discovery and engagement while enabling teams to increase productivity by building predictable candidate pipelines, increasing hiring efficiency, and simplifying team-based work management. With AI and human-powered sourcing capabilities, Visage is able to identify the most relevant skills and experience and deliver largebatches of high quality candidates who can be moved through the pipeline with automated engagement tools that fully integrate with top ATS systems. | $1.5M | Seed | Nov 20, 2017 |  |
| mSURVEY | mSurvey is a mobile survey platform driving decision-making for businesses across the continent of Africa and the Caribbean. mSurvey works with some well-known brands across the world; reducing churn, improving customer service, and increasing their Net Promoter Score. We solve the problem of customer service to market research with a technologyand team that have deep local reach.We open up communication lines between our customers, their employees, and their customers. |  | Seed | Aug 26, 2016 |  |
| People Data Labs | Use our dataset of 1.5 billion unique person profiles to build products, enrich person profiles, power predictive modeling/AI, analysis, and more. We work with technical teams as their engineering focused people data partner. We work with thousands of data science teams as their engineering focused people data partner. These includeenterprises like adidas, eBay, and Acxiom, as well as startups like Madison Logic, Zoho, and Workable. We are a deeply technical company, and are backed by two leading engineering venture capital firms - Founders Fund and 8VC. | $2.2M | Seed | Aug 01, 2016 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Backend Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backend-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blacktop Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blacktop-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Coelius Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coelius-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CSC Upshot](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/csc-upshot) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Flight Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flight-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Forum Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forumventures) — 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 Susan Kimberlin invest in?

Susan Kimberlin invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Susan Kimberlin's check size?

Susan Kimberlin typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$4.9M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Susan Kimberlin participates in.

### When did Susan Kimberlin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Susan Kimberlin closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 8 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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