Current Firm
Backstage Capital
Focus
Consumer, Enterprise
Arlan Hamilton built Backstage Capital while experiencing homelessness and sleeping on airport floors, teaching herself venture capital from books and online resources without any traditional finance background, having previously worked as a bank data-entry worker and music tour manager. She deliberately reframes minority founders as underestimated rather than underrepresented, trademarking the term for financial services, and has created what she calls scalable mentorship through books and content because she was receiving hundreds of mentorship requests and wanted to transfer everything she learned from food stamps to raising tens of millions at scale.
Arlan Hamilton is a Founder and Managing Partner, Backstage Capital at Backstage Capital, based in Los Angeles, CA.
Arlan's investment focus spans Consumer, Enterprise, AI, SaaS, primarily investing at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B+ stages. This specialization allows for deep domain knowledge and strong network effects that benefit portfolio companies.
Arlan Hamilton is a Founder and Managing Partner, Backstage Capital at Backstage Capital, based in Los Angeles, CA. Their investment focus includes Consumer, Enterprise, AI.
Arlan Hamilton focuses on investments in Consumer, Enterprise, AI, SaaS through Backstage Capital. These focus areas reflect their domain expertise and the types of startups they actively seek to back.
Arlan Hamilton is currently at Backstage Capital, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, serving as Founder and Managing Partner, Backstage Capital.