2 investors at Backstage Capital, based in Los Angeles, CA with $50M+ under management.
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Founder and Managing Partner, Backstage Capital
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.
General Partner, Backstage Capital
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.
Backstage Capital's investment team consists of 2 professionals, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA and managing $50M+ in assets. The team brings diverse backgrounds and specialized expertise to evaluate and support portfolio companies.
Across the team, Backstage Capital's investors cover expertise in Consumer, Enterprise, AI, SaaS. This breadth of sector knowledge enables the firm to evaluate opportunities across multiple verticals and provide specialized post-investment support to founders.
Backstage Capital has 2 investors and partners on their team, based in Los Angeles, CA. Each team member brings specialized expertise across different sectors and investment stages.
Backstage Capital's team consists of 2 investment professionals. View individual investor profiles above for detailed backgrounds, focus areas, and portfolio companies.
Backstage Capital manages approximately $50M+ in assets under management with a team of 2 investment professionals, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.
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