Backstage Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Los Angeles, United States

Total investments

162

Average round size

1M

Portfolio companies

139

Rounds per year

18.00

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

2

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareWellnessAppsFashion

Summary

Backstage Capital appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the West Hollywood.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Backstage Capital, startups are often financed by SOSV, VTF Capital, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Techstars, Y Combinator, Wharton Angel Network. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Techstars, XFactor Ventures, The Syndicate Fund.

The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Health Care. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Mahmee, CareAcademy, Dark.

This organization was formed by Arlan Hamilton. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Backstage Capital works on 27 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2017.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataAR/VRMobilityB2B/Enterprise Show 19 more
Stage focus
SeedSeries APre-SeedSeries B
Geo focus
United States
Check size
From 100K

Preferences and restrictions

Requirements for founders
Female People of color LGBTQ

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
162
Lead investments
5
Exits
2
Rounds per year
18.00
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (30)
  • Software (26)
  • Internet (17)
  • Information Technology (16)
  • Mobile (12)
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Investments by region
  • United States (148)
  • United Kingdom (5)
  • Trinidad and Tobago (1)
Peak activity year
2017

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
7
Avg. valuation at time of investment
718K
Group Appearance index
0.48

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Patientory 05 Apr 2023 Information Technology, Health Care, Hospital, Cyber Security, Blockchain Seed 1M United States, Atlanta, Georgia
Please Assist Me 15 May 2018 Consumer Seed 75K United States, District of Columbia, Washington

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