What does Backstage Capital invest in?
Backstage Capital invests most often at Venture and Seed (60% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Health Care, Industry and Mobile.

United States · Investor
Last cheque observed Jan 2026; 53 cheques on record.
VC firmDeploying nowLast fund $52K, Mar 2023
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2 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Venture and Seed: 60% of its rounds
Sole investor in 10 rounds, median $220K
Backstage Capital has invested in 200 companies led by underrepresented founders.From their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first53 appearances
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2 rounds
9 rounds
4 rounds
12 rounds
10 rounds
5 rounds
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration6 named
We also hold 11 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
The investors most often in the same rounds as Backstage Capital. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies Backstage Capital put money into.
Episodes that name Backstage Capital in their description, not their title.

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Backstage Capital invests most often at Venture and Seed (60% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Health Care, Industry and Mobile.
53 investments on record, 2 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Jan 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Novoron Bioscience (Grant, Jan 2026), CreditRich AI (Series A, Dec 2025) and OmniSpeech (Pre-seed, Nov 2025).
The median round it joins is $875K.
Rarely, if at all: none of its 53 investments on record names it as the lead.
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (97%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 2 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often Techstars (11 rounds together), Google for Startups (10 rounds together) and Right Side Capital Management (5 rounds together).
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