Investing Profile

Lucy Guo(474)

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Founder/General Partner at Backend Capital
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38 Investors

Connected to Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Josh Elman (Greylock Partners), and 35 other investors on Signal.

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Current Investing Position
Backend Capital General Partner
Investment Range
$100K - $10.0M
Sweet Spot
$10.0M
Investments On Record
5
Current Fund Size
$72M

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Lucy Guo's Investments On Record (5)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Sieve
SeedNov 2022$4M
$4.5M
Co-investors: Jake Jolis (Zeno Partners), Ryan Chan, Tom Blomfield
Creative Intell
SeedJul 2022$3M
$3M
FUEGO.io
SeedMar 2022
Co-investors: Aneel Ranadive (Soma Capital)
Firstbase
Series AApr 2021$13M
$65M
Co-investors: David Ulevitch (Andreessen Horowitz), Beth Turner (SV Angel), Qiang "Larry" Li (AMINO Capital), James Murphy (Forum Ventures), Andreas Klinger (Prototype Capital), Adrian Aoun (500 Startups Korea), Cyan Banister (Long Journey Ventures), Michael Cardamone (Forum Ventures), David Goldberg (Alpaca VC), Peggy Grigus Mangot (Pioneer Fund), Karen Page (Binhai Venture Capital (Tianjin Binhai VC Investment Management Co., Ltd.)), Johnny Boufarhat (RingCentral Events), Ryan Simonetti (Revolution Growth), Rob Biederman (Asymmetric Capital Partners), Huican Zhu (AMINO Capital), Mac Reddin (The Club), Joshua Coyne (Kleiner Perkins), Sue Xu, James Watt
MainStreet
Seed RoundJun 2020$2.3M
$72M
Co-investors: Topher Conway (SV Angel), Anna Patterson (Gradient Ventures), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Chris Farmer (SignalFire), Anton Simunovic (Alumni Ventures ), Jackson Moses (Afore Capital), Matt Scott (Alumni Ventures ), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Kevin Weil (OpenAI), Alex Roetter (Moxxie Ventures), Elizabeth Weil (Scribble Ventures), Andreas Klinger (Prototype Capital), Niv Dror (Shrug Capital), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Chris Moreno (Engage Ventures), Jordan Nof (Tusk Venture Partners), Adam Bain (01 Advisors), Bradley Tusk (Tusk Venture Partners), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Andrea Funsten (Basecamp Fund), Ashley Flucas (Flucas Ventures), Yagiz Sozmen (Core Finance), Moshe Lifschitz (Basement Fund), Katie Stanton (Moxxie Ventures), Peter Hunn, Zach Segal, Tyler Willis, Alper Kiresepi, Rudra Peram, Howard Charney

Lucy Guo's Experience

Chief Executive Officer Passes2022 - Present
Founder/General Partner Backend Capital2019 - Present
Owner Freelance and Side Projects2016 - Present
Founder and CEO Nepasoft solutionsPresent
Chief Technology Officer Nepasoft solutionsPresent
Owner Nepasoft solutionsPresent
Founder/General Partner Nepasoft solutionsPresent
Co-Founder Stealth Company (Lucy Guo)Present
Founder and CEO NewCoPresent
Software Engineering Intern ENDLESSPresent
Chief Technology Officer NewCoPresent
Product Designer Snap Inc.Present
Co Founder Scale AIPresent
Owner NewCoPresent
Founder/General Partner NewCoPresent
Co Founder Scale API2016 - 2018
Product Designer Snapchat, Inc.2015 - 2016
Product Designer Quora2015 - 2015
Software Engineering Intern Facebook2014 - 2014
Software Engineering Intern Endless Mobile2013 - 2013
Chief Technology Officer Science for Youth2011 - 2013
Founder and CEO Miscellany Businesses2008 - 2011

Lucy Guo's Education

Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science & Human-Computer Interactions
Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science