Investing Profile

Lucy Guo(474)

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Founder/General Partner at Backend Capital
lucy.wsSan Francisco Bay Area
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Lucy Guo's investing connections

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35 Investors

Connected to Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Josh Elman, and 32 other investors on Signal.

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Carnegie Mellon University Network
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Current Investing Position
Backend Capital General Partner
Investment Range
$100K - $10.0M
Sweet Spot
$10.0M
Investments On Record
3
Current Fund Size
$72M

Lucy Guo is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Lucy Guo's Investments On Record (3)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Sieve
SeedNov 2022$4M
$4M
Co-investors: Jake Jolis (Matrix), Ryan Chan
Creative Intell
SeedJul 2022$3M
$3M
MainStreet
Seed RoundJun 2020$2.3M
$72M
Co-investors: Chris Farmer (SignalFire), Topher Conway (SV Angel), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Jackson Moses (Afore Capital), Matt Scott (Alumni Ventures ), Anton Simunovic (Alumni Ventures ), Alex Roetter (Moxxie Ventures), Elizabeth Weil (Scribble Ventures), Andreas Klinger (Prototype Capital), Niv Dror (Shrug Capital), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Jordan Nof (Tusk Venture Partners), Bradley Tusk (Tusk Venture Partners), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Adam Bain (01 Advisors), Katie Stanton (Moxxie Ventures), Andrea Funsten (Basecamp Fund), Ashley Flucas (Flucas Ventures), Peter Hunn, Kevin Weil, Yagiz Sozmen, Tyler Willis, Alper Kiresepi, Rudra Peram, Zach Segal, Moshe Lifschitz, Howard Charney, Anna Patterson

Lucy Guo's Experience

Chief Executive Officer Passes2022 - Present
Founder/General Partner Backend Capital2019 - Present
Owner Freelance and Side Projects2016 - Present
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
Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science & Human-Computer Interactions