Arlan Hamilton- Founder & Managing Partner of Backstage Capital

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Arlan Hamilton is the founder and managing partner of Backstage Capital, a venture fund that dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential female, minority and LGBTQ founders. Arlan built her fund from the ground up, without the connections or experience most others VCs boast—and while she was homeless. Since 2015, Backstage has invested nearly $5M into over 100 startups led by underestimated founders. And in early May of 2018, Backstage announced that it had raised an additional $36M fund, which Arlan calls her “It’s About Damn Time Fund.” She’s using it to write $1M checks to 36 Black female founders. Today, she’s explaining her path, giving honest advice for career changers, and sharing exactly how you can fund your company.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, it's me. Sophia Amruzzo here from the Girl Boss HQ. We have a great guest coming up today, Arlen Hamilton of Backstage Capital.
0:12.7	We'll be here to chat about her journey
0:14.3	to become a venture capitalist
0:15.8	and how you can pitch your idea to her.
0:18.1	But first, I want to talk just a little bit
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1:55.0	which was likely given to us by a white-haired dude, somewhere in a boardroom in the 1960s.
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2:06.0	But it's time to make space for a few other definitions, for side hustles and well-being and failing forward,
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