Hustle Fund

Hustle Fund Management, LLC is a venture capital firm based in San Carlos, California, established in 2017. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, particularly in pre-seed startups, with a strong focus on technology-related companies. Hustle Fund primarily targets sectors such as software, business products, business services, consumer products, financial services, healthcare, e-commerce, and digital health. Its investment strategy emphasizes companies located in the United States, Canada, and Southeast Asia. As a Registered Investment Adviser, Hustle Fund aims to support innovative entrepreneurs and foster growth in the technology landscape.

Eric Bahn

Co-Founder & General Partner

Shiyan Koh

Managing Partner

Elizabeth Yin

Co-Founder & General Partner

Past deals in Pre-Seed Round

Arklow

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Compliance for AI Datasets and their Models.

Buk Technology

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Buk is a tokenization platform for the hospitality industry to enable transparent trading and reselling of hotel room bookings. The platform intends to change the way distribution works in the traditional hospitality industry with its novel approach of tokenizing hotel rooms. Its hotel inventory distribution infrastructure is based on NFT. Buk makes traditional hotel booking more flexible and decentralized.

SkillBank

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Pay $0 upfront and land your dream marketing job. At OnDelta, we invest in our students and we help them make their dreams attainable. Participants will only pay us back once they're making over $40k/year. We believe that everyone should have access to opportunity, regardless of their background.

Uprise

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Ontrail is a personalized financial advice service that helps optimize unique situations. The Company was founded by Chris Goodmacher and Jessica Chen Riolfi.

Casa

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Casa operates a smart mobile application designed for iOS and Android platforms, facilitating the search for roommates that align closely with users' preferences. In addition to this service, Casa also functions as a fintech platform aimed at contractors and individuals with disabilities. The platform provides various tools including storefronts, customer relationship management, lead generation, marketing automation, and digital payment solutions. These features enable contractors to operate more efficiently, receive payments promptly, access business capital, boost sales, and maximize profitability on projects. Through its dual focus, Casa supports both individuals seeking housing solutions and contractors in managing their business needs effectively.

Newcon

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Newcon is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) video platform that caters to content creators, such as conference organizers and speakers, by providing tools to enhance their return on investment. The platform allows users to distribute, monetize, and cultivate communities around their existing content, thereby fostering audience engagement and growth. Newcon enables event organizers and speakers to maintain ownership of their relationships with audiences, offering a personalized discovery experience for users looking for inspiring conference content. The platform supports various content formats, including video, audio, transcriptions, and keynote slides, making expert knowledge accessible and on-demand for anyone, anywhere.

Parker

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Parker is a pioneering investment and data platform modernizing the mobile home park industry. Our mission is to preserve, enhance, and expand our nation's supply of attainable housing. Our team is backed by Hustle Fund, Techstars, Global Founders Capital, Gold House Ventures, and more.

Akiba Digital

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Akiba Digital is a financial data aggregation company, that houses a data consolidation and enrichment engine that clusters, visualises and predicts consumer behaviour. Our vision is to build a company that is most effective at understanding and enhancing personal financial management for the African consumer.

AcadArena

Pre Seed Round in 2021
AcadArena is focused on developing student gaming communities throughout Southeast Asia. The organization offers educational services related to campus gaming and esports, targeting collegiate-level tournaments that cater to diverse skill sets and game titles. Through its initiatives, AcadArena provides opportunities for student gamers to participate in competitions, earn scholarships, and gain insights from experienced mentors in the esports field. This approach not only fosters a competitive spirit among students but also promotes learning and collaboration within the gaming community.

Ramped

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Ramped is a job skilling platform aimed at early career professionals, facilitating connections between employers and trained, vetted talent. The company focuses on developing workforce-ready candidates for leading employers by offering accessible education and resources. Ramped seeks to address biases often found in traditional resume evaluations, ensuring that jobseekers have the opportunity to connect with quality job opportunities. Through its innovative approach, Ramped aims to enhance the employability of early career individuals while meeting the hiring needs of top companies.

ORDA

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Star Kitchens provides digital solutions to African food merchants enabling them to scale their business. It is building the future of food commerce by developing software with a full-stack approach. Star Kitchens is led by an experienced team with scale-up experience at leading African companies such as Jumia, IrokoTV, Konga, and Lambert. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Cooby

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Cooby operates as a customer relationship management platform. Cooby provides tools for salespeople to automatically create client profiles, document meetings, track conversations, and manage tasks.

Blueloop

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Software Technology Company

Challenger Finance

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Challenger makes it easy for payments and money transfer businesses to issue digital bank accounts to their customers to drive customer loyalty.

Insured Nomads

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Insured Nomads is the first insurtech in global benefits, offering a full portfolio of insurance solutions for the globally mobile including international health, life and disability, travel insurance, and new technologies to complement these lines of business. Serving clients around the world, with numerous customer service points, they are a remote company operating a lean and agile enterprise with strategic partners in every region of the globe.

OthersideAI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
OthersideAI is an information technology company that provides AI-driven software that turns summaries and shorthand notes into written emails, enabling users to save time. The software is available as a Chrome Extension and is built on GPT-3, a general-purpose AI model from OpenAI which delivers natural-language results for virtually any task. It also offers a feature set to include personal style and tone settings. Jason Kuperberg, Matt Shumer, and Miles Feldstein, founded the company in 2020.

Doyobi

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Doyobi Pte Ltd operates an online coding school. The company offers science and coding courses that are used in programs supported by Google and the Singapore government. The company offers its products for children and young people aged 7-15 years. Its coding courses include scratch and python courses. The company’s courses are used by enrichment providers, schools, NGOs, teachers, and governments. Doyobi Pte Ltd was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Singapore.

Perfect Venue

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Find the perfect venue for your next event.

RiseFi

Pre Seed Round in 2019
RiseFi's mission was to find a financially inclusive path to building credit.

Athena

Pre Seed Round in 2019
As a mom with a young child over 20 years ago, Simone had a child support collection problem. She learned how to navigate the system and collect her money, making herself her own first customer. After her success, she started helping other moms at her home at her kitchen table, and eventually, she opened a bricks and mortar on a busy street in a store-front and operated it for many years. She has taken her years of experience and packaged it into a tech platform to help women collect the back child support they are entitled to.

Robomart

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Robomart, Inc. is a full-stack robotics company that has created the world's first store-hailing platform and the fastest way to shop. Robomarts are on-demand mobile stores, engineered with cutting-edge tech, including automation, a proprietary checkout-free system, and purpose-built refrigeration.

Bridgr

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Bridgr is a Marketplace that allows manufacturing SMBs find and collaborate with qualified experts to sustain, grow and digitalize their operations. It provides both parts a collaborative platform set to help them increase their productivity and work.