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What does Hustle Fund invest in?
Hustle Fund invests most often at Seed and Pre-seed (62% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Software.
Hustle Fund highlights
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42 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Pre-seed: 62% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 26 rounds, median $1.0M
What they do
Hustle Fund invests $150K in hilariously early pre-seed software startupsFrom their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- $150K – $150K as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seed
- Sectors
- Software
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first280 appearances
- 2026
35 rounds
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- 2025
69 rounds
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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.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration5 named
BNBrian NicholsManageriFiling they signed
EYElizabeth YinManaging Member of the General Partner and Investment ManageriFiling they signed
EDEric Dale BahnManaging Member of the General Partner and Investment ManageriFiling they signed
JMJamie MelzerManageriFiling they signed
SKShiyan KohManaging Member of the General Partner and Investment ManageriFiling they signed
We also hold 37 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.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$136Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Hustle Fund Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 291058
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
6 of 9 we have independently watched raise
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.