Elizabeth Yin is the co-founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund. See contact routes.
Elizabeth Yin is the co-founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, a pre-seed venture capital firm she launched in mid-2017 with Eric Bon. Her investment thesis targets hilariously early software startups globally, with a focus on the U.S., Canada, and Southeast Asia. Prior to Hustle Fund, she was a partner at 500 Startups where she invested in seed-stage companies and ran the Mountain View accelerator. Typical check sizes range from $5,000 to $250,000, and she has deployed capital across categories including social, marketplace, and CPG. While specific lead/follow behavior is not explicitly detailed, her fund emphasizes writing early checks and providing tactical, no-BS startup advice to founders before product-market fit. Notable portfolio companies include startups featured on The Pitch podcast where she invested $1.7M across 17 deals, though specific company names are not listed in the provided sources. Yin is a frequent public writer on startup fundraising, with her work featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, and Huffington Post, and she has reviewed over 20,000 startup pitches.
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