# Erin Sietstra

> Erin Sietstra is a seed investor at Hopelab backing Health Care, SMS and Fitness. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Hopelab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hopelab)
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinsietstra/

Erin Sietstra is a seed investor at Hopelab focused on Health Care and SMS. Erin Sietstra is the Head of Investments at Hopelab. Erin Sietstra attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 5 | 71% |
| SMS | 1 | 14% |
| Fitness | 1 | 14% |
| Medical | 1 | 14% |
| Women's | 1 | 14% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Series C | 1 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Caraway | Caraway is a digital healthcare company for college women+ that provides integrated mental, reproductive and physical healthcare services. Built with students for students, Caraway arms women+ with the first personalized, equitable and digitally-accessible care solution that prioritizes their needs and concerns. With an unprecedented need formental health resources and new barriers and persistent inequities in women’s+ health, Caraway provides access to trusted, holistic, and compassionate healthcare so women+ can get the care they need when they need it. | $16.8M | Series A | Jun 20, 2023 |  |
| Brave Health | Brave Health is an online platform that offers therapy and medication management for psychiatric conditions to improve mental health. | $40M | Series C | Oct 11, 2022 |  |
| InStride Health | InStride Health provides evidence-based OCD and anxiety treatment to keep kids and teenagers engaged along the way. |  |  | Oct 03, 2022 |  |
| InStride Health | InStride Health provides evidence-based OCD and anxiety treatment to keep kids and teenagers engaged along the way. | $26M | Series A | Oct 03, 2022 |  |
| Violet | Violet is a platform that helps the healthcare industry deliver more inclusive services. It enables identity-centered care for everyone. | $4.1M | Seed | Aug 15, 2022 |  |
| Caraway | Caraway is a digital healthcare company for college women+ that provides integrated mental, reproductive and physical healthcare services. Built with students for students, Caraway arms women+ with the first personalized, equitable and digitally-accessible care solution that prioritizes their needs and concerns. With an unprecedented need formental health resources and new barriers and persistent inequities in women’s+ health, Caraway provides access to trusted, holistic, and compassionate healthcare so women+ can get the care they need when they need it. | $10.5M | Seed | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| MindRight Health | MindRight Health's mission is to advance health equity by making mental health care radically accessible and inclusive of communities of color and low-income families. MindRight partners with healthcare payers and providers to offer culturally-responsive mental health coaching over a text message. MindRight's members receive a personalteam of coaches who proactively support them 7 days/week, 365 days/year. Through its service, MindRight is creating a continuum of support that does not generally exist for youth. For communities who do not traditionally engage in clinical services due to high stigma and lack of access, MindRight serves as an ongoing source of culturally responsive, nonclinical support. MindRight provides its partners with real-time data on community mental health needs to predict and prevent mental health crises in the communities. | $1.8M | Seed | May 24, 2022 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [7wire Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/7wire-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [.406 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/406-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lifeforce Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lifeforce-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mass General Brigham Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mass-general-brigham-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [OMERS Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/omers-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Hopelab

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Hopelab is a social innovation lab and impact investor advancing entrepreneurs, research, digital health, and solutions that support and empower young people, especially those from historically underserved communities. The organization works to remove systemic barriers to youth mental health and emotional well-being through targeted social impactinvestments, hands-on design and research support for digital innovation, and translational science partnerships. Learn more at hopelab.org.

3 contacts available at Hopelab.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Erin Sietstra | Head of Investments | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erin-sietstra-0f06 |
| Margaret Laws | President and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/margaret-laws |
| Pam Omidyar | Founder & Board Chair | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pam-omidyar |

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## FAQ

### What does Erin Sietstra invest in?

Erin Sietstra invests primarily in Health Care, SMS and Fitness startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Erin Sietstra last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Erin Sietstra closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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