# Hustle Fund

> Hustle Fund is a VC fund in San Carlos backing Software and FinTech. See 513 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Carlos, United States
- Total investments: 513
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hustle-fund
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/hustlefundvc
- Website: http://hustlefund.vc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hustlefundvc

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $808k–$6M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$2.5M |
| Series A | $4M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 60 | 12% |
| FinTech | 38 | 7% |
| Financial Services | 35 | 7% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 29 | 6% |
| Information Technology | 25 | 5% |

224 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 128 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 100 | 19% |
| Series A | 20 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 15 | 3% |
| Convertible Note | 4 | 1% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 122 | 24% |
| Singapore | 19 | 4% |
| Canada | 12 | 2% |
| Nigeria | 7 | 1% |
| Vietnam | 5 | 1% |

28 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cjin Cheng | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cjin-cheng |
| Elizabeth Yin | Co-Founder & General Partner | 42 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elizabeth-yin |
| Amit Patel | Hustle Fund Angels | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-patel-3 |
| Anna Kanze Hamilton | Angel Squad Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anna-kanze-hamilton |
| Blake Smith | Investor - Angel Squad | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blake-smith-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Orbital Sentry | Orbital Sentry is a space technology and deep tech startup building a new generation of geostationary (GEO) satellites designed to provide continuous, real-time Earth monitoring. Rather than providing periodic, static satellite snapshots, the platform delivers a continuous live data stream to transform how organizations track environmental andclimate risks. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 03, 2026 |  |
| Storika | Storika is a fully automated AI agent that helps brands discover and collaborate with creators for marketing campaigns across social media. The company offers its service via a web platform and typically charges customers during checkout when they initiate a campaign. |  | Seed | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| Secludy | Secludy is privacy-guaranteed AI training made easy. We use advanced privacy technology to generate synthetic datasets that mimic your original dataset so that you can train your AI models on your most valuable data – without risks of leaking PII.With Secludy, you can:- Enable privacy-guaranteed fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) forAI assistants, chatbots, and other machine learning applications.- Deploy within your cloud - use Secludy without sharing any data with us.- Stay compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA. | $4M | Seed | May 13, 2026 |  |
| Formas.AI | Formas.AI is a multi-modal, AI-powered design platform specifically built for architects, designers, and educators to generate and visualize creative architectural concepts. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Apr 29, 2026 |  |
| Clave | AI for QSR franchises | $850K | Pre-Seed | Apr 20, 2026 |  |
| Sage Haven | Sage Haven develops an AI-moderated messaging and calling app designed for children in their early years online. The app issues children a dedicated Sage Haven number and routes messaging and voice calls through its platform while allowing contacts to use services like iMessage or Google Messages. Parents create and verify accounts, approve eachcontact, and supervise conversations from their own phones with alerts, recaps, and safety insights. The service uses automated content moderation to block harmful or inappropriate messages, links, images, and videos before they are sent and to guide children toward safer communication practices. It supports Wi-Fi and cellular use on iOS devices, with tools aimed at reducing exposure to online bullying, spam, and addictive usage patterns. Sage Haven operates as a public benefit corporation balancing commercial activity with a mission to improve children’s mental health and well-being. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| Keebler Health | AI-Enabled Coding for Medical Billing Teams | $16M | Series A | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| OnSite | OnSite is a messaging and communication platform built specifically for construction and field‑service teams. It helps teams coordinate tasks, share updates, and manage project‑related information directly within a chat‑style interface. The platform also turns routine conversations into structured documentation to reduce manual admin work and keepproject records organized. | $1.3M | Seed | Apr 08, 2026 |  |
| Alloy | A digital marketplace designed to offer consumers a way to sell gold, silver, and platinum jewelry and bullion. The company's platform offers features such as free insured shipping, same-day payments, and lab-grade evaluation using advanced X-ray fluorescence technology, enabling individuals seeking to sell jewelry or scrap metal to receivefair value and generate income. | $600K | Seed | Apr 06, 2026 |  |
| Catalog | Catalog is the data infrastructure powering agentic commerce.As shopping shifts from websites to AI-driven interfaces, brands need product data that machines can understand, not just humans. Catalog ingests a brand’s existing catalog, enriches it with structured attributes, context, and real-time signals, and delivers it in formats optimized forAI systems.This enables products to be accurately understood, matched to shopper intent, and recommended across AI surfaces such as ChatGPT and emerging commerce protocols.Catalog also provides an AI storefront - a parallel experience designed specifically for AI agents - ensuring that when machines access a product page, they receive clean, structured, and up-to-date information without impacting the human shopping experience.By transforming raw product data into machine-readable intelligence, Catalog helps brands increase visibility, improve recommendation quality, and compete in a world where AI is becoming the primary interface for discovery and purchase. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Mar 24, 2026 |  |

10 of 513 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 60 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 27 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 25 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 20 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 19 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 13 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Hustle Fund invest in?

Hustle Fund invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 513 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Hustle Fund's check size?

Hustle Fund typically joins rounds of $808k–$6M at Seed, $100k–$2.5M at Pre-Seed and $4M–$25M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Hustle Fund participates in.

### How do I contact Hustle Fund?

Public channels for Hustle Fund include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Hustle Fund?

The team at Hustle Fund includes Cjin Cheng (Venture Partner), Elizabeth Yin (Co-Founder & General Partner) and Amit Patel (Hustle Fund Angels), among 25 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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