# Sam Parr

> Sam Parr is a seed investor at The Hustle (San Francisco) backing Software and Health Care. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [The Hustle](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-hustle)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parrsam/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/theSamParr
- Website: https://x.com/theSamParr
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parrs

Sam Parr is a seed investor at The Hustle in San Francisco focused on Software and Health Care. Sam is the founder & CEO of The Hustle – one of America’s fastest-growing media companies with a focus on millennials, tech, and culture. He also runs Hustle Con, an annual conference in San Francisco that showcases non-technical startup founders.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.7M–$10M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.2M–$3.5M |
| Series A | $23M–$33M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 21% |
| Health Care | 3 | 21% |
| B2B | 2 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 14% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 43% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 36% |
| Series A | 2 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 86% |
| Canada | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hone Health | Hone treats men's hormone imbalances and low testosterone with at-home lab testing, physician consultations, and medication | $33M | Series A | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Harbor | Harbor is an infant care technology company that focuses on transforming the way to take care of young children and their families. | $7M | Seed | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| Harbor | Harbor is an infant care technology company that focuses on transforming the way to take care of young children and their families. | $3.7M | Seed | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| Auction.io | Auction.io is a business-to-business SaaS solution provider that offers customizable single and multiple-vendor e-commerce auction markets. |  | Seed | Oct 20, 2023 |  |
| Safe | Safe is an app that provides an email security service that verifies contacts. Safe was founded in 2021. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 23, 2023 |  |
| Popup | Popup is the no-code commerce platform that lets you control the customer journey, visually. | $3.5M | Pre-Seed | Nov 22, 2022 |  |
| Harmonic.ai | Harmonic connects entrepreneurs with the resources & capital they need to drive innovation. Harmonic's data engine provides insights into startups & professionals, allowing its users to identify opportunities using fresh company information. Harmonic was established in 2020 in San Francisco, California. | $23M | Series A | Nov 06, 2022 |  |
| Givebutter | Givebutter is a product-led company that develops an operating system for nonprofit fundraising. It was founded in 2016 by Ari Krasner, Liran Cohen, and Max Friedman. | $7M | Seed | Jun 27, 2022 |  |
| Kabata | The world's first AI-powered dumbbells, Kabata is able to analyze and comprehend your fitness metrics to deliver increasingly efficient, effective, engaging workouts. Kabata’s algorithms constantly learn what is most enjoyable - and most effective - for each user, getting smarter as you get stronger. | $2M | Pre-Seed | May 05, 2022 |  |
| Consensus | The consensus is to enable discovery and consumption of the world's expert knowledge. No matter your background, finding scientific research has always been a difficult procedure. Consensus think AI has the potential to transform this equation if applied intelligently, deftly, and tastefully. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Dec 15, 2021 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Great Wave Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agya-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Capital Factory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-factory) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Morrison Seger Venture Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morrison-seger-venture-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Republic capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/republic-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SRM Development](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/srm-development) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About The Hustle

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

The Hustle is the most trusted source for business news. We use our no nonsense voice to explain the latest in business, startups, tech, and whatever else is happening in this outlandish world of ours.

2 contacts available at The Hustle.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sam Parr | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-parr |
| Brad Wolverton | Head of Content | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brad-wolverton |

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## FAQ

### What does Sam Parr invest in?

Sam Parr invests primarily in Software, Health Care and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 14 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 Sam Parr's check size?

Sam Parr typically joins rounds of $3.7M–$10M at Seed, $1.2M–$3.5M at Pre-Seed and $23M–$33M 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 Sam Parr participates in.

### When did Sam Parr last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sam Parr closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 14 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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