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Founder30Current founder
38th percentile
Investor290Current investor
100th percentile
Combined
Hustle Fund co-founder and GP with four unicorns and a NerdWallet IPO
Credibility
this founder typical investor (50th pct)
Portfolio Scale · 99th percentile
- Hustle Fund portfolio includes four unicorns: Gamma, Webflow, Boom Supersonic, and Mercury (each valued above $1B).
- Hustle Fund has made a large volume of pre-seed investments across multiple funds, consistent with 50+ active investments.
- Previously a Partner at 500 Startups, a globally recognized seed-stage accelerator and VC firm.
- Approximately 10 years of investing experience, spanning her time as a Partner at 500 Startups (circa 2015) through Hustle Fund (2017–present).
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Current co-founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, a pre-seed venture fund she co-founded in 2017.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)hustlefund.vc ranks #360,242 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past founder of LaunchBit, an adtech company she co-founded and ran before its acquisition in 2014.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Hustle Fund was co-founded with Eric Bahn, confirming a co-founder relationship.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)LaunchBit was acquired by BuySellAds in 2014 (acquisition price undisclosed, floored to minimum).
Investor score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Active GP and co-founder of Hustle Fund, a pre-seed venture fund she has run since 2017.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Partner at Hustle Fund, a recognized early-stage VC firm with multiple fund closes covered by TechCrunch.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Previously a Partner at 500 Startups, a globally recognized seed-stage accelerator and VC firm.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Publicly identified as an active angel investor and pre-seed fund manager across multiple independent sources.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Hustle Fund portfolio includes four unicorns: Gamma, Webflow, Boom Supersonic, and Mercury (each valued above $1B).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Portfolio company NerdWallet went public via IPO, representing a significant portfolio exit.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Approximately 10 years of investing experience, spanning her time as a Partner at 500 Startups (circa 2015) through Hustle Fund.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Hustle Fund has made a large volume of pre-seed investments across multiple funds, consistent with 50+ active investments.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that put you in front of institutional LPs and family offices who can anchor Hustle Fund IV, where your NerdWallet IPO and unicorn track record do the talking. Roundtables with other pre-seed GPs and operator-turned-investors would let you pressure-test fund positioning and Southeast Asia expansion strategy with peers who get the nuance. You'd also benefit from intimate gatherings that connect your portfolio founders to the Stanford, MIT, and 500 Startups networks you've built over decades.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA dinner for institutional LPs and family office allocators actively writing checks into pre-seed funds, where you can road-test the Hustle Fund IV pitch anchored by the NerdWallet IPO and your four unicorn portfolio companies
- positioningA roundtable of pre-seed GPs who've closed Fund III or IV to swap LP objection-handling tactics and benchmark how to frame a unicorn-heavy track record letter for the current fundraising climate
- introsA dinner co-hosted with 500 Startups and Stanford/MIT alumni network leads to systematically pipeline warm hiring and early customer introductions for your Hustle Fund portfolio companies
- tacticalA happy hour for GPs who run structured angel community or scout programs — like Hustle Fund's angel syndicate — to trade playbooks on deal sourcing diversification and carry structures that retain top angels
- tacticalA roundtable with Singapore- and Southeast Asia-based pre-seed founders and local micro-fund GPs to pressure-test whether a dedicated Hustle Fund SEA allocation is warranted given current deal quality and check-size norms in the region
- positioningA dinner for operator-turned-GPs who've built large founder audiences on Twitter/X or Substack, focused on structuring a fundraising course or cohort program that deepens deal flow without cannibalizing fund positioning
- wellbeingAn intimate office-hours session with GPs who've scaled past 20,000 inbound pitches to share associate hiring frameworks, structured review processes, and triage systems that protect decision quality at volume