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| 20.09.2023 | Ukrainian-founded startup Deskree secures €1.4M in a seed round | Ukrainian-founded startup Deskree secures €1.4M in a seed round
20 September, 2023, 11:37
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| 24.08.2023 | Hustle Fund doubles down on its mission to build the ‘YC of angel investing’ | What do a chef in Turkey, a pilot in Australia, a physical therapist in Oregon, a submarine operator in the military and a DJ in the Bay Area all have in common?
They are all members of Hustle Fund’s Angel Squad, an investment community for... |
| 07.08.2023 | Polish company Satim secures €1.8M to advance satellite data processing | Polish company Satim secures €1.8M to advance satellite data processing
07 August, 2023, 15:26
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Kraków-based company Satim ha... |
| 14.06.2023 | Indonesian fintech Finfra raises $1M. Lithuanian FIRSTPICK and Latvian BADideas.fund are among the investors | Indonesian fintech Finfra raises $1M. Lithuanian FIRSTPICK and Latvian BADideas.fund are among the investors
14 June, 2023, 10:52
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| 14.12.2022 | Frustration and anger after SPV platform Assure dumps users at the curb ahead of holidays | Over the last decade or so, the once-clubby world of startup investing has been cracked wide open by a number of innovations, including special purpose vehicles (SPVs), which are essentially pop-up venture funds that come together quickly w... |
| 12.12.2022 | How founders can prepare for 2023 even as markets fall apart | AnalysisCommunityOpinionStartups
Elizabeth Yin · 13 Dec 2022 · 3 min readHow founders can prepare for 2023 even as markets fall apart
The markets have been falling apart for the last few months, as everyone in the startup ecosystem knows. I... |
| 21.11.2022 | London's Visible raises $1 million pre-seed to tackle Long Covid | CEO and co-founder Harry Leeming started London-based Visible to tackle a problem he knows only too well.
In 2020, while aged 29 years old, Leeming fell ill with COVID-19, and didn't feel right once the initial sickness had left.
In the pan... |
| 29.09.2022 | Hustle Fund’s side hustle just helped it close a third fund | Hustle Fund, an early-stage-focused venture firm built by former 500 Startups partners Elizabeth Yin and Eric Bahn, is growing into its name.
The firm has steadily grown its assets under management since first launching five years ago. Its ... |
| 27.09.2022 | Brief: Nigeria’s Vendease secures $30m Series A as it automates food supply in Africa | Vendease, a Nigerian fresh and processed food procurement platform on a mission to automate food supply in Africa, just secured $30 million in a Series A round that includes $20 million in equity and $10 million in debt.
The equity round wa... |
| 14.09.2022 | Singaporean HR tech firm wraps up oversubscribed $1m seed round | Business-to-businessInvestmentsNewsStartups
Xavier Kong · 14 Sep 2022 · 1 min readSingaporean HR tech firm wraps up oversubscribed $1m seed round
FlexOS, a Singapore-based HR tech firm, secured US$1 million in seed funding following an over... |
| 26.07.2022 | Redactable Launches AI Redaction Platform for Confidential Documents with $900k Pre-Seed Funding | Redactable - Redaction software that really works Redactable has raised $900k in pre-seed funding to launch their AI-driven web application built to redact confidential documents permanently.
NEW YORK (PRWEB) July 26, 2022
Redactable has ra... |
| 22.03.2022 | Ramped Closes $3.1M Seed Round to Close the Gap Between Employers and Job Seekers | The Ramped founding team. “It’s time to make the [job search] process more rewarding, efficient, and beneficial to early-and-mid-career job seekers who have already experienced a lot of rejection from the market," said Ramped Co-Founde... |
| 15.01.2022 | ViewSonic Announced Winners of the Global "Acceleration for All" Awards | BREA, Calif., Jan. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ViewSonic[i], a leading global provider of visual solutions, and Hustle Fund, a pre-seed venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups, announced the Top 5 winners of the Acceleration ... |
| 09.12.2021 | Vendease wants to be the Amazon for Nigeria’s food vendors | Tunde Kara and Olumide Fayankin grew up watching their parents — a farmer and a restaurant owner — grapple with inefficiencies in Nigeria’s food system. Caused by layer after layer of middlemen that deliver food from the farm to vendors to ... |
| 23.10.2021 | Why Elizabeth Yin is hustling to build the next generation of angel investors | Let’s talk angel investing, which has exploded in 2021 (in the US at least).
Pitchbook data claims that angel investment hit $2.1 billion in the first half of 2021, compared to $2.6 billion in 2020 (What was Canada’s 2020 total? Something c... |
| 22.10.2021 | Techpoint Awards, AltSchool by TalentQL, Privacy Roundtable PT2, Brass’ $1.7m funding | Share this article:
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| 21.10.2021 | Nigerian fintech Brass raises $1.7mn to expand SME banking | Share this:
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| 07.10.2021 | ViewSonic and Hustle Fund Launch the Global "Acceleration for All" Awards for Entrepreneurs | BREA, Calif., Oct. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- ViewSonic[i], a leading global provider of visual solutions, is partnering up with Hustle Fund, a pre-seed venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups, to launch the Acceleration for ... |
| 19.05.2021 | Copenhagen-based automated payroll platform Pento raises $15.6 million in Series A round | Real-time automated payroll software platform Pento has raised $15.6 million in a Series A round led by General Catalyst. The round also saw the participation of a host of varied parties including Avid Ventures, LocalGlobe, Point Nine Capit... |
| 29.04.2021 | Fintech startups set VC records as the 2021 fundraising market continues to impress | While waiting for full first-quarter venture capital results for fintech startups to drop, we knew that they were going to be outsized. The Exchange previously explored the pace at which huge venture rounds were invested into the startup ni... |
| 24.03.2021 | Equity crowdfunding is making the private markets public | Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
For this week’s deep dive, the Equity team brought on Gumroad CEO Sahil Lavingia and Hustle Fund General Partn... |
| 23.02.2021 | Hustle Fund hits $33.6m final close of second global pre-seed fund | Premium
Singapore- and Silicon Valley-based seed investor Hustle Fund has raised $33.6 million for the final close of its second global pre-seed fund.
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| 23.02.2021 | Hustle Fund hits $33.6m final close of second global pre-seed fund | Singapore- and Silicon Valley-based seed investor Hustle Fund has raised $33.6 million for the final close of its second global pre-seed fund.
Hustle Fund 2’s anchor limited partners are US venture capital firm Foundry Group Next, Taiwanese... |
| 22.02.2021 | Hustle Fund Raises $33.6 Million To Democratize Access To Pre-Seed Capital | Shanda Group was happy to “re-up” for Hustle Fund’s second fund, which is about three times larger than its first. The fund believes in investing in “hilariously early” companies as a way of democratizing access to pre-seed capital.
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| 21.01.2021 | 8 VCs agree: Behavioral support and remote visits make digital health a strong bet for 2021 | In TechCrunch investor surveys of years past, we’ve seen a big focus on fixing what’s broken or bringing the infrastructure into the modern era. But the world has dramatically changed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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| 11.12.2020 | Five Predictions For Early Stage Startups In 2021 | getty |
| 18.11.2020 | Starting A Business? Take A Customer-Driven Approach | Programmatic Investor at Hustle Fund, Re-thinking Software Engineering at Duomo. |
| 05.11.2020 | Pre-seed VC Hustle Fund secures $30.4m in commitments for second fund | Premium
Hustle Fund, a pre-seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco and Singapore, has secured $30.4 million in capital commitments for its second fund, Hustle Fund II, according to its filing with the US Securities and Exchange Com... |
| 03.11.2020 | Hustle Fund, a pre-seed firm, closes $30M for a new fund | Hustle Fund, a pre-seed fund built by former operators and founders, has raised $30 million for a new fund, per SEC filings. Hustle Fund first filed paperwork for this fund, its second to date, in May 2019 with intention to raise $50 millio... |
| 19.10.2020 | Proptech startup Propseller bags US$ 1.2M in seed funding | Singapore-based Proptech startup, Propseller has bagged US$ 1.2M in a seed funding round held in October 2020. A roster of investors took part in the funding round, including Iterative, Hustle Fund, XA Network, Rapzo Capital, Stein Jakob an... |
| 26.02.2020 | Hustle Fund’s Elizabeth Yin discusses 2020’s fundraising landscape | On the heels of her conversation-driving Twitter thread on 2020’s venture fundraising climate, Hustle Fund’s Elizabeth Yin converted her thoughts into an op-ed for TechCrunch. In keeping with her expansive thread, we asked her to adapt her ... |
| 26.02.2020 | The fundraising landscape is shifting in 2020 | Elizabeth Yin Contributor
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| 31.01.2020 | A major tech investor reveals why some VCs take a long time to make an investment decision, and how startup founders can get an answer sooner | Advertisement
Tech investor Elizabeth Yin said in a recent Twitter thread that one secret to a closing a venture capital deal quickly is to adapt the pitch for the audience.
"If you're pitching someone who is a decision maker, focusing... |
| 18.09.2019 | Afore Capital raises second pre-seed venture capital fund | As expectations from seed investors intensify, a new stage of investment has established itself earlier in the venture-backed company life cycle.
Known as “pre-seed” investing, one of the first legitimate outfits to double down on the stage... |
| 10.09.2019 | Karuna Labs, which uses VR to treat chronic pain, raises $3M | The company allows patients to use virtual reality for therapeutic exercise
While virtual reality may not seem as hot as it once did, that's just the hype dying down; it's still going to be a massive space, one that's expected to be worth $... |
| 10.09.2019 | VR for Chronic Pain Startup Karuna Labs Raises $3M to Retrain The Brain | – Karuna Labs raises $3M in seed funding to expand personalized chronic pain management programs using virtual reality (VR) technology to retrain the brain.
– Karuna Labs uses Karuna uses evidence-based techniques to retrain the brain to pe... |
| 21.05.2019 | Pre-seed investor Hustle Fund raising $50m for second VC vehicle | Premium
San Francisco- and Singapore-based Hustle Fund, a pre-seed venture capital firm founded by former 500 Startups partners Elizabeth Yin and Eric Bahn, is looking to raise up to $50 million for its second venture capital fund, accordin... |
| 09.11.2018 | Hustle Fund closes US$11.5M fund from Shanda, Naver, LINE, plans to shift focus to SEA | Pre-Seed focused VC firm Hustle Fund is now looking to invest in Southeast Asia after raising US$11.5M and hiring a Singapore-born Managing Partner
Hustle Fund, a pre-seed fund investing in Southeast Asia and North America, announced tod... |
| 14.09.2018 | Term Sheet — Friday, September 14 | BORING IS THE NEW BLACK
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| 12.09.2018 | Hustle Fund, founded by two ex-500 Startups partners, closes $11.5 million fund | Hustle Fund, the pre-seed firm founded by former 500 Startups partners Elizabeth Yin and Eric Bahn, has closed their first fund, coming in at the tune of $11.5 million.
Hustle Fund also recently brought on Shiyan Koh to its team of general ... |
| 12.09.2018 | US-based Hustle Fund closes first $11.5m fund anchored by China’s Shanda, Line and Naver | Premium
US-based Hustle Fund has closed its first fund of $11.5 million, anchored by China’s online gaming giant Shanda, Japan’s Line and Naver, South Korea’s largest search engine. Other investors include tech operators, founders and execu... |
| 09.09.2018 | How this startup is helping borrowers escape payday lending pitfalls | The Possible Finance team, from left to right: Tony Huang, co-founder and CEO; Prasad Mahendra, co-founder and vice president of engineering; Mara Childs, product designer; Tyler Conant, co-founder and chief technology officer; Natalie Smit... |
| 11.10.2017 | 5 Startup of the Year Finalist Pitches at Innovate Celebrate | Pitching is scary. Sitting down with a relative stranger to convince them that your company is the next big thing is enough to make an entrepreneur sweat bullets. After all, the right pitch can do a lot for the future of a new startup. And ... |
| 02.10.2017 | Ex-500 Startups partners launch Hustle Fund to level the playing field for founders | Ex-500 Startups partners Elizabeth Yin and Eric Bahn want to focus on potential impact, not on whether or not founders have a degree from Stanford or some Ivy League school. Their goal with Hustle Fund, according to sources, is to level the... |
| - | Copenhagen-based automated payroll platform Pento raises $15.6 million in Series A round | Real-time automated payroll software platform Pento has raised $15.6 million in a Series A round led by General Catalyst. The round also saw the participation of a host of varied parties including Avid Ventures, LocalGlobe, Point Nine Capit... |
| - | Yana puts mental health support in the pocket of six million Spanish speakers | When Mexican-born entrepreneur Andrea Campos decided to create a digital tool to improve her own mental health, she knew millions of other Spanish speakers could also benefit from it. What she didn’t know was her app would become a lifeline... |
