Elizabeth Yin

Elizabeth Yin is Co-Founder & General Partner at Hustle Fund, a pre-seed focused firm based in the Bay Area. Appropriately named, Elizabeth and her team truly epitomize the word hustle. She and her co-founder Eric raised $11.5MM Hustle Fund I in the fall of 2018 and more recently started investing out of a larger Fund II. The firm has a unique investment model that starts by investing $25K in each startups, and then by working closely with their entrepreneurs looks to upsize their commitments into select portfolio companies. Previously, Elizabeth was Partner at **500 Startups** where she ran the seed program in Mountain View and invested in seed stage startups. 500 Startups is one of the most active seed stage venture capital firms in the world and has invested in over 2,000 companies via its 4 global funds and 14 micro-funds and its global portfolio of investments spans over 60 countries. Before 500 Startups, she was CEO and Founder of **LaunchBit**, an adtech platform startup, which she built and **exited** (acquired in 2014), and before that she was Product Marketing Manager: Developer Products at **Google**. Elizabeth is the Founder of **Hustle Con**. It started as a conference series for non-technical entrepreneurs to launch and scale their startups, and has since morphed into a fast growing media company called The Hustle that highlights inspirational stories about accomplishing extraordinary things.