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Elizabeth Yin
General Partner at Hustle Fund
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Elizabeth Yin is a General Partner at Hustle Fund, where she leads investments in various sectors including Advertising, Real Estate/PropTech, and FinTech. With a background in entrepreneurship and business development, she has successfully co-founded and led companies like LaunchBit and made strategic investments in startups like BitBrand and CoverRight.
Yin's career highlights include her role as a Partner at 500 Startups and her experience as a Product Marketing Manager at Google. She excels in identifying and supporting early-stage companies, leveraging her expertise in product management and strategic partnerships to drive growth and success.
Work Experience
Co-founder and General Partner
2017 - Current
Hustle Fund's mission is to democratize wealth via startups. We help amazing startup founders with capital, knowledge, and networks. To this end, we have: -3 pre-seed funds. Often the first check into a startup or in the first round of funding. We prioritize founders' speed of execution above all else. Per our name, we also make a fast decision after speaking with a company. -Angel Squad. A modern day global online angel club with local in person networking. We help people become angel investors. -Events: Camp Hustle, Camp Hustle Asia, Angel Squad Summit, Founder Summit, Founder Retreats, Founder Friends meetups and many more -Newsletters: We send out a 2x weekly newsletter to investors called Small Bets and one to founders called The Founder Playbook. -Pre-IPO and secondary investing to help provide liquidity to late stage founders.
Partner
2014 - 2017
Ran the 500 Startups accelerator program in Mountain View. Invested in seed stage startups and managed a group of investors / coaches.
500 Global is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in founders building fast-growing technology companies.
Raised $2,271,999.00 from Abu Dhabi Financial Group.
CEO and co-founder
2011 - 2014
LaunchBit is an adtech platform that enables marketers to get their ads in front of professional audiences in email newsletters and on niche blogs on a cost-per-click basis. Grew LaunchBit from zero to hundreds of SaaS advertisers and thousands of publishers. Acquired by BuySellAds, Inc. in Sept 2014.
LaunchBit is an advertising platform for B2B professionals to target audiences via email newsletters and niche blogs.
Raised $960,000.00 from Srini Panguluri, Yee Lee, Andrew Chen, Omar Seyal, David Hauser, Bruno Bowden, VTF Capital, 500 Global, TriplePoint Capital and 500 Global.
CEO and co-founder
2008 - 2011
Lots of side projects that went nowhere. Lots of learnings.
Product Marketing Manager: developer products
2007 - 2008
-Led marketing for social APIs including OpenSocial and the Social Graph API -Led Google Developer Days: 15 locations worldwide. (smaller int'l versions of Google IO) -Managed six figure sponsorship budget for developer events.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
InStep Global Intern: Business Development
2006 - 2006
Developed business development strategy to grow their client base of internet companies in the US.
Marketing Engineer
2004 - 2005
Worked with senior level management in the US and Japan to develop go-to-market strategy for the Modular Instruments product line. Generated new leads through surveys, events, demos, and presentations for large electronics companies in Tokyo.
Summer Intern: electrical engineering
2004 - 2004
Designed electronics system to withstand surges in high current for particle physics experiments.
Education
Investments
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