Ahmod Newton

Hustle Fund is a venture capital firm investing in hilariously-early pre-seed founders. Learn more about Hustle Fund and pitch us here: hustlefund.vc If you are here to learn about ANGEL SQUAD, youve come to the right place. We help teach professionals how to invest in startups alongside Hustle Fund. Learn how we do this here: https://hustlefund.vc/squad

At Extern, we’re solving the experience gap. Extern created the remote Externship, a skill-building work experience that is easier for students to access, and easier for companies to run, than an internship. Our mission is to help anyone discover and launch their career through professional experiences available anywhere at any time. Since 2020, we’ve created and powered Externships on behalf of companies from Fortune 500s to startups that have enabled tens of thousands of students to build real experience and open doors to incredible opportunity. After spending $100K on average for a 4-year degree, graduates find that almost 40% of entry level jobs on Linkedin required 3+ years of work experience. Internships are how many college students get this kind of experience, but the demand for good internships outstrips the supply. Internship programs are difficult to scale, they favor students who already have social capital, and they’re time-consuming for employers to run. Externships are short, online, project-based work experiences that employers can offer to hundreds of students using less resource and employee time than it would take to support an intern. Extern makes the complex process of running an Externship completely turnkey with software and industry experts which in turn makes professional experience more accessible to more students. By making work experience more accessible, Extern is driving the rapid mobility and upskilling needed for a new economy. We envision a world where anyone can access work experience as a form of education – no matter their background, experience, or socio-economic status. Come join our movement to reshape work, education, and credentialing for future generations with the Externship. Backed by Y Combinator, Foundation Capital, Launch Fund, University Ventures, and Learn Capital.

Hustle Fund is a venture capital firm investing in hilariously-early pre-seed founders. Learn more about Hustle Fund and pitch us here: hustlefund.vc If you are here to learn about ANGEL SQUAD, youve come to the right place. We help teach professionals how to invest in startups alongside Hustle Fund. Learn how we do this here: https://hustlefund.vc/squad

ATLAS SP Partners is a global investment firm providing tailored solutions, industry expertise and execution certainty on asset-backed financing and capital markets activities that fuel business innovation and growth. We offer a suite of flexible solutions across asset-backed warehouse financing, forward flow and asset purchase, and capital markets and distribution services. Companies of all maturities, from early-stage growth to large public companies, operating across real estate, corporate and consumer financing turn to ATLAS SP Partners for capital and advisory solutions. To learn more, please visit www.atlas-sp.com.

We back the best university and recent alumni founders — like Cursor, Dandy, RapidSOS, and Shield AI — with a network of investors, mentors, and their first check.

LvlUp Ventures is a global venture capital firm investing in and accelerating early-stage & late-stage startups. LvlUp is ranked among the most active venture capital firms globally (#7 worldwide, #4 in the United States, and #1 in Consumer Goods & Technology — PitchBook). Our opportunistic investment thesis backs founders wherever opportunity emerges—where the intersection of our capital, expertise, and strategic partnership ecosystem unlocks a true level up in growth, unbound by sector or stage. Beyond capital, LvlUp operates as an extended team to founders—combining hands-on growth and fundraising support with a powerful ecosystem of corporate partners to give companies an unfair advantage as they scale. We are deeply focused on unlocking synergies across our portfolio through our extended-team ecosystem, deep corporate partnerships, and a technology backbone designed to create opportunities between companies at scale. LvlUp is powered by a global team of more than 2,500 core and extended members, united by a shared mission: helping founders build enduring, category-defining companies.