Andrew Hansen

RAKE ML is building the next generation of AI for the built environment. Were solving fundamental challenges in physical asset assessment and prediction.

EVE is the first Inbox Revenue Engine for small and mid-sized B2B businesses — an AI platform that connects directly to email, documents, and calendars to uncover hidden revenue. By autonomously identifying overlooked leads, stalled deals, and buying signals, EVE helps companies recover 20–30% of revenue typically lost in daily communication gaps. EVE is building the default revenue operating system for the next generation of SMBs — turning ordinary inboxes into real-time revenue engines. Backed by leading investors, including Firsthand.VC, Founders Future, A16Z Scout Fund, and founders of Slack and Hugging Face, EVE is redefining CRM for SMBs by bringing automation and intelligence to where business actually happens — the inbox.

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

Listen invests in consumer-obsessed entrepreneurs building at the tipping point of behavior shifts. Many firms invest in consumer, few actually Listen to consumers.

RAKE ML is building the next generation of AI for the built environment. Were solving fundamental challenges in physical asset assessment and prediction.

Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazons expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan, customers across all industries are taking advantage of our low cost, elastic, open and flexible, secure platform.

EVE is the first Inbox Revenue Engine for small and mid-sized B2B businesses — an AI platform that connects directly to email, documents, and calendars to uncover hidden revenue. By autonomously identifying overlooked leads, stalled deals, and buying signals, EVE helps companies recover 20–30% of revenue typically lost in daily communication gaps. EVE is building the default revenue operating system for the next generation of SMBs — turning ordinary inboxes into real-time revenue engines. Backed by leading investors, including Firsthand.VC, Founders Future, A16Z Scout Fund, and founders of Slack and Hugging Face, EVE is redefining CRM for SMBs by bringing automation and intelligence to where business actually happens — the inbox.

We are a collection of entrepreneurs who brought our offline industries online. Now, were backing the next generation building across the 81% of U.S. GDP underserved by early-stage capital. We built companies in un-sexy industries, and it was lonely when we started. Most venture capitalists said our industries were too capital intensive, low margin, or difficult to scale. We were outsiders. ‍ Now, we can look back at the $60 billion of value created and the 30,000 employees whose financial trajectories we altered. The very qualities that made our businesses unattractive early are now our greatest strengths. ‍ Our entrenched assets serve as a barrier to entry, our higher-quality revenue inextricably ties to our customer’s daily needs, and our loyal employees who once made $20 per hour now make $100K per year. We chose the harder path, built the right kind of businesses, and improved America. A decade later, not much has changed in early-stage financing. We back early stage companies transforming boring trades, hard work, unpleasant spaces, and structural inequity. We know first-hand that exceptional humans can unknot these un-sexy industries. Now is the perfect time. California is out of water, a generation can’t afford a home, and our skilled tradespeople are in their fifties. Raw input, supply chain, and labor crises are silently cracking America’s infrastructure. Today, 19% of the U.S. GDP attracts more than 50% of early stage investing activity. 81% of the U.S. GDP is under-invested. Trillions of dollars of value are locked up in serious, unsolved problems across the 81%. Tackle a real, often very difficult problem. Use technology, cash flow, and a long-term mindset. America needs you to, and know that we exist to lighten your load.