Jessica Li

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

Startup Network in London

We invest in founders who are reshaping outdated industries. We believe in a world where top tier fintech products help the 99% grow their wealth and build businesses. Where everyday people have transparent, efficient, and attentive healthcare experiences. Where managers and front-line employees in legacy industries have tools that save time, increase transparency, and take minutes to learn (vertical SaaS).

Bow Capital is an early-stage (Series A and B focused) venture firm. Founded in partnership with the University of California, were building a different kind of venture fund - one that bridges academia, sports and entertainment, and business. Our firm is led by 3 GPs, each of whom has founded and/or scaled companies of their own, including some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley. They bring deep operating experience coupled with institutional venture and angel investing experience to support our entrepreneurs in building legacies. The world is undergoing a fundamental shift toward Civilization 3.0, a new era in which data, ideas, and imagination are the raw materials to disrupting industries and forging new ones. Were pursuing the big ideas that will change society and leave a lasting impact.

Ramp is an all-in-one financial operations platform designed to save businesses time and money. Combining corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, accounting automation, procurement, travel, treasury, and more, Ramp empowers finance teams to do their best work. More than 70,000 companies, from family-owned farms to space startups, have saved $10B and 27.5M hours with Ramp since its founding in 2019. Investors include Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia, Greylock, Stripe, Goldman Sachs, Coatue, and Redpoint, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart. Ramp has been named to Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIns Top U.S. Startups for over 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazines 100 Most Influential Companies. Visit our website for a full list of US state licenses & disclosures: https://ramp.com/legal/state-disclosures

Arrive Logistics has acquired the Cross-Border business of Forager. For continued and expanded cross-border solutions, please visit www.arrivelogistics.com to connect with the Arrive Cross-Border Team.

Hoss™ helps teams make better API-driven products by tracking and managing the APIs they consume. The company’s simple, easy-to-use solution gives teams full visibility into the third-party APIs they use, provides data privacy controls and increases reliability and performance to make sure integrations are robust and applications run smoothly.

Workstream is the leading HR, Payroll, and Hiring platform for the hourly workforce. Its smart technology streamlines HR tasks so franchise and business owners can move fast, reduce labor costs, and simplify operations—all in one place. 46 of the top 50 quick-service restaurant brands—including Burger King, Jimmy John’s, Taco Bell—rely on Workstream to hire, retain, and pay their teams. Learn more at workstream.us.

Soma Capital is a fund built by founders for founders, focused on software. Weve invested seed in +20 unicorns worth ~$100b combined often 1st check including Deel, Rippling, Ramp, Cruise, Rappi, Ironclad, Human Interest, Razorpay, Lambda School among others. Soma Cap partners and advisors have built billion dollar software cos, for example Vivek Ranadive is the founder of multi billion dollar enterprise software company Tibco ($4.3 billion exit to Vista Equity Partners). Tibco services include big data, analytics, event processing, among others, generating over $1bn in yearly revenue and powers 80% of Fortune 500 companies. This gives Soma CEO-level relationships with many of the biggest brands in the world. Vivek has also been involved early investing and mentoring all time great tech companies including google, yahoo, salesforce, ebay and apple. Soma Cap partners also own the Sacramento Kings NBA team and are developing over 200 acres of land in downtown Sacramento including hotels, condos, restaurants, malls and more.

Harvard in Tech is Harvard University’s official alumni organization for technology. With over 350,000 Harvard alumni in the world, it is our mission is to empower alumni founders, engineers, executives & technologists with the relationships and resources of the Harvard network.

Global Founders Capital is a globally oriented, stage agnostic venture capital firm that empowers gifted entrepreneurs worldwide. 01 // Global. We support founders in all geographies. 02 // Stage agnostic. We back companies across all stages and throughout the lifecycle. 03 // Operational. Our platform offers founders all the support they need to scale. If you are interested in joining one of our portfolio companies, please join us on our Talent Pool: https://circular.io/r/kim.dang+vc

Taazu is a marketplace, enabling Sports, Entertainment, and Travel enthusiasts to access highly curated experiences, from everyday events to lifetime milestones, building lasting memories. At Taazu, our goal is to make it easy to discover and book activities and attractions while traveling or at home. We are maniacally focused on providing best experience to our customers (buyers and sellers). We are passionate about our mission and believe work should be fun. Taazu has offices in New York, Bangalore, and Mumbai and is rapidly expanding globally.

At ProMazo, we believe in the talent, creativity and potential of college students, and we feel that while at school, their skills remain untapped. We founded ProMazo to help millennial students gain real-world experience and help businesses gain access to affordable, high-quality solutions. We are the go-to platform for advice, education and discussion on topics and challenges that matter most to the next generation of talent. With the collaboration of all our student teams, we bring the millennial voice to the online sphere; sharing insights and ideas with other students and businesses looking to engage with the issues facing our workforce today. It’s time to rethink traditional consulting. Join us and learn more at promazo.com.

OpenReq is the growth platform for early-stage startups. We help startups recruit top-tier talent and raise capital through our growing VC network. Our team comes from companies like Waymo, Rivian, Lyft, Amazon, Robinhood, and Meta, and weve had the opportunity to build exceptional teams at early-stage startups in the robotics, AI, hardware, and SaaS verticals. More information on how we can help: https://www.openreq.co/services

Primary is the worlds largest early stage VC firm, with a billion in assets under management and 50 full time employees. Primary’s Impact team outnumbers investors 2:1, and is filled with seasoned executives working alongside founders to supercharge growth and secure quality hires, early customers, and downstream investors. This team embeds with companies for 2,500 hours of high-intensity fractional leadership work, conducts 3,000 candidate interviews, maintains a pool of 5,000+ active job seekers, and hosts 250 events large and small for the NYC tech community each year. Cofounders Brad Svrluga and Ben Sun have won recognition from Forbes Midas List and Insiders Seed 100.

Afore Capital is a Pre-Seed VC with $500 million in AUM co-founded by Anamitra Banerji & Gaurav Jain. We support product-oriented founders building software companies at the very earliest stages. Our sweet spot is investing $1-2m+ into founders first institutional round. We can lead this round alongside high value angels. At Afore, we believe that before theres a company, before theres a business, theres a product-oriented founder leading by product. The products are often raw, sometimes just rough concepts requiring a lot of imagination. They are pre-traction and pre-obvious. But they come from founders with non-obvious insights and infectious ambitions. We started Afore to back these founders at the pre-seed stage exclusively, on day zero of their journey. We bring with us 16 years of product experience and 7 years of institutional investing experience.

Adapt Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm backing audacious founders with bold visions. Investments include Clara, Wander, Welcome Homes, Sanas, Bizwise, amongst others.

500 Global is a venture capital firm with over $2.7B in Assets Under Management that invests early in founders building fast-growing technology companies. We focus on markets where technology, innovation, and capital can unlock long-term value and drive economic growth. 500 Global has backed over 5,000 founders representing more than 2,600 companies operating in 80 countries. Our portfolio includes 51 companies valued at over $1 billion and 140 companies valued at over $100 million. Our 140+ plus team members are located in more than 15 countries and bring experience as entrepreneurs, investors, and operators from some of the world’s leading technology companies.