ABOUT
Camp Hustle is an oasis for investors.
You’ll connect with 200 other investors who love the same things you do: great founders, great startups, and great terms.
It combines education, storytelling, and adventure. And s’mores. Always s’mores.
Tune in to Camp Hustle Stage to hear from outrageously successful founders with $100s of millions in revenue, and war stories you won’t believe.
Deep dive with a small group into topics like web3, fundraising for your fund, and climate tech.
Hear 6 promising Hustle Fund portfolio companies speed-pitch, and connect with them directly or even invest onsite.
Curious about how other funds evaluate companies? Don’t miss the live pitch event with Shark Tank-style judging from a panel of your peers.
And throughout it all, take advantage of the many opportunities to forge deep relationships with VCs, emerging funds, angels, and family offices.
Grab your pack and load out… Camp Hustle awaits!
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AGENDA
Get here. Get coffee. Get comfortable.
Words of welcome from the Hustle Fund team, and insights from our investment team to kick off the day.
Camp Hustle will feature 6 keynote speakers, each one a founder with hundreds of millions in revenue. Learn about their fundraising journey, hiring challenges, and subject-matter expertise.
Three promising Hustle Fund portfolio founders will have three minutes to pitch their fund. Afterwards, Camp Hustle attendees can ask questions. Investors will be able to request intros and even invest onsite if they want.
Pick from 4 different topics and join a small group for a collaborative, deep-dive discussion. This is a great opportunity to connect more deeply with other Camp Hustle attendees.
We’re cookin’ up some delicious grub. Dive in!
Get your energy up with summer camp-style games.
Camp Hustle will feature 6 keynote speakers, each one a founder with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Learn about their fundraising journey, hiring challenges, and subject-matter expertise.
Three DIFFERENT promising Hustle Fund portfolio founders will have a few minutes to pitch their fund. Afterwards, Camp Hustle attendees can ask questions. Investors will be able to request intros and even invest onsite if they want.
Pick from 4 different topics and join a small group for a collaborative, deep-dive discussion. This is a great opportunity to connect more deeply with other Camp Hustle attendees.
Two early-stage founders will pitch their startups. Then, a panel of judges will give real-time feedback and decide whether they would or would not invest.
Camp Hustle will feature 6 keynote speakers, each one a founder with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Learn about their fundraising journey, hiring challenges, and subject-matter expertise.
Grab a drink and a bite to eat and make some memories with your new friends.
It doesn’t matter if like your marshmallows golden brown or burnt to a crisp… settle in for s’mores and stories around the campfire.
Even the best days come to an end eventually. See you next year for Camp Hustle 2024!
PAST Speakers
Moses is the CEO and Co-Founder of Xendit, a fintech unicorn based in Indonesia. Xendit is the fastest growing payments infrastructure for Indonesia and Southeast Asia and is valued at $2.7B. The company processes over $9B in payments per year. Moses started the company in 2015. He was named in Asia's Forbes 30 Under 30, and earned his bachelor's degree from University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Tim, CEO of NerdWallet, co-founded the personal finance company in 2009 after working on Wall Street and realizing there wasn’t enough transparency when it comes to consumer financial decisions. As CEO, Tim sets the strategic vision for NerdWallet and is determined to give consumers clarity around all of life’s financial decisions. Nerdwallet was valued at $1.2B when it IPO'd in 2021. Before NerdWallet, Tim was a hedge fund analyst at Perry Capital.
Avichal is a successful entrepreneur with prior experience at Google and executive experience at Facebook, which acquired his previous company. He is cofounder of Electric Capital which has invested in crypto projects such as Anchorage, Bitwise, Bitnomial, dYdX, Frax, Kraken, MagicEden, NEAR, Radicle, Tokemak, and others. Prior to Electric, Avichal was an angel investor in 15 unicorns and 5 decacorns.
Ellevest is a tech-first financial company built by women for women. It was on CNBC’s top 50 ``Disruptors”, LinkedIn’s 50 “Most Sought-After Startups”, and Entrepreneur Mag’s Top 100 Brilliant Ideas. Before Ellevest, Sallie was the CEO of Merrill Lynch, Smith Barney, US Trust, and Citi Private Bank. She was named as a top 10 entrepreneurs to watch by Entrepreneur Mag and on Vanity Fair’s “The 2018 New Establishment List.”
Precursor Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in the first institutional round of investment for the most promising software and hardware companies. Under Charles' leadership, Precursor Ventures has raised four funds and has over $100 million under management. He has invested in 250 companies and supported more than 400 founders, including the teams behind Clearco, Juniper Square, The Athletic, Incredible Health, Carrot, and Pair Eyewear.
Bryant Chou is the CTO and co-founder of Webflow, the no-code website builder with over 2 million users. Valued at $2.1B, Webflow has over 100k customers across 190 companies. Prior to starting Webflow, Bryant was the CTO at Vungle and a senior venture partner at Pioneer Ventures. Bryant is a true hustler, and has done everything from designing embedded systems, to building internet scale web services, to building out marketing and sales teams.
Immad is a serial founder, seed investor and the CEO and Founder of Mercury, a financial and banking platform for startups. Mercury serves over 40,000 startups and has processed over $4B in deposits. Prior to building Mercury, Immad was a part-time partner at Y Combinator, and founded Heyzap (acq) and Clickpass (acq). He’s also an investor in 10+ unicorn companies and 200+ startups, including Shogun, AirTable, and Substack.
Elizabeth is one of the amazing humans behind Hustle Fund, a pre-seed fund that believes great founders can look like anyone and come from anywhere. Previously, Elizabeth was a partner at 500 Startups, where she invested in seed-stage companies and ran the Mountain View accelerator.
Ryan is the CEO of Wild Earth, a healthy and sustainable plant-based pet food with over 40k customers. He was also the founder and partner at IndieBio. Ryan's goal is to positively impact the lives of billions of people, animals and our planet through applied biotechnology. He's also invested in 160+ future of food and future of biotech companies as an angel and venture investor over the last decade.
Jess is an investor at Sequoia Capital, where she partners with early-stage founders. She is a board member at Mos, Ironclad, Maven Clinic, Wonolo, and more. Prior to Sequoia, she was co-founder & CEO of fashion app Polyvore (acquired by Yahoo in 2015) and a product manager for Google Maps. Jess is also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit dedicated to improving diversity in the tech industry. Jess has a B.S. from Stanford in Computer Science and loves manga, drawing, bacon, and cosplay.
David Hua is the CEO and Co-Founder of Meadow, a cannabis retail POS software company building a suite of connected tools for smarter cannabis dispensary sales, marketing, inventory management, compliance, and more. Hua has sat on the boards of the California Cannabis Industry Association, the Cannabis Distribution Association, and the NCIA Retail Committee.
Gaby is an investor at The Chernin Group, where she focuses on the firm’s investments at the intersection of consumer and crypto. Before joining TCG, Gaby invested in early-stage consumer companies at both Bessemer Venture Partners and Chapter One. Outside of work, Gaby writes about web3 and digital culture on her Mirror publication, gaby.mirror.xyz.
Roll is a social token infrastructure company that enables anyone to create, send and use social tokens seamlessly across the web. Roll’s social tokens have generated over half a billion dollars of trading volume. There are 400+ social tokens minted through Roll including $WHALE from Whaleshark, $OBEY from Shepard Fairey, and $POWER from Terry Crews. Roll recently completed its Series A and has raised over $12.7MM.
Rupa Health is a health tech company bringing root cause medicine to the world. Rupa Labs, a lab ordering portal for providers, turns 15 hours of admin work into 15 mins. Rupa is becoming the largest platform for providers to access specialty and traditional labs, powering clinics in all 50 states. Rupa has raised $26m from top VCs and angel investors like Bessemer, First Round Capital, Lachy Groom, Hustle Fund, and SV Angel.
Rebecca is one of the founders of Red Leader, the world's first software-defined lidar. Essentially acting like a 3D camera, Red Leader's lidar technology enables hundreds of lasers to simultaneously be imaged instead of just one, increasing image resolution by >10x and improving manufacturability. Rebecca comes from a background in product development at Ford, Multi-robot systems at Stanford, and hardware design engineering at Nest.
Kirsti Chou is a mission driven operator turned climate tech investor. As a founding partner at Planet Positive Partners and an angel investor, she supports early stage B2B tech companies working on climate protection and stabilization from energy to resilient infrastructure and from food to carbon removal. She has 15+ years of operating and leadership experience at digital startups to leading corporations.
Moses is the CEO and Co-Founder of Xendit, a fintech unicorn based in Indonesia. Xendit is the fastest growing payments infrastructure for Indonesia and Southeast Asia and is valued at $2.7B. The company processes over $9B in payments per year. Moses started the company in 2015. He was named in Asia's Forbes 30 Under 30, and earned his bachelor's degree from University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Tim, CEO of NerdWallet, co-founded the personal finance company in 2009 after working on Wall Street and realizing there wasn’t enough transparency when it comes to consumer financial decisions. As CEO, Tim sets the strategic vision for NerdWallet and is determined to give consumers clarity around all of life’s financial decisions. Nerdwallet was valued at $1.2B when it IPO'd in 2021. Before NerdWallet, Tim was a hedge fund analyst at Perry Capital.
Avichal is a successful entrepreneur with prior experience at Google and executive experience at Facebook, which acquired his previous company. He is cofounder of Electric Capital which has invested in crypto projects such as Anchorage, Bitwise, Bitnomial, dYdX, Frax, Kraken, MagicEden, NEAR, Radicle, Tokemak, and others. Prior to Electric, Avichal was an angel investor in 15 unicorns and 5 decacorns.
Ellevest is a tech-first financial company built by women for women. It was on CNBC’s top 50 ``Disruptors”, LinkedIn’s 50 “Most Sought-After Startups”, and Entrepreneur Mag’s Top 100 Brilliant Ideas. Before Ellevest, Sallie was the CEO of Merrill Lynch, Smith Barney, US Trust, and Citi Private Bank. She was named as a top 10 entrepreneurs to watch by Entrepreneur Mag and on Vanity Fair’s “The 2018 New Establishment List.”
Precursor Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in the first institutional round of investment for the most promising software and hardware companies. Under Charles' leadership, Precursor Ventures has raised four funds and has over $100 million under management. He has invested in 250 companies and supported more than 400 founders, including the teams behind Clearco, Juniper Square, The Athletic, Incredible Health, Carrot, and Pair Eyewear.
Bryant Chou is the CTO and co-founder of Webflow, the no-code website builder with over 2 million users. Valued at $2.1B, Webflow has over 100k customers across 190 companies. Prior to starting Webflow, Bryant was the CTO at Vungle and a senior venture partner at Pioneer Ventures. Bryant is a true hustler, and has done everything from designing embedded systems, to building internet scale web services, to building out marketing and sales teams.
Immad is a serial founder, seed investor and the CEO and Founder of Mercury, a financial and banking platform for startups. Mercury serves over 40,000 startups and has processed over $4B in deposits. Prior to building Mercury, Immad was a part-time partner at Y Combinator, and founded Heyzap (acq) and Clickpass (acq). He’s also an investor in 10+ unicorn companies and 200+ startups, including Shogun, AirTable, and Substack.
Elizabeth is one of the amazing humans behind Hustle Fund, a pre-seed fund that believes great founders can look like anyone and come from anywhere. Previously, Elizabeth was a partner at 500 Startups, where she invested in seed-stage companies and ran the Mountain View accelerator.
Ryan is the CEO of Wild Earth, a healthy and sustainable plant-based pet food with over 40k customers. He was also the founder and partner at IndieBio. Ryan's goal is to positively impact the lives of billions of people, animals and our planet through applied biotechnology. He's also invested in 160+ future of food and future of biotech companies as an angel and venture investor over the last decade.
Jess is an investor at Sequoia Capital, where she partners with early-stage founders. She is a board member at Mos, Ironclad, Maven Clinic, Wonolo, and more. Prior to Sequoia, she was co-founder & CEO of fashion app Polyvore (acquired by Yahoo in 2015) and a product manager for Google Maps. Jess is also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit dedicated to improving diversity in the tech industry. Jess has a B.S. from Stanford in Computer Science and loves manga, drawing, bacon, and cosplay.
David Hua is the CEO and Co-Founder of Meadow, a cannabis retail POS software company building a suite of connected tools for smarter cannabis dispensary sales, marketing, inventory management, compliance, and more. Hua has sat on the boards of the California Cannabis Industry Association, the Cannabis Distribution Association, and the NCIA Retail Committee.
Gaby is an investor at The Chernin Group, where she focuses on the firm’s investments at the intersection of consumer and crypto. Before joining TCG, Gaby invested in early-stage consumer companies at both Bessemer Venture Partners and Chapter One. Outside of work, Gaby writes about web3 and digital culture on her Mirror publication, gaby.mirror.xyz.
Roll is a social token infrastructure company that enables anyone to create, send and use social tokens seamlessly across the web. Roll’s social tokens have generated over half a billion dollars of trading volume. There are 400+ social tokens minted through Roll including $WHALE from Whaleshark, $OBEY from Shepard Fairey, and $POWER from Terry Crews. Roll recently completed its Series A and has raised over $12.7MM.
Rupa Health is a health tech company bringing root cause medicine to the world. Rupa Labs, a lab ordering portal for providers, turns 15 hours of admin work into 15 mins. Rupa is becoming the largest platform for providers to access specialty and traditional labs, powering clinics in all 50 states. Rupa has raised $26m from top VCs and angel investors like Bessemer, First Round Capital, Lachy Groom, Hustle Fund, and SV Angel.
Rebecca is one of the founders of Red Leader, the world's first software-defined lidar. Essentially acting like a 3D camera, Red Leader's lidar technology enables hundreds of lasers to simultaneously be imaged instead of just one, increasing image resolution by >10x and improving manufacturability. Rebecca comes from a background in product development at Ford, Multi-robot systems at Stanford, and hardware design engineering at Nest.
Kirsti Chou is a mission driven operator turned climate tech investor. As a founding partner at Planet Positive Partners and an angel investor, she supports early stage B2B tech companies working on climate protection and stabilization from energy to resilient infrastructure and from food to carbon removal. She has 15+ years of operating and leadership experience at digital startups to leading corporations.
PAST ATTENDEES
THE VENUE
FLYING TO
BAY AREA FAVORITES
Relax at Ridge Vineyards
Explore Winchester Mystery House
Tour Alcatraz Island
Catch a Giants game
Tramp around at Sanborn Park
Try eFoiling
FAQ
Camp Hustle is for anyone who identifies as an investor. If you invest as an angel, on behalf of a venture fund, as part of a company’s fundraising arm, as a member of a family office, etc., this event is for you.
If you’re thinking of starting a new fund or SPV, you will get a lot out of this event.
Last year we had 150 guests. This year we expect 150-200 people to attend.
We purposefully keep this event small so that guests have a chance to connect meaningfully with other investors, not wade through a huge crowd to try and find their people.
So many. One of our primary goals with Camp Hustle is to help you find your people, both offline and online.
For example:
- Exclusive online community for all Camp Hustle attendees
- Team games like bocce ball and cornhole
- Small group breakout sessions
- Conversation cards to facilitate conversations with strangers
- Social events sprinkled throughout the agenda to help you connect with other attendees
Bonfire Sessions are small-group discussions focused on a specific topic. These topics are things like: investing in web3, investing in marketplaces, climate tech startups, how to fundraise for your fund, investing in cannabis, etc.
We’ve designed these sessions for guests to share their subject-matter expertise, and to connect more deeply with people who love what you love.
Interested in leading a Bonfire Session? Apply here.
If you’re interested in speaking at Camp Hustle, please fill out this form. We review all submissions weekly and will get back to you if we think you’d be a good fit for the event.
Yes, we offer a discount for groups of 3 or more.
Contact kera@hustlefundvc.com to get special pricing for your group.
Camp Hustle is an in-person experience. If you’re unable to make the trip to join us in person, we hope you’ll consider coming next year!
Tickets are refundable up to 30 days before the event.
After that, if you’re unable to make it to the event you have the option of transferring your ticket to someone else or exchanging your ticket for a credit for next year.
We are not going to be recording the talks at Camp Hustle. Camp Hustle will be a one-of-a-kind event… an experience that you can’t get if you don’t attend in person.
Yep! Breakfast, lunch, and dinner will all be served at Camp Hustle.
You’ll also have access to coffee throughout the day, and beer / wine in the evening.
When you book your ticket there is an opportunity to tell us if you have any dietary restrictions. We take those very seriously! You’re also welcome to bring your own food onsite if you prefer.
No outside alcoholic beverages are permitted onsite.
A shuttle will be available to transport guests from one of the hotels nearby to the venue. That same shuttle will bring guests back to the hotel at the end of the event.
You’re also welcome to take a Lyft, carpool with friends, or drive yourself.
There is plenty of parking onsite!
Something comfortable. This is not the venue for suits or stilettos.
Last year was quite warm, so most guests wore shorts, skirts, dresses, or linen pants. It does cool down at night, so we recommend layers.
Absolutely. We’ll have a safe space for you to store your luggage during the day. However, we do ask that you keep your valuables (laptop, wallet, phone) with you throughout the day.
