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Venture Trailblazers, featuring Elizabeth Yin (GP, Hustle Fund)

Name: Venture Trailblazers, featuring Elizabeth Yin (GP, Hustle Fund)
Start: 2025-08-14T08:00:00-0700
End: 2025-08-14T09:30:00-0700

Join Elizabeth Yin to explore how entrepreneurship can democratize wealth for the next generation.

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Aug 14, 2025

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08:00 am - 09:30 am

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Venture Trailblazers brings together leading investors, founders, and ecosystem builders to explore the future of venture capital and early-stage funding. Join us for a conversation with Elizabeth Yin, General Partner at Hustle Fund and former tech entrepreneur turned startup investor. Elizabeth will share her journey from founder to fund manager and discuss her mission to democratize wealth through entrepreneurship over the next several decades.

About the Speaker:

Elizabeth Yin is Co-Founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, a pre-seed fund backing software entrepreneurs. Previously, she was a partner at 500 Startups, where she led seed investments and ran the Mountain View accelerator. Earlier in her career, she co-founded and exited the adtech startup LaunchBit. Elizabeth holds a BSEE from Stanford and an MBA from MIT Sloan. Elizabeth has reviewed over 20k startup pitches from around the world in the last few years and has helped numerous portfolio founders raise hundreds of millions of dollars. Her work and writing on startup fundraising have been featured in numerous publications, including TechCrunch, Forbes, Huffington Post, BetaKit, and more.

Venture Trailblazers is presented by the Founder Institute, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator; and VC Lab, the leading venture capital accelerator for emerging managers worldwide.

This event is reserved for the Founder Institute and VC Lab networks: including Local Leaders, Alumni, Mentors, Investors, Partners, and Enrolled Founders/ Fund Managers.

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