Eric Bahn

Co-Founder & General Partner at Hustle Fund · Joined 2017

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Biography

Eric Bahn built real operating experience as an early employee at Ticketfly and as founder of Boardlist before co-founding Hustle Fund in 2017 with his longtime friend and Stanford-era colleague Elizabeth Yin, alongside Shiyan Koh. Bahn combines that founder background with a genuinely quantitative, high-volume investing approach - Hustle Fund invests in roughly 250 companies per fund, a strategy some critics call 'spray and pray' but which Bahn defends as the right response to the extreme uncertainty and thin data available at the pre-seed stage. He has helped build Hustle Fund's Angel Squad program, which democratizes access to startup investing by letting individuals write checks as small as $1,000 into deals from the firm's pipeline, and continues to champion backing solo founders and underrepresented entrepreneurs that traditional VC wisdom often passes over.

Education

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

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Career Timeline

2010s
Works as an early employee at Ticketfly, then founds Boardlist, before earning an MBA at Harvard.
2017
Co-founds Hustle Fund with longtime friend Elizabeth Yin and Shiyan Koh in mid-2017.
2018
Closes Hustle Fund's $11.5 million debut fund.
2020
Launches Angel Squad, a program letting individuals invest as little as $1,000 in startups from Hustle Fund's pipeline.

Sources & References

CB Insights - Hustle Fund ↗Ignite VC Podcast ↗