Hustle Fund

Hustle Fund is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in "hilariously early" software and technology startups, backing founders often within one or two meetings. Beyond writing early checks through its funds and angel investor network, Hustle Fund publishes tactical, BS-free educational content and newsletters for founders (The Founder Playbook) and investors (Small Bets), and runs programs that help operators learn to angel invest. It was surfaced in the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of foundry-group. Sector: venture-capital.

Hustle Fund is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Venture Capital, Pre-Seed, Seed, and Startups.

Hustle Fund’s developer surface includes engineering blog, YouTube channel, and 9 more developer resources.

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11.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 11.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Newsletter

Newsletter

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Team

Team

Portfolio

Portfolio

Source (apis.yml)

aid: hustle-fund
name: Hustle Fund
description: 'Hustle Fund is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in "hilariously early" software and
  technology startups, backing founders often within one or two meetings. Beyond writing early checks through its funds and
  angel investor network, Hustle Fund publishes tactical, BS-free educational content and newsletters for founders (The Founder
  Playbook) and investors (Small Bets), and runs programs that help operators learn to angel invest. It was surfaced in the
  API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of foundry-group. Sector: venture-capital.'
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  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hustle-fund/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Venture Capital
- Pre-Seed
- Seed
- Startups
- Angel Investing
- Investors
- Fund
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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- type: Blog
  url: https://hustlefund.vc/small-bets
- type: Newsletter
  url: https://hustlefund.vc/newsletters
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://hustlefund.vc/disclaimers
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://hustlefund.vc/privacy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hustle-fund/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/hustlefundvc
- type: YouTube
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  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence