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About Hobart Ventures

Investor type

VC firm

First check

$25k to $50k

Lead

Never

Themes

traveltech community
ML
social good
productivity tools
consumer
sustainability big data
marketplaces
B2C
therapy
data science
network effects
marketplace
hotel
proteomics
SaaS genAI medtech
medical devices
communities
collaboration tools
restaurant
neural network
recurring
impact
tech for good
med device
Sustainable Development Goals
b-to-c
AI
travel
LLM
bioimaging
horeca
aggregator
SDG
subscription
platform
tourism
generative AI
medical device
machine learning
health
computer vision
social
diagnostics
B2B2C
in vitro diagnostics
hospitality
IVD
software
sustainable
machine vision
social impact
biomarker
artificial intelligence
underserved
agents
deep learning
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Funding Stages

2. Prototype3. Early Revenue

Countries of investment

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Who we are

We are a Los Angeles based fund investing at the earliest stage in consumer software. Pilot Fund I has backed nine companies across social, marketplaces, and consumer health. I run the fund as a solo GP, coming from an operator background building zero to one growth at Raya and Dispo.

Funding Requirements

We invest in consumer software at the pre-seed /early seed stage, writing first checks into companies where community is core to the distribution engine. Focus areas: social, marketplaces, creator tools, ed tech, social commerce, community platforms, consumer AI, consumer health, and travel. We invest in companies with a bit of traction, specifically looking at early cohort retention, typically on SAFEs alongside other funds and angels. Los Angeles based, investing in the US.

Value add

I spent my career building consumer products before investing in them, so the help is operational rather than advisory. Most of it is distribution; how you seed a first cohort, how you get a community to carry growth instead of paying for it, and how you find the wedge that makes early users recruit the next ones.

Frequently Asked Questions

We do an intro call after first evaluating if the company fits our current focus areas. Depending on how the intro call goes, there might be an invitation to join the Lobby, which is our pre-investment quarterly program focusing on zero-to-one go-to-market, product-led growth, and community-led distribution for pre-seed and early seed-stage consumer software founders. The Lobby only holds eight to ten companies per quarterly cohort. Following completion, we reserve the option to invest for up to two quarters in any of the cohort participants. We aim to invest in two to three companies max, per cohort.
Monthly investor updates at a minimum and full transparency on company issues.
No.
No.
We prefer not to, but are open to evaluating it on a case-by-case basis.

Locations

Los Angeles, CA HQ
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