Our Focus
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Trust Fund is an early-stage venture fund focused exclusively (yet broadly) on investing in tech-enabled products that help people start and build businesses. We write $150 - $300K checks into pre-seed and seed stage companies. We don't lead and we don't take board seats.

Our investors include Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, David Sacks, Jason Calacanis, Jeremy Liew, Andrew Chen, Jeff Jordan, Paris Hilton, Anthony Noto, Ryan Hoover, Sam Parr, Andrew Wilkinson, Jesse Draper, Ev Williams, Naomi Gleit, Rob Hayes, and Phil Hellmuth.

The areas we get excited about include marketplaces, logistics, e-commerce enablement, B2B commerce, circular commerce, supply chain optimization, and productivity tools including AI, freelancer economy, and creative tools.

We have a visceral knowledge of what founders need to be successful, both those we back and those they're building for. Our audience of over 1,000,000 social followers, deep operational expertise, extensive network, and ability to make a material impact gives us a wild advantage we love nothing more than to flex on behalf of our portfolio companies.

Sophia Amoruso is the Founder & Managing Partner at Trust Fund. Prior to Trust Fund, Sophia was an active angel investor, deploying over $1 million of personal capital into over 20 companies including Liquid Death, Eight Sleep, Kindbody, Pipe, and Public.com.

Sophia made her mark when she founded Nasty Gal in 2006 and bootstrapped it to a run rate of $28 million profitably before raising $60 million from Index Ventures and Thrive Capital in 2012. She then went on to scale the business to over $100 million in revenue.

In 2020, Sophia founded Business Class, a comprehensive digital course and membership for entrepreneurs, creatives, and freelancers, which has built a community of over 3,500 founders across the globe.

In 2017, Sophia founded Girlboss, a community for ambitious women. Sophia also hosted podcast Girlboss Radio from 2015-2020, which garnered over 20 million downloads.

In December 2019, it was announced that Girlboss had been acquired by Attention Capital.

Her 2014 18-week New York Times Bestseller, #GIRLBOSS, chronicled her early life as well as her experience as the founder of fashion empire Nasty Gal, was adapted into a scripted TV series that premiered on Netflix in 2017 and was produced by Charlize Theron.

Sophia has been featured on the cover of Forbes magazine's 2016 America's Richest Self Made Women issue and featured in the Fortune 40 under 40, Forbes 30 under 30, Inc. 30 under 30, and Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business lists.