# Austen Allred

> Austen Allred is a seed investor at Lambda School backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 61 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lambda School](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lambda-school)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 61
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/austenallred
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/austen
- Website: https://austenallred.com

Austen Allred is a seed investor at Lambda School in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Austen Allred co-founded Lambda School and serves as its CEO.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $835k–$4.5M |
| Series A | $8.9M–$17M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 22 | 36% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 16% |
| Health Care | 9 | 15% |
| SaaS | 8 | 13% |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 10% |

104 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 39 | 64% |
| Pre-Seed | 12 | 20% |
| Series A | 4 | 7% |
| Series B | 2 | 3% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 39 | 64% |
| India | 5 | 8% |
| Mexico | 2 | 3% |
| Chile | 1 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aurva | Aurva is a runtime data and AI security platform for cloud-native and hybrid environments. Using an eBPF-based architecture, we help organizations discover sensitive data, monitor internal and external data flows, and detect real-time risks across their infrastructure. Aurva provides deep visibility into access patterns, third-party data sharing,and AI model usage through Database Activity Monitoring (DAM), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), and data flow monitoring — helping companies comply with global privacy regulations like GLBA, GDPR, and DPDPA. | $2.2M | Seed | Sep 10, 2025 |  |
| Cekura AI | Cekura AI is an AI based Software Development firm offering Developer Tool to observe and test AI voice agents. | $2.4M | Seed | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| Rork | Rork is an AI-powered platform that lets you build complete, cross-platform mobile apps in minutes by simply describing what you want. It uses AI and React Native to generate fully functional apps-examples include visual novel games, Airbnb-style apps, meditation timers, and more. You can export these apps, use them on your phone, and even sharethem via QR codes or links. |  | Pre-Seed | May 05, 2025 |  |
| Rork | Rork is an AI-powered platform that lets you build complete, cross-platform mobile apps in minutes by simply describing what you want. It uses AI and React Native to generate fully functional apps-examples include visual novel games, Airbnb-style apps, meditation timers, and more. You can export these apps, use them on your phone, and even sharethem via QR codes or links. | $2.8M | Seed | May 05, 2025 |  |
| Fondo | Fondo helps with bookkeeping and beyond so founders can grow their businesses with more resources. The company strives to help founders build an enduring business by taking work off of their plate, providing them with the data needed to make key business decisions, and making sure the startup is in compliance at the state and federal level. | $7M | Seed | Nov 22, 2024 |  |
| Kick | Accounting software that does the work for you | $9M | Seed | Oct 17, 2024 |  |
| Cheers | Cheers is the control center for your frontline brand, answering three critical questions: 1. What's our reputation? 2. Who's driving it? 3. How do we improve it?Most tools stop at “what.” Without “who,” “how” is guesswork.Our AI-powered platform creates the first real-time dataset that attributes online reviews, social mentions,loyalty sign-ups, and NPS surveys directly to individual frontline employees. Instead of vague aggregate reports, managers get clear, actionable insights: who to coach, who to recognize, and which actions actually work.As AI-driven search and agents weigh every public signal, your brand is judged everywhere. Cheers monitors and attributes those signals so you can actually do something about it.Vivint Smart Home identified top performers and generated 65,000+ new five-star reviews in five months across 400 locations. | $835K | Pre-Seed | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| RxDiet | RxDiet uses Ai, automation, and national food retail partnerships to deliver best-in-class nutritional interventions and "food as medicine" meal benefits in the market. RxDiet has partnered with leading national payers and employers to deliver exceptional clinical results and cost savings. | $3M | Seed | Jul 23, 2024 |  |
| Double | Double is a software platform that helps users to build, automate, and analyze investment portfolio for retail investors. | $3.3M | Seed | May 01, 2024 |  |
| Splash | Splash is doing this again in the pool care market, and I understand what it takes to establish a successful, category-defining business in this space. We'd love to join you on this trip. | $4.5M | Pre-Seed | Apr 06, 2024 |  |

10 of 61 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 30 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Rebel Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rebel-fund) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Hustle Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hustle-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Lambda School

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Lambda School is a combination of a school and an investment fund. Lambda School's mission is to find untapped or underutilized talent, and train that talent for the most in-demand jobs in the world. Lambda School is pioneering a new model of higher education in which the school invests in the students, instead of the other way around.

5 contacts available at Lambda School.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Austen Allred | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austen-allred |
| Ben Nelson | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-nelson-8799 |
| Geoffrey Lewis | Lead Investor & Series B | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/geoffrey-lewis |
| Jeff Richards | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-richards |
| Mark Frein | Chief People Officer & Head of Alumni Programs | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-frein |

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## FAQ

### What does Austen Allred invest in?

Austen Allred invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 61 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Austen Allred's check size?

Austen Allred typically joins rounds of $2M–$7M at Seed, $835k–$4.5M at Pre-Seed and $8.9M–$17M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Austen Allred participates in.

### When did Austen Allred last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Austen Allred closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 61 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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