# Austin Rief

> Austin Rief is a Series A investor at Morning Brew (New York) backing Software and Cryptocurrency. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Morning Brew](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morning-brew)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-rief/

Austin Rief is a CEO and co-founder of Morning Brew

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$11M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.5M–$1.8M |
| Series A | $9M–$33M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 37% |
| Cryptocurrency | 4 | 21% |
| Health Care | 3 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 16% |
| SaaS | 2 | 11% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 37% |
| Seed | 6 | 32% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 21% |
| Angel | 1 | 5% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 74% |
| Canada | 2 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Affiniti | Fueling Small Businesses Across America With Industry-Tailored Credit Cards. | $17M | Series A | May 20, 2025 |  |
| Hone Health | Hone treats men's hormone imbalances and low testosterone with at-home lab testing, physician consultations, and medication | $33M | Series A | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Friend | Friend creates a toy companion that promotes self-esteem through meaningful discussions. | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 30, 2024 |  |
| Alongside | Alongside builds indexes for cryptocurrencies. | $11M | Seed | Feb 15, 2023 |  |
| Meez Culinary Solutions | Meez Culinary Solutions is a SaaS company that transforms recipe content including videos and pictures into an interactive database. Meez Culinary Solutions helps its users to ideate, organize and search, collaborate, share, and execute their ideas. | $9M | Series A | Nov 03, 2022 |  |
| Hark | Hark is a New York-based startup that make the authentication process frictionless and bring video to life as the first step in the CX journey. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Aug 10, 2022 |  |
| Studyverse | The Virtual Study Hall | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| Airhouse | Airhouse is an end-to-end fulfillment solution for ecommerce companies. With a software platform that automates the heavy lifting of getting products in the hands of customers, Airhouse lets entrepreneurs focus on what they’re best at. Onboarding takes minutes and there’s no need for a team with operational or engineering expertise. Through asynced Shopify account, Airhouse’s software evaluates store data to create a holistic view of the business and where its customers are. Brands are then matched with warehouses in Airhouse’s partner network that make the most sense for the business, with their inventory shipped to the partner facility as fast as the same day. Airhouse then creates a custom technical configuration for each business tailored directly to their needs and growth strategy. From there, as new orders come in, the entire fulfillment process—from factory to front door—is efficiently and affordably managed by Airhouse. From a single dashboard, brands have complete visibility on inventory, so they know what products are where and which are running low in real time.It’s like having an all-in-one, cloud-based warehouse that maintains itself—an Airhouse. | $11M | Series A | Mar 29, 2022 |  |
| Rare Circles | Rare Circles selects a battle-tested smart contract that meets your brand’s specific engagement objectives. Customize the NFT experience for different target audiences with features like VIP allowlists and loyalty claims. Rare Circles was established in 2021 in Montréal, Quebec. | $7.5M | Seed | Feb 03, 2022 |  |
| Slingshot Finance | Next-gen decentralized trading platform | $22.5M | Series A | Dec 09, 2021 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Shrug Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shrug-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Spacecadet Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spacecadet-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-todd-rahul-angel-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [a16z crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-crypto) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Atreides Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atreides-management-lp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Morning Brew

VC Fund · New York, United States

Morning Brew is a quick and quality daily e-mail newsletter for the millennial business professional.Morning Brew is a daily newsletter designed for young business professionals. Each morning email has a stock market recap, a few short briefs on the most important business news of the day and a small section with lifestyle content. The result isthe perfect mix of Wall Street essentials (like market analysis) and tech news (like a deep dive on Y Combinator).The newsletter, which now has just under 200,000 total subscribers, was founded by Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief in 2015 when they were students at the University of Michigan.

2 contacts available at Morning Brew.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Nusca | Executive Editor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-nusca |
| Austin Rief | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-rief-7ff2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Austin Rief invest in?

Austin Rief invests primarily in Software, Cryptocurrency and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 19 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 Austin Rief's check size?

Austin Rief typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$11M at Seed, $1.5M–$1.8M at Pre-Seed and $9M–$33M 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 Austin Rief participates in.

### When did Austin Rief last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Austin Rief closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 19 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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