# Austin Walker

> Austin Walker is a seed investor at Surf backing Podcast and Software. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Surf
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Sep 2026

Austin Walker is a seed investor at Surf focused on Podcast and Software.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Austin Walker: work email, personal email, work phone, personal phone and socials. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-email/austin-walper?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Podcast | 2 | 67% |
| Software | 2 | 67% |
| Marketing | 2 | 67% |
| Media and Entertainment | 2 | 67% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 67% |
| Canada | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Station | Station is a media monetization platform | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 10, 2024 |  |
| The Human Startup | Coming soon. |  | Seed | Apr 01, 2021 |  |
| PLAYR.gg | PLAYR.gg was a technology platform that enables enterprise brands to generate, segment, and activate first-party customer data. The brand was sunset and merged into the Surf brand in February 2022 following the acquisition by Trufan, Inc. | $53K | Angel | Nov 01, 2017 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Atland Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atland-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Brickyard](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brickyard) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Capacity Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capacity-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hustle Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hustle-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Launch Tennessee](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launch-tennessee) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Market Square Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/market-square-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Surf

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

Surf provides brands a better way to engage and understand consumers while compensating consumers for their data.Surf’s revolutionary browser extension passively rewards people for their everyday browsing and helps them save when shopping with their favourite brands. The extension is growing quickly and on track to be at 800,000 users by the endof 2022. Download the extension on joinsurf.com.Surf’s enterprise division provides high fidelity data and commerce enablement opportunities to some of the world’s biggest brands like Netflix, NBA, Sony Music, L’Oreal, Electronic Arts, etc. To learn more about our data or how to get in front of Surf consumers, schedule a call on joinsurf.com/brands.Surf’s vision is to build an equitable data economy for consumers that want to receive value in both a Web2 and Web3 environment. Surf is backed by several investors including Moneta Ventures, Round13 Capital, MAGIC Fund, Kyle Kuzma (Washington Wizards), Cody Ko (popular creator) and unicorn founders like Devon Townsend (Co-Founder, Cameo), Roham Gharegozlou (Co-Founder, Dapper Labs), Ryan Holmes (Founder, Hootsuite), Brad Shaw (CEO, Shaw Communications), Michele Romanow (President, Clearco), and Jason Robins (CEO, DraftKings).

5 contacts available at Surf.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aanikh Kler | COO & Co-Founder | — |
| Andrew Mastracci | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-mastracci |
| Austin Walker | Chief Strategy Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-walper |
| Kieran Eglin | Lead Engineer | — |
| Swish Goswami | CEO & Founder | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Austin Walker invest in?

Austin Walker invests primarily in Podcast, Software and Marketing startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Austin Walker?

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### When did Austin Walker last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Austin Walker closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 3 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?

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