# Enrique Allen

> Enrique Allen is a seed investor at Designer Fund backing Software and Developer Tools. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Designer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/designer-fund)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/enriqueallen
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/enriqueallen
- Website: http://designerfund.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DesignerFund

Enrique Allen is a seed investor at Designer Fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Developer Tools. Enrique Allen is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Designer Fund where he invests between $100K - $1M in tech startups who are design leaders including Stripe, Gusto, Omada Health, Altschool, and Shyp. He adds value by building and educating design teams through Designer Fund's professional development program, Bridge. Previously, Enriquewas a designer at venture capital firms, including 500 Startups, Facebook’s fbFund, and Venrock where he helped invest in companies like Behance, Lyft and Wildfire. He's a Stanford University alum and continues to teach d.media, one of the most popular courses at the Stanford d.school.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Developer Tools | 2 | 33% |
| B2B | 1 | 17% |
| CRM | 1 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 83% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| brand.ai | Brand.ai is automatically maintainable UI components style guide. Brand provides tools and integrations to upgrade its users’ systems from reference sites to living products that integrates with their team’s existing workflows. The company offers its users with design asset management, sketch UI library sync, cross-platform style data export,documentation integration, and MS office integration services. It establishes a centralized repository system for its users’ design assets and it allows its users to get designs directly in the tools they already use. It also allows its users to share UI components and styles with its users’ teams. It pushes design library updates to their teams that all individuals can use the updated version in sketch.Brand is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2014. | $5.2M | Seed | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Sock Finance | Sock is a mobile investing app that provides a simple way to invest in crypto safely without ever touching customer funds. Sock helps investors grow their portfolios by providing tools and insights to invest wisely. We combine the simplicity of centralized exchanges with the safety and security of knowing you'll never lose access to yourassets. Sock is breaking new ground by offering non-custodial versions of essential investment services like automated stop-loss, limit orders and more. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in San Francisco. For more information, please visit www.sock.app. | $2.8M | Seed | Nov 07, 2023 |  |
| Evergreen Renewables | Evergreen is creating a marketplace for clean energy projects that is accessible to all, ensures additionality, and quantifies the impact of every Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) over the life of every project. | $6.1M | Seed | Mar 17, 2023 |  |
| Dopt | Dopt combines a visual flow builder with SDKs & APIs that enable you to build and launch amazing user onboarding and engagement flows in hours, not months. | $5.1M | Seed | Sep 20, 2022 |  |
| Flatfile | Flatfile provides software products that focus specifically on solving the problem of data onboarding, the process businesses use to accept data from other organizations. Flatfile automatically learns how imported data should be structured and cleaned, enabling customers and teams to spend more time using their data instead of fixing it. | $7.6M | Seed | May 27, 2020 |  |
| Flatfile | Flatfile provides software products that focus specifically on solving the problem of data onboarding, the process businesses use to accept data from other organizations. Flatfile automatically learns how imported data should be structured and cleaned, enabling customers and teams to spend more time using their data instead of fixing it. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Sep 10, 2019 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Afore Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afore-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gradient](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gradient-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ethos Family Office](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/almanack-family-office) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Baker Tilly](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baker-tilly) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [City Light Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/city-light-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Climate Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/climate-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Designer Fund

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Designer Fund invests in tech startups that are design leaders including Stripe, Gusto, and Omada Health. Designer Fund specializes in helping design products and scale design teams through their professional development programs Bridge and Designer Founder Guild. Their community includes exceptional designer founders and design leaders fromcompanies like Apple, Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Pinterest, and Dropbox.

4 contacts available at Designer Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ben Blumenrose | Co-Director and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-blumenfeld |
| Christina Brodbeck | Mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christina-brodbeck |
| Enrique Allen | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enrique-allen |
| Patrick Dugan | Bridge Fellow | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-dugan |

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## FAQ

### What does Enrique Allen invest in?

Enrique Allen invests primarily in Software, Developer Tools and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Enrique Allen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Enrique Allen closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 6 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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