Austin joined Jump Capital in 2022 and supports the team on all venture capital investment opportunities.
Prior to joining Jump, Austin worked as a venture capital investor at Touchdown Ventures, an investment firm that manages corporate venture capital programs for large companies such as Kelloggs, Tmobile, and Olympus. At Touchdown, Austin helped source and execute 5 vertical SaaS investments and also worked with C- and VP-level corporate executives on a variety of strategic partnership, M&A, product, and new business development activities. Austin began his career as a software engineer focused on natural language processing, distributed systems, and data infrastructure.
Austin holds a B.S in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign as well as a Joint M.S degree in Computer Science and Public Policy from the University of Chicago.
Focus Areas
Cloud Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, Devops, Dev Tools, Cybersecurity, Regtech, Vertical SaaS, Blockchain / Web3, Edtech