# Austen Allred, Co-Founder & CEO > Austen Allred, Co-Founder & CEO. The rounds they were named in and the filings that name them, each with its source. Source: https://millionrounds.com/person/austen-allred (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) Austin, US · Partner # Austen Allred Co-Founder & CEO Profile summary - **Rounds named:** - none observed - **Filings:** 3 with regulators - **Podcasts:** 6 +2 mentions What this record rests on - **Named in rounds** No round names them yet - ✓ **On filings** 3 filings with a regulator - ✓ **Own investor record** Their cheques, held under their name - **Claimed** Not claimed yet Titles come from filings their firm signed. [Correct or remove](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?person=austen-allred)[Is this you? Claim it](https://millionrounds.com/claim?person=austen-allred) ## Their investor record [**Austen Allred, investing** Every cheque we watched them write, on one record **0** cheques in 12 months **0** all time **0** led unknown](https://millionrounds.com/fund/austen-allred) ## Companies they are listed as backing Portfolio - [Atmana](https://millionrounds.com/startup/atmana) - [Dialect](https://millionrounds.com/startup/dialect) - [HUNTY](https://millionrounds.com/startup/hunty) - [Jupe](https://millionrounds.com/startup/jupe) - [MicroAcquire](https://millionrounds.com/startup/microacquire) - [Softr](https://millionrounds.com/startup/softr) - [Theatre.js](https://millionrounds.com/startup/theatre-js) - [Zuma](https://millionrounds.com/startup/zuma) - Anakin - Growth School ## Where they are named on record Filings - SEC Form D · Company raising **BloomTech Inc.** Executive Officer, Director, Promoter since 2024 - SEC Form D · Company raising **Lambda Inc.** Executive Officer, Director since 2020 - SEC Form D · Company raising **Grasswire, Co.** Executive Officer, Director since 2014 Each row is a document a firm filed with a regulator: somebody signed it, and it carries a date. ## Hear them before you pitch them - [TBPN](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/tbpn) · 20 May 2025 · 3h 32m Google I/O Reaction, Microsoft Build Recap, OpenAI's Stargate Datacenter | Austen Allred, Jeff Morris Jr., Cliff Weitzman, Logan Kilpatrick & Tulsee Doshi With [Austen Allred](https://millionrounds.com/person/austen-allred)[Jeff Morris](https://millionrounds.com/person/jeff-morris) Mentions [Google](https://millionrounds.com/fund/google-assistant-investments)[Logan Kilpatrick](https://millionrounds.com/fund/logan-kilpatrick)[Ben Thompson](https://millionrounds.com/person/ben-thompson) About this episode TBPN.com is made possible by: Ramp - https://ramp.com Figma - https://figma.com Vanta - https://vanta.com Linear - https://linear.app Eight Sleep - https://eightsleep.com/tbpn Wander - https://wander.com/tbpn Public - https://public.com AdQuick - https://adquick.com Bezel -… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [The NFX Podcast](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/nfx) · 22 Apr 2021 · 33 min Austen Allred (Co-Founder of Lambda School) & James Currier (NFX) on The New American Dream With [Austen Allred](https://millionrounds.com/person/austen-allred) About this episode The new American dream is underway. The current US educational industrial complex is not serving young people anymore, and entrepreneurs outside the system are creating new alternatives. Austen Allred, Co-Founder/CEO of Lambda School earned this perspective by dropping out of college, setting his… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [The Twenty Minute VC](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/20vc) · 18 Sept 2020 · 32 min 20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on How To Assess Your Relationship To Risk and Money, Why San Francisco Is A Case Study For The Greatest Squandering of Wealth in History & Why Complexity Increases Exponentially with Scale With [Austen Allred](https://millionrounds.com/person/austen-allred) About this episode Austen Allred is the Founder & CEO @ Lambda School, the startup that remotely trains people to become a web developer or data scientist and the students pay no tuition until they are hired. Just last month, Lambda's $74M Series C was announced led by Gigafund bringing their total funding to date… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [Village Global Podcast](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/village-global) · 3 May 2020 · 52 min Austen Allred and Rishi Mandal on Turning In-Person Experiences into Digital Form With [Austen Allred](https://millionrounds.com/person/austen-allred)[Rishi Mandal](https://millionrounds.com/person/rishi-mandal) About this episode Austen Allred (@austen), CEO of Lambda School, and Rishi Mandal (@rmandal), founder of Future, join Erik on this episode. They discuss: - How Austen took education that typically happened in person and transformed it into digital form at Lambda School. - How Rishi is taking fitness training that… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [This Week in Startups](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/this-week-in-startups) · 3 Mar 2020 · 1h 7m E1033: News Roundtable! Lambda School CEO Austen Allred & General Catalyst Partner Katherine Boyle on Lambda School controversy, Techlash & late-stage journalism, Robinhood down as Dow jumps & more! With [Austen Allred](https://millionrounds.com/person/austen-allred)[Katherine Boyle](https://millionrounds.com/person/katherine-boyle) About this episode 0:54 Want to see what it's like to be an Angel Investor in Jason's Syndicate? DM @thesyndicate415 to read Jason's last 3 deal memos 1:37 Jason intros Austen Allred & gets his side of the recent Lambda School controversy 6:22 Jason intros Katherine Boyle & gets her take on how she would have advised… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [The Twenty Minute VC](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/20vc) · 8 Mar 2019 · 36 min 20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on Why Unemployment Is An Optimisation Problem That Will Be Solved Over The Next 20 Years, Why The Speed and Quality of Decisions Are Not Mutually Exclusive & The 1 Question All Founders Must Ask Themselves Befor With [Austen Allred](https://millionrounds.com/person/austen-allred) Mentions [Ashton Kutcher](https://millionrounds.com/fund/ashton-kutcher) About this episode Austen Allred is the Founder & CEO @ Lambda School, a 9 month, immersive program that gives you the tools and training you need to launch your new career, from the comfort of your own home. As a Lambda student, you pay nothing until you're earning $50k or more. And if you don't, it's free. To… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page ### Mentioned in Episodes that name Austen Allred in their description, which is not the same as being on them. - [This Week in Startups](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/this-week-in-startups) · 24 Mar 2020 · 1h 10m E1039: Independent Journalist Vincent Woo reflects on his piece, "Lambda School's Misleading Promises", shares insights on what drew him to the story, where Lambda School went wrong, how they can be better & more Mentions [Austen Allred](https://millionrounds.com/person/austen-allred) About this episode 0:45 Jason intros Vincent Woo, who wrote "Lambda School's Misleading Promises" for New York Magazine 2:21 What drew Vincent to this story? What wrongdoings did he discover? 6:02 Vincent describes Lambda's ISAs and how they were sold 14:24 How Vincent approached Austen Allred as an investigative… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page - [The a16z Show](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/a16z) · 19 Dec 2019 · 28 min Are ISAs the Solution to Student Debt? Mentions [Austen Allred](https://millionrounds.com/person/austen-allred) About this episode A bold proposal: You go to college for free, then pay back the school after graduation, but only if you get a job in your field of study and make a high enough salary to afford it. It's called an income share agreement, and Austen Allred, the CEO and cofounder of Lambda School, thinks it's the… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page Episodes of [the shows we follow](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts), matched by name. Not them? [Tell us](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?person=austen-allred). ## Find people like Austen Filter every partner and angel by firm, kind, market and whether we watched them invest. Free with an account. Search people[How we know what we know](https://millionrounds.com/methodology)