Austin Chen
Bio
Austin Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Manifund, an open and transparent charitable grant platform focused on AI safety and effective altruism causes. He previously co-founded Manifold Markets in 2021 alongside James and Stephen Grugett, a play-money prediction market platform that grew out of the EA and rationalist communities. Before founding Manifold, he worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Streamlit and as a software engineer at Google, and holds a degree from UC Berkeley. He stepped away from Manifold to launch Manifund, which operates a regranting program pairing domain experts with independent grant budgets to fund early-stage AI safety projects. Austin is active on LessWrong and the EA Forum, and also co-organizes Manifest, an annual forecasting conference held in the Bay Area.
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- Personal Website
- https://manifund.org/Austin
- Twitter / X
- LessWrong
- austin-chen
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- Last Updated
- Mar 22, 2026, 2:27 PM UTC
- Created
- Mar 20, 2026, 3:01 AM UTC