Austin Chen
Bio
Updated 05/21/26Co-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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Updated 05/21/26- Personal Website
- https://manifund.org/Austin
- Twitter / X
- LessWrong
- austin-chen
- EA Forum
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