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Austin Spiegel
Co-founder and CEO, Sift
Company

Based in
Marina del Rey, CA
Stage
Series A to B
Type
Founder
Austin Spiegel is co-founder and CEO of Sift, which builds data infrastructure for hardware test, manufacturing, and operations teams in aerospace, defense, and autonomy. He became CEO in May 2026 after focusing on product and business development since co-founding the company in 2022 with Karthik Gollapudi. Before Sift, he spent close to five years at SpaceX building software for rockets, spacecraft, and Starlink, and later managed a software engineering team at Riot Games. He studied computer science at the University of Southern California.
Company

Sift
Sift provides data infrastructure that ingests and analyzes sensor telemetry from hardware, giving aerospace, defense, and manufacturing teams one system for test, anomaly detection, and fleet operations.
Founded
2022
Raised
$67M
Stage
Series B
HQ
Marina del Rey, CA
Investors
SG
StepStone Group
G
GV
RV
Riot Ventures
FV
Fika Ventures
C
CIV
Investor data via Harmonic
In the News
Jun 2, 2026
Yahoo Finance
Sift Achieves FedRAMP High Certification Through Partnership with Knox Systems
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May 13, 2026
Yahoo Finance
Sift Names Co-Founder Austin Spiegel as CEO and Opens San Francisco Office
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Mar 25, 2026
Yahoo Finance
Sift Raises $42M Series B to Build AI Infrastructure for Mission-Critical Machines
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