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Austin Spiegel
Austin Spiegel
Co-founder and CEO, Sift
Company
Sift
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
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
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