Enrique Allen

Co-Founder, Managing Partner

2011

Enrique Allen is the Co-founder of Designer Fund where he invests between $350K - $1M in tech startups with founders who value design including Stripe, Gusto, and Omada Health. Enrique has built a profitable business since 2013 that focuses on designing exceptional products and scaling high-performing design teams with clients including Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Pinterest, and Dropbox. Previously, Enrique was a designer within venture capital firms, including 500 Startups, Facebook’s fbFund, and Venrock, where he helped invest in companies like Lyft, Wildfire (acquired by Google) and Behance (acquired by Adobe). He's a former Stanford University Division 1 soccer player and alum of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford where he continues to teach one of the most popular courses on digital product design for over 7 years.

Investor, Design Partner

2014

Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet. Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies—use our software to accept payments and manage their businesses online.

Investor, Design Partner

2014

Gusto’s mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life. By making the most complicated business tasks simple and personal, Gusto is reimagining payroll, benefits and HR for modern companies. Gusto serves over 60,000 companies nationwide and has offices in San Francisco and Denver.

Investor, Design Partner

2014

Our mission is to inspire and enable people everywhere to live free of chronic disease. One out of three Americans will die prematurely from a condition that’s mostly related to lifestyle, habit, or circumstance. These are conditions that pills and procedures can control but not fix, like type 2 diabetes or heart disease. Omada uses behavior science to help people change their habits, improve their health and reduce their risk of chronic disease.

Lecturer, Co-Instructor

2009

Lecturer & Co-Instructor: http://dmedia.stanford.edu Alum & Coach: http://extreme.stanford.edu Former Teaching Assistant: Cultural Maps Cross Cultural Design

Designer, Venture Advisor

2010 - 2012

500 Startups is a venture capital firm on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, help them create successful companies at scale, and build thriving global ecosystems. We are one of the most active seed stage venture capital firms in the world. Notable portfolio companies include: Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), SendGrid (NASDAQ: SEND), Credit Karma, Grab, Carousell, Udemy, Kudo (acquired by Grab), Talkdesk, Makerbot (acquired by SSYS), Wildfire (acquired by GOOG), and Viki (acquired by Rakuten).

Teaching Assistant

2010 - 2010

Teaching Assistant to Professor Jennifer Aaker https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/jennifer-lynn-aaker

IT and Web Designer

2006 - 2010

Researcher, Mobile and Video Applications

2006 - 2010

Teaching Assistant, Persuasive Video Published in Persuasive2011 Author in Texting4Health Alum of Stanford Facebook Class

Facebook Fund Designer in Residence

2009 - 2009

fbFund is a $10M seed fund and joint venture run by Facebook, Founders Fund, and Accel Partners. Investments include Lyft (NYSE: LYFT), Wildfire (acquired by Google), and Taskrabbit (acquired by IKEA).