Ethan Austin is an experienced fintech investor, angel investor, executive coach, and CEO coach. As a Managing Director at Techstars, he invests in pre-seed and seed stage payments and fintech startups, connecting them with world-class fintech executives, mentors, and investors through the three-month Techstars Western Union accelerator program. Austin is a successful founder himself, having gone through Techstars as a founder in 2010. His passion for helping others and making people smile is reflected in his personal philosophy, "Have Fun, Do Good, Help Others."

Austin studied BA in Political Science and Economics at Emory University and attended American University, Washington College of Law, for J.D. He also studied Product Management Certificate at General Assembly. As a leader in the fintech industry, Austin has held positions as Director and Board Director at Techstars, Board Director at Climate Cycle, Advisor at Arcadia Power, CloudSpotter Technologies Inc., and Sumpto. He is a former co-founder at DealGooder, Writer at Guidespot.com, and co-founder, and President at GiveForward.

Austin is an ideal mentor for companies at the pre-seed to Series A stage, especially those in payments, digital identity, regtech and compliance (KYC/AML), customer experience, fraud prevention, point of sale solutions, digital wallets, big data, AI/ML, blockchain, cloud technologies, API automation, and enabling technologies that create greater efficiencies in the movement of money. His investment expertise and coaching skills have helped numerous startups achieve their funding and growth goals.