# Enrique Allen > Co-Founder, Designer Fund Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/enriqueallen ## Work Experience ### Co-Founder, Managing Partner @ Designer Fund Jan 2011 – Present | San Francisco 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 @ Stripe Jan 2014 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area 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 @ Gusto Jan 2014 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area 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 @ Omada Health Jan 2014 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area 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 @ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford Jan 2009 – Present | Stanford Lecturer & Co-Instructor: http://dmedia.stanford.edu Alum & Coach: http://extreme.stanford.edu Former Teaching Assistant: Cultural Maps Cross Cultural Design ### Designer, Venture Advisor @ 500 Startups Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Mountain View 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 @ Stanford Graduate School of Business Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Teaching Assistant to Professor Jennifer Aaker https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/jennifer-lynn-aaker ### IT and Web Designer @ Mural Music & Arts Project Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 | East Palo Alto ### Researcher, Mobile and Video Applications @ Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 | Stanford Teaching Assistant, Persuasive Video Published in Persuasive2011 Author in Texting4Health Alum of Stanford Facebook Class ### Facebook Fund Designer in Residence @ Facebook Jan 2009 – Jan 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). ### Consultant @ Weigend Associates LLC Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 Consulting services to former Amazon.com Chief Scientist, Andreas Weigend Teaching Assistant for Stanford STATS 252 Data Mining and E-Business course: http://socialdatarevolution.com ### Product Designer @ Venrock Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 ### Product Designer @ Venrock Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 ## Education ### MS candidate in Management Science & Engineering, Product Design Stanford University ### BA Candidate in Human Biology, Human Computer Interaction Stanford University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/enriqueallen - Portfolio: http://designerfund.com - Portfolio: http://dschool.stanford.edu --- Source: https://flows.cv/enriqueallen JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/enriqueallen/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13