Stephen Straus

Stephen is founding Chair of Impact Dyslexia [http://www.impactydyslexia.org/], a non-profit focused on creating bold solutions to the dyslexia crisis, serves on the Engineering Advisory Board of the Cockrell College of Engineering at the University of Texas and is a former member of the Board of Directors of Sustainable Food Center and Austin Film Society. He is also currently spearheading The Startup Diversity and Inclusion Pledge [http://diversitypledge.org/] and is a partner and mentor at Capital Factory. He is a graduate of Colgate University and received his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Stephen Straus is CEO of KUNGFU.AI, an AI-focused management consulting and engineering firm in Austin he co-founded in 2017.  Stephen is a serial entrepreneur who has started, ran, and successfully sold two companies. He spent nine years at Austin Ventures during the dot-com era — at the time the largest venture capital firm between the two coasts  — rising to General Partner, and was a member of class two of the Kauffman Fellows program.

Stephen is a member of Kaufman Fellows Class 2. He served his fellowship under mentor Joe Aragona at Austin Ventures in Austin, Texas.