Austin Vedder

Austin Vedder is a Real Estate Developer at W2 Real Estate Partners and an Investor for the Vedder Family office, currently based in Austin, Texas. He began his professional career as a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group before transitioning into the early-stage technology sector as the first non-founding hire at Redbeacon. After helping build the consumer services marketplace, which notably won the TechCrunch50 competition in 2009, he remained with the company through its strategic acquisition by The Home Depot in January 2012. Vedder subsequently co-founded Shift Messenger, a Y Combinator-backed workplace communication software startup that he successfully scaled until its eventual acquisition by Snagajob in December 2017. Today, his primary professional focus bridges commercial real estate development and private family office investments across both early-stage technology ventures and physical property markets.