Austin Evarts

Austin Evarts is the ACRE Portfolio Lead at Urban Future Lab / ACRE at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

Austin brings 15 years of entrepreneurial and startup accelerator experience to the Urban Future Lab where he leads platform efforts for the ACRE portfolio, supporting startups in the incubator and managing investor relations. He runs the annual Urban Future Prize Competition, including management of the pipeline and down selection process, and is helping build a new strategic accelerator for the Urban Future Lab. Prior to the Urban Future Lab, Austin co-founded and led a SaaS marketing technology startup called GoChime to a successful acquisition. Austin is a Terra.do Climate School Fellow and the Co-President of the New York Techstars Chapter. He holds a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.