Austin Murdock, PhD

hello, world!

I am a multi-time Founder/CEO with six years of experience building and scaling deep-tech ventures. I have raised over $30 million in venture, debt, and non-dilutive capital; scaled complex technical businesses; driven AI-native operating leverage to deliver greater outcomes with less capital; and built high-performance teams from the ground up while developing leaders for expanded responsibility.

I combine founder execution with technical depth shaped by research experience in cybersecurity, AI/ML, and high-performance computing at the University of California, Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Johns Hopkins University.

Having built companies both before and after the generative AI shift, I bring practical insight into what AI can automate, what should remain human-led, and how to redesign teams, workflows, and operating models to use AI securely.

I help organizations:

• Diagnose cash, burn, pipeline, team structure, tech stack, and priorities to identify the highest-leverage path forward.
• Translate technical capability and customer demand into phased execution that improves product-market fit.
• Build operating cadence, accountability, and cross-functional alignment to support scale.
• Accelerate commercial traction by aligning capital, product, team, and go-to-market.
• Represent complex technical and business narratives with investors, partners, and stakeholders.
• Establish high-trust feedback loops that surface operational friction, cultural misalignment, and execution risk early.

You can contact me via or LinkedIn.