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Conrad Shang

Managing Partner at Ensemble Investor

Austin, Texas

Overview 

Conrad Shang is the Founder & Managing Partner at Ensemble VC and a Kauffman Fellow, specializing in venture capital investments across various sectors. He has successfully invested in companies like Clazar, Blueprint, Swimply, ICON, Udemy, STRATIM Systems, Casper, and Good&Co, showcasing his expertise in financial modeling, due diligence, and corporate development within the start-up ecosystem.

Work Experience 

  • Investor

    2024 - Current

Safeguarding online identities with facial recognition. Protecting against deep fakes, unauthorized use of faces, and privacy infringements.

Raised $6,650,000.00 from FUSE, Alpha Edison, Ensemble VC, Khosla Ventures, KapVista Ventures, K5 Global and Bling Capital.

  • Investor

    2024

Modal.io is a Mastery Platform that gives every employee the skills they need to do better work by teaching them the technical skills.

Raised $31,700,000.00 from Ensemble VC, Learn Capital, Left Lane Capital and SignalFire.

  • Investor

    2024

Clazar is the leading Cloud Sales Acceleration Platform for Go-to-Market teams to scale revenue on AWS, Azure and Google cloud marketplaces.

Raised $14,000,000.00 from Ridge Ventures, Ensemble VC, DST Global, Twin Ventures and The General Partnership.

  • Managing Partner

    2021

    Ensemble is a modern early-stage venture capital firm that is backed by category-defining operators and investors. We leverage our data platform and functional experts from our network of strategic advisors to help you build the right team and operational processes so you can translate your determination into execution.

Ensemble is a modern early-stage venture capital firm that is backed by category-defining operators and investors.

  • Investor

    2023

Saronic designs and manufactures unmanned surface vehicles for maritime security and domain awareness.

Raised $245,000,000.00 from 8VC, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Silent Ventures, Elad Gil, Caffeinated Capital and NightDragon.

  • Investor

    2023

Blueprint is an AI-powered assistant for therapists.

Raised $17,325,000.00 from Lightbank, Bonfire Ventures, Ensemble VC, Data Tech Fund, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, LeverageVC and Tau Ventures.

  • Investor

    2021

Swimply is an online marketplace for passion space and amenity rentals including pools, courts, and entire homes by the hour

Raised $51,200,000.00 from Nathan Blecharczyk, Alvin Salehi, Brad Bao, GGV Capital, Rob Chesnut, Ensemble VC, Mayfield Fund, Norwest Venture Partners, Fidji Simo and Casey Winters.

  • Investor

    2021

ICON is a construction technology company that uses 3D robotics, software, and advanced materials.

Raised $451,499,870.00 from Sand Hill Angels, Montauk Ventures, Elektron Ventures, Trousdale Ventures, Tiger Global Management, Oakhouse Partners, Ensemble VC, 8VC, Fifth Wall and Bond.

  • Fellow (Class 27)

    2022 - 2024

Co-investment VC firm supporting the mission of the Kauffman Fellows

  • Director, Venture Capital & Private Equity

    2017 - 2020

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