Conrad Shang

Founder & Managing Partner at Ensemble VC | Kauffman Fellow

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2026
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Jun 2026
At Neion Bio, we use breakthroughs in genetic engineering and stem cell biology to reinvent the entire manufacturing process for biopharmaceuticals. Our platform manufactures virtually any complex molecule with orders of magnitude superior cost, scalability, and resiliency. Biomanufacturing reinvented. Medicine, democratized.
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Aug 2025
At Chariot Defense, were building the intelligent hardware and software infrastructure to solve the military’s most critical bottleneck: how energy is transformed, controlled, and distributed as power across the modern battlefield. Todays battlefield looks a lot different than 5 years ago. Autonomous drone swarms, sophisticated sensors, AI control rooms, and directed energy weapons — all reliant on noisy diesel generators or constantly idling vehicles. Our Amphora product line delivers silent, variable power specifically designed for distributed operations, electronic warfare, and autonomous systems at the tactical edge. With a deeply experienced team from Anduril, Uber, Tesla, and frontline military operations, were already fielded and proven with the Department of Defense. Ready to lead the charge? Join our mission.
Series A Lead, Board Member
Apr 2025
We are a software supply chain company that helps organizations of all sizes with their entire SBOM management flows. We help: - Product Security teams automatically generate, aggregate, manage, and share SBOMs. - Vulnerability management / SOC teams identify supply chain vulnerabilities and more quickly and accurately respond to them - Procurement and vendor due-diligence teams solicit SBOMs from vendors, and create intuitive, human-readable risk reports
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Nov 2024
CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. CHAOS Industries’ products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats.
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Jun 2024
Loti AI protects major celebrities, public figures, and corporate IP from online threats, specializing in deepfake and impersonation detection. Founded in 2022, we offer likeness protection, content location and removal, and contract enforcement across the entire public internet including social media platforms, and adult sites. Loti leads the way to a future where people effortlessly control their digital selves. Our platform enhances human uniqueness, empowering individuals to choose what they share or keep private. Were building a world where personal autonomy and technological advancement are in harmony, fostering creativity and benefiting society. We believe all individuals have the right to protect their digital identities and will soon be introducing creator and consumer protection products. For more information, please visit GoLoti.com.
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Apr 2024
The worlds leading employee education platform that’s purpose-built for your company’s learning environment with cohort-based, hands-on, and expert guidance for critical skills.
mid stageE-learning
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Apr 2024
Clazar is the leading Cloud Sales Acceleration Platform for Go-to-Market teams to scale revenue on AWS, Azure and Google cloud marketplaces. From listing to co-sell to revenue reconciliation and recognition, our platform helps companies to streamline and automate their entire cloud sales journey from a single, unified platform — with zero operational overhead. Clazar integrates seamlessly with existing CRMs, offers robust governance controls, and complies fully with industry-leading security standards so that revenue teams can efficiently scale operations with complete peace of mind. Top companies like Pinecone, Perplexity, Cortex, CloudZero and Secureframe trust Clazar to power their success on cloud marketplaces. To learn more, visit www.clazar.io.
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Oct 2023
Saronic is building cutting-edge unmanned surface vehicles that enable maritime security and domain awareness by combining best-in-class hardware, software and artificial intelligence into one scalable, fully integrated platform.
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Jun 2023
Blueprint is a technology company focused on making it easier for mental health clinicians to practice measurement-based care. The Blueprint mobile platform administers standardized and proprietary clinical assessments between appointments to help providers make more informed treatment decisions. Blueprint assessments are reimbursable and automated, so providers can use the Blueprint platform to generate additional revenue without extra work.
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Dec 2021
Join the fun! Swimply is an online peer-to-peer marketplace that allows hourly rentals of pools, courts, entire homes, and many other amenities. Swimply is built for experiences and joy – whether that’s bringing your family to one of our incredible pools, trying a game of pickleball for the first time, or renting a beautiful home for a party, Swimply has a place for your passion. Swimply has +25k listings across the United States, Canada, and Australia and has continued to grow to bring millions of users and hosts together throughout the year.
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Aug 2021
ICON is a construction technology company developing robotic and AI systems to lower the cost and increase the speed and quality of construction to tackle the global housing crisis and prepare to build on other worlds. As a pioneer of large-scale 3D printing, ICON continually sets new standards for delivering resilient, dignified housing and recently unveiled a radical new robotic printer that enables multi-story construction, a new low-carbon building material, a digital catalog for residential architecture, and an AI architect for home design and construction. Using proprietary 3D printing robotics, software and advanced materials, ICON is shifting the paradigm of homebuilding on Earth and beyond. For more information visit www.iconbuild.com or follow on X™, Instagram®, Facebook®, YouTube®, or Threads® (@ICON3DTech).
mid stageConstruction
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Aug 2016
Make Sense Labs is a product development company. We are making data-driven decisions and building MVP prototypes to test in the market. Our objective is to prove that blockchain technology products and cryptocurrency, together, can empower people with financial inclusion and be easy to use… with an underlying emphasis on independence, consensus, and democracy.
Board Observer
Aug 2014
We’re a tight-knit team of fearless entrepreneurs and diverse waybuilders redefining how used cars are bought and sold everyday. We make wholesale easy so our customers can be more successful – by building the world’s greatest digital marketplaces for used vehicles. Our team helps the world’s largest OEMs, dealers, fleet operators, rental companies and financial institutions drive their businesses forward everyday. Looking for your next adventure? From creative design to engineering, software development to manufacturing, to marketing and finance - your journey can start here. Explore our roles today: corporate.openlane.com/careers
Board Observer
May 2014
Our mission is to transform lives through learning. Through our global marketplace platform, we provide the tools learners, instructors, and enterprises need to achieve their goals and reach their full potential. We enjoy problem-solving and collaboration, and we share a serious belief in the power of learning and teaching to change lives. Udemy’s culture fosters inclusion and belonging and encourages innovation, creativity, passion, and teamwork. We also celebrate our milestones and support each other every day. Listen to our Udemy Business Leading Up podcast here ➡️ bit.ly/UdemyLeadingUp More about Udemy: — We have more than 73M learners and over ONE BILLION course enrollments on our platform. — More than 75K instructors are teaching over 250K courses in over 75 languages. — We have over 16K enterprise customers and more than half of the Fortune 100 are Udemy Business customers. — Udemy Business customers have access to more than 27K courses, more than 12K of which are in English and more than 15K are in 15 international languages.
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Jan 2014
Casper is a global sleep company that launched in 2014 with one perfect mattress sold directly to consumers — eliminating commission-driven, inflated prices. Its critically acclaimed sleep surface was developed in-house, has a sleek design, and is delivered in a small, "how did they do that?"​-sized box. The company is one of the fastest growing consumer brands of all time, and its product line has increased to include sheets, pillows, a matching foundation, and a dog mattress. Casper was named one of Fast Companys 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World, and its eponymous mattress was crowned one of TIME Magazines Best Inventions of 2015. Web: http://casper.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/casper Instagram: http://instagram.com/casper Facebook: http://facebook.com/casper
early stageRetail
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2026
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Jun 2026
At Neion Bio, we use breakthroughs in genetic engineering and stem cell biology to reinvent the entire manufacturing process for biopharmaceuticals. Our platform manufactures virtually any complex molecule with orders of magnitude superior cost, scalability, and resiliency. Biomanufacturing reinvented. Medicine, democratized.
2025
Investor
Aug 2025
At Chariot Defense, were building the intelligent hardware and software infrastructure to solve the military’s most critical bottleneck: how energy is transformed, controlled, and distributed as power across the modern battlefield. Todays battlefield looks a lot different than 5 years ago. Autonomous drone swarms, sophisticated sensors, AI control rooms, and directed energy weapons — all reliant on noisy diesel generators or constantly idling vehicles. Our Amphora product line delivers silent, variable power specifically designed for distributed operations, electronic warfare, and autonomous systems at the tactical edge. With a deeply experienced team from Anduril, Uber, Tesla, and frontline military operations, were already fielded and proven with the Department of Defense. Ready to lead the charge? Join our mission.
Series A Lead, Board Member
Apr 2025
We are a software supply chain company that helps organizations of all sizes with their entire SBOM management flows. We help: - Product Security teams automatically generate, aggregate, manage, and share SBOMs. - Vulnerability management / SOC teams identify supply chain vulnerabilities and more quickly and accurately respond to them - Procurement and vendor due-diligence teams solicit SBOMs from vendors, and create intuitive, human-readable risk reports
2024
Investor
Nov 2024
CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. CHAOS Industries’ products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats.
Investor
Jun 2024
Loti AI protects major celebrities, public figures, and corporate IP from online threats, specializing in deepfake and impersonation detection. Founded in 2022, we offer likeness protection, content location and removal, and contract enforcement across the entire public internet including social media platforms, and adult sites. Loti leads the way to a future where people effortlessly control their digital selves. Our platform enhances human uniqueness, empowering individuals to choose what they share or keep private. Were building a world where personal autonomy and technological advancement are in harmony, fostering creativity and benefiting society. We believe all individuals have the right to protect their digital identities and will soon be introducing creator and consumer protection products. For more information, please visit GoLoti.com.
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