Ian Heinrich

Ensemble is a venture capital platform purpose-built to identify and back exceptional technical founding teams. We’ve delivered on TVPI and DPI, placing us among the top venture capital firms by industry benchmarks. Our portfolio includes companies like Zoom, Carta, Groww, CHAOS, and Saronic—early investments made well before they became market consensus. The venture capital industry is changing rapidly, with more and more GPs claiming to be “data-driven.” We have been ahead of this trend for a decade, and we now boast a suite of data-enabled tools that promote objectivity and deep research on technical investments. At the core of Ensemble is our proprietary data and research platform that continuously scrapes, analyzes, and refreshes billions of datapoints across the global talent ecosystem. We focus on highly technical markets—AI, defense, healthcare, and infrastructure. Our team brings experience across engineering and investing from IBM Watson, Bain Capital Ventures, Norwest, Kauffman Fellows, and Correlation Ventures.

Ensemble is a venture capital platform purpose-built to identify and back exceptional technical founding teams. We’ve delivered on TVPI and DPI, placing us among the top venture capital firms by industry benchmarks. Our portfolio includes companies like Zoom, Carta, Groww, CHAOS, and Saronic—early investments made well before they became market consensus. The venture capital industry is changing rapidly, with more and more GPs claiming to be “data-driven.” We have been ahead of this trend for a decade, and we now boast a suite of data-enabled tools that promote objectivity and deep research on technical investments. At the core of Ensemble is our proprietary data and research platform that continuously scrapes, analyzes, and refreshes billions of datapoints across the global talent ecosystem. We focus on highly technical markets—AI, defense, healthcare, and infrastructure. Our team brings experience across engineering and investing from IBM Watson, Bain Capital Ventures, Norwest, Kauffman Fellows, and Correlation Ventures.

As one of the largest student-led impact investment funds, we make investments into pre-seed and seed ventures that seek to generate impact and financial returns. Managed and led by Booth MBA students, the Tarrson Fund is the University of Chicago’s premier impact finance training opportunity. Whether you’re seeking funding, hoping to join the fund as an investor, or looking to co-invest alongside us, we invite you to learn more.

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Third Sphere works for founders transforming global systems. We’ve made over 100 investments in notable firms like Cove Tool, OneWheel and Bowery Farming. We’re usually a pre-customer investor and offer traditional venture as well as credit finance, along with coaching and connections to over 12,000 customers, investors focused on re-imagining our planet. Our team is ranked in the 99th percentile of climatetech investors on NFX Signal, and Techcrunch named us one of the top 10 VCs founders love the most. We know that climate is about more than carbon—it’s also about force multipliers like asset finance and distribution. We believe the best climate solutions don’t look like climate solutions at all, just better, faster, and cheaper products and services. We prefer rapid deployment that will get us close to 1.5C in warming while upgrading our systems to make them more resilient. But we’ll also look at moonshot opportunities because we know we need a plan B. [VC] A real investment is about more than capital. We invest at the earliest stages, usually pre-customer, stay close to our founders, and work with them from the inception of our relationship so they can build relationships with other founders, investors, and customers. [Credit] Our investments are designed to minimize dilution and preserve ownership for your team without compromising on rapid growth and impact. That’s why, in addition to venture investment, we lend and create asset finance structures like leasing vehicles. [Platform] The Third Sphere platform helps to connect portfolio founders with leading founders, investors, and customers in climatetech. We use it internally to source the most promising investments and to make introductions within our network in order to increase our portfolio’s chances of achieving rapid impact at scale. [History] We probably look familiar. We used to be known as Urban Us. Heres whats changed - https://hubs.li/Q014-Jsb0

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