Ensemble is thrilled to welcome Aidan Gold as an Investment Associate, who is based in Los Angeles, to lead our growing efforts in seed-stage sourcing and execution.
We are extremely deliberate in how we scale our team, letting the new achievements of our proprietary data platform—not headcount goals—dictate where and when we add new talent. As our platform’s reach has extended deeper into the earliest stages of company formation, it became clear that we needed someone who could pair data-driven discovery with sharp investing instincts. Aidan brings exactly that combination, helping Ensemble institutionalize and strengthen our ability to back the best founders earlier than ever.
Prior to joining Ensemble, Aidan was a founding partner at HyperGuap, an investment syndicate and fund with $30M+ AUM that invested in over 35 companies. His portfolio spanned marquee names like SpaceX, Anduril, and Redwood Materials, as well as fast-rising early-stage startups including Lightship, Extropic, Magrathea, and Atomic Semi. Before HyperGuap, Aidan worked in investor relations at biotech startup eGenesis, where he helped raise $225M to tackle the global organ shortage.
Aidan holds a B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Colorado Boulder. We couldn’t be more excited to have him on board as we continue to refine and scale Ensemble’s edge in the next generation of venture investing.
WATCH: Collin West talks next-gen VC on the VC10X podcast with Prashant Choubey
In his recent appearance on the VC10X Podcast, Ensemble founder Collin West laid out the art of data-driven venture and the future of the industry. As we've said many times before, there's a lot more to our approach than just collecting data. Over the last decade, Ensemble has been at the forefront of developing the processes integral to converting data insights into actionable, outbound strategies.
From Brains to Nervous Systems: The Agentic Revolution in AI Infrastructure
In the second installment of Lilly’s series on AI infrastructure, we explore why Agentic AI is more than a passing trend. As organizations move beyond basic LLMs, autonomous agents are emerging as the key to real-world impact—driving action, orchestration, and results. Learn how this shift is reshaping the AI stack from the ground up.
Press Release: Ensemble VC “Unity” launch
Ensemble VC launches Unity, a first-of-its-kind AI platform to derisk venture capital investing by ranking startup teams with hundreds of objective data points. Already in use by Draper Associates, Boost, Overmatch, and Wilson Sonsini, Unity empowers VCs to source, select, and support high-potential startups with precision across sectors like SaaS, AI, defense tech, and space.
Welcome to the team, Hannah Vu!
We’re excited to welcome Hannah Vu to Ensemble VC as a Data Engineer, where she’ll help scale the back-end infrastructure that powers Unity, Ensemble's proprietary data platform.
Rare Earth Elements: The Next Big Thing Is Buried
In a world obsessed with software, the next decacorn might come from a mine. With China controlling 90% of rare earth processing, a new industrial frontier is opening for founders to rebuild the backbone of modern technology—starting with the ground beneath our feet.
CHAOS Industries reaches $2B valuation in Series C led by Accel, NEA
CHAOS Industries, a next-generation DefenseTech startup backed by Ensemble at Series B, has raised $275M in a Series C led by Accel and NEA at a $2B valuation, cementing its status as one of Fund II’s breakout successes and validating Ensemble’s data-driven approach to early access in frontier sectors.
