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, our proprietary data platform. Based in Austin, Hannah sits at the intersection of engineering, machine learning, and analytics—bringing the skills and systems mindset needed to deepen Ensemble’s technical advantage.
We don’t hire engineers to chase trends—we hire them when our data platform demands it. As Unity continues to expand its reach across founder discovery, signal processing, and internal tooling, we saw the need for a builder who thrives behind the scenes, turning messy, multi-source data into clean, operational insight. Hannah brings exactly that approach.
Prior to joining Ensemble, Hannah was a Senior Cloud & Analytics Engineer at Sunnova Energy, where she helped optimize decisions across more than $500 million in energy assets. Before that, she held multiple engineering roles at ConocoPhillips, working on MLOps for oil production forecasting and DevOps for internal AWS and VMware infrastructure. Hannah began her career at Intel, supporting the development of Cascade Lake processors.
Hannah is pursuing a Master of Science in Analytics from Georgia Tech, and earned her undergraduate degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin. A Houston native and lifelong surfer, she brings a builder’s focus, a deep technical foundation, and the kind of calm under pressure that comes from chasing waves.
Greetings from Ensemble's 2025 Summer Onsite
We’re writing from a packed house here at Ensemble’s Summer 2025 onsite — our largest ever.
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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.
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.
