Founder and Managing Partner
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Collin West invests or supports investments through Ensemble VC's published strategy: Use proprietary data and software to identify exceptional startup teams, then provide concentrated early-stage support to founders building transformative companies.
Teams whose collective execution quality, experience and ability to attract talent make them greater than the sum of their parts.
No formal pass list is public. Teams without strong execution depth or opportunities that cannot benefit from Ensemble's data-driven evaluation appear less aligned.
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Collin West founded Ensemble in 2020 to apply data science to venture investing. He previously helped build the data-driven strategy at Correlation Ventures, founded the Kauffman Fellows VC Fund that evolved into Ensemble, and founded the Kauffman Fellows Research Center. Before venture capital he built digital-advertising and adventure-travel businesses and worked in strategy consulting at Accenture. He holds an MBA from Kellogg.