# Collin West

> Collin West is a seed investor at Ensemble VC (San Francisco) backing FinTech and SaaS. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ensemble VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ensemble-7d23)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/collinwest
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/collinrwest
- Website: http://www.kauffmanfellows.org/society/fellows-directory/?fellow=Collin%20West

Collin West is a seed investor at Ensemble VC in San Francisco focused on FinTech and SaaS. Collin West founded Ensemble VC as Managing Partner in 2020.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 6 | 25% |
| SaaS | 4 | 17% |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 17% |
| Lifestyle | 3 | 13% |

64 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 29% |
| Series A | 7 | 29% |
| Series B | 4 | 17% |
| Series C | 1 | 4% |
| Series D | 1 | 4% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 75% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Saronic | 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. | $175.5M | Series B | Jul 19, 2024 |  |
| Spot Insurance | Spot Insurance features Injury insurance designed to protect against unexpected medical expenses. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $27.1M | Series A | May 24, 2022 |  |
| Swimply | Swimply is an online marketplace that allows owners of underutilized swimming pools to monetize their pools’ downtime by sharing them locally by the hour. Think Airbnb, but for swimming pools. | $40M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 15, 2021 |  |
| ICON | ICON develops advanced construction technologies that advance humanity. Using proprietary 3D printing robotics, software, and advanced materials, ICON is shifting the paradigm of home building on Earth and beyond. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $207M | Series B | Aug 24, 2021 |  |
| ICON | ICON develops advanced construction technologies that advance humanity. Using proprietary 3D printing robotics, software, and advanced materials, ICON is shifting the paradigm of home building on Earth and beyond. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $35M | Series A | Aug 19, 2020 |  |
| Sidecar Health | Sidecar Health is an insurtech company that provides a personalized health insurance platform. Its platform offers customizable plans based on coverage needs and budget while being completely transparent about medical costs and payouts with comparable coverage and permits fast and easy transactions through a credit card to charge medical expensesupfront at the doctor's office and pharmacy of their choice, enabling consumers to get suitable and affordable health insurance plans.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in El Segundo, California . | $20M | Series B | Jul 23, 2020 |  |
| Kredivo | Kredivo provides an online credit card with payment methods and installments in 30 days or in installments within months. Kredivo has built a modern API to let users provide customers with innovative financing options. This API reference will help users get started on including Kredivo as a new payment method on a site. Akshay Garg founded it in2016, with its headquarters in Jakarta in Indonesia. | $90M |  | Jan 28, 2020 |  |
| Tally | Tally is a consumer tech company pioneering full-service financial automation. Founded in 2015, we built the first automated debt manager to help people overcome credit card debt and put billions of dollars back in people’s pockets. Tally’s vision is to automate people’s entire financial lives, so they can stress less about money and do more ofwhat they love. | $50M | Series C | Jun 18, 2019 |  |
| Carta | Carta is a transfer agent for private companies that enables seed-stage to pre-IPO companies to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. It digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time image of who owns what at astartup.Carta receives funding from a group of investors, including Draper VC, Expansion VC, k9 Ventures, Elefund, Subtraction Capital, Scott Banister, XG Ventures, Kima Ventures, Andy Palmer, and Structure Capital.It was founded by Manu Kumar and Henry Ward in 2012 as eShares, Carta is based in Mountain View, California. | $300M | Series E | May 06, 2019 |  |
| Groww | Groww is an investment platform that offers a new way of investing money with stockbroking and direct mutual funds.The platform provides insights about mutual funds, systematic investment planning, equity-linked savings, and everything from the personal finance world, which helps new investors make investing simple by maintaining a simplifieduser interface to make investing easy, accessible, transparent, and paperless, enabling users to invest in mutual funds without any hassles. Customers can also invest in gold and US stocks through the Groww platform. The company is also a part of Y Combinator’s winter 2018 batch.Founded in 2017 by Lalit Keshre, Harsh Jain, Neeraj Singh, and Ishan Bansal, the company was launched in Bengaluru, Karnataka. | $6.2M | Series A | Jan 23, 2019 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Crosslink Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crosslink-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Norwest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norwest-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Oakhouse Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oakhousepartners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Citi Impact Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citi-impact-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lerer Hippeau](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lerer-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Ensemble VC

VC Fund · Austin, United States

Ensemble is a modern early-stage venture capital firm that is backed by category-defining operators and investors. They started Ensemble VC because they saw an opportunity to do better for founders. They believe that the most fundamental ingredient to company success is people — the founders and teams translating ideas into products that result ingenerational-defining companies.But founders and VCs are both caught in an endless treadmill of fundraising calls, and most meetings are uncomfortable, impersonal, and transactional. Everyone hopes to get married but the process often feels more like speed dating.

4 contacts available at Ensemble VC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Conrad Shang | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/conrad-shang |
| Gopinath Sundaramurthy | Head of Data Science | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gopinath-sundaramurthy-15dd |
| Collin West | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/collin-west |
| Swaminathan Sundaramurthy | Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/swaminathan-sundaramurthy |

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## FAQ

### What does Collin West invest in?

Collin West invests primarily in FinTech, SaaS and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Collin West last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Collin West closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 24 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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