Shangda Xu

Shangda Xu

Growth Investing Team

About

Shangda Xu is a partner on the Growth investing team, focused on enterprise technology companies.

Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, he was at Warburg Pincus, where he invested in later-stage tech-enabled services and industrial companies.

Shangda graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with an AB/SM in economics and applied math. He grew up in Connecticut and loves traveling to new countries, playing strategy and board games, and trying new restaurants.

Latest Content by Shangda

Growth

new Investing in Nexthop AI

Raghu Raghuram, Shangda Xu, and Guido Appenzeller
Growth

How 100 Enterprise CIOs Are Building and Buying Gen AI in 2025

Sarah Wang, Shangda Xu, Justin Kahl, and Tugce Erten
Growth

Funding When Capital Isn’t Cheap

Shangda Xu, Alex Immerman, and David George

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