Shangda Xu

Shangda Xu

Growth Investing Team

About

Shangda Xu is a partner on the Growth team focused on AI models and infrastructure, AI hardware, and enterprise applications.

Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, Shangda was an investor at Warburg Pincus, working with later-stage software, tech-enabled services, and industrial companies.

Shangda graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University. He grew up in Connecticut and enjoys exploring new cities and beautiful nature, getting competitive about strategy and board games, and finding great new restaurants.

Latest Content by Shangda

Growth

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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