Investing Profile

Lak Ananth

VCInvestorCEO
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner at Next47
next47.com/people/lak-ananthPalo Alto, California
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Current Investing Position
Next47 Managing Partner
Investment Range
$100K - $5.0M
Sweet Spot
$1.5M
Investments On Record
21
Current Fund Size
$100M

Lak Ananth is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Lak Ananth's Investments On Record (12)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Aurasell
SeedAug 2025$30M
SeedJan 2024
$30M
Tractian
Series CDec 2024$120M
Series BAug 2023$45M
Series AMay 2022$15M
$180M
Co-investors: Anders Ranum (Sapphire Ventures), Trevor Oelschig (General Catalyst), Caio Vinicius Mayoli Bolognesi (monashees), Debjit Mukerji (Next47), Daniel Heise (DGF Investimentos), Dalton Caldwell (Standard Capital), Aneel Ranadive (Soma Capital), Ron Gill (Lead Edge Capital), Brian Requarth (Latitude), Harj Taggar (Y Combinator), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Parker Treacy
Verkada
Series DSep 2022$210M
Series CJan 2020$80M
Series BApr 2019$40M
Series AApr 2018$15M
$660M
Co-investors: Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Alex Kurland (Meritech Capital Partners), Mike Vernal (Sequoia Capital), James Ephrati (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Micah Rosenbloom (Founder Collective), Gaurav Gupta (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Bill Trenchard (First Round Capital), Deep Nishar (SoftBank Investment Advisers), Aidan Madigan-Curtis (Eclipse Ventures), Derek Zanutto (CapitalG), Victor Hwang (Msd Capital)
Observe.AI
Series CApr 2022$130M
Series BSep 2020$54M
$210M
Co-investors: Andy Vitus (Scale Venture Partners), Steve Sloane (Menlo Ventures), Jishnu Bhattacharjee (Nexus Venture Partners), Priya Saiprasad (SoftBank Investment Advisers), Ram Gupta (Altos Ventures), Gokul Rajaram (Top-Patents)
VAST Data
Series DMay 2021$83M
Series FApr 2020$100M
$1.4B
Co-investors: Scott Sandell (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Chris Olsen (Drive Capital), Dror Nahumi (Norwest Venture Partners), TJ Rylander (Next47), Moshe Zilberstein (Next47), John Curtius (Cedar Capital Group)
Sennder
Series CJul 2019$70M
$260M
Co-investors: Luca Bocchio (Accel), Barry Large (Dynamo Ventures), Sonali De Rycker (Accel Partners)
Markforged
Series DMar 2019$82M
Series CNov 2017$30M
$110M
Co-investors: Matthew Goldstein (Systemiq Capital), TJ Rylander (Next47), Michael Medici (Summit Partners)
RideOS
Series BAug 2018$25M
$34M
Co-investors: Mike Vernal (Sequoia Capital), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange)