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
18
Current Fund Size
$100M

Lak Ananth is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Lak Ananth's Investments On Record (10)

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), Brian Requarth (Latitud), Debjit Mukerji (Next47), Ron Gill (Lead Edge Capital), Harj Taggar (Y Combinator), Aneel Ranadive (Soma Capital), Daniel Heise (DGF Investimentos), Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator), Immad Akhund, Parker Treacy
Verkada
Series DSep 2022$210M
Series CJan 2020$80M
Series BApr 2019$40M
Series AApr 2018$15M
$560M
Co-investors: Alex Kurland (Meritech Capital Partners), Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Micah Rosenbloom (Founder Collective), Deep Nishar (General Catalyst), Bill Trenchard (First Round Capital), Victor Hwang (Msd Capital), Derek Zanutto (CapitalG), Aidan Madigan-Curtis (Eclipse Ventures), Mike Vernal
VAST Data
Series DMay 2021$83M
Series CApr 2020$100M
$380M
Co-investors: Scott Sandell (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Dror Nahumi (Norwest Venture Partners), John Curtius (Cedar Capital Group)
Markforged
Series DMar 2019$82M
Series CNov 2017$30M
$110M
Co-investors: Matthew Goldstein (Systemiq Capital), Michael Medici (Summit Partners)
RideOS
Series BAug 2018$25M
$34M
Co-investors: Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Mike Vernal
Tamr
Series BJul 2018$18M
$59M
Co-investors: Jonathan Lehr (Work-Bench), Marianne Wu (GE Ventures), Marc van den Berg (OGCI Climate Investments (CI)), Peter Barris, Rich Miner
Cohesity
Series DJun 2018$250M
$810M
Co-investors: Carl Eschenbach (Sequoia Capital), Bill Coughran (Sequoia Capital), Gaurav Garg (Wing Venture Capital), Deep Nishar (General Catalyst), Astasia Myers (Felicis Ventures), Eric Wolford (Accel), Karan Mehandru (Madrona Ventures), Ashu Garg (Foundation Capital), Randy Glein (DFJ), Kevin Ding (DHVC (Digital Horizon Capital)), Stuart Peterson (Artis Ventures (AV)), Rob Salvagno (Cisco Investments), Matthew Cowan (Next47)