Investing Profile

Lak Ananth

VCInvestorCEO
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner at Next47
next47.com/people/lak-ananthPalo Alto, California
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Next47 Managing Partner
$100K - $5.0M
$1.5M
18
$100M
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Aurasell
SeedAug 2025$30M
SeedJan 2024
$30M
Tractian
Series CDec 2024$120M
Series BAug 2023$47M
Series AMay 2022$15M
$190M
Co-investors: Trevor Oelschig (General Catalyst), Anders Ranum (Sapphire Ventures), Caio Vinicius Mayoli Bolognesi (monashees), Debjit Mukerji (Next47), Ron Gill (Lead Edge Capital), Brian Requarth (Latitud), Aneel Ranadive (Soma Capital), Daniel Heise (DGF Investimentos), Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator), Harj Taggar (Y Combinator), Parker Treacy, Immad Akhund
Verkada
Series DSep 2022$210M
Series CJan 2020$80M
Series BApr 2019$40M
Series AApr 2018$15M
$540M
Co-investors: Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Alex Kurland (Meritech Capital Partners), Deep Nishar (General Catalyst), Micah Rosenbloom (Founder Collective), Bill Trenchard (First Round Capital), Victor Hwang (Msd Capital), Aidan Madigan-Curtis (Eclipse Ventures), Mike Vernal
VAST Data
Series DMay 2021$83M
Series CApr 2020$100M
$300M
Co-investors: Scott Sandell (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), 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: Marianne Wu (GE Ventures), Marc van den Berg (OGCI Climate Investments (CI)), Jonathan Lehr (Work-Bench), Rich Miner, Peter Barris
Cohesity
Series DJun 2018$250M
$810M
Co-investors: Astasia Myers (Felicis Ventures), Gaurav Garg (Wing Venture Capital), Bill Coughran (Sequoia Capital), Deep Nishar (General Catalyst), Carl Eschenbach (Sequoia Capital), Karan Mehandru (Madrona Ventures), Randy Glein (DFJ), Ashu Garg (Foundation Capital), Stuart Peterson (Artis Ventures (AV)), Kevin Ding (DHVC (Digital Horizon Capital)), Matthew Cowan (Next47), Rob Salvagno (Cisco Investments)