Investing Profile

Lak Ananth

VCInvestorCEO
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner at Next47
next47.com/people/lak-ananthPalo Alto, California
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Networks Lak is a member of
Intel Network
139 CONNECTIONS
N47 Network
25 CONNECTIONS
Verkada Network
21 CONNECTIONS
VAST Data Network
14 CONNECTIONS
Next47 Network
14 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Next47 Managing Partner
Investment Range
$100K - $5.0M
Sweet Spot
$1.5M
Investments On Record
20
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: Trevor Oelschig (General Catalyst), Caio Vinicius Mayoli Bolognesi (monashees), Debjit Mukerji (NGP Capital), Daniel Heise (DGF Investimentos), Dalton Caldwell (Standard Capital), Aneel Ranadive (Soma Capital), Ron Gill (Lead Edge Capital), Brian Requarth (Latitude), Anders Ranum (Sapphire Ventures, LLC), Parker Treacy (Cobli), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Harj Taggar (Y Combinator)
Observe.AI
Series CApr 2022$130M
Series BSep 2020$54M
$210M
Co-investors: Andy Vitus (Scale Venture Partners), Steve Sloane (Menlo Ventures), Ram Gupta (Altos Ventures), Jishnu Bhattacharjee (Nexus Venture Partners), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Priya Saiprasad (Touring Capital)
VAST Data
Series DMay 2021$83M
Series FApr 2020$100M
$1.4B
Co-investors: John Curtius (Tiger Global Management), Scott Sandell (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Chris Olsen (Drive Capital), Dror Nahumi (Norwest Venture Partners), TJ Rylander (Next47), Moshe Zilberstein (Next47)
Verkada
Series CJan 2020$80M
Series BApr 2019$40M
Series AApr 2018$15M
$690M
Co-investors: Micah Rosenbloom (Founder Collective), Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Mike Vernal (Sequoia Capital), Alex Kurland (Meritech Capital Partners), Deep Nishar (General Catalyst), Bill Trenchard (First Round Capital), Derek Zanutto (CapitalG), Aidan Madigan-Curtis (Eclipse Ventures), James Ephrati (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Gaurav Gupta (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Victor Hwang (MSD Partners)
Sennder
Series CJul 2019$70M
$260M
Co-investors: Barry Large (Lamp Post Group), Luca Bocchio (Accel-KKR), Sonali De Rycker (Accel-KKR)
Markforged
Series DMar 2019$82M
Series CNov 2017$30M
$110M
Co-investors: TJ Rylander (Next47), Matthew Goldstein (Nautilus Labs), Michael Medici (Summit Partners)
RideOS
Series BAug 2018$25M
$34M
Co-investors: Mike Vernal (Sequoia Capital), Arjun Sethi (Tribe-V Venture Capital)

Lak Ananth's Experience

Investor Tamr Inc.Present
Investor HexaditePresent
Board Observer Borderland Engineering, Inc.Present
Board Observer Mesosphere, Inc.Present
Investor IntelPresent
Board Observer ThoughtSpotPresent
Investor Barefoot NetworksPresent
Investor Shape SecurityPresent
Board Member MarkforgedPresent
Board Member VerkadaPresent
Board Observer sennder GmbHPresent
Investor sennderPresent
Board Observer PandoPresent
Board Observer PandoCorpPresent
Investor Observe.AIPresent
Board Member VAST DataPresent
Board Member TRACTIANPresent
Investor TRACTIANPresent
Investor TigerEyePresent
Board Member Aurasell AIPresent
Partner Cambridge Technology PartnersPresent
Partner American Management SystemsPresent
Global Managing Partner & Founding CEO N47Present
Chief Executive Officer Next47Present
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner Next47Present

Lak Ananth's Education

College of Engineering, Guindy Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Kansas State University Master of Science - MS Electrical Engineering

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