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Venture with GraceColton Dempsey: Next47 Partner Backing AI-Powered Security InfrastructureColton Dempsey is a Partner at Next47. Colton joined Next47 in 2018 and is a Partner on the Palo Alto investment team. He helped lead the firm’s investments in Halcyon and Harmonic Security, Noname Security, Armorblox, DataGrail, Brilliant, Software.com, and Pando, among others. His primary areas of focus are IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, robotics, and connected devices. Colton’s interest in B2B tech began prior to Next47 while working on M&A and IPO transactions at Morgan Stanley’s Technology Group in New York. He graduated from Stanford with a BSc in Symbolic Systems, an interdisciplinary major focused on cog...2025-05-061h 03
The Peel with Turner NovakBuilding Verkada, the $4.5B Physical Security Company | Filip Kaliszan, Founder and CEOFilip Kaliszan is the Founder & CEO of Verkada, the physical security company.Verkada started in 2016 by building the best camera for physical security teams, and has since evolved into a full suite of security products for buildings. Filip takes us inside Verkada’s rapid growth to almost a billion in annual revenue, over 2,000 employees, and raising capital from investors like Sequoia, Meritech, First Round, General Catalyst, and Next47.We get into how AI and LLMs are changing hardware, the power of customer therapy, how Filip iterated on early startup ideas, inside Verkada’s very difficult firs...2025-04-101h 42
Startup Insidertado & Dalma: Investments & Exits – mit Stephan JacquemotWie verändern strategische Investitionen die Zukunft von Startups? In dieser Folge von Investments & Exits spricht Jan Thomas mit Stephan Jacquemot, Investment Partner bei TS Ventures, über zwei bedeutende Finanzierungsrunden.Das Münchner Unternehmen tado sichert sich eine 30-Millionen-Euro-Investition von Panasonic. Das Unternehmen, bekannt für seine smarten Thermostate und Energiemanagement-Lösungen, arbeitet bereits mit Panasonic an Wärmepumpen-Optimierungen. Die neue Finanzierung könnte ein Schritt in Richtung eines strategischen Exits sein, nachdem frühere Börsenpläne gescheitert sind. Zu den Investoren gehören namhafte Unternehmen wie E.ON, Amazon, Haniel und Next47 (Siemens).Auch im Ber...2025-03-1835 min
African Tech RoundupInside Money & Moves: Tinashe Mukogo On Merging Corporate Expertise With Independent MediaEpisode Overview:
This episode features a relaxed, peer-to-peer conversation between two media entrepreneurs—African Tech Roundup co-founder and executive producer Andile Masuku, and Money & Moves founder and writer Tinashe Mukogo.
They explore how Mukogo draws on his background in consulting (Deloitte), corporate venture capital (Next47), and organisational finance (Siemens), along with his CA and INSEAD MBA credentials, to deliver sophisticated yet accessible analysis of African businesses.
What starts as an origin story and a look into his approach to business journalism expands into a deep dive on turning media assets into sustainable businesses. Mukogo and Masuku explore strategic considerations, revenue mo...2025-02-0757 min
Path to Growth: Conversations with Leaders on Go-To-MarketLak Anath | Global Managing Director, Next47Tracy sits down with Lak Ananth, founding CEO and managing partner at Next47, a global venture firm managing over $2 billion. Lak shares insights from his journey—from his engineering beginnings in India to becoming a venture capitalist, his experiences building Next47, and his perspectives on leadership, decision-making, and the transformative potential of AI in business.2025-01-1544 min
GREY Journal Daily News PodcastTractian's breakthrough in manufacturing funding raises a significant questionArtificial intelligence funding continues to grow despite seasonal changes. Manufacturing AI startup Tractian has raised $120 million in Series C funding, led by Sapphire Ventures, with contributions from General Catalyst, Next47, and NGP Capital. Tractian, based in Atlanta, integrates hardware, software, and AI to improve manufacturing maintenance processes. The company targets unplanned downtime in industrial maintenance, which costs major companies around 11% of annual revenue, or approximately $1.4 trillion. The cofounder and CEO Igor Marinelli notes a gap between human expertise and machine understanding due to an aging workforce and a decline in younger workers entering the field. This shift complicates industrial...2024-12-0501 min
Love To LearnDiego Lopez - Capturing Innovation: Merging Passion for TechnologyIn todays Podcast episode we talked to the amazing Diego Lopez.🚀Diego came to Germany from Mexico at the age of 22, following his passion for Albert Einstein, and has been with Siemens for over 14 years. ✈️We heard from Diego about the award-winning Unified Air plattform he developed. You can find out from him exactly what the interaction modes are for creating a sophisticated, human-centred system that increases worker productivity and comfort in the factory. Winner of the Siemens Inventor of the Year Award, he tells us how it feels to be recognised for his work.🏆Diego...2024-11-2647 min
The J Curve with Olga MaslikhovaIgor Marinelli, founder & CEO at Tractian: First Principles Approach to Disrupting Legacy IndustriesWelcome to Season 3 of The J Curve, a podcast about entrepreneurship in Latin America. My guest today is Igor Marinelli, founder and CEO of Tractian, a leader in industrial IoT and enterprise asset management software. Just over a year ago, Tractian secured a $45M Series B funding round, led by General Catalyst and joined by Next47 .
Igor takes us on his incredible journey from building inventory systems as a teenager to founding one of the most innovative companies in the industrial tech space. His story highlights how a deep understanding of customer pain points fueled the creation of inno...2024-10-081h 11
T-Minus Space DailyNuggets from space.Satellite manufacturer K2 Space has raised $50 million in new funding. Direct-to-device satellite connectivity service provider Skylo Technologies has raised $37 million in an equity round. Intuitive Machines and SpaceX have completed tests ahead of their planned IM-1 launch on a Falcon 9 rocket, and more.Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app.Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you’ll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram.T-Minus GuestOur guest today is...2024-02-1329 min
AI UnveiledFrom Copilot to Pilot: Using AI to End Manual Sales Tasks with Santi Suarez Ordoñez, Co-Founder and CEO, and Ashley Wilson, Co-Founder and COO, MomentumEpisode 8: We end our first season chatting with Santi Suarez-Ordoñez and Ashley Wilson, who along with their third co-founder, Moiz Virani, founded Momentum.io, an AI sales platform. They initially crossed paths at their previous startup, Sauce Labs. We start the conversation by talking about their background, the Momentum founding story, and most notably, the dynamics of being married to their work and each other! Sales call summaries are core to their platform. This is an evolving space, so we discuss how it’s changed over the past few years and how Momentum was positioned for succ...2024-02-0642 minAI UnveiledLeverage Your Beginner's Mindset: Using AI to Innovate a Vertical with Jorn Vanysacker, Co-Founder and CEO, and Julien Steel, Head of Product, HenchmenEpisode 7: In this episode of AI Unveiled, I speak with Jorn Vanysacker and Julien Steel at Henchman, a legal contract drafting and negotiating platform powered by AI. Jorn learned some valuable lessons from his first startup. The product was too broad, needed customization, and they didn’t invest in mining insights from data. This time around, he and his co-founders wanted to build something that was truly plug-and-play and solve a narrow problem for end users. With this lens, they decided to build Henchman. None of the founders had any legal experience and Jorn believes this...2024-01-2331 minAI UnveiledGenerating Personal Avatars: Using AI to Manage Content Chaos with Dominik Mate Kovacs, Founder and CEO, ColossyanEpisode 6: In this episode of AI Unveiled, I speak with Dominik Kovacs, founder and CEO of Colossyan, an AI video platform for workplace learning that generates life-like avatars. Before starting Colossyan, Dominik was working at the intersection of AI and video, as the Co-Founder of Defudger, a visual content authentication platform for the insurance industry. So we start this episode by discussing his background and why he then chose to build technology to create synthetic videos. Their customers use Colossyan for formal learning, sales enablement, onboarding, and other internal communications. He discusses two direct benefits: lo...2024-01-0933 minAI UnveiledPivoting From Games to $500K ACVs: Using AI to Automate Creativity with Satej Sirur, Founder and CEO, RocketiumEpisode 5: In this episode of AI Unveiled, I speak with Satej Sirur, founder and CEO of Rocketium, an AI-driven CreativeOps platform sold to enterprises such as Amazon, Home Depot, and Jumia. We start by defining what exactly creative ops means and why Satej believes a unified solution like Rocketium can save creative teams—especially in large companies—over half their time. Rocketium started as a gaming content startup in 2015 and pivoted multiple times before finding PMF from gaming to consumer, to Indian enterprise to a US focus. However, the common thread was content production and each s...2023-12-1246 minAI UnveiledUsing AI To Turn Ideas Into Design with Tony Beltramelli, Co-Founder and CEO, UizardEpisode 4: In this episode of AI Unveiled, Gaurav Kotak speaks with Tony Beltramelli, the Co-Founder and CEO of Uizard, a product design and ideation tool with over 2 million users.Tony believes great design is increasingly important to build successful products and that there aren’t enough designers to match that need. He wants to leverage AI so that product managers and non-designers can be an integral part of the UX and creative process. Uizard got started in 2018, way before the gen AI frenzy. In this episode, we discuss why it took them a couple of yea...2023-11-1441 minAI UnveiledRelevant but Wrong: Using AI to Create Trick Questions with Jeroen Minnaert, Chief Software Architect & Bram De Geyter, VP Product at ShowpadEpisode 3: In this episode of AI Unveiled, Gaurav Kotak speaks with Bram De Geyter , VP of Product and Jeroen Minnaert, Chief Software Architect from Showpad, a sales enablement platform with over 1,000 customers.Jeroen and Bram are Showpad veterans and are leading the charge of AI innovations at the company. We first discuss how, in the longer term, they believe every organization will have a customized language model that describes their value proposition and all sales content and collateral will be created on the fly by prompting the model. Creating content on the fly at...2023-10-3150 min
Open Source Startup PodcastE112: How to Deploy GraphQL Backends Super FastFredrik Björk is Founder & CEO of Grafbase, the API platform for developers to deploy high performance, scaleable GraphQL APIs.
Grafbase has raised $7M+ from investors including Next47 and Uncorrelated Ventures.
In this episode, we dig into what a “unified data layer” is and why it’s needed, how they found their early adopters in industries like e-commerce and IoT, Grafbase "Launch Weeks" and more! 2023-10-2039 minAI UnveiledUsing AI to Transform Financial Research with Lionel Barrow, Co-Head of Engineering, and Michelangelo D'Agostino, VP of Machine Learning at TegusEpisode 2: In this episode of AI Unveiled, Gaurav Kotak speaks with Lionel Barrow, Co-Head of Engineering, and Michelangelo D'Agostino, VP of Machine Learning at Tegus. Tegus is an investment research platform trusted by top hedge funds, PE, and VC firms. The platform includes over 60,000 expert transcripts, public company earnings calls, and presentations, as well as accurate financial models and KPIs. They believe AI will bring a profound change in how financial research is done. From sifting through data to now surfacing insights based on past data, and where they are in the research funnel. Both Li...2023-10-1746 minAI UnveiledMimicking Humans: Using AI to Build a Better Workplace Search with Tariq Rauf, Co-Founder & CEO, QatalogEpisode 1: With the recent rise of Generative AI, many are contemplating its implications: whether it’ll disrupt jobs, daily routines, and humanity to its core. Though AI is sometimes seen as the antithesis of what it means to be human—in this episode, we learn how mimicking humans is what makes a successful AI. Gaurav Kotak sits down with Founder and CEO of Qatalog, Tariq Rauf, in this inaugural episode of AI Unveiled. Tariq and his team have created a fascinating product using methods some might initially deem counterintuitive: vector databases. They incorporate these into the foundation of th...2023-10-0336 minAI UnveiledTrailerIntroducing AI Unveiled:Artificial intelligence is leading every company to reinvent itself. With innovation at every turn, organizations and consumers alike are imagining what’s around the corner. Will AI-first startups be able to leapfrog the incumbents? Or will those incumbents leverage their scale to rapidly infuse AI into their offerings? These are just some of the questions answered in Next47's new podcast: AI Unveiled.Hosted by Gaurav Kotak, Partner at Next47, AI Unveiled brings you the founders and tech leaders using AI to shape their industries and products. We delve in...2023-09-2701 min
Don’t Break the Bank: Run IT, Change ITThree Enterprise Technologists go into a bar… with Ian EllisIn this episode, we talk with Ian Ellis, Technology Strategist, Angel Investor, Venture Partner and Founder of the London Enterprise Tech Meetup. Ian Ellis is an experienced Technology Strategist who has driven C-level stakeholder engagement across some of world's leading organisations, including Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Prudential Financial, Microsoft and Bank of Ireland. His work involves aligning the high-level objectives for an organisation with its technology and business strategies, particularly related to how it drives practical innovation and also engagement with the external ecosystem of emerging technologies, investors and incumbent tech players.Ian covers a lot of...2023-06-2756 min
My Latin Life PodcastJoe Merullo on Building a New Rental Experience in LatAm | My Latin Life Podcast #86 🌴Joe Merullo is the CEO of Arrenda, a fintech company that provides digital financial services to the real estate market in Latin America, enabling landlords in LatAm to advance up to a year of future lease receivables in 24 hours or less. Arrenda is building a better rental experience for landlords & tenants across the globe.00:00 Language Blend00:32 Mortgage rates in Mexico are extremely high01:05 Introduction01:35 Joe's background in the co-living business04:00 What "Arrenda" is and how it works07:48 Collateral assignment is not common in the USA09:20 Finding potential clients in LatAm12:05 How "Arrenda" started and Joe's life in Mexico15:34 Plans...2023-06-151h 37
The Bridgecast with Scott KinkaThe Rise of AI with Swapnil JainOn this episode of The Bridge, I’m joined by Swapnil Jain, CEO and Co-Founder of Observe.AI. We’re talking about the rise of AI and solutions that are making real-world changes right now. Observe.AI is the fastest way to boost contact center performance with live conversation intelligence. Built on the most accurate AI engine in the industry, Observe.AI uncovers insights from 100% of customer interactions and maximizes frontline team performance through coaching and end-to-end workflow automation. During our conversation, we discuss what lead Swapnil to build a conversation intelligence platform to improve prod...2023-06-055h 35
One Thing Today in TechGoogle starts rolling out passkeys; Indian fintech projected to $1.5 tln by 2030; Pando raises $30 mlnGoogle has started rolling out passkeys as an alternative to passwords for signing into its platform, the internet search giant said in a blog post yesterday. Pando, a supply chain software company, has raised $30 million in its Series B funding round, bringing the total capital raised to $45 million. Also in this brief, Infosys makes an ecosystem play in banking and financial services with a new report; fintech is estimated to hit $1.5 trillion in India by 2030; and Kazam, an EV infrastructure management platform provider, has raised $3.6 million from Avaana Climate Fund.
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Rethink DesiClimate Change: From Research to MarketIn this episode we discuss "Climate Change: From Research to Market." We get into conversation with Nikhil Gargeya who is a Senior Strategic Partnership’s Manager at Activate, a nonprofit organization that empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market to address climate change and other global challenges of our time. His work between the government and private sector, transforms scientists into high-impact entrepreneurs through a fellowship that guides them along every step of the journey. Before this, Nikhil worked with next47, the Siemens venturing arm. He holds a B.S. in Environmental Science from UC...2022-08-181h 04
Building The Future Show - Radio / TV / PodcastEp. 488 w/ Lak Ananth CEO & Managing Partner at Next472022-06-2849 min
EDGE with Brandon WhiteHow to Navigate Uncertainty, Avoid Disaster, and Build a Successful Business with Lak Ananth Founder of Next 47 Venture Capital FirmInterested in raising money for your company? Listen to this episode with Lak Ananth the founder of the venture capital firm Next47.About Lak AnanthLak is an Indian American venture capitalist who has spent much of his career focused on identifying industry changing disruptions and acting on them as an investor or acquirer.He is the founding CEO and Managing Partner of the global venture capital firm Next47 which is backed by Siemens AG and partners with the best entrepreneurs to help them build companies that will change how the world...2022-02-1755 min
Building The Future Show - Radio / TV / PodcastEp. 488 w/ Lak Ananth CEO & Managing Partner at Next47Lak Ananth is an Indian American venture capitalist who has spent much of his career focused on identifying industry changing disruptions and acting on them as an investor or acquirer. He is the author of Anticipate Failure: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Navigating Uncertainty, Avoiding Disaster, and Building a Successful Business, a practical guide for business leaders on the most common patterns of failure in innovation, featuring never-before-heard stories on how some of the most successful founders and executives in the world have navigated failure to get to success. He is the founding CEO and Managing Partner of the global...2021-11-1649 min
The Lens – UK Responsible Business PodcastSIEMENS UK: Education, the role of mentors and how business can collaborate better with education to inspire the future workforceThis month our host Harjot Singh is joined by Angela Noon, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director of Siemens UK and Vincent Egunlae, One Young World Ambassador and Associate at Grant Thornton.In this episode, Harjot and his guests discuss how business can collaborate better with education to inspire the future workforce, the value of mentoring, and how meeting the right person at the right time can influence a young person’s career.Our GuestsAngela was appointed CFO and Executive Director of Siemens UK...2021-04-1332 min
The IQT PodcastThe Intersection (debut): Startups and Working with the GovernmentThe debut of The Intersection: Mission Investing for National Security. Hosted by IQT President Steve Bowsher, the inaugural pod with TJ Rylander from Next47 features insights about sourcing and supporting startups, a company's makeup to work with the government market, and more.
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Sonic InsightsCall Center Startup Observe.AI Raises $54M Series B - Sonic InsightsObserve.AI is a startup that uses AI, Speech Recognition, and Natural Language Processing to power call center software. They recently announced a $54M Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Next47 Ventures and NGP Capital.
Insights:
- Observe was started in 2017 and now has 105 employees, large customers, and accelerated growth due to COVID-19.
- Overview of how they use conversational ai to improve call centers.
- A look ahead at how they will be allocating the capital from their Series B fundraise and...2020-09-1604 min
Christopher Lochhead Follow Your Different™From Unicorn Companies To Camels w/ Matthew Cowan, Next47 Venture CapitalistToday, we have none other than Matthew Cowan of Next47. Matthew and Chris have known each other for almost 20 years now. He's been both an investor and an entrepreneur and has invested in a lot of category queens and kings companies.
In this episode, we have a wide-ranging conversation with Matthew about venture capital, entrepreneurship, and a whole lot more.
How The Future Looks Like
Matthew shares that the first question we have to take into consideration is with respect to opportunities. Every evaluation should start with the question: can businesses scale and grow in the current economic environment?
He...2020-09-1155 min
How I Raised It - The podcast where we interview startup founders who raised capital.Ep. 122 How I Raised It with David Hassell of 15FiveProduced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with David Hassell of 15Five.com, a cloud-based software platform that analyzes and improves employee performance.
In this episode, David talks about why you should bootstrap as long as possible, tips for getting to cash flow breakeven, pitching onstage at Jason Calacanis' LAUNCH Festival, why he religiously sends a monthly investor update, the value of being both contrarian and disciplined, and more.
The Company most recently raised a $30.7 million Series B venture round in a deal led by...2019-10-1535 min
Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology PodcastRecruiting Headlines from Amazon, 15five, JazzHR, Hire Our Heroes and AppcastThe StepStone group acquired 85 percent of the US-American company Appcast for about EUR 70 million. Appcast is the leading technology provider for programmatic job advertising in the US. With the acquisition, Axel Springer continues its growth strategy and further expands the StepStone group’s portfolio of intelligent recruiting and matching tools. Appcast specializes in displaying job ads online precisely where suitable candidates find them. Appcast’s clients include well-known US brands as well as hundreds of other companies from all industries. Appcast was founded by CEO Chris Forman in 2014. He will continue to lead the company after the takeover of the majo...2019-07-1207 min
Innovation Roundtable Insights40. Targeting Local Startup Ecosystems with a Global ApproachEva Riesenhuber, Partner & CFO at Next47, explains how the startup unit fits within the larger innovation push of Siemens. In the interview, Riesenhuber explains how Next47 succeeds at targeting the right innovations by spreading its global presence and having a rigorous set of evaluation criteria. Furthermore, she shares details on the fund structure and focus, as well as how Next47 interacts with its startups.2019-06-1113 min
Global Venturing Review10 June 2019 – Google Agrees $2.6bn Acquisition of LookerThe Big Ones
JD.com has agreed to lead a round for electronics recycler Aihuishou that will be more than $500m in size. The deal will also involve JD.com, an investor in the company since at least 2015, merging its second-hand e-commerce subsidiary, Paipai, with Aihuishou.
Google has agreed to purchase data analytics software provider Looker in a $2.6bn acquisition that will surely be one of the year’s largest.
SoftBank Vision Fund is still seeking out new forms of financing, and is reportedly in talks with banks such as Goldman Sachs over a...2019-06-1012 min
Tech.euApple's shopping in Europe; HelloFresh and subscription marketing; $19 million for Pitch; interview with Semyon Dukach, managing partner at One Way Ventures; and much moreOn this episode, hosted by Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler, we discussed the following topics: The biggest deal of the week: immersive reality tech startup Varjo has raised a $31 million Series B round from Atomico, Next47, and others. Apple’s shopping in Europe - Danish startup Spektral sold to Apple for $30 million - Apple confirms it has acquired Spektral, a Danish computer vision startup, for augmented reality technology - Apple inks $600M deal to license IP, acquire assets and talent from Dialog to expand chipmaking in Europe HelloFresh and the issues with subscription marketing - The World's Most Ruthless Fo...2018-10-171h 07
La Before The NextManBe!LaBeforeThe Next472017-11-2600 min
西有故事燃气轮机看“牙医”在很多牙科实验室，3D扫描技术常常被用于患者牙齿重塑手术前的准备工作，比如抓取牙齿的三维模型，进行牙齿整形的设计和准备。 西门子发电与天然气集团上海燃气轮机设计工程中心与西门子燃气轮机部件（江苏）有限公司携手next47，应用牙科领域的3D扫描技术，来解决燃机生产这一工业领域的问题，以高效、简便、可移动的方式，检测叶片上的冷却小孔。这套设备不仅成本更低，可移动性也更高。西门子工程师用3D扫描仪检测燃机叶片上的冷却小孔2017-08-1403 min