VC

Vivian Cheng

Partner at Next47

San Francisco Bay Area

Work Experience

2024

  • Partner

    2024

    Next47 is a global venture firm built for enterprise founders. Based in Silicon Valley, and with offices in the US, Europe, and Israel, we lead Series A-C investments in early and expansion stage companies, with a focus on SaaS, Enterprise, and AI. We are lucky to partner with companies like Verkada, Vast Data, Skydio, Tractian, BuildOps, and many more. We have a passion for products that power the world, build conviction in the categories we invest in, and are deeply committed to founders who choose to partner with us. Our global team provides the domain expertise, specialized resources, and deep network founders need to go from idea to category-leading business.

2021 - 2024

  • Principal

    2021 - 2024

    CRV (Charles River Ventures) is an early-stage venture capital firm that has backed over 500 startups in its 50-year history, including Airtable, Doordash, Drift, Dropbox, HubSpot, Postman, Twitter and Zendesk. The firm focuses on enterprise & consumer investing globally.

  • Principal

    2019 - 2021

    Sourced and/or led investments in: -Homeward (Series A; Series B led by Norwest) - homeward.com Board Observer - Homeward

2017 - 2019

  • Investor

    2017 - 2019

    Sourced and/or led investments in: -Current (Series A; Series D led by a16z) - current.com -Truebill (Series A; acquired by Rocket) - truebill.com -Darkstore (Series A; Series B led by EQT Ventures) - fastaf.com -Basecoin (getbasecoin.com) -Oasis Protocol (oasisprotocol.org) Board Observer - Current, Truebill, and Darkstore

2013 - 2017

  • Payments Strategy

    2015 - 2017

  • Finance

    2013 - 2015

2012 - 2013

  • Sponsor Finance

    2012 - 2013

  • Finance

    2011 - 2011