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Ben Fu

General Partner at NextWorld Capital

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Ben Fu is a Partner at OMERS Ventures in San Francisco, specializing in venture capital and strategic partnerships. He has made significant investments in notable companies such as Vendia, Honeycomb, Aircall, Gong, Datameer, and DataStax, contributing to their growth and success. With a background in enterprise software and SaaS, Ben Fu has played key roles in various companies as an investor and board member, including NextWorld Capital, NewView Capital, and Honeycomb.io, demonstrating a track record of successful investments and strategic leadership in the tech industry.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2024 - Current

  • Investor and Board

    2017

Gong is a technology company that offers a revenue intelligence platform using AI to analyze customer interactions.

Raised $583,000,000.00 from Coatue, Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital, Skip Capital, Tiger Global Management, Salesforce Ventures and Franklin Templeton.

  • Investor and Board

    2018

Honeycomb provides full-stack observability for engineering teams to understand, debug, and improve production systems.

Raised $146,900,000.00 from Storm Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Dominik Richter, Headline, Guillermo Rauch, Insight Partners and Industry Ventures.

  • Investor and Board

    2018

Aircall is a cloud-based call center software that integrates with CRM, productivity, and helpdesk tools.

Raised $237,550,000.00 from eFounders, NextWorld Capital, 8i Ventures, DTCP, Molten Ventures, Swisscom Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Adams Street Partners and NextWorld Capital.

  • Investor and Board

    2016

Copper offers customer relationship management solutions for companies that use Google applications.

Raised $102,000,000.00 from Norwest Venture Partners, Google Ventures, Industry Ventures, True Ventures, Industry Ventures, Google Ventures, DHVC and Norwest Venture Partners.

  • General Partner

    2012

NextWorld Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in enterprise tech startups and helps them grow into global leaders.

  • Investor and Board

    2021 - 2024

Vendia’s data automation cloud makes it easy to share data inside and outside of the organization, with full governance and control.

Raised $50,600,000.00 from Canvas Ventures, Neythri Futures Fund, Lux Capital, BMW i Ventures, Aspenwood Ventures, Sorenson Capital, NewView Capital, Neotribe Ventures and Operator Partners.

  • Partner

    2021 - 2024

NewView Capital has developed a new model in venture capital to drive sustainable growth for entrepreneurs.

  • Investor and Board

    2013 - 2023

Datameer enables data engineers and analysts to transform data directly in Snowflake via a simple SQL code or no-code interface.

Raised $139,793,404.00 from NextWorld Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Top Tier Capital Partners, Citi Ventures, Redpoint and ST Telemedia.

  • Investor

    2013 - 2023

DataStax is the real-time data company for Gen AI applications.

Raised $342,571,788.00 from Crosslink Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, GS Growth, OnePrime Capital, Rokos Capital Management and EDBI.

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