Jason Sydow
Partner at Next47
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2017 - Current
Investor, founding partner, and industrial lead for Next47, the Venture Capital investment group for Siemens. Focused on investments in B2B software, advanced manufacturing, and industrial technologies. Specific areas of interest include Dev/AI tools, vertical SaaS, B2B marketplaces, industrial automation, PLM software, industrial analytics, Internet of Things, additive manufacturing, robotics, and engineering software.
Next47 invests in groundbreaking enterprise entrepreneurs and accelerates revenue growth by opening doors to customers around the world.
Investor and Board Observer
2024
CarbonCapture is a climate tech company that develops direct air capture (DAC) machines to remove CO2 directly from the atmosphere.
Raised $115,000,000.00 from Alumni Ventures, Aramco Ventures, Siemens Financial Services, Climate Pledge Fund, IdealabX, Prime Movers Lab, Time Ventures, Neotribe Ventures, Climate Pledge Fund and Alumni Ventures.
Investor
2021
Realtime Robotics develops a platform for robots to function seamlessly across deployments with minimal programming.
Raised $71,525,000.00 from Mitsubishi Electric.
Investor
2021
Industry leading all-in-one software solution for subcontractors driving profitability through best-in-class technology
Raised $98,800,000.00 from 01 Advisors, MetaProp and Fika Ventures.
Investor
2019
Citrine Informatics provides an artificial intelligence (AI) operating platform that accelerates the materials development cycle by combining materials-specific data handling and storage, scalable compute for AI and data processing, along with modular composable AI units optimized to predict materials behavior. The company’s technology has been deployed at some of the largest global chemicals and materials companies including Panasonic, LANXESS and BASF.
Citrine Informatics provides an informatics platform that transforms chemicals development through AI embedded in smart data infrastructure.
Raised $69,104,373.00 from DRIVE Catalyst, Universal Materials Incubator, Alumni Ventures, Presidio Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Prelude Ventures and Isai.
Investor
2018
Falkonry is an Industrial AI software company that provides automated data analysis to the manufacturing and defense industries.
Raised $16,687,133.00 from Hypertherm Ventures.
Board Member
2019
Vigilent is the leader in dynamic cooling management systems for mission critical facilities.
Raised $6,800,000.00 from Next47, TELUS Ventures, Gaurav Garg, Peter Wagner, Accel, TiE Angels and TELUS Ventures.
Investor and Board Member
2018
Investment Partner
2015
Investment Partner based in Palo Alto, CA. Focused on investments in advanced manufacturing and industrial technologies. Specific areas of interest include cyber security, industrial automation, PLM software, industrial analytics, Internet of Things, additive manufacturing, robotics, and engineering software.
Information and communications technology.
Investor and Board Member
2017 - 2022
Identify3D provides intellectual property protection, quality assurance, and data security in all phases of digital manufacturing.
Raised $6,709,993.00 from UL Ventures.