Vivian Cheng

Partner

2024 - Current

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.

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

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

Payments Strategy

2015 - 2017

Finance

2013 - 2015

Sponsor Finance

2012 - 2013

Finance

2011 - 2011