Vivian Cheng

Partner at Next47

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview

Vivian Cheng is a Partner at Next47 in San Francisco Bay Area, with a background in financial modeling, valuation, corporate finance, and strategic financial planning. She has made impactful investments in companies like Darkstore and Truebill at the Series A stage, showcasing her expertise in identifying promising startups and supporting their growth.

Work Experience

Next47

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.

Next47 invests in groundbreaking enterprise entrepreneurs and accelerates revenue growth by opening doors to customers around the world.

next47.com

CRV

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.

CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in investments in technology companies.

crv.com

Javelin Venture Partners

Principal
2019 - 2021
Sourced and/or led investments in: -Homeward (Series A; Series B led by Norwest) - homeward.com Board Observer - Homeward

Javelin Venture Partners invests in and partners closely with early-stage, software-enabled technology companies.

javelinvp.com

Cota Capital

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

Cota Capital is a technology investment firm that partners with exceptional teams to build and grow timeless companies.

cotacapital.com