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Vivian Cheng

Partner at Next47

Redwood City, California

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 

  • Partner

    2024 - Current

    N47 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. Sourced/led investments into Nominal, Patlytics, and Two Dots.

  • Board Member

    2025

  • Board Observer

    2025

  • Board Observer

    2024

  • Board Observer

    2024

TigerEye is a SAAS company that offers AI powered business simulation engine for strategic sales planning and execution.

Raised $35,000,000.00 from Initialized Capital, Next47, Pioneer Fund and Y Combinator.

  • 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.

  • Principal

    2019 - 2021

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

  • Investor

    2017 - 2019

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

  • Payments Strategy

    2015 - 2017

  • Finance

    2013 - 2015

Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.

Raised $30,212,450,000.00 from PayPal.

  • Sponsor Finance

    2012 - 2013

GE Commercial Finance is one of General Electric's largest growth engines.

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