NextWorld Capital

NextWorld Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in enterprise technology startups and helps them grow into global leaders. We lead Seed, Series A and B rounds and then help entrepreneurs design and build the right GTM model and accelerate growth with our Global Enterprise Platform, which brings together the best enterprise startups and 100+ of the largest global corporates as customers and partners. NextWorld’s investments include Zuora (ZUO) and Gong. Headquartered in San Francisco with operations in London and Paris.

Sunil Chhaya

Vice President

Ben Fu

General Partner

48 past transactions

Honeycomb

Series C in 2021
Honeycomb provides full-stack observability for modern engineering teams to understand, debug, and improve production systems. Honeycomb's customers rely on the product for fast incident response, system optimization, and delivering pain-free releases across the software engineering cycle that translates to happy devs and happy customers. Founded on the experience of debugging problems at the scale of millions of apps serving tens of millions of users, it helps every engineer to the instrument and queries the behavior of their system. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Aircall

Series D in 2021
Aircall, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based phone support software designed for startups and small to medium-sized businesses. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Paris, France, Aircall offers a SaaS application that enables companies to easily set up and manage phone support online. Its innovative voice platform integrates with popular productivity and helpdesk tools, facilitating seamless communication and enhancing customer support and sales engagement. The software also allows businesses to monitor individual and team performance metrics in real-time, enabling them to make measurable improvements in their operations. Aircall has established a strategic partnership with Telarus Inc. to further enhance its service offerings.

Stampli

Series C in 2021
Stampli is a developer of an accounts payable automation platform to take control of invoice and bill processing. Its AI learns an organization's unique patterns to simplify GL coding, automate approval notifications, and identify duplicate invoices. Stampli simplifies the accounts payable process by automating invoice approvals and payments, enhancing efficiency in the invoice lifecycle.

Honeycomb

Series B in 2021
Honeycomb provides full-stack observability for modern engineering teams to understand, debug, and improve production systems. Honeycomb's customers rely on the product for fast incident response, system optimization, and delivering pain-free releases across the software engineering cycle that translates to happy devs and happy customers. Founded on the experience of debugging problems at the scale of millions of apps serving tens of millions of users, it helps every engineer to the instrument and queries the behavior of their system. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Routefusion

Seed Round in 2021
Routefusion is the standard for international bank-to-bank payments. Their industry-leading API enables their fintech, marketplace, financial institution, cross-border payments app, e-commerce platform, and others to make bank-to-bank international payouts to over 130+ countries. It enables neo-banks, payroll providers, platforms, and marketplaces to begin offering cross-border payments to their customers in days not months.

Gong

Series D in 2020
Gong is a revenue intelligence company that analyzes sales conversations and customer interactions. The company captures and processes data from various communication channels. It provides insights related to sales performance and customer engagement. Gong serves industries including technology, finance, and healthcare.

Jirav

Series A in 2020
Jirav provides an FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) as a Service utilizing a dynamic toolset that connects model and operational data resulting in the ability to Plan and Report on Revenue, Headcount, and Expenses quickly & accurately. They provide extremely powerful financial analysis, reporting, and forecasting capabilities to users' fingertips, with the ability to launch a full financial planning & analysis function at most companies in a matter of hours/days.

Spiff

Series A in 2020
Spiff is a commission automation software that creates trust across the organization by delivering real-time, automation of complex commission processes. The platform uses machine learning to connect with all the commission systems including ERP, payments, and payroll, as well as matches records and eliminates errors between systems that enable clients to provide their sales teams with proper tools to generate more sales easily.

Aircall

Series C in 2020
Aircall, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based phone support software designed for startups and small to medium-sized businesses. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Paris, France, Aircall offers a SaaS application that enables companies to easily set up and manage phone support online. Its innovative voice platform integrates with popular productivity and helpdesk tools, facilitating seamless communication and enhancing customer support and sales engagement. The software also allows businesses to monitor individual and team performance metrics in real-time, enabling them to make measurable improvements in their operations. Aircall has established a strategic partnership with Telarus Inc. to further enhance its service offerings.

Grain

Seed Round in 2020
Grain is the easiest meeting insights tool to help you understand and communicate the needs of your customers. Anybody in a customer-focused role can use Grain to record, transcribe, and clip moments from research interviews, sales calls, and customer meetings. You can capture and share insights from customer meetings like never before. No more manual notes, full meeting recordings or sales intelligence tools.

HeadSpin

Series C in 2020
HeadSpin is a digital experience intelligence platform that aims to deliver flawless digital experiences by integrating automation, artificial intelligence, and analytics. The platform facilitates end-to-end testing, performance optimization, and experience monitoring, utilizing a global infrastructure of devices deployed in over a hundred locations on real carrier and WiFi networks. This comprehensive approach allows engineering, quality assurance, operations, and product teams to remotely test and monitor mobile applications effectively. By ensuring optimal digital experiences throughout the development lifecycle, HeadSpin helps organizations enhance their operational efficiency and potentially increase revenue.

Docugami

Seed Round in 2020
Docugami creates SaaS solutions that harness a wide range of artificial intelligence techniques, including natural language processing, image recognition, declarative markup, and other approaches, to enable businesses of all sizes to radically improve how they create and manage their unique documents for greater insight, efficiency, and business impact.

Gong

Series C in 2019
Gong is a revenue intelligence company that analyzes sales conversations and customer interactions. The company captures and processes data from various communication channels. It provides insights related to sales performance and customer engagement. Gong serves industries including technology, finance, and healthcare.

Datameer

Venture Round in 2019
Datameer enables data engineers and analysts to transform and model data directly in their cloud warehouses via a simple SQL code or no-code interface to solve complex analytical projects.

Honeycomb

Series A in 2019
Honeycomb provides full-stack observability for modern engineering teams to understand, debug, and improve production systems. Honeycomb's customers rely on the product for fast incident response, system optimization, and delivering pain-free releases across the software engineering cycle that translates to happy devs and happy customers. Founded on the experience of debugging problems at the scale of millions of apps serving tens of millions of users, it helps every engineer to the instrument and queries the behavior of their system. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

CasaOne

Series B in 2019
CasaOne is a one-stop shop for furniture, decor and home goods. We offer free shipping across the continental US.

Gong

Series B in 2019
Gong is a revenue intelligence company that analyzes sales conversations and customer interactions. The company captures and processes data from various communication channels. It provides insights related to sales performance and customer engagement. Gong serves industries including technology, finance, and healthcare.

HeadSpin

Series B in 2018
HeadSpin is a digital experience intelligence platform that aims to deliver flawless digital experiences by integrating automation, artificial intelligence, and analytics. The platform facilitates end-to-end testing, performance optimization, and experience monitoring, utilizing a global infrastructure of devices deployed in over a hundred locations on real carrier and WiFi networks. This comprehensive approach allows engineering, quality assurance, operations, and product teams to remotely test and monitor mobile applications effectively. By ensuring optimal digital experiences throughout the development lifecycle, HeadSpin helps organizations enhance their operational efficiency and potentially increase revenue.

CasaOne

Series A in 2018
CasaOne is a one-stop shop for furniture, decor and home goods. We offer free shipping across the continental US.

Aircall

Series B in 2018
Aircall, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based phone support software designed for startups and small to medium-sized businesses. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Paris, France, Aircall offers a SaaS application that enables companies to easily set up and manage phone support online. Its innovative voice platform integrates with popular productivity and helpdesk tools, facilitating seamless communication and enhancing customer support and sales engagement. The software also allows businesses to monitor individual and team performance metrics in real-time, enabling them to make measurable improvements in their operations. Aircall has established a strategic partnership with Telarus Inc. to further enhance its service offerings.

Gong

Series A in 2017
Gong is a revenue intelligence company that analyzes sales conversations and customer interactions. The company captures and processes data from various communication channels. It provides insights related to sales performance and customer engagement. Gong serves industries including technology, finance, and healthcare.

Aviso

Series B in 2017
Aviso is the only AI-driven platform on the market purpose-built to drive accurate sales forecasting and improve pipeline management. With Aviso Sales Vision, sales executives and CFOs deliver accurate forecasts, sales managers move deals through the pipeline faster, and reps close more deals with AI-driven smart selling signals. A clear connection established between high performing sales teams and the adoption of AI, teams at Apttus, MongoDB, Splunk and RingCentral have replaced limited, legacy sales tools with an AI-driven platform that helps improve win rates and drive revenue.

Airware

Venture Round in 2017
Airware is an enterprise drone analytics company enabling enterprises to harness aerial data and turn it into valuable business insights that can be shared and acted on across sites, teams, and geographies. Their solutions enable enterprises to reinvent their organizations for the digital era by translating aerial data into business impact. Drones are enabling companies to more efficiently and effectively capture data, and Airware allows enterprises to integrate this data with existing information and workflows to improve efficiency, productivity, and safety. Airware provides aerial insights drone solutions for insurance, mining, construction, and aggregates.

Copper

Series B in 2016
Copper is an AI-first CRM that eliminates data entry, automates sales processes and optimizes the entire customer journey to grow sales. Investors include Norwest Venture Partners (Promod Haque, Midas List Hall of Fame Investor), True Ventures (Phil Black, Co-Founder), GV (Formerly Google Ventures), Texas Pacific Group, Bloomberg Beta, Investment Group of Santa Barbara, Next World Capital, Brad Jones (Redpoint Ventures), Industry Ventures, Crunchfund and Danhua Capital.

Airware

Series C in 2016
Airware is an enterprise drone analytics company enabling enterprises to harness aerial data and turn it into valuable business insights that can be shared and acted on across sites, teams, and geographies. Their solutions enable enterprises to reinvent their organizations for the digital era by translating aerial data into business impact. Drones are enabling companies to more efficiently and effectively capture data, and Airware allows enterprises to integrate this data with existing information and workflows to improve efficiency, productivity, and safety. Airware provides aerial insights drone solutions for insurance, mining, construction, and aggregates.

Origami Logic

Series C in 2015
Origami Logic is a marketing analytics company that helps teams master their marketing performance by letting them see what’s working and what’s not, so they can optimize their efforts. Thousands of marketers and global brands like P&G, HP, JCPenney, Intel, and Omni Hotels, trust Origami Logic to help them unify and refine their vast array of marketing data, across every channel and platform, and let them search and organize it in real-time, in whatever way makes sense to them, so they can better understand their marketing efforts and improve their overall impact. Origami is funded by top-tier investors Accel Partners, Icon Ventures, NextWorld Capital, DAG Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Datameer

Series E in 2015
Datameer enables data engineers and analysts to transform and model data directly in their cloud warehouses via a simple SQL code or no-code interface to solve complex analytical projects.

Aviso

Series B in 2015
Aviso is the only AI-driven platform on the market purpose-built to drive accurate sales forecasting and improve pipeline management. With Aviso Sales Vision, sales executives and CFOs deliver accurate forecasts, sales managers move deals through the pipeline faster, and reps close more deals with AI-driven smart selling signals. A clear connection established between high performing sales teams and the adoption of AI, teams at Apttus, MongoDB, Splunk and RingCentral have replaced limited, legacy sales tools with an AI-driven platform that helps improve win rates and drive revenue.

FirstFuel Software

Series C in 2015
FirstFuel Software provides a customer intelligence platform that transforms energy providers into trusted advisors to their business customers. FirstFuel’s SaaS solutions accelerate customer acquisition, optimize energy efficiency and DSM programs, and boost customer engagement and satisfaction. The company draws on deep domain expertise in data analytics, building science, and software in its deployments with large utilities, energy service providers, and government agencies in North America and Europe. Requiring only electric or gas utility meter data and address, FirstFuel produces a remote set of building-specific performance benchmarks and custom recommendations that utilities and energy service providers use to target, guide and enable their sales, service and engagement activities with commercial customers. Founded in 2009 and privately held, FirstFuel is headquartered in Lexington, MA. For more information, please visit www.firstfuel.com.

Zuora

Series F in 2015
Zuora provides cloud-based software on a subscription basis that enables companies in various industries to launch, manage, and transform into a subscription business. The firm offers Zuora Central platform that acts as an intelligent subscription management hub that automates the subscription order-to-cash process, including quoting, billing, collections, analytics, and revenue recognition. I

Planful

Series E in 2014
Planful is the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software. The Planful platform is used by the Office of the CFO around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and visual analytics. Planful empowers users to plan confidently, close faster, and report accurately. More than 1,000 customers, including Boston Red Sox, Del Monte, TGI Friday’s, and 23andMe, rely on Planful to accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy across the end-to-end FP&A process. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at www.planful.com.

GoodData

Series E in 2014
GoodData provides the platform and expertise for enterprises to create Smart Business Applications that harness your existing data to help you automate, recommend and take better business actions faster and with more reliability. They drive competitive value, performance, and profit by significantly enhancing the data-driven business processes across the enterprise and its business ecosystem by bringing analytics to the point-of-work. Their clients include enterprises like Penton that need to deliver revenue-generating data products to their clients and software companies like Zendesk that market their own Smart Business Applications using GoodData. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

AgilOne

Series C in 2014
AgilOne is a cloud-based predictive marketing platform. The AgilOne platform combines advanced database management, predictive customer analytics, and integrated campaign management. This combined functionality enables marketers to fully understand each customer and to send the most effective marketing messages. AgilOne creates more enjoyable customer experiences and higher revenues by offering more accurate customer profiles and better predictive targeting. The platform optimizes customer engagement, increases repeat purchases and creates more profitable relationships by growing customer lifetime value across channels.

Datameer

Series D in 2013
Datameer enables data engineers and analysts to transform and model data directly in their cloud warehouses via a simple SQL code or no-code interface to solve complex analytical projects.

Zuora

Series E in 2013
Zuora provides cloud-based software on a subscription basis that enables companies in various industries to launch, manage, and transform into a subscription business. The firm offers Zuora Central platform that acts as an intelligent subscription management hub that automates the subscription order-to-cash process, including quoting, billing, collections, analytics, and revenue recognition. I

DataStax

Series D in 2013
DataStax provides tools for building generative AI applications, offering a vector database with real-time data processing and integration capabilities. The Astra DB vector supports developers with APIs, data pipelines, and ecosystem integrations to facilitate the deployment of AI applications.

GoodData

Series D in 2013
GoodData provides the platform and expertise for enterprises to create Smart Business Applications that harness your existing data to help you automate, recommend and take better business actions faster and with more reliability. They drive competitive value, performance, and profit by significantly enhancing the data-driven business processes across the enterprise and its business ecosystem by bringing analytics to the point-of-work. Their clients include enterprises like Penton that need to deliver revenue-generating data products to their clients and software companies like Zendesk that market their own Smart Business Applications using GoodData. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Planful

Series D in 2013
Planful is the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software. The Planful platform is used by the Office of the CFO around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and visual analytics. Planful empowers users to plan confidently, close faster, and report accurately. More than 1,000 customers, including Boston Red Sox, Del Monte, TGI Friday’s, and 23andMe, rely on Planful to accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy across the end-to-end FP&A process. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at www.planful.com.

Virtual Instruments

Series D in 2012
Virtual Instruments is the leader in IT Infrastructure Performance Management for the physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments. Virtual Instruments is a dynamic, fast-growing technology company with a performance driven culture. Founded in June 2008 we are headquartered in the heart of the Silicon Valley, led by an industry-proven executive team, and backed by a group of highly experienced and successful investors. As a company, we are focused on delivering unparalleled value to our customers through a truly innovative combination of disruptive technology and revolutionary services. Our customers represent industry leading brands in every major vertical market, all of whom have some of the most performance sensitive and complex IT environments in the world. Our unwavering commitment to our customers' success, ensuring the performance and availability of their mission critical application workload as they migrate from physical to virtual and cloud computing environments, is what has fueled our record growth and is driving the ongoing development of our award winning Infrastructure Performance Management platform, VirtualWisdom.

GoodData

Series C in 2012
GoodData provides the platform and expertise for enterprises to create Smart Business Applications that harness your existing data to help you automate, recommend and take better business actions faster and with more reliability. They drive competitive value, performance, and profit by significantly enhancing the data-driven business processes across the enterprise and its business ecosystem by bringing analytics to the point-of-work. Their clients include enterprises like Penton that need to deliver revenue-generating data products to their clients and software companies like Zendesk that market their own Smart Business Applications using GoodData. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

BrightRoll

Series D in 2011
BrightRoll builds software that automates video advertising globally. BrightRoll is the only independent and unified programmatic video advertising platform for reaching audiences across web, mobile and connected TV. The company powers digital video advertising for the world’s largest brands, including more than 80 of the top 100 US advertisers and 18 of the top 20 advertising technology companies. The platform enables advertisers to reach 4 in 5 video viewers online and consistently ranks among the top two video ad platforms in ads served. As a result, BrightRoll technology collects and analyzes hundreds of billions of data points monthly enabling real-time decisions that drive ROI for advertisers.

NexGen Storage

Series B in 2011
NexGen Storage was acquired by Fusion-io on April 24, 2013. SanDisk acquired Fusion-io on July 23, 2014, and on January 8, 2015, announced the spin-out of NexGen Storage, which is now a new, fully independent company. NexGen Storage offers value-driven hybrid flash arrays that let customers prioritize data and application performance based on business value. Unlike other storage solutions that treat all data the same, NexGen’s policy-based Quality of Service enable customers to avoid the high cost of all-flash arrays and the inconsistent performance of SSD-based hybrid arrays. By connecting customers to the business value of data, NexGen’s solutions deliver the predictable application performance end-users require combined with industry-leading flash utilization. Committed to channel success, NexGen provides reseller partners registered deal protection and rich margins on every opportunity.

ideeli

Series C in 2011
ideeli is an online retail site dedicated to delivering a unique, exciting daily shopping experience with a curated selection of offerings across the apparel, accessories, home, shoes, kids, travel, and lifestyle categories. Each limited-time sale event offers privileged prices on the best brands and experiences. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Virtual Instruments

Series C in 2010
Virtual Instruments is the leader in IT Infrastructure Performance Management for the physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments. Virtual Instruments is a dynamic, fast-growing technology company with a performance driven culture. Founded in June 2008 we are headquartered in the heart of the Silicon Valley, led by an industry-proven executive team, and backed by a group of highly experienced and successful investors. As a company, we are focused on delivering unparalleled value to our customers through a truly innovative combination of disruptive technology and revolutionary services. Our customers represent industry leading brands in every major vertical market, all of whom have some of the most performance sensitive and complex IT environments in the world. Our unwavering commitment to our customers' success, ensuring the performance and availability of their mission critical application workload as they migrate from physical to virtual and cloud computing environments, is what has fueled our record growth and is driving the ongoing development of our award winning Infrastructure Performance Management platform, VirtualWisdom.

Planful

Series C in 2010
Planful is the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software. The Planful platform is used by the Office of the CFO around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and visual analytics. Planful empowers users to plan confidently, close faster, and report accurately. More than 1,000 customers, including Boston Red Sox, Del Monte, TGI Friday’s, and 23andMe, rely on Planful to accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy across the end-to-end FP&A process. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at www.planful.com.
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