Ben Fu
General Partner @ NextWorld Capital
San Francisco, United States
Ben Fu is a Series B investor at NextWorld Capital in San Francisco focused on Analytics and SaaS. Ben has experience in both venture capital investing and technology company operating roles. Ben was most recently a Principal with Scale Venture Partners. Prior to his six years in venture capital, he was a Senior Sales Engineer at Symantec and IMlogic, and worked in technical sales roles at Akamai.At Scale Venture Partners, Ben originated theinvestments in Box and uTest and worked closely with HubSpot, BrightRoll, and Jaspersoft. Ben lives in San Francisco.He holds an MEng and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 13%
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Analytics 5 (31%)
- SaaS 4 (25%)
- Information Technology 3 (19%)
- CRM 2 (13%)
- Big Data 2 (13%)
Stage
- Series B 4 (25%)
- Series C 4 (25%)
- Series A 2 (13%)
- Series D 2 (13%)
- Seed 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 6 (38%)
- France 1 (6%)
Investments
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| Airfold is designed to easily ingest your batch and streaming data, join/aggregate it with SQL, and publish the results as APIs for other teams to access it. Without worrying about managing infrastructure or complex integrations. | $4M / Seed / Aug 01, 2024 | ||
| Vendia is a multi-cloud serverless development platform that enables customers to share data and code in real-time across multiple clouds and companies.Vendia’s cloud and serverless native platform make that possible by delivering instant scalability and secure data sharing across multiple clouds at a fraction of the cost of traditionalsolutions.It was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $30M / Series B / May 30, 2022 | ||
| 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. | $50M / Series C / Oct 20, 2021 | ||
| Aircall provides a cloud-based voice platform that integrates with productivity and helpdesk tools that workplaces are already using to make phone support easy to manage. | $120M / Series D / Jun 23, 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. | $20M / Series B / Feb 02, 2021 | ||
| 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. | $200M / Series D / Aug 12, 2020 | ||
| Aircall provides a cloud-based voice platform that integrates with productivity and helpdesk tools that workplaces are already using to make phone support easy to manage. | $65M / Series C / May 27, 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. | $65M / Series C / Dec 03, 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. | $40M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 29, 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. | $11.4M / Series A / Sep 26, 2019 | ||
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About NextWorld Capital
NextWorld Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in enterprise tech startups and helps them grow into global leaders.
NextWorld Capital Contacts
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Ben Fu
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What does Ben Fu invest in?
Ben Fu invests primarily in Analytics, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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