# Craig Hanson

> Craig Hanson is a Series B investor at NextWorld Capital backing Software. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [NextWorld Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/next-world-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Oct 2023
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/craighanson1

Craig Hanson is a Series B investor at NextWorld Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Craig Hanson is the Senior Director of Market Strategy at Gong. He attended Stanford Graduate School of Business and Carleton College.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 35% |
| Enterprise Software | 5 | 25% |
| SaaS | 4 | 20% |
| Payments | 3 | 15% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 15% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 20% |
| Seed | 3 | 15% |
| Series A | 3 | 15% |
| Series C | 2 | 10% |
| Series D | 2 | 10% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 60% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Stampli | Stampli is the most powerful AP Automation available, giving AP full control of the invoice lifecycle. By centering communications on top of the invoice issues are quickly resolved and approvals happen 5x faster. Stampli’s AI learns an organizations' unique patterns to simplify GL-coding, automate approval notifications, and identify duplicateinvoices. Stampli fits into any existing P2P process, with support for both PO and non-PO purchases. Stampli makes it effortless to automate AP. | $61M | Series D | Oct 03, 2023 |  |
| Stampli | Stampli is the most powerful AP Automation available, giving AP full control of the invoice lifecycle. By centering communications on top of the invoice issues are quickly resolved and approvals happen 5x faster. Stampli’s AI learns an organizations' unique patterns to simplify GL-coding, automate approval notifications, and identify duplicateinvoices. Stampli fits into any existing P2P process, with support for both PO and non-PO purchases. Stampli makes it effortless to automate AP. | $50M | Series C | May 12, 2021 |  |
| Routefusion | Routefusion offers tools and infrastructure for cross-border payments and banking services. It enables businesses to manage international payouts and collections via a unified API that supports virtual accounts, SWIFT transfers, and local or real-time payment rails. The platform provides white-label payout solutions and handles compliance andcurrency conversions. Routefusion assists companies in integrating global financial operations into their products and workflows with flexibility and automation. | $3.6M | Seed | Feb 02, 2021 |  |
| Jirav | 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 tousers' fingertips, with the ability to launch a full financial planning & analysis function at most companies in a matter of hours/days. | $8.3M | Series A | Jul 21, 2020 |  |
| Spiff | 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 enableclients to provide their sales teams with proper tools to generate more sales easily. | $10M | Series A | Jun 26, 2020 |  |
| Grain | 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 moremanual notes, full meeting recordings or sales intelligence tools. | $4M | Seed | Apr 17, 2020 |  |
| Grain | 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 moremanual notes, full meeting recordings or sales intelligence tools. | $4M | Seed | Apr 07, 2020 |  |
| Docugami | 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 businessimpact. | $10M | Seed | Feb 11, 2020 |  |
| Stampli | Stampli is the most powerful AP Automation available, giving AP full control of the invoice lifecycle. By centering communications on top of the invoice issues are quickly resolved and approvals happen 5x faster. Stampli’s AI learns an organizations' unique patterns to simplify GL-coding, automate approval notifications, and identify duplicateinvoices. Stampli fits into any existing P2P process, with support for both PO and non-PO purchases. Stampli makes it effortless to automate AP. | $25M | Series B | Oct 30, 2019 |  |
| Aviso | 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 connectionestablished 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. | $8M | Series B | Feb 17, 2017 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sierra Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sierra-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [SignalFire](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/signal-fire) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kickstart](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kickstart-seed-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Peterson Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peterson-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Shasta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shasta-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About NextWorld Capital

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

NextWorld Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in enterprise tech startups and helps them grow into global leaders.

2 contacts available at NextWorld Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ben Fu | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-fu |
| Craig Hanson | Co-Founder & General Partner | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Craig Hanson invest in?

Craig Hanson invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Craig Hanson?

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### When did Craig Hanson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Craig Hanson closed in Oct 2023. Shizune tracks 20 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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