Samsung NEXT
VC Fund
Mountain View, United States
Samsung NEXT is a VC fund in Mountain View focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Samsung NEXT Ventures is an investment arm of Samsung NEXT, a multifaceted innovation group within Samsung Electronics dedicated to identifying new growth opportunities that will define the next decade. The firm prefers to invest in artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, health technology, infrastructure, and media technology sectors.
- Total investments:
- 480
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Samsung NEXT invests in
Stages Samsung NEXT invests in
Countries Samsung NEXT invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 22 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.7M–$18M
- Series A
- $6M–$32M
- Series B
- $10M–$93M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 137 (29%)
- Artificial Intelligence 124 (26%)
- Information Technology 61 (13%)
- Machine Learning 51 (11%)
- Health Care 50 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 155 (32%)
- Series A 99 (21%)
- Series B 75 (16%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 27 (6%)
- Pre-Seed 26 (5%)
Country
- United States 244 (51%)
- Israel 40 (8%)
- Canada 12 (3%)
- Singapore 11 (2%)
- South Korea 10 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Carlos Castellanos
Venture Capitalist
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Venture Capitalist | Total investments: 36 | Find email | |
Nick Nigam
Principal, Seed to Series B Venture Capital Investments
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Principal, Seed to Series B Venture Capital Investments | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Yonatan Machado
Senior Investment Director
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Senior Investment Director | Total investments: 12 | Find email | |
Ajay Singh
Director
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Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Alicia Garabedian
Venture Operations Manager
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Venture Operations Manager | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 22 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| ActiveFence is a computer software company that provides an AI-based software platform that specializes in detecting malicious content online at scale. It helps and supports technology platforms and government agencies to monitor malicious activities online and offline. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $140M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Alice is the leading tool stack for Trust & Safety teams, worldwide. By relying on ActiveFence’s end-to-end solution, Trust & Safety teams – of all sizes – can keep users safe from the widest spectrum of online harms, unwanted content, and malicious behavior, including child safety, disinformation, fraud, hate speech, terror, nudity, andmore. Using cutting-edge AI and a team of world-class subject-matter experts to continuously collect, analyze, and contextualize data, ActiveFence ensures that in an ever-changing world, customers are always two steps ahead of bad actors. As a result, Trust & Safety teams can be proactive and provide maximum protection to users across a multitude of abuse areas, in 70+ languages. | $140M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Synthefy focuses on foundation models for structured data, especially time-series forecasting and decision intelligence. | $6.5M / Seed / Aug 18, 2026 | ||
| Xpander.ai delivers backend infrastructure for AI agents, managing memory, tools, state, integrations, and native deployment within Slack. | $7.5M / Seed / Aug 17, 2026 | ||
| Silicon Data is a data product that brings essential intelligence and efficiency to markets. | $30.5M / Series A / Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| Patronus AI develops simulation research and infrastructure aimed at accelerating the progress towards human-aligned artificial general intelligence (AGI). The company provides evaluation models and tools designed to detect issues such as hallucinations, safety risks, and reasoning failures, as well as support custom evaluation workflows. PatronusAI also offers datasets, benchmarking capabilities, and automated evaluators for text, image, and multimodal AI applications. In addition, it conducts research on digital world models and simulation environments intended to support the training and assessment of increasingly capable AI agents. | $50M / Series B / Jun 25, 2026 | ||
| Standard Bots develops industrial robotics systems that combine robotic hardware with AI-driven software to automate manufacturing and operational tasks. Its product portfolio includes collaborative robotic arms with different payload capacities, as well as software platforms that support robot programming, fleet management, and applicationdevelopment. The company’s technology enables users to teach robots through demonstration rather than relying solely on traditional coding methods, allowing robots to perform tasks such as machine tending, inspection, palletizing, welding, and material handling. Standard Bots also provides AI capabilities that allow robots to learn from observed actions, adapt to changes in their environment, and improve task execution over time. In addition to its robotic systems, the company offers operating software, development tools, and integration capabilities designed to support deployment across a range of industrial workflows. | $200M / Series C / Jun 09, 2026 | ||
| Drafted.ai is an AI-powered platform that creates personalized home floor plans and layouts based on user inputs, including room count, style, and preferences. | $16M / Seed / May 29, 2026 | ||
| Gray Swan AI is an AI security company that develops tools for evaluating and protecting large language model deployments. Its platform focuses on identifying vulnerabilities such as jailbreaks, prompt injections, harmful outputs, and other adversarial attacks that can affect AI systems in production. The company offers products including Shade, anautomated red-teaming and vulnerability assessment tool, and Cygnal, a runtime protection layer that monitors and filters AI interactions in real time. Gray Swan’s technology is designed to work with multiple AI providers and is used to test the security and reliability of AI applications, agents, and workflows. The company also operates adversarial testing programs and collaborates with AI researchers and enterprises to study emerging threats and improve AI safety practices. | $40M / Series A / May 28, 2026 | ||
| Graphon is a company that creates relational representation layers and pre-model intelligence for enterprise AI. | $8.3M / Seed / May 14, 2026 | ||
| See all 480 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Samsung NEXT invest in?
Samsung NEXT invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 480 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Samsung NEXT invest in?
Samsung NEXT typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$18M at Seed, $6M–$32M at Series A and $10M–$93M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Samsung NEXT's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Samsung NEXT took part in.
How do I contact Samsung NEXT?
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Who are the partners at Samsung NEXT?
The team at Samsung NEXT includes Carlos Castellanos (Venture Capitalist), Nick Nigam (Principal, Seed to Series B Venture Capital Investments) and Yonatan Machado (Senior Investment Director), among 22 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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