# Samsung NEXT

> Samsung NEXT is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 426 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, United States
- Total investments: 426
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/samsung-next/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/SamsungNEXT
- Website: http://samsungnext.com/ventures
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SamsungNEXT/

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.9M–$18M |
| Series A | $7M–$35M |
| Series B | $11M–$100M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 81 | 19% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 60 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 41 | 10% |
| Health Care | 40 | 9% |
| Blockchain | 38 | 9% |

215 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 97 | 23% |
| Series A | 74 | 17% |
| Series B | 64 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 23 | 5% |
| Pre-Seed | 18 | 4% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 162 | 38% |
| Israel | 32 | 8% |
| Canada | 8 | 2% |
| South Korea | 8 | 2% |
| Singapore | 7 | 2% |

22 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Carlos Castellanos | Venture Capitalist | 36 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carlos-castellanos-672c |
| Nick Nigam | Principal, Seed to Series B Venture Capital Investments | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-nigam |
| Yonatan Machado | Senior Investment Director | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yonatan-machado |
| Ajay Singh | Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajay-singh-3 |
| Alicia Garabedian | Venture Operations Manager | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alicia-garabedian |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Patronus AI | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Graphon is a company that creates relational representation layers and pre-model intelligence for enterprise AI. | $8.3M | Seed | May 14, 2026 |  |
| Deep Infra | DeepInfra is an AI inference cloud platform that enables developers and organizations to run machine learning models at scale through a unified API. The platform supports a wide range of capabilities, including large language models, vision processing, embeddings, image and video generation, and speech applications, allowing users to integratemultiple AI functions into their systems. It provides an OpenAI-compatible interface, which allows existing applications to switch endpoints with minimal code changes while accessing a large catalog of open-source models. DeepInfra manages the underlying infrastructure, including GPU resources and scaling, so users can deploy and operate AI workloads without handling complex system setup. The service is designed to facilitate production-level AI deployment by offering automated scaling, model hosting, and tools for integrating and running inference workloads efficiently. | $107M | Series B | May 04, 2026 |  |
| Parasail | Parasail is an AI deployment networking company that provides AI products to builders and innovators for secure compute. | $32M | Series A | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| Beacon Biosignals | Beacon Biosignals is a neurotechnology company focused on bringing precision neuroscience into clinical trials and treatments for brain- and sleep-related disorders. The company’s core offering includes an FDA-cleared wearable device (the Waveband headband) that captures high-fidelity EEG during sleep and wake states, combined with an AI-drivenanalytics platform that processes millions of hours of neural data to extract biomarkers of brain function. Its end-to-end solution supports pharmaceutical and biotech clients by providing tools for patient stratification, dose-response monitoring, and early-stage disease progression, enabling trials to be more precise and efficient. | $11M | Series B | Apr 06, 2026 |  |
| Xona | Xona Space Systems is building a next-generation satellite navigation system using small but powerful satellites in low-Earth orbit. The constellation they are developing is designed to provide secure navigation and timing services with the resilience and accuracy that modern intelligent systems, such as autonomous vehicles and drones, need tooperate safely at scale. | $170M | Series C | Mar 26, 2026 |  |
| Malama Health | Malama Health offers holistic support through community-based doulas, covering various services like pregnancy care and postpartum recovery. The company connects community-based doulas, health plans, and clinical systems across Medicaid markets through a unified operating model that standardizes referral processes, data tracking, risk management,and quality assessment. By incorporating remote patient monitoring, chronic disease management, and Doula-Care Navigators, Malama Health assists women from pregnancy through the postpartum period, addressing clinical requirements, social health factors, and long-term disease prevention all in one location. | $6.9M | Seed | Mar 12, 2026 |  |

10 of 426 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 29 deals together
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- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 12 deals together

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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 426 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Samsung NEXT's check size?

Samsung NEXT typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$18M at Seed, $7M–$35M at Series A and $11M–$100M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Samsung NEXT participates 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?

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