Enterprise Founders Playbook: Seed to Series A

To Plan or Not to Plan-What Every Founder Needs to Know

You’re a founder, and your startup is at a post-seed, early product stage, with some customer traction. You’re starting to make hires and spend so...

Making Your First Sales Hire? Avoid Some Common Mistakes

As a startup scales, it will reach a point where the founders need to bring in a sales hire — they just can’t continue to do it all, nor should th...

Your First Board (Part 1): Building a Foundation for Success

As you grow your startup—usually when you’re making the transition from seed to Series A—you’re going to reach the point where you need to put...

Your First Board (Part 2): A Practical Guide to Getting Started

So, your startup is growing and you’ve reached the point where you’ve put together your first board of directors. Either you’ve decided the advi...

Lak Ananth Global Managing Partner

Lak has spent his career in service to the entrepreneurial pursuit, identifying industry changing disruptions and acting on them as an investor or acquirer. His investment focus is on applications of AI/ML, vertical SaaS, robotics, mobility, and other emerging areas of deep tech.

William Smith Venture Partner

As an investor and former founder, Will has deep empathy for founders and derives tremendous fulfillment in supporting them. At Next47, he focuses on AI/ML, dev tools, and SaaS. He also serves as General Partner at Octave, a seed-stage fund with a focus on enterprise data startups.