Micah Smurthwaite
Partner at Next47
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Startup Investor and Advisor
2024 - Current
Partnered with founders at Mazehq.com (Pre-seed, Cybersecurity vulnerability mgmt) Index.app (Seed, AI BI Tooling) RunReveal (Seed, Cybersecurity data platform) Layercode (Pre-seed, AI voice agents) Endorsed (Pre-seed, AI agent for recruiters) MarlyAI (Pre-seed, AI agent for FinOps) Heal.dev (Pre-seed, AI agent for QA) Plakar (Pre-seed, Open-source backup) Konvu (Pre-seed, Cybersecurity) c/side (Seed, Client-side security) PartyKit (Seed, AI PaaS - acq by Cloudflare) Stealth (Pre-seed, AI agent for eCommerce)
Partner
2020 - 2024
Series A-C VC firm. Partnered with founders at Sysdig, Apollo GraphQL, Aforza, Grafbase, and Armorblox (acq by Cisco)
Next47 invests in groundbreaking enterprise entrepreneurs and accelerates revenue growth by opening doors to customers around the world.
Global Head of Channel Sales
2015 - 2017
Head of EMEA Sales
2014 - 2015
Customer Development
2013 - 2014
Cloudflare Worker's Launchpad is a funding program for for startups in partnership with leading venture capital investors.
Director of Business Development
2009 - 2013
101Domain.com is the leading provider of domain name registration and online brand protection for corporations.