Richard Lui
Partner at Next47
Atlanta, Georgia
Overview
Work Experience
Director of GTM Ops - Global (US, Brazil, Mexico)
2024 - Current
Leading our global teams in GTM Strategy & Ops, Demo Engineering, GTM Engineering (Revops + BI), Enablement Tractian is on a mission to deliver on the long-promised industrial standard of truly predictive and preventive maintenance. We are partners to global manufacturers like Bosch, Kraft Heinz, Ingredion, and Hyundai.
Board Observer
2022 - 2024
Tractian is a machine intelligence company that provides condition monitoring and asset performance management for industrial operations.
Raised $183,700,000.00 from General Catalyst, Next47, NGP Capital and Sapphire Ventures.
Partner
2022 - 2024
2 fast tracked promotions to become Partner at the fund. Learnt a lot from 3 great GPs and got to partner with amazing founders/operators $2B VC fund partnering with exceptional entrepreneurs in B2B software, AI-enabled / vertical applications, deep tech. Hyper focused on GTM + revenue acceleration for founders we partner with. Portfolio includes Verkada, Cohesity, Sysdig, Tractian, ApolloGraphQL, Claroty, VAST Data
Investor
2019 - 2022
Next47 invests in groundbreaking enterprise entrepreneurs and accelerates revenue growth by opening doors to customers around the world.
Board Observer
2022 - 2024
Vitally is a customer success platform (CSP) designed for maximizing productivity, visibility and collaboration, plus eliminate churn.
Raised $39,320,000.00 from NewView Capital, HubSpot Ventures, Next47 and Andreessen Horowitz.
Investor
2021 - 2024
Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences.
Raised $152,000,000.00 from Bossa Invest.
Board Observer
2021 - 2024
Metadata eliminates manual and repetitive work for b2b marketers so they can focus on strategy and creativity.
Raised $56,871,134.00 from Resolute Ventures, LAUNCH, SAV (Scale Asia Ventures), Erik Matlick, Mana Ventures, Jason Calacanis, Brian Cooper, Gaingels, Mark Organ and Next47.
Investor
2021 - 2024
Industry leading all-in-one software solution for subcontractors driving profitability through best-in-class technology
Raised $98,800,000.00 from 01 Advisors, MetaProp and Fika Ventures.
Investor
2020 - 2024
Observe.AI is a conversational intelligence platform for contact centers.
Raised $214,020,000.00 from Next47, Emergent Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund, Scale Venture Partners, Steadview Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Zoom, NGP Capital and Carya Venture Partners.
Tech IB
2016 - 2019
#1 Top ranked analyst in my cohort. Coffee stopped working for me at one point Salesforce's acquisition of MuleSoft Fastly + Avalara IPOs
The Rand Group is a San Francisco-based wealth management team led by Managing Director Daniella Rand.
Ad Tech
2015 - 2016
built in-house tooling for tracking campaign progress across clients and ad types
Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website.
Raised $125,250,000.00 from Menlo Ventures.