Tj Rylander
General Partner at Next47
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member
2024 - Current
General Partner
2017
Venture capital investor and manager of U.S. investments team at Next47.
Next47 invests in groundbreaking enterprise entrepreneurs and accelerates revenue growth by opening doors to customers around the world.
Investor
2024
Board Member
2024
Encord is an AI data development platform for computer vision and multimodal AI teams.
Raised $50,000,000.00 from Y Combinator, Next47, Crane Venture Partners and CRV.
Investor
2024
Skylo is a global non-terrestrial service provider that allows smartphone and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over satellites.
Raised $153,000,000.00 from Next47, Intel Capital, Seraphim Space, BMW i Ventures, Innovation Endeavors and Samsung Catalyst Fund.
Board Member
2022
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
The leader in cloud security powered by runtime insights
Raised $729,500,000.00 from Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital Ventures, Guggenheim Partners, Accel, PremjiInvest, Glynn Capital Management, Next47, DFJ Growth, Third Point Ventures and Permira.
Board Member
2020
Software collects data to help developers and teams learn from their data, increase productivity, and code smarter.
Raised $22,000,000.00 from Next47 and 8VC.
Board Member
2019
Skydio uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumer, enterprise, and government customers.
Raised $740,000,000.00 from KDDI, Axon, Linse Capital, Linse Capital, Hercules Capital, Axon, Andreessen Horowitz, DoCoMo Capital, Next47 and UP Partners.
Board Member
2019